suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Tingyang LI:” Tortured Boxes ” was started by doing a research of creating a system of box transformations. And then these systematic box methods were applied to the programs arrangement concept model to generate more interesting spatial experiences for the civic center.
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Tyler KREBS, Jackie NEHRBASS, Bryant HOVEST, and Chris BURROUGHS: We studied texture mapping and its ability to translate across dimensions. This computer generated process samples everyday objects and turns them into what we call space bashed parts; a further development of kit bashing, where the whole is both defamiliarized yet leaves the Ness-ness of the original object in tact. The interior qualities become of more critical importance than traditional kit bashing.
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Paul MCCOY, Stephen GRANT PARKER, and Daniel EYNON: Our project operates, in reality, as a research and development center for the Texas A&M Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences with a focus on algae biofuels and aquaponics….
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Kimball KAISER:‘Super’ is borrowed from Supergraphics, the term that classifies the super-scaled, two dimensional geometries that began appearing on walls, floors, and ceilings in the 1960’s and 1970’s. These stripes, numbers, words, and arrows were applied to existing architecture after the fact to achieve optical effects. These results were often accomplished by disregarding architectural planes, betraying corners, and visually masking form with pattern. In these instances, Supergraphics had much more in common with Op Art and it’s older sibling Razzle Dazzle Camouflage.
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jack STEWART-CASTNER: Operating on an assumption and growing out of a desire; Rend, Mend is a project that seeks the multiple. My interest in the multiple stems from an investigation of a precedent; the Ulster Museum located in Belfast, Ireland. The museum, completed in two halves, was designed in by James Cumming Wynne in 1929 and by Francis Pym in 1964.
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Cody SEIPP: The 2051 Global Exposition celebrates Detroit as a new criterion for urban life in the 21st Century. The expo is projected to exceed 150 million visitors, surpassing its predecessors and setting a new benchmark for global expositions…
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Madelyn WILLEY: OOPS… is the result of a series of observations made during walks around different suburban landscapes, that reveal the moments when the idealized image of suburbia confronts its practical everyday use in a slightly awkward way.
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Shaowen ZHANG: The thesis begins by taking an object of reference from visual-material cultures - a Neolithic Austrian cave sketch which renders an excess of lines – to develop a method of form-making through pattern stroke simulations.
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Felix REYES and Katie HOFFSTATTER: plan(A)sylum is a play on two sets of words: the first set being Plan A, which infers an imperative and a priority, and the second word being Asylum, which is defined as a place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
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