new york NEW YORK
Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2012
Columbia University GSAPP
Coordinators: Babak Bryan & Michael Young
Instructors: Kutan Ayata, Frank Gesualdi, Jennifer Leung, John Morrison, Bryan Young
TAs: Kyle Hovenkotter, Emily E. Jones, Dan Lee, Bo Liu, Eliza Montgomery, Owen Nichols, Luis Felipe Paris
Students: geof BELL, kevin CERVANTES, madeeha MERCHANT, juan pablo AZARES, jim STODDART.
vienna AUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:
sebastian KAUS:
1. What is it?
The Jules Verne Foundation for Submarines and Deep-sea Robotics is a novel combination of a Jules Verne themed exhibition space, research center and a robotic submarine manufacturing center situated in Le Havre, Rrance. Best described as “amphibious” architecture, this unconventional waterfrontproject brings spatial elements from the underwater world to our terrestrial surface.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
Advisor: tom WISCOMBE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
joseph RAMIRO & koho LIN: This project explores the productive ambiguities created when graphic painting is applied to distinct formal gestures. The graphic begins to produce illusions of depth and flatness which enhance and camouflage the formal qualities of the building from different vantage points.
shanghai CHINA
AASH11 : City on the Sea
70.8% : SHANGHAI MENISCUS
70.8% of the earth’s surface is water and Shanghai is approaching a point of overflow. Future development will require the inhabitation of this surface area. In addition to a fascinating physical property caused by the surface tension of water, the meniscus is a strikingly relevant metaphor for the urban predicament of contemporary. As an urban metaphor, the meniscus is associated with periphery, threshold, development, and tension.
cambridge MASSACHUSETTS
Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25th, 2012—Skylar Tibbits, Arthur Olson and Autodesk Research have exhibited the BioMolecular Self-Assembly project at the 2012 TEDGlobal Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Participants at TEDGlobal each received a unique glass flask containing anywhere from 4 to 12 red, black or white parts. When the glass flask is shaken randomly the independent parts find each other and self-assemble various molecular structures. The flasks contain a custom tag that identifies the type of molecular structure and the ingredients for successful self-assembly.
calgary CANADA
University of Calgary
Advisor: josh TARON
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
adam ONULOV: urban (de)resolution is rooted in the following question: why do we do things we hate? Consumer culture is everywhere and everything we have become. Our urban landscapes have become generic non-places; our public realm is nothing more than the residue of commercial culture—the junkspace that is remaining after the culture industry was allowed to run amok. The social contract is usurped by a perfectly instrumentalized mechanism of brand obedience.
new york NEW YORK
Joseph Grima lectures on Domus, Tuesday, July 24th, at Columbia GSAPP’s Wood Auditorium.
Joseph GRIMA, “On Domus”
Tuesday, 07/24
4.00 pm / Wood Auditorium
Columbia University GSAPP
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
JIANNAN liu & TINGWEI xu: In this Tokyo night club design and research studio we were focusing on designing affective and dynamic formations for this nightclub in Tokyo: works of architecture that maximize their affects, and enhance responsiveness , to users and contexts. The creations of atmosphere is most pursed by starting with interiors and get the exactly feelings we want to create for the users. We aimed to build up a continued space with different transformation and transition of surface what lead people to feel the variations of atmosphere with continuity of space.
indianapolis INDIANA
Registration for “1X20: 20 design studies for an urban infill lot” ends tomorrow, July 24, 2012. To register, send an email to jason@demerlyarchitects.com with your name.
“The goal of this project is to explore the intrinsic differences between designers and how they approach creative challenges. We’re seeking 20 designers to collaborate with us to create designs for an urban lot in downtown Indianapolis. . . . It’s up to you what to propose—a house, a business, a tower, a park, an installation piece.”
denver COLORADO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
clark THENHAUS / Endemic: Fluid Matrices is a series that begins with analogue, alchemic drawings using various types of ink, dye, wax, salt, and water each with organizational and material tendencies fostering a drawing technique dependant on the interaction of fluid material effects. The analogue drawings as shown are image-adjusted stills of an otherwise durational process of mixing, repelling, contracting, or material resistances which initiate the drawing as a field underpinned by sensing over deciphering, meaning they are better described through density then area, for example. The drawings are multi-scalar, textural, atmospheric, sensate, and tangible material compositions through which field, zones of indeterminacy, material tendencies, boundaries, and effects are curated through color, texture, transparency, shifting hierarchies, and idiosyncracies.
