guangxi CHINA

davidclovers was hired in 2010 to work on two key areas of an eco-tourist resort project that intends to be a flagship project for China demonstrating how architecture can both re-work and reinvigorate sensitive habitat sites. Using innovative construction methods and design processes both projects “farm” the existing terrain of the site finding its latent potentials.

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san diego CALIFORNIA

Designing Geopolitics 2, an intimate interdisciplinary symposium on policy and projects visualizing a recomposed global landscape of sovereignties, infrastructures, and identities, this Saturday at UC San Diego. Designing Geopolitics 2 will extend the critical questions: What is the territory of the Cloud Polis? What alien models of sovereignty require invention, revitalization or redesign? What is the role of speculative design thinking in prototyping real alternatives? and more.

Designing Geopolitics 2
BRATTON, KELLER, ANDRASEK, INABA, SMARR, COWHEY, HAQUE, WILBANKS, MANOVICH, metahaven, STEENSON, DURFEE, GINSBERG, BROWN, & JEREMIJENKO
Saturday, 06/02
9.00 am-5.00 pm / Calit2/Atkinson Hall Black Box Theater
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CALIFORNIA 92093

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

HAO jiang: The Studio is operating on the unfinished face of San Lorenzo Cathedral in an impressionistic way. The project is operating at an increased degree of ability of the cosmetic effect to transform the identity of architecture. Much like the relationship of facelift and makeup to the human face, the architectural operation would embellish the existing features via different brushstrokes, material, texture and lighting.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Emergent Technologies and Design [EmTech] @ Architectural Association London
Super-Surface Fabrication: Python scripting and fabrication workshop

Tutors: Marina Konstantatou, Vincenzo Reale, & Giancarlo Torpiano (with the collaboration of Evan Greenberg).

Digital generative tools coupled with rapid prototyping/fabrication techniques have permeated architectural education and practice at all levels.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

vonne YANG & kiet NGUYEN: In the bush, one descends from a state of happiness, to state of survival, to the state of death, during the initial stage, we experience, we wonder, we live with no fear as one descends below the threshold of survival to death, one’s instinct of survival overpowers positivity, and we experience paranoia because of the fear from death. In the Australian bush, all animals, including humans enter a primitive mode of self-preservation on order to survive the harsh environment. We question whether there is a stage after death, in which machine can assist in the undertaking of the dead.

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bologna ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

niccolo CASAS: Alchemy is a collection of accessories designed for The World’s First Fashion Show with 3D Printed Designs organized by .MGX and Materialise in April 2012.
Alchemy is about the process of transforming something common into something special, it was a science merging chemistry, medicine and magic.
Materialise made the process of transmutation real making its 3D printed technology so sophisticated to become similar to magic.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Emergent Technologies and Design [EmTech] @ Architectural Association London
Super-Surface Fabrication: Python scripting and fabrication workshop

Tutors: Marina Konstantatou, Vincenzo Reale, & Giancarlo Torpiano (with the collaboration of Evan Greenberg).

Digital generative tools coupled with rapid prototyping/fabrication techniques have permeated architectural education and practice at all levels.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Tarp: Not Nature, 2012’s publication by the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design program at Pratt Institute, has been released and is available to all those interested. Contributors include Catherine Ingraham, Ed Keller, David Gissen, Sandford Kwinter, Alisa Andrasek, Patrik Schumacher, Antoine Picon, and more.

To claim your issue, email TARP’s editors at tarp@pratt.edu.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

adviser: erich SCHOENENBERGER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Studio Nexus (kyle DUNNINGTON, andrew KROLL, & trey LINDSAY): The project was part of a comprehensive design studio at Pratt Institute under Professor Erich Schoenenberger. In our initial conversations we became interested in the train station typology operating as a ‘nexus’ of ideas, social differences, geographical / circulatory expanses, etc. We attempted to map these characteristics merging in three-dimensional space by developing a series of site lines which could inform the buildings development such that the direction and intensities of these ‘lines’ became the framework of the buildings use, form, systems, etc.

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new york NEW YORK

Gage / Clemenceau Architects, the firm described as “avant-garde” by the New York Times, recently completed a store in Hong Kong for Nicola Formichetti, fashion director of Mugler and creative director for Lady Gaga and Uniqlo. The flagship concept store is located inside Lane Crawford IFC with four satellite locations around Hong Kong. The project is an experimental fusion of architecture, fashion, social media, and visual special effects. Labeled the “future of retail environments”, the store houses a collection of original outfits from the personal archives of Lady Gaga as well as numerous other designs by Formichetti, including products from his new “Nicopanda” brand.

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