buenos aires ARGENTINA

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williamsburg waterfront performance venue competition

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inés MOLINARI/mercedes PERALTA/dana SÁEZ/cecilia SEGAL/carolina TELO: The project presents an architecture investigation is inspired by geometrical models: Chinese traditional techniques such as origami and the tan gram game, geodesic investigations developed by B. Fuller, and other mathematical models such as fractals.

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san juan PUERTO RICO

HONORABLE MENTION – $100
williamsburg waterfront performance venue competition

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alberto FERNÁNDEZ ZEQUEIRA + francisco RODRÍGUEZ SUÁREZ: The concept for the project came from the park’s unique industrial past. Drawing inspiration from the original and forgotten railroad lines of the site, a new system of rails was designed for the project’s numerous stages and kiosks. This network provides for an infinite number of possible configurations depending on the size and type of venue while maintaining and enhancing the parks sense of open, natural and inclusive space. Maximum flexibility with minimal infrastructure. Innovation through historic interpretation.

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london ENGLAND

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

yashin KEMAL: [myoo-tuh-buhl] mu·ta·ble
–adjective
1. liable or subject to change or alteration.
2. given to changing; constantly changing;

The urban proposal ‘Mutable Layering’ is a bus and metro transport interchange that links Beijing’s expansive 2020 masterplan with the city’s increasing problem with water shortages and drought.

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new york NEW YORK

SOFTlab: After a month of printing, kickstarting, laser cutting, and binder clipping we are done! CHROMAtex.me will be opening this Thursday night at the bridgegallery. Thanks everyone for your support through kickstarter! It has been a ridiculous amount of work, but also a lot of fun. The people that have volunteered to give a hand have been great. We all can’t wait till Thursday night.

opening thursday august 26 6-8pm
bridge gallery 98 orchard st NY (between broom & delancey)

bozeman MONTANA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

bryan SCHUTMAAT: For the past few years, I’ve been taking intermittent trips westward. I’m moved by the mountains, the open spaces, and all the other natural beauty the American West has to offer. But I’m also moved by the places in between—the old cafes, motels, gas stations, and so on. These days, both the wilderness and these small businesses seem to be in peril as developers move in and alter the physical and economic landscape. So, through photography I aim to preserve these aspects of the West that seem to be vanishing. From my trips, I developed this series, Western Frieze, which examines America’s cultural identity and how it relates to the landscape and whatever mystique the West has left.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Architecture School Degree Project 2009/2010
Circus on the Edge: Nomadic Architecture as a creative aid and Distribution platform

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

guillermo BERNAL: A creative aid and distribution platform, the nomadic equipment can be positioned as momentary anchoring. Their goal is both to situate themselves on the exterior in order to open new trails, and to weave, or even to repair certain links. to put holes in the public space using the invasive, nomadic presence of the war machine, or any other technique of sudden appearance invades and overcomes everyday life.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kadri KERGE: Toxic Garden is an artificial landscape for plants to investigate the nature of new paradigms in structures. Synthetic Structure is a new structure system that generates new species of formal behaviour. Toxic Garden is looking possibility of form generation as an autonomous act and new conditions of structure behaviour. The Structure contains toxic plants. The Growth of the plants and toxic miasma effects structure.This two functions together creates an autonomous system.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCIARC 2GBX Studio 2010 - Instructor: Elena Manferdini - “Intense Interiority and Ornate Enclosure”

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dave BANTZ: Guided by studio instructors Elena Manferdini, Marcelo Spina, and Tom Wiscombe, our studio was thrown into an intensive month long scripting workshop. After our workshop, we were encouraged to extrapolate and build from our respectable bank of scripting experiments adding consideration for program, context, and performance. A crisp, patterned, and prism-like exterior shell encases a sinuous structural and circulation network, which in turn, supports more focused plastic interior volumes.

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paris FRANCE

david TAJCHMAN: Slovenian lacework tradition-The external envelope uses a pattern shown in various treatments. Perforated, it works as a brise-soleil and filters natural light for exhibitions spaces. On grounds the same pattern is used but in relief, making surfaces non-slippery, especially on the walkable roof. The perforated material is also used in ceilings to hide artificial lighting and technical elements like air-conditioning and ventilation systems. The pixelated pattern is also used for signage in the entire museum.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

joey SARAFIAN: This design for a research institute in Downtown Los Angeles (where Grand Ave meets the 101 Freeway) looks at an operable skin with pyramidal apertures that open and close due to proximity to freeway noise and solar gain. The result featured a skin that becomes aware of its surroundings, and can perpetually adapt to them. The project site is adjacent to varying freeway noise depending on the amount of traffic, which will also influence the skin.

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