san francisco CALIFORNIA

California College of the Arts
critics: Jason Kelly JOHNSON & Michael SHILOH.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jeff MAESHIRO, Mary SEK, & Jia WU: Geoweaver is the world’s first walking 3-D printer, prototyped and designed by three architecture students with no previous robotics knowledge in the Creative Architecture Machines advanced options studio at the California College of the Arts, taught by Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab and Michael Shiloh.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

FOLDED FORCE: PROJECTIONS
AA Greece Visiting School is a mobile program traveling, reaching cities outside the country’s capital. It functions as a “satellite” of education that disseminates the Architectural Association’s exclusive, intensive form of teaching and learning around the country. . . .

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taichung TAIWAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Fabraft Design Lab: “Starry Wander” is an installation of digital design and production. The installation’s curves, height, and the distance between its lanterns are precisely predetermined by the computer. The Starry Wander installation symbolizes a land of hope(s). . . .

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kokkugia / Roland SNOOKS: The Composite Swarm installation is an architectural prototype exploring the relationship of robotic fabrication, composite materials, and algorithmic design. The complexity of the form and the excess of ornament make the prototype structurally efficient and minimize the amount of material used. . . .

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Gilles RETSIN: This proposal for the new Guggenheim museum in Helsinki uses digital methodologies to design a carbon-negative building which is largely made of recycled and low-grade timber. . . .

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Eric Owen MOSS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Hannah PAVLOVICH: The title of my thesis is “Puzzling.” Puzzling as in making a puzzle, puzzling as in solving a puzzle, puzzling as in the act of thinking, and puzzling as in enigmatic. Through a process of obfuscation, I have created an organizational mechanism that organizes space unpredictably but not illegibly.

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Iris van HERPEN, Niccolo CASAS, & 3D Systems: Iris van Herpen, Niccolo Casas and 3D Systems collaborated for van Herpen’s S/S 2015 ready-to-wear collection, “Magnetic Motion,” introducing a stunning transparent dress covered in crystalline formations (Look 31) that have since been compared to ice sculptures.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Francis Bitonti Studio’s New Skins Workshop Series, led by Francis Bitonti, launched Summer 2013 in Brooklyn, New York. Exploring new computational design methods and techniques, New Skins Workshop continuously focuses on immersing students with the tools and software needed to design and fabricate complex geometry in computational fashion design.

workshop: Francis Bitonti Studio, “New Skins London 2015.”
Monday, 01/12–Friday 01/25
01.00–06.00 p.m. / Monday–Friday
Digits2Widgets Studio
61 - 63 Rochester Place
London
NW1 9JU

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chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Daniel CAVEN: 7004 House, designed by Daniel Caven, is based on using natural materials as structural components—the 7004 House is an open air wine house (3 seasons pavilion). Literally taking root, the site is located in the Midwest, overlooking a private client’s vineyard.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisors: Jeffrey KIPNIS & Andrew ZAGO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Daiki TSUTSUMI: Semordnilap proposes the potentiality of delaying the common perception of symmetry, and it recaptures the understanding of one of the oldest tools in architectural history. . . .

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