san francisco CALIFORNIA

Academy of Art University

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Farooq KHAYYAT: Design Rhizome is located in the heart of San Francisco. Rhizome operates as the city’s fulcrum; leveraging the ideas of design leaders, students, creators, and change makers with the needs of educators, entrepreneurs, and local food merchants.

Innovation is the result of combined ideas. Design Rhizome is a place where design professionals and novices alike join in spontaneous interaction and collaboration to give life to the ideas of tomorrow.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

vidhi PATEL: A state of constant change that is the site, has various distinct conditions of state transition that can be observed through program shifts and their spatial equations. The idea of this project is to understand this transitional nature of the site and its users and allow it to inform the site development.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

farooq KHAYYAT: This project is designed in a graduate design studio at the Academy of Art University. Using parametric manipulation processes, the focus of this project is to generate a form catalog of different morphing forms to be used as a tectonic reference to inform the architecture of the project. The final result is achieved by analyzing these forms and borrowing elements that best represent different needs of the program. By combining certain formal qualities, it shapes a synthesized form that connects the building with its surrounding and hybridizes its program elements. The building features an exhibition for Smart cars, hotel and gym in an attempt to reactivate mid-Market Street in San Francisco and draw a diverse crowd into the project.

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san francisco CALFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

surasuk PATTANAPANITCHAKUL: This project intends to illustrate the synthesis between nature, urban and architecture, which supports and collaborate to each other, showing the soul of interconnection which increasingly synthesize with the space, in order to show how architecture can act as an instrument.Traditionally, music defined as aural element expressed through time. architecture as instrument explores the idea of music as defined by visual expressed through time, specificially shadows cast as the sun traverse the sky visual representation of temporal experience—the cycle of the day. Structure as instrument explores the idea that the structure itself is an orchestra and the ever-changing and continual shadows that fall across it and beside it are music experience by users.

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san francsico CALIFORNIA

Academy of Art University
critic: kory BIEG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

yao GAO: Reality Investigating the relationship between humans and the built environment when the virtual, real, and augmented realities of our world collide. As a temporary pavilion the intensity and frequency of visitors drawn to the site will amplify the extreme spaces and force the occupants to question what is real.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

Academy of Art University, Graduate School of Architecture
critic: kory BIEG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alexandra EPESHINA & veronica VELASQUEZ: Active and unexpected interaction between the Police Academy and Performance Theater was explored through transformations of volumes. Simultaneously, negative spaces evolved and informed the program and the quality of spaces.

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