philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ali RAHIM.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Aeree RHO: The project is a boutique store for Miami Design District. Haute couture techniques are borrowed to find ways of designing through redundancy and excessive material formations.

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shanghai CHINA

The AAC 2013 “Interactive Shanghai” Forum and Exhibition will open at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai on August 9th, 2013. The Interactive Shanghai Forum will begin at 3pm. The keynote speaker is Philip Beesley, and other speakers include Matias del Campo, Ali Rahim, Qingyun Ma, Gail Borden, Neil Leach, Gang Song, and Philip Yuan.

forum & exhibition: “Interactive Shanghai” with Philip BEESLEY, Matias del CAMPO, Ali RAHIM, Neil LEACH, & more.
Forum, 3.00 p.m. / Lecture Hall
Exhibition, 6.00 p.m. / Exhibition Space
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
Shanghai, China

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pensylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ali RAHIM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your Project.

Andreas KOSTOPOULOS & Hayley WONG: A nightclub is situated in Hong Kong, in Victoria Harbour, in order to provide a range of experiences for different audiences based on their distance and degree of enclosure. Those viewing the nightclub from the tallest skyscrapers retain a generalized perception that is also altered by the building’s reflected image in the water, which remains unseen to those within the night club.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ali RAHIM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yoonsun HWANG & Lois SOO KYUNG SUH: Hydropolis provokes the existing typology of a skyscraper set in the densest metropolis: Hong Kong. Accumulating diverse attributes of the city at multiple economic and social scales and translations, the tower yields transforming facade, structure and circulation system, from intricate to ludicrous. The project challenges the aggressive attitude of land reclamation by embracing the harbor front as a crucial part of the project, operating closely with water.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

andrew TÉTRAULT & federica von EUW: Club Heat von Cool is an urban nightclub that was developed out of, and sought to become, a part of the intensive accumulation of atmospheres and scales present in one of the world’s most dynamic and culturally heterogeneous neighborhoods, Harajuku, Tokyo. The project became a morphology of varying systemic interiorities sequenced and transformed from the inside out to create a nightclub of sensations and effects. The interior transformation of the spaces occur through a breakdown of geometry that unfolds into a narrative of light, space, and materiality. Our club participates with the nuanced atmospheres of the city from the inside creating a building in dialogue and participation with the life and speed of Harajuku.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

johnny c. LIN: these works are inspired by the surface quality and the aesthetic of rococo church and machine. the study is to focus on the quality transformation from flat, soft to delicate, rough surface by integrating with mechanical joints and ornamentation. the contrast between flat and delicate brings out each other’s identity and quality and also revealing the function. by studying the rococo church, from a distance, the quality of the delicate surface brings out a very strong architectural space, and when approaching to the details, each unique figure is telling its own story. the study is also focus on how each unique objects becoming seamless when grouping / attaching to others.

critic: ali RAHIM, penn design

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2007

AD: this issue of ad extrapolates current design tendencies and brings them together to present a new type of architecture, one that is seamlessly tying processes, space, structure and material together with a self-assured beauty. ‘elegance’ here is cast with a new contemporary meaning as it is applied to work that is effortlessly complex. . . . .

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2006

catalytic formations documents ali RAHIM’S work and thoughts through 2003. beautiful line drawings and stark white renderings fill the pages. interspersed are essays by rahim on technique, technology, affects, and feedback loops. work by greg lynn, zaha hadid, kol/mac, nox, and cecil balmond is used throughout to illustrate the ideas found in the texts.