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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Synthesis Design + Architecture (alvin HUANG): The proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library challenges the conventional understanding of the spatial and social experience of a public library as a series of discrete reading rooms with defined thresholds and cluttered stacks. We propose an intelligent, open, and integrated library experience which supersedes the media storage methods of the past and changes the library space into a hybrid environment through ubiquitous information resources, integrated furnishings and active communal social spaces.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project

Synthesis Design + Architecture: Inspired by the geometric patterns of Taiwanese Hen Cages and the structural shells of luxury racing yachts, the building takes shape in a dynamic gradient form that transitions from exo-skin to exo-skeleton in response to programmatic content as well as performative requirements. Thus, what appears to be formal expression, is actually “informed form” which responds to the integration of weather, urban context, program, circulation, and sustainability through integrated design responses that inform the building orientation, spatial layout, façade design, and choice of material and structural system.

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University of Southern California
advisors: alvin HUANG & kara BARTELT

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

john FARRACE: The project focuses on a social extreme of digital natives who have become disinterested with normal face to face communication not out of preoccupation, but out of boredom: browsing one hundred of your friend’s pictures in a minute while listening to your favorite song with your iPhone six inches away from your face is way more engaging than standing talking to somebody for one minute.

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Synthesis Design + Architecture invites you into their home, the iconic modernist American Cement Building, for a studio tour and reception hosted by The Architects Newspaper. Other participating offices include: DRDS, Kelly Architects, Platform for Architecture + Research, Stayner Architecture, Studio Bonner, VA Design and WROAD.

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American Cement Building Studio Tour
Thursday, 06/21
7.00 - 9.00pm
The American Cement Building
2404 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90057