philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Andrew SAUNDERS.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
David Zhewei FENG: Blendscape is a new gallery extension of the Norman Fisher House designed by Louis Kahn.
andrew SAUNDERS, architecture, David Zhewei FENG, house, Louis KAHN, penn design, PennDesign, university of pennsylvania
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Andrew SAUNDERS.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Gary POLK: Refraction is defined as the fact or phenomenon of light being deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another, or through a medium of varying density.
andrew SAUNDERS, architecture, Gary POLK, geometry, light, PennDesign, university of pennsylvania
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Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures: Post-professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
critics: Chris PERRY, Andrew SAUNDERS, & Fleet HOWER.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Tanzil Idmam SHAFIQUE: Lagoonous Assmblage can be described as a vision for Los Angeles that goes against the trend of overlooking topographical and climatic realities of the city and postulates a radical restructuring of the city’s morphological and topological armature.
andrew SAUNDERS, chris PERRY, los angeles, multi-agent systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI, Tanzil Idmam SHAFIQUE, urban design
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troy NEW YORK
Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures Post-Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
design critics: Chris PERRY & Andrew SAUNDERS with Fleet HOWER
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Huanyu GUO, Bhawya JOSHI, & Sisi QIAN: Sea Garden City mixes urban fabric with a variety of landscape elements, including agricultural belts and salt-water filtration ponds, in the production of a self-contained, self-supporting city on the sea.
andrew SAUNDERS, architecture, Bhawya JOSHI, chris PERRY, city, Huanyu GUO, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI, Sisi QIAN, urban design
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troy NEW YORK
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Critic: Andrew SAUNDERS.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Graham BILLINGS: “Normative Fluidity” is a museum extension that explores the process of transposition between a series of light studies, diagrammatic implications of the “affect,” and their resultant three-dimensional forms and spaces. Diffraction of light through water is known as caustics; a process that was coupled with a camera obscura during my initial research.
andrew SAUNDERS, architecture, Graham BILLINGS, light, museum, photography, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: Andrew SAUNDERS.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Davide SCIALÒ: The design of a new façade for the building in which is located the Issey Miyake Pleats Please store was a way to speculate on the architectural consequences of a research on the sartorial tectonics we made during Andrew Sanders’s class.
We focused our research on the increasing relevance of surface as a primary vehicle for architecture to engage contemporary society, coupled with the rapid evolution of customizable computation and fabrication parallels in fashion and architecture.
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Building Futures is an exhibition at The Hyde Collection running from February 11 to April 15. The exhibit presents architectural proposals designed by Rensselaer Architecture School faculty and students as an intellectual investigation stimulated by long-range planning activities for The Hyde Collection and its campus.
Faculty-led teams of students generated six proposals during a four-day charrette. Charrette is a term derived from the nineteenth-century École des Beaux-Arts in Paris for an intense creative session designed to focus multiple teams on a particular problem in compressed time and space. At the end of four days of all-day sketching, modeling and brainstorming, each team delivered a master planning strategy for expansion of The Hyde campus.
andrew SAUNDERS, RPI, ted NGAI
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
andrew SAUNDERS: The Luminescent Limacon is a lighting design based on research from the Equation-based Morphologies workshop taught by Andrew Saunders. The project was chosen winner for lighting, one of three prizes in the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) 2011 Design + Fabrication Competition. As part of the prize, the design was manufactured in the Brooklyn studio of FLATCUT_ design, and the completed lamp is on display at the annual ACADIA conference in Banff, Canada. In addition the design was also printed by Z Corporation on their ZPrinter model 650 and exhibited as part of their ACADIA sponsorship.
