london UNITED KINGDOM

AA DRL
critics: Theodore SPYROPOULOS, Mustafa EL-SAYED, & Apostolis DESPOTIDIS.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

XO (Aleksandar BURSAC, Lisa KUHNHAUSEN, Suzan IBRAHIM, & Georgia TSOLI): In our research we work on self-regulated, high-population, machinic ecologies that engage their local environments to create prototypical spaces.

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AA Visiting School Dubai 2015
director: Riyad JOUCKA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Riyad JOUCKA: Set up as an independent exploratory architectural lab in the Middle East, The second edition of AA Visiting School Dubai (AAVSDXB 2.0) advanced the research of the previous workshop by exploring avant-garde methods of materializing architecture. The outcomes consisted of a speculative body of work, representing a UAE pavilion for the upcoming Expo 2020 that will take place in Dubai.

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AA EmTech
critics: Evan GREENBERG, George JERONIMIDIS, Michael WEINSTOCK, & Manja van de WORP.

The TWIST is a design and construction project developed by the Emergent Technologies and Design Programme (EmTech) at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. The project capitalizes on the material effects of milled plywood observed in 1:1 tests, thus making the experimentation process central to the design endeavor.

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Architectural Association, Design Research Lab (AADRL)
critic: Robert StUART-SMITH.
tech consultants: Tyson HOSMER & Manos MATSIS.
advisory consultants: AKT2 Structural Engineering.

The Architectural Association’s AADRL “Behavioural Production” studio explores algorithmic and robotic behavioral methods of design that explore emerging aerial construction opportunities made possible utilizing today’s multicopters.

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Architectural Association
tutors: Alexandros KALLEGIAS, Elif ERDINE, Daghan CAM, Angel Fernando LARA MOREIRA, & Suzan UCMAKLIOGLU.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Architectural Association (AA) Summer DLAB Visiting School: CALLIPOD is the final working prototype of the Architectural Association (AA) Summer DLAB, which took place in AA London and AA Hooke Park from 21 July–08 August 2014.

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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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Architectural Association

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tianyi CHEN, Vineeth Thappalli KANNOTH, Haocheng YANG, & Lei YANG: This thesis rethinks high-density urban housing typology through the removal of lifts, cores, and corridor circulation and by the employment of an exterior, decentralized lift system.

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Architectural Association

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Zeynep AKSOZ: The project merges the idea of the graveyard as a spiritual space with the digital communication technology and generates a communication platform where one can visit their loved ones and communicate with their digital identities after death.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association, Design Research Lab (AADRL)
critic: Theodore SPYROPOULOS.
tutor: Mostafa EL SAYED.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Dmytro ARANCHII, Paul BART, Yuqiu JIANG, & Flavia SANTOS: “Cellular Automata: Evaluating the Edge of Chaos,” designed within the Architectural Association (AADRL), was aimed to go deeply into cellular automata theory and practice and to define the strategies of control the self-organizing system and to find the directions of usage in architectural design.

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AA EmTech
critics: Michael WEINSTOCK, George JERONIMIDIS, & Evan GREENBERG.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Cagla GURBAY, Yemin MA, Prajish VINAYAK, & Jinjing YU: “Aerodynamic Microclimate” is an investigation into the control of heterogeneous microclimates through wind-driven evolutionary computation process for natural ventilation efficiency by dynamic material system.

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