college station TEXAS

Texas A&M University
critic: Gabriel ESQUIVEL

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Catlan FEARON: With the post-Enlightenment destruction of the certainty of the metaphysical presence of God, the subject of religious architecture changes drastically. Just as the subject changed from God to the collective worship with the renaissance, the subject now becomes the single man and his subjective relation to the eternal, and, consequentially, to the architecture of religious typology itself.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: Kutan AYATA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Isaac MICHAN: The objective of architecture is works of art that are lived in. The city is the largest, and at present the worst of such works of art. . . . The kinds of repetition and control that are now offered to the building industry can be edged towards a kind of dreamy neutrality. — Alison and Peter Smithson

A lot has been said since the demolition of the Pruitt Igoe housing project about the death of modern architecture and its negative contributions to society.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
critics: Marcos CRUZ, Marjan COLLETTI, & Richard BECKETT

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Joanna PAWLAS: The project is conveyed in the design of compact accommodation towers that inhabit urban soundscape of Kwun Tong in Hong Kong and facilitates controlled sonic environments through creation of site-specific, parametric geometry of reflective surfaces and levels of sonic permeability by means of natural acoustics.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Andrew ZAGO with special advisor Jeffrey KIPNIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Duygun INAL: Recent architectural discourse has been offered a novel means to engage spatial relationships by the sectional object while keeping the sectional object as a pure interior condition in the equation. This thesis explores the shifting sense of identity through the incongruity between the body and the loose-fit by making the interior body directly a part of the exterior by creating a thickened contemporary couture for it.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

This proposal for the Taichung City Cultural Center is a singular, landmark building, which encompasses both the Taichung Public Library and the Taichung Fine Arts Museum. In response to Taichung City Government’s initiative to develop a notable entryway to Taichung Gateway Park, we propose a building that formally yields a “gateway” into the new park. Much like natural occurring openings between large rock formations, grand breezeways or tunnels are proposed to separate the two volumes of the library and museum. Through a series of studies and manipulations of historical archway precedents, a three-dimensional form of the tunnels was generated.

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hong kong CHINA

davidclovers has designed a series of projects that tie together the common areas along the podium of the four towers at The Repulse Bay. The project includes the Outdoor Pool and Changing Rooms, Children’s Play Area, Entry Lobbies and Car park Lobbies. It builds upon the growing trend in Asian developments to produce spaces that are part recreation, part social condenser, and part infrastructure. The project seeks to diversify these otherwise separated spaces while at the same time unifying their sensibilities.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

UCLA A.UD
critic: Jason PAYNE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ryan L. HONG: This house, exteriority and interiority, conceived autonomously from one another, their relationship remains unclear. Their shared proximity to one another should not be mistaken with any assumptions of continuity, indexes and tectonic “responses.”

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taiwan CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

TheeAe LTD. (architect Woohyun CHO): We believe change or newness is not a creation solely from nothing, but rather an evolution from the past. Designing a cultural center was a task to reveal what could be the image of contemporary Taiwanese architecture. A cultural center is as good a place as any to express the identity of Taiwan.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

The Taichung City Cultural Center stands as the gateway into Taichung Gateway Park in the Taichung Gateway District. The facility will include a world-class Museum of Fine Arts and a Public Library. Located on the northern end of the Park, The project will provide citizens with a multipurpose cultural, artistic and recreational facility.

The Taichung Cultural Center is first and foremost a symbol of progress. The building will command an International presence attracting venues and promoting new forms of the Arts. The building will have an iconic presence. The technologically advanced, environmentally mindful scheme projects a sophisticated, lively, progressive, forward thinking vision, catapulting Taichung into the 21st century.

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daegu SOUTH KOREA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

TheeAe LTD. (architect Woohyun CHO): The site is located in an urban area close to the downtown of Daegu, one of the biggest cities in South Korea. In contrast to its locality, this town is isolated from the major city development. The community gets older, and young couples have been moving out to other towns to provide better education for their children.

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