los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Herwig BAUMGARTNER
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:
Sofya LAPINA & Sara MOOMSAZ: To have a performing art center in an alive city such as New York, and along an interactive passage such as its High Line, it is interesting how city and architecture would like to merge and negotiate together.
new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture
critics: Joe DAY with Michelle PAUL
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Amir MIKHAEIL: This is what happens when the image becomes time-image…the screen itself is the cerebral membrane where immediate and direct confrontations take place between the past and the future, the inside and the outside, at a distance impossible to determine, independent of any fixed point. The image no longer has space and movement as its primary characteristics but topology and time. — Gilles Deleuze
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Stefano PASSERI: Dust Breeding deals with the legibility of amorphous forms in an almost familiar landscape. The forms and the landscape are independent of each other and are governed by independent rules. At the same time, what is initially mere coexistence, gradually determines unexpected moments of empathy resulting in new sets of relationships.
troy NEW YORK
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: Brian de LUNA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Lisa-Christin LAUE: The beginning of the studio was spent analyzing the interior envelopes of a precedent of our choice from the baroque period. I chose Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza by Borromini for its sophisticated geometric relationships consisting of equilateral triangles and circles.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Simon TAKASAKI, Dietmar KÖRING, & EyeTry: The proposal for the “House Of The Future / Haus der Zukunft” by Dietmar Köring, Simon Takasaki and EyeTry in Berlin responds to Berlin’s strict urban context: the concept of the “urban block” is touched upon and developed further. The building is partially lifted off the ground, and takes up the general building height of common Berlin housing. The ground floor level is characterized by large open spaces allowing for direct and dynamic circulation. The ground floor area of the building acts as an buffer zone between the neighboring hospital, the harbor and the river Spree.
new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture
criticL Mark Foster GAGE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ryan CONNOLLY: This project is a new headquarters for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a non-profit, non-government space organization that seeks out research projects and facilitates revolutionary discoveries in the sciences, at First Ave. and 40th St. in Manhattan.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Matias del CAMPO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jenna BOLINO: This housing/spa project is located catty-corner to one of the largest public squares in Vienna, Austria known as Stephansplatz surrounding the city’s Gothic cathedral, Stephansdom. It addresses the street with a subtle, but differentiated façade in comparison with the surrounding neighborhood. The aluminum louvers create a sleek, clean façade which run parallel to each other on the street side and are shifted and bent on the inner edge to allow for privacy and views at different parts of the housing program inside.
milan ITALY
Politecnico di Milano, Science of Architecture
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Mihai Dragos POTRA: Does nature asks itself “What if?” Is there a reason why it creates billions of different life forms? Does it have a final purpose other than its own existence? Is the evolution the mechanism that enforces its own existence or the one thing that leads to a final purpose, or is just an efficient way to answer the “What if” question? In any case, the beauty it creates, the diversity, the music and the unexpected, visualized through our conscious minds it’s a one majestic creation of this universe.
london UNITED KINGDOM & CHINA
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
MArch Unit 20
critics: Marcos CRUZ & Marjan COLLETTI
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rui LIU (L-U-D studio): Rapid urbanisation throughout fast growing countries, such as Brazil, India or China, has resulted in a neglect of integrated-design of how we utilize water. In an increasingly urban world, it is important to step back and review that the built environment is truly in need of engaging with the specific requirements of water management at a local scale.
belgrade SERBIA
University of Belgrade
critics: Djordje STOJANOVIC & Milutin CEROVIC
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Aleksandar BURSAC: The design intent was to retain the existing atmosphere of the river beach, and to introduce its qualities into the educational environment or the New Media institute. The “institute” and the “beach” are formulated as initial typologies that polarize the space in between, creating the field of transitional types. These types are exhibited differently, on some occasion they are more inclined towards the character of the beach while at others they are closer to the idea of the institute.
