murcia SPAIN

European University of Madrid (UEM)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Juan José SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ: Flesh_tanbul is a proposition for the subaquatic archeological park of Yenikapi in Istanbul. The grounds of a forgotten harbor for more than 16 centuries restructured into a subaquatic museum transited through a hammam. We face the preservation by the evolution of a new cultural tourism where history and body create an emphatic bond. Flesh_tanbul folds with the exterior, it flows towards the landscape, not imitating its forms but its evolutionary process.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Peter Cook lecture series, “Zones of Investigation.” Lecture one, “Comfortable Zones: The Near, the Nostalgic, the Knee-jerk, the ‘Back Pocket.’” The first of four lectures by Sir Peter Cook exploring a series of forays into the question of architectural inspiration. Tickets are free and can be reserved in advance online. Please bring your printed ticket to gain entry to the lecture. Returns may be available on the door.

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Peter COOK, "Comfortable Zones"
Wednesday, 12/12
7.30–8.00 pm / Christopher Ingold Auditorium
The Bartlett School of Design
UCL Chemistry Building
20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

American University of Sharjah
critic: George KATODRYTIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rami ALOTAIBI: This project utilizes the tectonic nature of a machine and contrasts it with the complexity of the human system. Drawing inspiration from the idea of human landscapes, this project operates on the simplicity of a hybrid, of which its properties are exploited into the creation of complex, flexible geometrical hybrids that adapt and map their surroundings. These hybrids are examined within the context of Port Rashid in an attempt of gentrifying it into the hub which initiated the life of the city that it beholds.

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boston MASSACHUSETTS & new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Alda ÇAPI BLACK & Chris MASICAMPO: Charged with establishing easier connections to the main activities and services in the heart of the city of Tirana, the proposal is a hybrid design that combines a transportation center with recreational facilities. It allows commuters to navigate fluidly among different modes of transportation—light rail, commuter rail, buses, cars and bicycles—and offers opportunities for people to shop, eat, work and play.

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chicago ILLINOIS

Illinois Institute of Technology
critic: John RONAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Mircea ENI: Atmosphere in architecture is the overall presence and impact of the building onto its inhabitants. Atmosphere can be influenced by form, material, light, temperature, and texture. Its presence affects our senses to a point where we can no longer doubt the existence and intentions of the building. Atmosphere can also be influenced by the craft and assembly of the building. The presence of modern technologies and fabrication methods creates an opportunity for designing new atmospheres.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sergio GONZÁLEZ, Luis MUÑIZ, Stephan SOBL, & Giacomo TINARI: The gentle slope of the Makasiinipuisto park promenade leads to the heart of the design, an eighteen meter high glass roofed central courtyard; the green lung. Connecting to all major program areas and behaving as a pedestrian distributor the courtyard and hanging gardens elude to a lively urban piazza . The children’s space, offices, workrooms and restaurants reside to the north of the green lung. While on the southern end is the library, illuminated through a system of skylights and redirection lighting systems.

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Technology
critic: Manfred BERTHOLD

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Herwig SCHERABON: Ichneumonid is a project about species mutation and insect morphology as an approach to architectural typology. It deals with the deconstruction and subversion of remnants from second world war. The design is based on insectoid aesthetics and entomological analysis of ichneumonidae, a parasitic wasp that affects its host by seeding eggs into the hosts body. The worms, that eclose from the eggs, break through the hosts skin and pupate on it. The architectural equivalent would be a parasitic building that grows from the inside of an existing building.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Neil Denari is an architect and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects, a globally recognized architecture practice based in Los Angeles. He is currently a Professor at UCLA. At present, his office is engaged with projects of various scales in the U.S. and Asia. Denari is the author of two bestselling books, Interrupted Projections and Gyroscopic Horizons, and is currently at work on Facticity, forthcoming in 2013.

neil DENARI, “Facticity”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 11/28
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

orléans FRANCE

The work of Enric Ruiz-Geli aims to create new forms of spatiality from digital technologies. Advocating of green architecture and biotechnology, research and development department Cloud 9 uses information as a construction material, considering each building a prototype to be managed via the computer from design to final production. As an architect, Ruiz-Geli has built the Media-TIC in Barcelona and is the designer of the El Bulli Foundation in Madrid.

Enric RUIZ-GELI, Architecture + Experimentation lecture
Tuesday, 11/27
6.00 pm / Médiathèque d’Orléans
Auditorium Reggui (Entrée côté rue Chanzy)
1, Place Gambetta, 45000 Orléans FRANCE

ann arbor MICHIGAN

Odile Decq is Director of École Spéciale d’Architecture and Principal of Odile Decq Benoît Cornette, Architectes-Urbanistes, in Paris, France. Her first commission, Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes, France—completed in 1990—received international acclaim and numerous prizes. Publications documenting the building underlined the emergence of a new style born from punk rebellion, while also questioning the project, the use, the matter, the body, the technique, the taste, and the architecture of Odile Decq Benoît Cornette.

Odile Decq
Monday, 11/26
6.00 pm / A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104)
Art + Architecture Building
A. Alfred Taubman College of A+UP
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48109