los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: florencia PITA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
HAO jiang & JIARUI liu: The project is about creating a new type of grid for the program of hotel and theater. Turbulence is introduced here as a fluid dynamic grid. Different from traditional homogeneous grid, it is radiant, including quiet center, low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity.
![re[BLUR]2.0](../../../../wp-content/uploads/2012/11/02-render_FRONT.jpg "re[BLUR]2.0")
cambridge MASSACHUSETTS & los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
qi SU & jili HUANG: [re]BLUR 2.0 could be interpreted in two different ways.
Theoretically, it is an initiative to help people to identify and differentiate their physical presents from their digital lives. It is a device with which people could discover the occupancy of the cybernetic part in their mind. It is also an incubator that bring up the opportunities of encountering and contingency.
Formally, it is a labyrinth built up with hundreds of the “water stalactites.” It is a container within which there are vague boundary between illusion and reality. It is also an experiment field where the refraction of lights is manipulated following the design of the continuous transparent surface.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc, MArch 2 Thesis
critic: marcelo SPINA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
YE li: This project is to use pile to create a complex accretion and a lumpy mass.
There is a system. We can find them in mineral crystal, Starry Sky, flowers clusters and so on, it’s a kinds of disorder, a nature rule of aggregation. It’s pile like logic. Unlike the pre-decided order of stacking, piling’s components are random rotated and scaled. We can only identify this order by its holistic forms.
vienna AUSTRIA
The “blossom-gate” by the Vienna-based designhouse prechteck defines a landmark to the entrance of the largest chinese myrtle garden in the City of Xiangyiang. Prechteck tries to reinvent the gate as an architectural typology underlining the connecting characteristics of a former dividing element. Formalistic Inspirations lay in the chinese tradition of Caligraphy, the context and its topographie and flower-blossoms as a theme for the garden.
london UNITED KINGDOM / paris FRANCE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Matteo Cainer Architects: The construction of the Afghan museum celebrates the richness of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage and the spirit of its peoples. In a nation devastated by war, the wealth of its cultural background and the spirit of its peoples are embodied here. In spite of the years of conflict and turmoil, the underlying strengths of the country remain intact, embedded in the earth and rising from it.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc, MArch 2 Thesis
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
ta (david) YU: The forming of the urban context is based on the existing territory, something that changes slowly, and human activities, which are changing all the time. Due to the non-stop pace of human activities, the urban context remains in a cycle of perpetual negotiation. Like organic tissue, the city is always in a state of growth, decay, and rebirth.
savannah GEORGIA
“French Kiss,” Jean Paul Gaultier boutique and showroom
Savannah College of Art and Design
critic: jean JAMINET
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
jean JAMINET: The challenge for this 2nd year studio was to design a boutique and showroom for the French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier as an addition to the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Atlanta, Georgia.
One of the ambitions of this studio was to use the “kiss” as a modulation between the intimacy of the interior and the publicity of an urban event.
london UNITED KINGDOM
Architectural Association, Design Research Lab ( DRL)
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
SoftKill Design (nicholette CHAN, gilles RETSIN, aaron SILVER, & sophia TANG): Softkill Design investigated the architectural potential of the latest Selective Laser Sintering technologies, testing the boundaries of large scale 3-D printing by designing with computer algorithms that micro-organize the printed material itself. With the support of Materialise, Softkill Design produced a high-resolution prototype of a 3D Printed house at 1:33 scale. The model consists of 30 detailed fibrous pieces which can be assembled into one continuous cantilevering structure, without need for any adhesive material.
stuttgart GERMANY
The Haus am Weinberg is located in a setting that is at one time rural, yet suburban. The location of the villa affords pastoral views of the stepped terraces of an ancient hillside vineyard on one side and cityscape vistas on the other.
The inner circulation, organisation of the views and the programme distribution of the house are determined by a single gesture, “the twist.” In the Haus am Weinberg the central twist element supports the main staircase as it guides and organises the main flows through the house. The direction of each curve is determined by a set of diagonal movements. Whilst the programme distribution follows the path of the sun, each evolution in the twist leads to moments in which views to the outside become an integral experience of the interior.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Synthesis Design + Architecture (alvin HUANG): The proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library challenges the conventional understanding of the spatial and social experience of a public library as a series of discrete reading rooms with defined thresholds and cluttered stacks. We propose an intelligent, open, and integrated library experience which supersedes the media storage methods of the past and changes the library space into a hybrid environment through ubiquitous information resources, integrated furnishings and active communal social spaces.
