los angeles CALIFORNIA

Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and founding director at the AA Design Research Lab. In 1996, he founded the DRL with Brett Steele at the Architectural Association in London, and continues to serve as one of its co-directors. Schumacher’s contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture is evident in his published works and interviews which can be viewed at his Web site.

patrik SCHUMACHER, “Parametric Semiology”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 10/10
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

beijing CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

virginia MELNYK: The american city has become littered with vacant lots. These spaces leave a emptiness, and become a place that people try to avoid. Rainbow Ropes, attempts to reactivate these types of spaces by building an infrastructure for play. Rainbow Ropes becomes a playground for children and adults alike, he conic shapes and tunnel like forms are inviting for people to climb inside. The web like structure is made of rope woven between structural steel frameworks. This rope can be soft and comfortable to climb, sit, and lounge on. Open to the fresh air, the density of the rope filters light to shade inhabitants as they lounge inside. Rainbow Ropes intends to reactivate dead spaces in the city and create place where everyone can come together and feel young again.

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new york NEW YORK

Open Call — An Innovation and Design Workshop for recent graduates by a major brand in NYC this October, run by Nous Collaborative. $12,300 of awards to be given out.

Participants must be available from the 12 October-26 October (weekend and evenings). Participants retain copyright of their ideas as well as gain the possibility of having their project realized with the brand. We are looking for architects, artists and designers to give a new twist to the public outreach of the brand. Please contact Melissa@nouscollaborative.com if you are interested in participating.

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sydney AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Enter Architecture (patrick KEANE): At 150sqm, the project was modest in its footprint but sets a clear example of digitally fabricated interiors, and a prototype to see how these projects perform. In early conversations with the client, priorities were quickly realised: 3 radiating treatment rooms, a central reception area, lots of play spaces, soft furnishings like beanbags and excellent visibility - all of which contributed to the genesis for the ideas and space planning that followed.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

adam DAYEM: The term folly is considered to have been derived from two different French words: folie, meaning pleasure or delight; and feuilée, which quite literally refers to a leafy arbor. A folie is associated with miscalculation, foolishness and extravagance; it often serves no apparent purpose beyond some mythic or folkloric association. A feuilée, on the other hand, has nothing to do with spectacle and ostentation, but is about embracing nature in a more modest way.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Woodbury School of Architecture and the Julius Shulman Institute welcome Inside Marina City: A Project by Iker Gil and Andreas E. G. Larsson to the WUHO Gallery. For more than two years, Iker Gil and Andreas E. G. Larsson documented the lives of residents in the non-Euclidean geometries of architect Bertrand Goldberg’s iconic Marina City (1959-67) in Chicago. Celebrating Goldberg’s original vision for affordable apartments in a central, high-density location, this revealing series of photographs provides a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of the diverse array of people and living spaces within these popular cylindrical residential towers.

Inside Marina City: A Project by Iker Gil and Andreas E. G. Larsson
Thursday, 10/04—10/28
WUHO
6518 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna, Excessive postgraduate studio
critic: hernan DIAZ ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

shahira HAMMAD: This project represents my thesis for the “Excessive” postgraduate program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2012. We were asked to envision a new train station for Vienna, one that would either modify or replace the existing Westbahnhof train station. I chose to keep the existing building, but to contaminate it with structures that would express a complexity that now is missing. My intervention was inspired both from Nature and Culture, and beyond its polemical characteristics it does intend to bring back what in science is called: Spontaneous Order.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

xiaofeng MEI: Architecture can exist as a medium on the sensory, perceptual and organism. It should respond to a variety of environmental parameters and focus on dealing with the relationship rather than a physical body.—Kisho Kurokawa

My project is located on a coastal area of Japan which is a site susceptible to environmental influences. My thesis is about the “dynamic morphologies” of a building’s envelope, and how architecture can move away from being fix to one that is in contrast shape. That shape is a response to the immediate environment.

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innsbruck AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

[uto] ursula FRICK & thomas GRABNER: Our modern times are unimaginable without planning. The growth of settlements and cities is so tempestuous that a slow process of adaptation is no longer possible. This, therefore, poses the question, whether by means of more adaptable planning theories, processes can be promoted or simulated which, seen as a whole, are “more natural”—Frei Otto (1)
This work examines the thesis of Otto regarding the future direction of urban planning theory through the lens of parametric urbanism. The urban theory proposed translates the type of generating principles of the natural systems and unplanned settlements invoked by Otto, into a means of developing new forms of emergent urbanism.

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miami FLORIDA & new york NEW YORK

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
First place — $1200

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alex LOZANO & reynolds DIAZ jr.: In recent years Manhattan’s lower West Side has undergone radical urban transformations. Perhaps the most influential addition to this part of the urban fabric has been the Highline Elevated Park; a melting pot of diverse activities. Thus extending this dynamic chamber of locals, artist, tourist and night-life enthusiast was an essential component to the proposal. Moreover, catalyzing these synergizes throughout the site emerge fields of landscape diversities. In this landscape, people can recreate, farm, lounge, gather or stroll for a casual walk.

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