changsha CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

giacomo TINARI: Vulnerable, sterile and inefficient are an unflattering introduction to a city.

Reinstating Penn Station as Pittsburgh’s Union Station would not only create an inviting city gateway, but could mend the inefficiencies between Pittsburgh’s varied modes of transportation. By forcing pedestrians to navigate across dangerous intersections and leaving tourists oblivious to the proximity of their connecting routes, an appreciation for Pittsburgh’s skyline, history and culture are lost. Topographic separation dilutes the sites connections and, as it stands now, the Burnham Rotunda to holds no significance to the commuter.

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new york NEW YORK

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masha PEKUROVSKY: “EcoNET: Project_4 Incorporated” is a design thesis and research project produced during my time as M.Sc.Arch student at Pratt-GAUD. This thesis explores the changes that architecture might undergo in order to be both transformed and built-out into an antidote to the egregiously damaging environmental practices of large utility companies and the insidious pockets of civic planning that allow them.

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ithaca NEW YORK

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EPIPHYTE Lab (dana CUPKOVA & kevin PRATT): The GREEN NELIGEE proposes an alternative to current trends in Eastern European multi-family panelized housing block renovation. Applied to the suburb of Petrzalka in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Negligee is a tensile net system, built from living and non-living components, fused to both existing buildings and landscape. It is designed to exploit the systemic characteristics of the local ecosystem, leveraging specific microclimatic features to produce new spatial, social and ecological conditions.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

amale ANDRAOS & dan WOOD
lecture: “Nature-City”
Thursday, 09/06
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

lexington KENTUCKY

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Sift Studio/adam FURE: This custom designed chandelier topped the staged at the University of Kentucky, College of Design’s 2012 Beaux-Arts Ball. An array of steel pyramids, spun with polyester fibers, dangle from an elevated steel disk. The fibers are bunched, burnt, and painted producing a thick sullied surface. Copper hoses carry electricity to a distributed web of amber LEDs, illuminating the insides of each shell.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

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ben BRADY: This thesis aims to explore the tension prevalent in tody’s libraries from all scales. Video cannot kill the radio star. Despite promises of obsolescence of one technology over another, we must realize that this is never the case. Video didn’t kill radio. Photography didn’t kill painting. Film didn’t kill the theater and the age of digital information will not kill the book and the library. “This” doesn’t kill “that,” but rather “that” may be re-defined by “this.” The library is at a unique place today as facing head-on the power, speed, and mobility of the digital world, while simultaneously being burdened by its own immense physicality.

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shanghai CHINA

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DEDODESIGN (nunzia CARBONE, partner-in-charge; tomas LABANC, project leader; stefan WARNAAR & mincheng HUI, team members):The concept for the new Contemporary Art Museum seeks to create an iconic building on the riverfront promenade. We see the Puerto Madero district as a platform for a new urban redevelopment that reflects the latest tendencies in architectural design. We attract local and global public attention, not just for the museum itself, but for the whole area of the city, and ultimately the country.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

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marco VANUCCI/OPENSYSTEMS Architecture: In emergency circumstances, man’s successful fit into the hosting environment depends on the possibilities for change and adaptation within a context of conservative use of resources. The project illustrates a differentiated and performative system attempting to overcome an existing dichotomy between standardization and need for diversity and change in environmental structures. The design uses parametric design protocols to develop a semimodular system formed by the aggregation of differentiated cellular units. Each unit consists of a monocoque rigid shell and a pedestal.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Dirt—edited by Megan Born, MArch/MLA’08, Lily Jencks, MArch/MLA’09, and Assistant Professor of Architecture Helene Furján with Phillip M. Crosby, PhD Fellow—presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes: essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, a metaphor, a material, a process, a design tool, a narrative, a system. Rooted in the landscape architect’s perspective, Dirt views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly giving, fertile, adaptive, and able to accommodate difference while maintaining cohesion. This dirty perspective sheds light on social connections, working processes, imaginative ideas, physical substrates, and urban networks.

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florence ITALY

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AmniosyA (marino MORETTI, marco CARRATELLI, natalia GIACOMINO, lucia LUNGHI, elvira PERFETTO, lorenzo PIANIGIANI, & leonardo PILATI): ArχipelagA it’s an unconventional bridge, we started thinking about the aggregation and the interaction of different element. In greek ἀρχή it’s the starting point of everithing, the primary idea. So starting from a single plane we started to study the different reaction and interaction between itself and the agents. An exotic bridge that formally looks like something natural, but in the material it’s totally artificial.

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