los angeles CALIFORNIA

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Synthesis Design + Architecture: Inspired by the geometric patterns of Taiwanese Hen Cages and the structural shells of luxury racing yachts, the building takes shape in a dynamic gradient form that transitions from exo-skin to exo-skeleton in response to programmatic content as well as performative requirements. Thus, what appears to be formal expression, is actually “informed form” which responds to the integration of weather, urban context, program, circulation, and sustainability through integrated design responses that inform the building orientation, spatial layout, façade design, and choice of material and structural system.

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mexicali MEXICO

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ATztudio (fernanda de la TORRE JIMENEZ, armando GARCIA OKADA): The following project proposes a Performing Arts School in one of the most touristic, exciting but also conflictive neighborhoods of Barcelona city.

The Idea of implementing a school of this kind in “El Raval” district, arises from the social problems and the improvement plans on the area.

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mumbai INDIA

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aatish MOON: Googleplex 2200, a prediction of architectural possibilities, draws inspiration from the futuristic world of author Neal Stephenson’s sci fi novel The Diamond Age where in, mediaglyphic language, phenomenoscopic and phantoscopic retinal implants, reproductive freedom machines, spinal teleaethetics, lidars, and the mediatron are a functioning reality. The structure’s design is informed most significantly by Stephenson’s vision of matter compiling atomic reconfiguration nanotechnology, through which articles may dissect themselves, reducing to their most basic elements and subsequently reforming to meet the ever-evolving need of the consumer.

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berkeley CALIFORNIA

University of California, Berkeley
critic: nicholas de MONCHAUX

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pablo ZUNZUNEGUI: Set in a speculative future, the project explores the reinsertion of man into the Amazon without compromising either one’s existence. A new ecosystem is created, where machine intermingles with the native ecology.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

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conway PEDRON & rebecca BARTLETT: Africa holds only 4% of “world airline aircrafts,” and South and Central America 6.8%, compared with 43.7% and 23.7% in the USA and Western Europe respectively (Mackinnon 2001). Gabon, one of the wealthiest sub-Saharan countries in Africa, is posed to serve as a major hub for new air traffic that will inevitable grow as the continent of Africa futher develops. This projected growth of commercial air traffic will likely have adverse affects on the environments in which they are proposed and must address these issues in their expansion and new development.

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buenos aires ARGENTINA

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prechteck: Austrian architecture studio prechteck has proposed a concept plan that deals with the revitalization of Puerto Madero and development of the new contemporary art museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The design of the building draws influence from contextual associations like waves of the waterfront, or setting sail for the Fragata Sarmiento, where viewpoints of the main parameter are highlighted.

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crowley LOUISIANA

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Trahan Architects: Located to the north-east of Crowley, the site lies between the urban/residential development to the west and the rural/agricultural development to the east. The design seeks to mediate this threshold and express the importance of the local agricultural development to place. Rice is the primary economy in the Parish and city of Crowley. Rice fields create a beautiful mosaic that blanket the landscape. Contours follow the natural topography, control water run-off and delineate rice paddies. As technology has advanced the rice fields have evolved from a more fluid configuration to a more orthogonal configuration. This results in a more efficient layout and maximizes the yield.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

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vlad TENU: MC/2* is the latest prototype from the Minimal Complexities series, an architectural design research focused on the form-finding and fabrication of minimal surface structures. Computationally generated, the surfaces use an algorithmic process inspired by principles of self-organisation found in nature, while conforming to various construction and digital fabrication parameters. Along the lines of modularity and efficiency through the repetition of identical components, intricately complex surfaces are created with only a few types of component, with applications in architecture, product and fashion design.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

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vidhi PATEL: A state of constant change that is the site, has various distinct conditions of state transition that can be observed through program shifts and their spatial equations. The idea of this project is to understand this transitional nature of the site and its users and allow it to inform the site development.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

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linda HAGBERG: Sited in the area between the Danshui River and Taipei Main Station, Taipei Herbal Baths and Aquatic Sports Centre is inspired by an investigation into materials and how their properties change according to surrounding environment, particularly evident in wood and its change of shape due to humidity. The project explores the possibility of employing a materialistic approach to create a responsive space, an architecture of which ephemeral and sensorial qualities are constructed from environment and material.

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