philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Jason PAYNE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Andrea YOAS: This project started with the Pyramid of Tirana, a building in Albania that has existed for decades but has never really had a clear use. Currently, the building is in disrepair and for the most part uninhabited but the population of Albania sees it as a monument and have blocked all attempts to demolish it.

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princeton NEW JERSEY

Princeton SoA
critic: Michael MEREDITH.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jacob COMERCI: A layering of competing organizational systems produces the groundwork for a new collective live/work space in Princeton. Each of these systems supports an organizational logic distinct from its neighbor’s. When these systems intersect, a negotiation is made between contrasting organizational schemes forming an architectural compromise.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rachael McCALL: Aiming for boundless and edgeless mass, Frayed & Polished challenges the legibility of edges, figures & silhouettes by fraying edges and working with different gradients of polish. . . .

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
advisors: Ellie ABRONS & Adam FURE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Alex BERNETICH, Jamie COLBURN, & Maria STURCHIO: WALLFLOWERS examines the formal specificity, scalar opportunities, and spatial consequences of the everyday domestic wall object. . . .

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
critic: Andrew HOLDER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Chris PINE: This project can be segmented into three investigations. . . .

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
advisors: Ellie ABRONS & Adam FURE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Danielle TELLEZ: This thesis investigates the degree to which manipulating the boundaries of three-dimensional form can affect subject-object relationships, way-finding, and the identification of an object through its parts rather than its whole.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jason VIGNERI-BEANE: The Small World _A/A-E series is an exercise in speculative scenario design that integrates industrial design, graphics, architecture, synthetic ecological sub-urbanism and airborne electronics in an amphibious environment. . . .

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college station TEXAS

Texas A&M University
Alien, Messy, Discrete.
critics: Gilles RETSIN with Gabriel ESQUIVEL.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Austen KERNODLE, Jeff LEMLEY, Aaron ROSAS, & Chris THACKERY: The word baroque refers to a “rough or imperfect pearl.”Baroque as a condition of ancestrality, not simply as a term to describe a period of architecture. . . .

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critics: Michael CHEN & Jason LEE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Molly MASON & Zherui WANG: This thesis speculates that a biological paradigm of information collection, consumption, and manipulation is the next step of urban information interface development, because of its ability to promise a higher resolution of information capturing and consistent coverage.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture (YSOA)
critics: Greg LYNN & Nate HUME.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Roberto Jenkins TANZI: Piaggio Center, a hybrid factory and showroom, highlights the reconfigurability aspect of the contemporary fabrication process. The typical process is broken down into different fabrication components and housed in movable pods, which aggregate around centralized nodes of production.

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