los angeles CALIFORNIA

sP: Describe your project.

erin CUEVAS & john FARRACE: The project operates on the assumption of a new government policy, where Juarez has been allocated money to reconstruct the economy and infrastructure within the city. The drug cartels, with their strong presence in Juarez, inevitably contribute to this development, generating spaces for their use. Both the government and cartels support the rebuilding of shanty towns, to provide better living conditions for poor communities. The new developments in Juarez directly affect the city’s neighborhoods themselves, but also indirectly affect America—in terms of shifting perceptions of the city, and of Mexico in general.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

juanito OLIVARRIA: Ministry of Indulgence: PART ONE (VIDEO); Part TWO (VIDEO).

In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes, in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked. — Søren Kierkegaard

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

daniel REIST: The next centuries cities are growing radical, and the main focus of this project was to provide an option against urban sprawl. The redensification or recreation of downtown Los Angeles as a kind of test field for the whole city, is the scenario for my proposal.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alexander COTTERILL: The Traders’ Commune envisages a society of total self-sufficiency that aims to embrace and regenerate the surrounding area. In reaction to the current economic climate and deterioration of outer cities, the project acts as a critique of the development and decline of a failed planning model in Brighton’s suburbia.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

caterina TIAZZOLDI: Illy Shop is a shop realized in Milano in Galleria San Carlo.
The concept is conceived for a reconfigurable store, characterized by different modulations of a single element, a “cube” which is 45x45cm-squared base.
Using a grasshopper application, it becomes possible to manipulate the cube physical properties by editing depth, thickness, opacity, length and explosions. The combinatory logic—permits to perform over 3000 configurations of the same object.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

pat PANUPAISAL: This project is a part of Advanced Design Studio at the Academy of Art University, Fall 2011. The pavilion is part of the Futuristic World Expo in San Francisco.

The proposal explores the possibility of floating structure and the interaction between architecture and water level fluctuation. The form of the pavilion evolved from a series of formal exploration documented in a modifier catalogue. The form consists of a skeletal/structural frame that holds the floating clusters of pod-like volume in place.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

yaohua WANG: Nanjing Lab is a plant growing lab located in the historical area of Nanjing. Different from traditional plant labs, which focus on the attributes of plants themselves, the purpose of the Nanjing Lab is to test plant behavior inside Nanjing City—for instance, how the plants react to the polluted city air and daily dust. Therefore, the design focuses on how to let the plants interact with the outside environment and, meanwhile, still remain in control of it.

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new orleans LOUISIANA

Instructor: Sheena A. Garcia
Seminar: ADGM6300 Theories in Digital Media, Tulane University School of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
hannah AMBROSE, caroline MEYER, shea TRAHAN, & andrew GRAHAM: This VIP tent for the Spring 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week embodies the idea that high fashion is a complex and seductive organism capable of consuming human interest through the ritual of spectacle.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

joseph HOFMARCHER, rangel KARAIVANOV, jurgen STROHMAYER, siim TUKSAM: Sitting at a high point of the Bosphorus valley, Levent Vertical Mass responds to the urban context of the Istanbul metropolis at large by integrating the high velocity axes of the Golden Horn highways and contextualizing views to the old city. The building’s urban scale ceiling facade is oriented towards the boulevard of Levent, characterized by commercial high-rise buildings, as well as the adjacent valley neighborhood.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kid KITCHAIYA: Primal Parts focused on exploring the possible affects and spatial conditions in architecture by analyzing the heterogeneous composition of biological parts. A set of biological parts were configured then dismembered through the use of butchering techniques. The conditions that yielded from these cuts were harvested based on the necessity of parts. Some cuts yielded spatial conditions and were then applied to the program. The characteristics of these biological parts create an immersive environment—an intensive exchange between architecture and product.

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