hong kong CHINA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Y Design Office: Under rapid housing developments in the past years, Hong Kong has benefited much in terms of economy. However, important values such as value in sense of community and individual identity were lost. This thesis hereby critically reviews current and past housing projects in Hong Kong and stating the notion of verticality as the only solution.
vienna AUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
lisa SOMMERHUBER: Academia Somaesthetica envisions a new perception of interior and exterior through the human body. It elevates outdoor fitness to a new, urban dimension: The Copacabana beach promenade, known as the largest outdoor sports field in the world and situated in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, gets extended into the building.
chicago ILLINOIS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
stephen COORLAS & dominic PETERNEL: For this installation we were challenged by the gallery curator to exhibit “architecture” in an experimental fashion. Our response was to design an intensive experience that would locate the viewer in the convoluted realm of graphic, product, and architectural design.
architecture, digital fabrication, fabrication
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UNStudio’s design for an Observation Tower for ‘De Onlanden’ presented to Natuurmonumenten
On September 22nd, 2011, the design for an observation tower for the nature reserve ‘De Onlanden’, situated to the South-West of the City of Groningen, was presented to Natuurmonumenten (the Dutch Society for the Preservation of Natural Heritage) during the mini-symposium ‘Experience Nature with innovative concrete’ in Peize.
architecture, ben VAN BERKEL, un studio
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cheng GONG: For a public library the main idea is to emphasize the order and relationship between solids and voids. The final geometry derives from petals of flowers and small branches from trunks, the building walls are two sides within the site and grow like a generation of branches in their early development phases. Floors are inserted into the volume to divide spaces vertically while creating a domino structural system. Branches are detached out of a bounding solid which is restricted by the site so that the rest of the space in the solid box plays the role of an envelope. As a result, voids are large spaces with abundant light. In contrast, in spite of providing light to the other interior spaces, visitors are able to “touch” and “feel” the negative spaces in between the masses.
architecture, cheng GONG, SCI-arc
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shenzhen CHINA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
franck CONSTANS, etienne MARES, cheng GONG: As a shining pearl in Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong connects four places between two sides in China. Its characteristics of identity, interchanging and flexibility are more and more emphasized not only in the future metropolitan context, but also in the role in the historical and political sense that it plays.
We propose to rethink HKBCF as the architecture of air, a geyser of fire, flaming on the moving surfaces of the sea by holistic way.
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new york NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
alicia ALONSO, jared DIGANCI, & farzin LOTFI-JAM: Inspired by the Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) algorithm developed by the Innovative Structures Group at RMIT University, this project explores a novel or not-quite-right approach to optimization. A series of forces is distributed through a virtual domain and the negotiation of these forces have been relentlessly interrogated for architectural opportunity. This has resulted in a rich palette of spatial conditions, formal languages and surface articulations.
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio’s design for The Scotts Tower unveiled in Singapore
UNStudio’s design for The Scotts Tower in Singapore will be the first development to be unveiled today under the Far East Organisation’s new SOHO brand. Designed to conserve space whilst maximizing live/work/play areas, The Scotts Tower presents a new dimension of functional and flexible vertical space.
boston MASSACHUSETTS
LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
First place — $1200
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:
james LENG: MOON SEED is a speculative proposal that attempts to situate a Lunar Crater Cultural Center along a continuous timeline of human space development. This Lunar development is not the beginning, nor the final goal of humanity’s presence on the moon; it is merely a point-in-time of a perpetual, phased-project to expand human presence extra-terrestrially.
laurel canyon CALIFORNIA
LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
Second Place — $800
Hirsuta Architectural Design and Research
Project Team: jason PAYNE and timothy CALLAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Hirsuta: On The Turning Away: Crater 308
There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.
—Pink Floyd, 1973
