brooklyn NEW YORK
ferda KOLATAN+erich SCHOENENBERGER, partners
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
ferda KOLATAN: Pluripotent Structures describe a series of experimental investigations we have been conducting into more adaptive and variable design systems, which take advantage of multi-scalar and parametric techniques to generate formal organizations that challenge conventional architectural categorizations such as structure, volume and surface.
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istanbul TURKEY
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
emrah CETINKAYA: Art has a great role in showing what happens in human beings’ life. Soul, intelligence and the emotions are the reflections of the community, and Art forms the social identities of communities. It also shows us the difference between the various social identities. Global influences effect the types of knowledge acquisitions or the social values in the art, and the artists determine the standards of modern life.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
LYLA: Lucy lives in everybody’s desire. Lucy is cute, sexy and dangerous.
Lucy is a whore-house, a sex shop, a weapon store, hourly hotel, video arcade, 24 hours shopping mall.
Lucy is sin city with a room of love at her heart.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
naureen MEYER: Operating at an increased degree of the superfluous, the expanse and ability of the cosmetic effect to transform the identity of architecture is tested. Much like the relationship of makeup to the human face, the cosmetic enhances and creates illusion in existing features. In The Cunning of Cosmetics, Jeffrey Kipnis describes the effect as more “visceral than intellectual, more atmospheric than aesthetic.” The effect is an intrinsic essence; its power lies in its subtle meshing between face and makeup and the ambiguous border it creates between the two.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
instructor: ferda KOLATAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
arthur AZOULAI + melody REES: This project is a morphological study that assumes an extended field of movement and circulating forces. It is designed by simulating self-organizing biological systems where selective decision making is used to sculpt innate yet deliberate spatial relationships and formal qualities. At its pure essence, this project is an infrastructural system that acts as a receiver and link-up for formal architectural systems. The inherent continuity of the overall form as a topological surface allows for the emergence of roadways, interstitial interior space, and landscape.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
kristen GEORGE + jesus BANUELOS: The project was to design a contemporary façade for Palladio’s Palazzo della Ragione in the city of Vicenza, Italy. A decision was made to modify the program of Palladio’s basilica and create an astronomical observatory. The desire was to create a public destination and landmark in the city to attract visitors as well as residents of Vicenza.
los angeles/stockholm
SERVO: This speculative proposal for a 4,000 sqm bioscience innovation center with a hydrodynamic vegetated roof, located in the Albano region of Stockholm, reconsiders the extensive green roof typology to produce an occupiable roofscape characterized by immersive depth. The green roof is designed to be experienced from several vantage points: from above—walking amidst a dense landscape of indigenous vegetation intertwined with protuberant forms that emit water, air or light; from below—as a suspended ceiling system that pulls down to close proximity with the floor; or from within—in the interior of the auditorium space and specialized laboratory areas designed for the cultivation of vegetation in semi climatically-controlled microclimates.
new haven CONNECTICUT
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
amy DEDONATO: The project proposes a contemporary art museum located next to Kahn’s renowned British Art Center at Yale University. Conceptually, the project is designed as a contemporary ‘wunderkammer’ - an open art warehouse that provokes curiosity and personal discovery of art objects within the building. An undulating ceiling coupled with a natural top lighting system begins to delineate space though structural densities, compressed zones, and fully enclosed spaces.
guatemala/china
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
frisly COLOP MORALES: As one approaches the new cathedral, an architectural composition merges the borders of the refined and the chaotic. It becomes the first experience for the visitor. This experience continues as a journey through the building interiorities, seeking for the spiritual light. This journey, for the believer and the non-believer, explores the conditions of darkness and infinite sacred light.
taipei TAIWAN
BIG: m = distance I m2 = area I m3 = space
Technology + Entertainment + Knowledge = TEK
TEK3 = Space for Technology, Entertainment & Knowledge
The Technology Entertainment & Knowledge Center – aka TEK Taipei – is a dense urban block of all kinds of activities related to contemporary technology and media.
The cube = TEK3
The spiraling street of media programs is consolidated in to a 57×57x57 m3 cube of program permeated by a public trajectory of people life.
