philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Kutan AYATA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rajika MAHESHWARI & Roza PATTAH: The Natatorium condenses the European coastal culture of cove hopping from town to town; the arched trajectories of this pilgrimage are inverted and brought indoor to a Natatorium, promoting exploration and meandering from pool to pool within the building.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Simon KIM.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yihan LI: Since the emergence of time as a concept, the circle has been a graphic representation that registers and measures the passing of seconds, minutes, hours, and even decades. . . .

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critics: David RUY with Stefano PASSERI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jacob HARTZELL & Gregory INGALLS: A glitch within architecture can be achieved (and in our minds most successfully achieved) by copying. Doubling of an object estranges both the copy and its original. We used the process of copying as a strategy to create obscene results.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SPAN (Matias del CAMPO & Sandra MANNINGER): The leitmotiv of the Guggenheim Museum, Helsinki is the 9-square grid. . . .

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Andrew SAUNDERS.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Gary POLK: Refraction is defined as the fact or phenomenon of light being deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another, or through a medium of varying density.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Clark THENHAUS / Endemic: A Project Four Domes Nowhere in the Middle implicates the four middles of America, a spatial paradox of locating centers within boundaries by marking these remote, pastoral points with freestanding domes atop earthen mounds. . . .

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
Gehry Prize, Best Graduate Thesis Award
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jeff HALSTEAD: Architecture can be posited as a relationship between interiority and form. Glass House embodies an agitated, non-negotiated relationship of both—done through a collapse of the sequencing between them. . . .

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: Nate HUME.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Zherui WANG: This house speculates on domestic living and its relationship, in the near future, to air. No longer considered, matter-of-fact, as an available resource, fresh air is commodified as a luxury consumer item—obsessively collected, carefully stored, and consumed in a contained environment.

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san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
advisor: Doug JACKSON.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ben PENNELL: The spatial overlap between Madison Square Garden and Penn Station is an opportunity for programmatic intersection that is currently underutilized. A new proposal for this historically loaded site suggests combining two— one of of entertainment and the other of transportation—in an effort to blur the focal point of spectacle.

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna
Studio Greg Lynn
critics: Greg LYNN with Parsa KHALILI, Bence PAP, & Maja OZWALDIC.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Juergen STROHMAYER: In this thesis project, literal motion is used to create a dynamic environment at an urban scale.

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