los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

daniel CARPER: The America’s Cup is the most prestigious regatta in the sport of sailing. With such prominence, this international competition draws throngs of hundred-member crews and fans wanting to partake in the spectacle of the race. Ergo, the America’s Cup Pavilion functions as an epicenter for varied activities. Its function, being temporal and specific, conforms to two separate agendas: that of a landmark building with expansive and outwardly-focused race observation decks, and that of an entertainment center with internally-focused post and pre-race programs.

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florence ITALY

supervisor: Alessio Erioli

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

tommaso CASUCCI: The project is a proposal for the new library of the school of architecture, located at the limit of the old town of Florence. It is part of a renovation plan of a large area used until recent times as convent and later penitentiary.

Pre-existing spaces are converted in archive, the new addition provide study areas, meeting spaces, auditorium, exhibition spaces in a continuous varying experience.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Team Members:
Kadri Kerge
Jelena Vukmirovic
Melanie Kotz

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kadri KERGE: Cultural Campus, located near Ismailia, 80km north-east of Cairo, is a self sustainable organism, dealing with extreme climate. The campus consists of a School of Performing Arts (Music, Dance), a School of Visual Arts, a Residence Complex to house students and staff, a Performance Center for Music and Dance and a Contemporary Art Exhibition Gallery. The project is seeking for a new way of creating a modern campus by rediscovering typologies of private and public spaces, and connections between them.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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