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.

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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.

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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 57x57x57 m3 cube of program permeated by a public trajectory of people life.

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seoul KOREA

david BENJAMIN + soo-in YANG: Living Light is a building facade of the future that displays air quality and public interest in the environment. It is a permanent outdoor pavilion in Peace Park, across from World Cup Stadium in Seoul, Korea. Our project aims to combine real-time data about the environment with dynamic lighting to create an interactive facade of the future.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

dave BANTZ + michael GROSS: Rather than taking the “true” or literal approach to materials, this
project attempts to adopt techniques mastered by artists and apply them at an architectural scale. Material in art is used as a representational device for effects and a gateway to sensation. The”Artificial Matters” studio, run by SCIARC professor Elena Manferdini, aims to provoke new sensations through texture, geometry, coloration, and finish. The studio began by 3D scanning literal materials (in this case a sliced peach) and modifying the raw data to produce a synthetic material with the potential to create new sensations.

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pasadena CALIFORNIA

ART CENTER COLLEGE ANNOUNCES MADE UP:DESIGN’S FICTIONS

Exhibition Explores the Future As Envisioned By a New Generation of Architects and Designers

Lecture Series and Public Exhibition January 29 - March 20, 2011

Wind Tunnel Gallery
Art Center College of Design South Campus
950 S. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

EASTON+COMBS: The Aldgate Landmark Pavilion is a temporary entrance marker to the City of London in celebration of the 2012 Olympics. The site’s importance is that it is the location of the former city gate, the Aldgate, a historically significant point of entry to the city of London that was famous for being open to all social classes when the other city gates were reserved for various elites. The resonance of the history of the site serves as a gesture to the spirit of the 2012 Olympics in a bustling area of contemporary London by providing the venue of a temporary landmark.

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college station TEXAS

Team Members:
ryan COLLIER
michael TOMASO
gabriel ESQUIVEL
The project was awarded an honorable mention in the REPEAT competition organized by TEXFAB November 2010.

gabriel ESQUIVEL: There is a vast precedent in fabrication projects that deal with the idea of weaving, however within those projects there are more specific techniques. This project concerns itself specifically in the spiral or coil. In “Tooling” Aranda/Lasch describe this technique as, “the spiral (which) is not so much the shape as the evidence of a shape in formation.”(1) This idea implies constant movement as a desired effect - something architecture has historically aspired to.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

tiffany DAHLEN and virginia MELNYK: The urban night club responds to the vibrant and eclectic youth culture of Harajuku and balances the high end fashion of Omontesando. The urban club consists of a large meet and greet entry area, sushi restaurant, sake bar, music lounge and two VIP lounges; Pockets of unique intensities are held within a white framework, creating zones of spatiality, surficiality, and crenalation. Five distinct qualities corresponding to the specific programs and aesthetic desires, transform between the different spaces through the medium of the framework and are embedded within it. They differ from a sweet salivating sushi restaurant to a soft pillowy lounge space.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

KAOHSIUNG PORT TERMINAL
by BIOTHING 2010 _ competition proposal
principal designers: Alisa Andrasek + Jose Sanchez
design team: Knut Brunier – Gabriel Morales – Denis Lacej

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alisa ANDRASEK: Cliff formations found along many coastlines (including Kaohsiung outer coastline) are resonated through strong vertical fissures of the building. Fractals are frequently used to calculate coastline behavior, given the different degree of “roughness” and multiple orders of scale found in natural coastlines. ||Fissures Port Terminal proposal reflects the idea of such complex articulation within the tectonics of the building.

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