new york NEW YORK

The Arnica jewelry collection synthesizes beastly forms into golden baubles . . .

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critics: Michael CHEN & Jason LEE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Molly MASON & Zherui WANG: This thesis speculates that a biological paradigm of information collection, consumption, and manipulation is the next step of urban information interface development, because of its ability to promise a higher resolution of information capturing and consistent coverage.

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barcelona SPAIN

Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
critic: Marcos CRUZ.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Natalie ALIMA: Architecture today is seen something static and unresponsive. However it is time to take a hint from biology and allow our buildings to grow, adapt and self repair.

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Studio Hadid
critic: Zaha HADID.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Maya PINDEUS: Synthetic Skin is about introducing a new type of interactive architecture. It uses robotic principles in the design and fabrication process to create architecture that can spatially adapt to the changing requirements of its users and its environment.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yong Ha KIM: Biological growth operates as a catalyst in order to create an animate geometry. This catalyst gives a repeated stimulus to the fundamental processes in architecture—that is, the process from particle to line; from line to surface; from surface to line; from line to particle; from particle to surface—which happen sequentially over time as the biological growth in nature.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

A collection of full-scale interactive design objects from the lab speculating on our future domestic relationships with synthetic biology, external memory prosthesis, interactive sleep terrains and multi-sensory emotive environments. Projects 12/13 presents the work of 6 Master’s Interior Architecture + Design students pursuing a full year residency in the lab. The Design Futures Lab is a trans-disciplinary design research group led by Assistant Professor Nicole Koltick (Department of Architecture + Interiors, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design).

opening reception: “Design Futures Lab: Projects 12/13.”
Tuesday, 07/09 (runs through 07/21)
6.00–9.00 p.m. / URBN Center Annex
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
3401 Filbert Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nikolay Hristov IVANOV: The project titled ”Phýllon” is a lamp design that is inspired by the complexity of the leaf’s venation. A novel process that employs computer simulation is used to generate a design that operates close to a micro-scale. It started as a research design-investigation based on the distribution of the veins of a single leaf blade. The goal was not to mimic the leaf’s pattern of veins, but rather to have a new reading towards it using a speculative data set and reconnecting within certain logic—establish direct connections—more like covered with a spider net, creating complexity via the quantity of the elements, rather than the elements themselves. Via exploring a numerous configurations of points and diverse connection logics of growth, it crystallized as extremely fragile, elegant or even precious single object design.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25th, 2012—Skylar Tibbits, Arthur Olson and Autodesk Research have exhibited the BioMolecular Self-Assembly project at the 2012 TEDGlobal Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Participants at TEDGlobal each received a unique glass flask containing anywhere from 4 to 12 red, black or white parts. When the glass flask is shaken randomly the independent parts find each other and self-assemble various molecular structures. The flasks contain a custom tag that identifies the type of molecular structure and the ingredients for successful self-assembly.

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toronto CANADA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

david REEVES: For the speculative development of several temporary large-scale pavilion structures at London’s Olympic Park, the project sets out to leverage the organizational potential of distributed intelligence. Treating the existing site as a field of nodal destinations, the pavilions are collectively conceived of as an interstitial tissue—materializing along potential high traffic routes between venues.

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shanghai CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

O + R (rafael ORTIZ MARTINEZ de CARNERO, architect, and fernando ORTIZ MARTINEZ de CARNERO, biologist): COLONIES is a biological installation project that proposes a DIRECT ENCOUNTER between human beings and microorganisms within an exhibition setting. In which the visitors can experience the sensation of being part of an organism that is both alive and evolving.

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