san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

IwamotoScott architecture: Trifold Madang is IwamotoScott’s entry for the Busan Opera House design competition. The title refers to the proposal’s formal schema as well as the cultural beginnings of opera in Korea. Our design research uncovered an interesting spatio-historical aspect of the tradition of opera performance in Korea—that it took place in Madang, or public outdoor courtyard spaces. Our proposal organizes the given tripartite program of the Busan Opera House and its major vertical circulation around three triangular voids.

[MORE]

new york NEW YORK

Thanks to all those who submitted to suckerPUNCH’s NYC Casino/Convention Center Competition. All results are linked below.

registration begins 05.14.12

submissions due 08.13.12

awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH

[WINNERS]

[BRIEF]

[FAQ]

[MORE]

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critic: lisa IWAMOTO & craig SCOTT, visiting critics

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

paul CATTANEO: The America’s Cup Pavilion, designed for the America’s Cup Yacht Race to take place throughout 2012, is a design deploying the characteristics of folded plate structural geometries to re-form a site – here specifically Piers 27/29 in San Francisco – in structural efficiency experimentation at a variety of scales, and was designed for a Harvard GSD Option Studio led by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott of IwamotoScott Architecture.

[MORE]

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critic: lisa IWAMOTO & craig SCOTT

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

sandra HERRERA: The 2013 America’s Cup sailing regatta will take place in San Francisco Bay. The project’s site (and program) is the original proposed for this venue: the wedge shaped pier 27. The proposal is generated based on the idea of the pier itself becoming a building out of the interaction of three interdependent skins, all of which are both structure and enclosure.

[MORE]

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critic: lisa IWAMOTO & craig SCOTT

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jeremy JIH: Vaultscape is a proposal for the 2012 San Francisco America’s Cup that attempts to reshape the structural geometries and material narrative of the architectural vault while producing a fluid spatial frame to support the variable scales of the Cup’s sailing races.

[MORE]

new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project

craig SCOTT + lisa IWAMOTO: Edgar Street Towers was produced by IwamotoScott for the Greenwich South design study led by Architecture Research Office, Beyer Blinder Belle and Architects & Planners and OPEN. Contributing architects, artists and designers included Coen + Partners, DeWitt Godfrey, IwamotoScott Architecture, Jorge Colmbo, Lewis.Tsuramaki.Lewis Architects, Morphosis, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Transolar Climate Engineering and WORKac.

[MORE]

san francisco CALIFORNIA

gwangju design biennale restbox
gwangju, south korea

for the exhibition “the clue” at the 2009 gwangju design biennale last fall, iwamotoscott architecture were invited to submit a “box of rest”, or ‘restbox’ - one of 42 cubic pavilion designs. according to the exhibition brief, the cube was to be a 1/4 scale model of the 2m x 2m x 2m pavilion, which offers a space of relaxation that reinterprets a traditional korean garden and poem given by the curator.

[MORE]