paris FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jorge AYALA: Skin is an organic self-structure, an artificial corpus overlapping meshing systems and subsystems, inhabiting space and challenging its perception. Skin was conceived as a computational design, based on emerging logics of construction and manufacturing. Large Scale CNC along with high tech matters and other techniques will be employed to rapid prototype and assemble this processual design.

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southfield MICHIGAN

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

benjamin BERR+natalie HADDAD+brent DEKRYGER:
The Initial design approach was to find an architectural solution utilizing multiple methods of digital fabrication to create a performative product.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: This installation lines the concrete and glass hallway with hundreds of vaults, reminiscent of the great vaulted ceilings of historic cathedrals. The vaults provide a thickened surface articulation and a spectrum of oculi that penetrate the hallway and surrounding area with views and light. VoltaDom attempts to expand the notion of the architectural “surface panel,” by intensifying the depth of a doubly-curved vaulted surface, while maintaining relative ease in assembly and fabrication. This is made possible by transforming complex curved vaults to developable strips, one that likens the assembly to that of simply rolling a strip of material.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

oyler WU collaborative & michael KALISH: Designed as collaboration between Oyler Wu Collaborative and Michael Kalish, this traveling installation is built as a tribute to the life and cultural significance of Muhammad Ali. The project is aimed at exposing a new generation to this larger than life character by building an appreciation for the nuanced emotional, aesthetic, and technical principles that collectively form experience - a concept that holds true as much for human persona as it does for architecture.

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houston TEXAS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

vlad TENU: The project is the winner of the TEX-FAB REPEAT Digital Fabrication Competition.

Minimal Complexity is the product of an architectural research focused on both the form-finding and the fabrication of minimal surface structures. The process was defined by an alternative algorithmic method based on the computational simulation of virtual soap films. The question that emerged was how the translation from the computational space to the build artifact could be embodied into this dual process.

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london ENGLAND

London, AA school of architecture
Tutors: Adam Nathaniel Furman & Marco Ginex

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

greta LILLIENAU: Imagine bubbles flying by and attaching to a wall, this is a pattern that shall give you the feeling of flying lightness. Three different tiles have been designed to reinterpretation this. Three different tiles with different intensity in size and the amount of bubbles. These tiles are designed and made with a feminine and poetic touch. They are drawn digital but manufactured by hand and all three variations tile to each other like a puzzle. This gives a great deal of variations of different patterns to the owner.

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calgary CANADA

Overall size: 6.3m *2.5m *3m

The sum of its parts:
- 1640 parts
- 757 unique stars connections
- 883 panels (11 unique types)
- 5 days CNC cutting
- 30 sheets 4*8’ of ½” thick Polyethylene
- 8 people – 72hours assembly time

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new york NEW YORK

SOFTlab: After a month of printing, kickstarting, laser cutting, and binder clipping we are done! CHROMAtex.me will be opening this Thursday night at the bridgegallery. Thanks everyone for your support through kickstarter! It has been a ridiculous amount of work, but also a lot of fun. The people that have volunteered to give a hand have been great. We all can’t wait till Thursday night.

opening thursday august 26 6-8pm
bridge gallery 98 orchard st NY (between broom & delancey)

new york NEW YORK + los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project

brennan BUCK + david FREELAND: Earl’s is an artisanal deli and gourmet market in Los Angeles. For us, it was a test case in how we could use computation less as a fabrication technique than an aesthetic filter to enrich a small space’s everyday use. The restaurant was designed with cutting-edge technology to fit an old-world sensibility inspired by its food. Torquing ceiling surfaces and inscribed digital patterns are combined with a rich material and color palette to evoke both technological refinement and the more rustic feel of alpine landscapes and Viennese cafes.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

zoe COOMBES of Cmmnwlth: Is the provisional name we’ve been using for a cabinet that will be launching in the fall as part of our upcoming ‘Morfina Series’, for MatterMade. We’ve been exploring the effects of gouged solids via soft body collisions, and cloth simulations on a relatively thin surfaces.

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