vancouver BRITISH COLUMBIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

kimiis: this installation was designed for the “bright ideas” exhibition by interaxon of toronto, ontario. Displayed at the ontario house at the vancouver 2010 winter olympics, participants were able to engage in the largest ever thought-controlled computing experience:controlling the lighting of three prominent ontario landmarks - the cn tower, niagara falls, and the parliament buildings in ottawa - using the power of thought.

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

team: arthur AZOULAI, nelly DACIC, jared FRIEDMAN, christopher GALLOT,spencer GREGSON, matthew HUBER, jaclyn PACELEY, puja PATEL, rita, craig ROSMAN, giacomo TINARI, eddie WONG

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

this is the work of undergraduate architecture students in the digital tectonics course at carnegie mellon university, taught by jeremy FICCA and zach ALI.

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new york NEW YORK

softlab presents CHROMAesthesiae
an installation of modular color
opening: 7 p.m., friday, march 19th, 2010 until april 5th, 2010.
location: devotion gallery 54 maujer st, brooklyn, ny, 11206 (l to lorimer/metropolitan)
website: areyoudevoted.com

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atlanta GEORGIA

instructor: jennifer BONNER
georgia tech, college of architecture

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jennifer BONNER: the project is a culmination of 27,000 sheets of recycled paper, four sheets of birch plywood, and the charting of 100 years of student population within the architecture school.

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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project

rives RASH: these are planters made from fly-ash, a byproduct of burning coal. the designs are drawn and built by students from uky-cod (university of kentucky college of design) fad elective (fabrication and design). the goal of the class is to discover a drawing technique and use it to design a product (in this case a planter) and then produce it.

image: carrie WAHL and justin TRIMBLE

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

brian OSBORN: openhouse prototype 2 is an illuminated canopy that fills the upper portion of a private courtyard in the french quarter. the canopy reconfigures itself as it receives input from the seating in the space.

francis BITONTI: intensities in the ceiling vary and shift with occupancy. people become actuators as they begin to take advantage of the seating; gathering in small groups or sitting in isolation. the behavior of the canopy is driven by social structures and human activity.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH:describe your project.

joe MACDONALD: conceived as a “gravity-free space of creative imagination,” the ge “healthymagination” showcase developed into an experience organized around three “pods” and a central gathering space. urban a&o, thinc design and local projects partnered to design and produce the event. urban a&o developed the sinuous, organic overhead pod structures and their corresponding ramped floors in catia, which allowed them to rapidly generate the extremely complex, flowing forms that became the signature of the project.

(photos: esto)

additional credits: thinc design, local projects

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lexington KENTUCKY

performa is an advanced graduate seminar taught at the university of kentucky college of design.

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

performa: this work seeks to create multi-performative material systems utilizing optimization, aggregation and efficiency. simple units and semi-finished materials were physically tested in order to extract potential performative characteristics and limits. these limits were negotiated through rigorous digital and physical techniques in order to produce strategies of fabrication.

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new york NEW YORK

press release: theverymany (marc fornes + skylar tibbits + mat staudt), have recently designed and built an installation, echinoids, at bridge gallery nyc, part of the larger show wild child, by peter macapia. echinoids is the fourth in a series of built installations proposing aperiodic packing algorithms that provide a system of self-similar building modules and combine to approximate full scale surfaces.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: started as a problem solving exploration the surface milling tests began to lead to an eye opening opportunity. we were able to control the 3d surface output as well as detailed, non-uniform, or orthogonal cnc tool paths simply by programming patterns as 2.5 axis curve output. the surfaces were generated based on attractor/repulser codes that manipulate a field of points. tool paths were then generated from the curvature of the surface and undulate independently, responding to the attractor/repulsers.

produced in collaboration with point b design. design team: skylar TIBBITS, brandon KRUSYMAN and jon PROTO.

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