los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Satoru SUGIHARA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Daniela ATENCIO & Ana ZAPATA: This project is an architectural exploration of processes in contemporary design and fabrication within the context of digital design.

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austin TEXAS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Igor SIDDIQUI / ISSSStudio: Sugarfree is a site-specific lighting installation designed and fabricated for the Materials Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. Its prominent feature is an assembly of patterned lenses that modify the emitting light.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

California College of the Arts
critics: Jason Kelly JOHNSON & Michael SHILOH.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jeff MAESHIRO, Mary SEK, & Jia WU: Geoweaver is the world’s first walking 3-D printer, prototyped and designed by three architecture students with no previous robotics knowledge in the Creative Architecture Machines advanced options studio at the California College of the Arts, taught by Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab and Michael Shiloh.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kokkugia / Roland SNOOKS: The Composite Swarm installation is an architectural prototype exploring the relationship of robotic fabrication, composite materials, and algorithmic design. The complexity of the form and the excess of ornament make the prototype structurally efficient and minimize the amount of material used. . . .

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Iris van HERPEN, Niccolo CASAS, & 3D Systems: Iris van Herpen, Niccolo Casas and 3D Systems collaborated for van Herpen’s S/S 2015 ready-to-wear collection, “Magnetic Motion,” introducing a stunning transparent dress covered in crystalline formations (Look 31) that have since been compared to ice sculptures.

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copenhagen DENMARK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Genetic Design (Morten BÜLOW): Fabhouse is a digitally designed and fabricated house almost fully produced and assembled on site. Except for a few elements, everything is produced on a CNC router, including tables, sinks and molds for the concrete ramp. . . .

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austin TEXAS

TEX-FAB is extremely pleased to announce the WINNING ENTRY for the TEX-FAB PLASTICITY International Design Competition. A total of 70 entries were reviewed by the second round jury, consisting of Craig Dykers, Bill Kreysler, Roland Snooks and Greg Lynn. Each juror evaluated the final projects according to their conceptual clarity, technical potential, innovative use of materials and methods, and project feasibility. Though all entries were scored with exceptional marks, the winning entry is PLASTIC STEREOTOMY, designed by Justin Diles.

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phoenix ARIZONA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Asteriskos Design + Fabrication: This project, supported by numerous donors for The City of Tempe as a memorial for Mary O’Connor, is an investigation into the usage of parametric design processes, methods of digital fabrication and material adaptation.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Matter Design and Quarra Stone has announced the release of Round Room, an installation on exhibit at the MIT Keller Gallery.

What would the Incas create today with their advanced knowledge of precision stone carving and our contemporary technology? Round Room is a translation of the Inca wedge method into a digital process that manifests in the Baroque tradition of the interior model. . . .

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mumbai INDIA

Columbia GSAPP, Studio-X Mumbai, & NMIMS University

The project is located in Mumbai, on the boardwalk promenade of Carter Road. The ribs were constructed in a double layer of router-cut overlapping ½”MDF. The repetitive rib system, expressing the fluid transformation of a visual frame responding to different perception depending on the position of the viewer, defines both the structure and its deformation. . . .

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