london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association
Emergent Technologies and Design (EmTech)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

vincenzo REALE, christina COGDELL, & mara MORAL CORREA: The brief for this project required transforming sheet material into three-dimensional base components aggregated at progressively larger scales. The geometry and material properties of the base component informed its connection to other components, as well as the geometry and assembly logic of the whole, moving back and forth between material and digital explorations.

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sydney AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Enter Architecture (patrick KEANE): At 150sqm, the project was modest in its footprint but sets a clear example of digitally fabricated interiors, and a prototype to see how these projects perform. In early conversations with the client, priorities were quickly realised: 3 radiating treatment rooms, a central reception area, lots of play spaces, soft furnishings like beanbags and excellent visibility - all of which contributed to the genesis for the ideas and space planning that followed.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

sonia TERESZCZENKO: Epicurean Cast explores the use of digital technologies in close coordination with the human hand in the production of the final product. Formally, the work explores the translation of the human body and its sensual qualities into a terra cotta column.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Is “complexity” anything more than a term to denote the extent of human stupidity, or rather, the limits of our perception?

When the rules governing a scenario cannot be read with ease, the scenario is described as being “complex” - it is difficult to understand; it appears to require some sort of deeper understanding. BUT, as we have seen, the rules are not necessarily any more complicated than the most trivial of scenarios.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

robert lee BRACKETT, III (Digital Nouveau): Expressions :: Synaptic Resistive Skin

Layered relationships incorporating synaptic impulses, behavioral dependencies, tectonic resistance & temporal latency converge, producing a space of emergent surface patterns. A resistive skin dances to an adaptive pseudo-aperiodic rhythm generated with Maya’s simulation and animation tools. The presence of time shifts from a linear index of progressing behavior to a generative component with instantaneous emergence.

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, in collaboration with architect Julia Koerner, create a stunning 3-D printed dress as part of van Herpen’s Autumn/Winter 2012-13 collection “Hybrid Holism.”

Photos: Michel Zoeter.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

carlos MONCADA: NaiVe is a synthetic ecology which emerged by the relationship between nature and technology from concept to actual product. The analysis and understanding of specific living systems behavior and morphology through simulations,variables and new data bases interpretation, allowed the creation of new environments with similar geometrical processes and configurations.

NaiVe is an installation focused on experimentation, digital fabrication, physical computing and interaction in order to produce new forms, boundaries, textures and colors as language of coexistence inside space.

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lichtervelde BELGIUM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

nick ERVINCK: Whoever studies Ervinck’s work is constantly torn between two worlds, virtual and physical. As an artist he refuse to close himself in one of the two worlds. This hybrid zone between therefore remains the ultimate playground for his imagination, a place where art and technology come together in a kind of monstrous beauty.

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lima PERU

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

PUCP FabLab: The intersection between hi-tech and low-tech is what thrives the studio, The city of Lima being in a similar condition makes the students question the very basics of technology. The recycled bottles arrayed along a titled cone define the geometry of the installation. The CNC Xs are bound together by the cap of the plastic bottles, where the bottle provides the hardest area. Each bottle behaves as a bolt and the caps as the nuts, since the bottles and caps are standardized, it doesn’t matter what brand it is used, they all have the same cap. Recycling and technology works together to generate a more sustainable way of building.

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new york NEW YORK

In its definition pushed back towards its Greek origins, Aesthetics refers to all theories investigating the human sensorium. This course takes its cue from the moiré effect, seeking to explore the “interference” between the tectonic, the geometric, and the aesthetic in architectural design and fabrication. At stake is a revaluation of the ideas of craft, traditionally associated with handwork and material specificity in a vernacular tradition, but in a digital realm, seen as a relation between geometric techniques, physical manifestations, and aesthetic desires.

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