los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-ARC
critic: Erick CÁRCAMO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Lord CENIZA & Juan C. BAEZ: Our objective was to develop a design proposal for a housing complex in downtown Los Angeles that deviates from the constricting demands of the typology of housing with a goal towards the eccentric. Breaking from the standard but respecting functionality we searched for a middle ground. The challenge was to not let repetition becoming monotonous rather to inspire thought and lead to new discoveries.

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athens GREECE

X|Atelier is organizing an international intensive workshop of Advanced Architectural Design, part of an ongoing academic research, which introduces participants into contemporary discussions of formal exploration in Architecture and Art, through technical attainment of design and production. Omni(progra)chromatic by X|A is under the auspices of Benaki Museum, the Hellenic Institute of Architecture and the Athens School of Fine Arts. It is an opportunity for architects, students of Architecture and Art, professionals, designers and artists to challenge new territories. [INFO]

Advanced Design Workshop Winter 2012
December 17–23, 2012 / Benaki Museum
138 Pireos St. / Athens, Greece

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athens GREECE

X|Atelier is organizing an international intensive workshops of Advanced Architectural Design, part of an ongoing academic research, which introduces participants into contemporary discussions of formal exploration in Architecture and Art, through technical attainment of design and production. Omni(progra)chromatic by X|A is under the auspices of Benaki Museum, the Hellenic Institute of Architecture and the Athens School of Fine Arts. It is an opportunity for architects, students of Architecture and Art, professionals, designers and artists to challenge new territories.

Workshop 1: 07/02 — 07/16
Workshop 2: 07/17 — 07/31
Benaki Museum
138 Pireos St.
Athens, GREECE
RECEIVING APPLICATIONS: workshop@xatelier.com

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athens GREECE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

christos KOUKIS: Created entirely from the cell and the organ, these proto-typological and proto-spatial units can combine, mutate and multiply themselves in order to produce many different spatial qualities and form a housing unit. The different experimental stages—breeding—contribute to the discovering of a connection mechanism that is the base for future mutation.

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malmö SWEDEN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jonas ERSSON: The project represents the culmination of a series of individual workshops conducted within the framework of the bachelor-course “Architecture Space and Technology” in the spring of 2011 at the Lund University School of Architecture.

The idea of an interchangeable architecture has been a driving force behind many of the experimental movements during the 20th century. In my scheme I revisited some of the ideas of the metabolist and structuralist movements but tried to reevaluate the basic premise. Unlike the metabolist idea of wear and tear, I envisioned a system that instead of constantly being replaced would allow a systematic reconfiguration to suit changing needs.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Yale University SOA
critic: hernan diaz ALONSO with erick CÁRCAMO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kyle STOVER: This studio examined the relationship of types versus species. Where type is viewed as “categories of standardization, then species are malleable entities in constant metamorphosis.” The brief called for a house to inspeciate a site in three acts by employing a cellular spatial logic. My project technologically romanticizes the idea of the house to present a radically picturesque possibility of inhabitation.

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lexington KENTUCKY

X|A + UK @ LOT
03.05.10 - 03.21.10

splash is a collection of multiple, physical and virtual, prototypes materialized from an intensive formal series and structure of techniques. all displayed pieces in the gallery will reside in an existing completed location, a house; the thinking tank for all the pieces to emerge from according to its specific use and function.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

excess | liquidity opens january 30th with reception 4pm – 7pm.

SUPERFRONT LA is proud to present excess | liquidity, an exhibit on the 5th floor of the pacific design center, during the inaugural art los angeles contemporary fair.
sited on the 5th floor of the pacific design center, excess | liquidity presents a survey of recent work by experimental architectural practice x|a, exploring liquid form as architectural vocabulary. x|a deploys film-maker’s special effects software to generate architectural form through animated movement and fluid behaviors. works are exhibited as physical prototypes, drawings, and animations.

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lund SWEDEN

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

maria KNUTSSON-HALL: the project is a transportation system evolving from a local scale. a system developed from an organ to a moving mechanical structure. i’m interested in different forms of movement within organs and the human body. and how these movements can be transformed into at mechanical structure.
i operated in the conditions of developing a body from an organ where the organs create a working system. i wanted to explore how a mechanical structure could parasite and integrate with a static housing structure. in this case the transportationsystem crawls into a static bonestructure and gives it life through movement.

lth school of architecture

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new yorkNEW YORK

erick CÁRCAMO & nefeli CHATZIMINA: we are interested in the exploration of form through accumulation assembly with extreme differentiation and exuberant reflections, refractions as special effects of surface. our research is based in the development of prosthetics through ideas of novelty, adequate complexi ties and the production of image as a vehicle to reconfiguring the perception of beauty and compensate absent functions, aesthetics. this project is based in buenos aires, argentina, to explore one of the densest –

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