brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: Ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sofia XANTHAKOU, Greg LeMAIRE, & Dimitris MOUSTROUFIS: The project is an overall premise concerning an intervention into the conventional city fabric and the repeal of commonly acknowledged truths about urbanism. Arguably ideas about flow, ownership and occupation are the most closely guarded and regulated within a community and therefore are the most in need of confrontation. By imposing adverse conditions and forms on rigid expectations we hope to create a dialogue about an alternative to accepted norms.

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new york NEW YORK

Columbia GSAPP
critics: François ROCHE & Ezio BLASETTI w/ Farzin LOTFI-JAM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Luis Felipe PARIS & Andriana KOUTALIANOU: (And yes, it seems that it is so, that you have left saying I-don’t-know-what, that you were going to throw yourse. . . .) but . . . is he still outside. . . .? there there, a reflection of himself . . . it lures him. . . . the notion of the double . . . Ego and Body, the reflection of his soul . . . or maybe another life, or another . . . is it, you, that is behind this mirror. . . .?

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new york NEW YORK

Columbia GSAPP
critics: François ROCHE & Ezio BLASETTI w/ Farzin LOTFI-JAM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Carson RUSSELL & Mengna MIAO: Against the extreme heat, we bring extreme cold, against the wall of molten rock, we engage with icy water. It is a battle we cannot win. A loud engagement, characterized by the cracking of petrifying rock over the hissing of evaporating water. The result is fragile, bound to fall victim to corruption by the continuous advancement of the lava.

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new york NEW YORK

Reclaim Resilience-Resistance
8 DEC. 2012
Event / evening / for the release of Log 25
“Beauty Bar,” 6:30-8PM / 231 E 14th St
New York / ID Card for over 21 (bar and manicure)/
François Roche, Guest Editor,
and Lydia Kallipoliti, Roland Snooks, Ezio Blasetti, Camille Lacadée, Leopold Lambert, Michael Young, Ed Keller, Pedro Gadanho, Karl Chu, Winka Dubbeldam, and some unexpected guests . . .

[Log 25]

[ORDER]

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

PennDesign
advisors: cecil BALMOND & ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

nam il JOE, laura e. LO, & mark t. NICOL: Formative to our design intent is a desire to use the plastic particulates that are concentrated in the world’s ocean gyres as a productive building material. To do so we have looked to existing technologies to develop a system that would allow us to extract these plastics, reprocess them, and form them into strands. These strands could then be embedded with additional materials increasing their tensile strength and tendency to bundle together.

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new york NEW YORK & philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

PennDesign
advisors: cecil BALMOND & ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

youngbum KIM & sang-uk PARK: The title of our project is written in Icelandic, which means “Mud Flower” in English. Like a flower blooms in the mud, our pattern scaffold of the building appears in the extreme environment in Iceland. The enormous forces below the site has been expressed into a wide array of phenomena such as boiling mud pot, gas fumarole, and cracking of the ground.

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new york NEW YORK

Thanks to all those who submitted to suckerPUNCH’s NYC Casino/Convention Center Competition. All results are linked below.

registration begins 05.14.12

submissions due 08.13.12

awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH

[WINNERS]

[BRIEF]

[FAQ]

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

lluis alexandre CASANOVAS & hualin SHI: password _ _ _ _ [The resistance of the minotaur/ The thread of Ariadne]

the resistance of the Minotaur [g o i n g i n]: As in all cities, some inhabitants are in strong ideological conflict with their political authorities. Their opposition leads to prosecution. Thought of as a perfect panoptical system, the city has few opportunities where resistors can hide. The scenario pretends to solve this situation by creating new spaces where rioters and resistors can organize their illicit activities.

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gokarna INDIA

z’ SHELL-ter, a workshop which is SHELL-tering a reading room. Open to Architecture students and led by François Roche, Ezio Blasetti, and Stefan Henrich (with Camille Lacadée & Jasmine Dürr). “Housed in the Study Circle Library, our design studio will be informed by readings, enquiries, interviews, and film-making. Switching between computation and hand/machine labour, we will develop and build an outdoor landscape-pavilion (20 m2) for reading books (indoor) of the library and performing arts (outdoor), from an on-going procedural experimentation with the local material, laterite - red porous soil, rich in iron and aluminium oxides, formed by decaying rocks weathered by tropical heat and centuries of heavy rain -directly extracted from the site.”

Application deadline: 04.15
Workshop: 05.25–06.25

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

evita FANOU & nathan HOOFNAGLE: At the edge of the city, exactly where the city meets the air, is it possible to build the impossible perfect city of Aristophanes? This city, like a thick folding cloud distorts reality, like Alice in Wonderland, using it to support the ethereal fiction. Like a vessel this cloud of particles is a cloud, a formless system, based on movement and friction. It is a fog, a blurry border that entices the viewer and provokes their desire to touch it. At the edge of the city is the loop that traps you inside, a space one never wants to leave. It looks elegant and desirable; people breath the air of this ephemeral atomosphere. Upon this each breadth, they become part of its fiction.

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