philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ferda KOLATAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Megan CHEUNG, Andrew GARDNER, & Yi-Ju TSENG: Science fiction is a unique genre for film as that it relies on otherworldly affects to capture the attention of the audience and scientific realities to keep them watching. It is that balance that makes the audience believe that these speculative realities are more than merely speculations, but plausible realities.

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innsbruck AUSTRIA

Ferda Kolatan is a founding partner ot su11 Architecture + Design in New York City and a Senior Lecturer at PennDesign. He received his Architectural Diploma with distinction from the RWTH Aachen in Germany and his Masters in Architecture from Columbia University. Kolatan has lectured widely and taught design studios and theory seminars at Columbia University, RPI, UBC, ICA, Washington University, Pratt Institute, and the RWTH Aachen. In 2010 he co-authored the book “Meander: Variegating Architecture” with Jenny Sabin.

Ferda KOLATAN, “Fleeting Morphologies.”
Thursday, 03/14
8.00pm / University of Innsbruck, Institute of Urban Design
Technikerstrasse 21
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

brooklyn NEW YORK

Critic: Ferda Kolatan, Pratt Institute GAUD
Seminar: “Design Finesse”

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

hannibal NEWSOM: Shallow Depths is the conceptual development and exploration of possible environments. They exist beyond scale, they express depth without perspective, milieu without subject, and articulation without definition. These intricate displays are mere moments in time drawn from raging vortices of nascent worlds emerging from their primordial sludge. Life seems to lurk just beneath the aether.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Critic: Ferda Kolatan, Pratt Institute GAUD
Seminar: “Design Finesse”

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achilleas KAKKAVAS: “A Glimpse of Flow” is an investigation of materiality. Through a series of experimentations on arranging and mixing, material is forced to reveal its characteristics and produce patterns of flow, blending and transformation. Through different photographic technics the creation of ambiguity is achieved. The images are familiar to the eye but enhanced with a blur understanding of the material, process, scale, limit and time.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Critic: Ferda Kolatan, Pratt Institute GAUD
Seminar: “Design Finesse”

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

christian o. STROM: The images focus on moments of material transformation as moments of heightened ambiguity. Forms, boundaries, textures and colors become unfamiliar and the resulting amorphous nature of the subject invites questions about being and becoming.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Critic: Ferda Kolatan, Pratt Institute GAUD
Seminar: “Design Finesse”

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

roman CHIKERINETS: The theme is Horror Vacui, and I decided to use and re-appropriate elements directly from nature. That said I wanted to create a sort of coat, so I skinned and stitched once living tissue and created a vegetarian sort of cloak (I guess it is more ethical to skin something that does not make too much immediate noise). Here is where “Maya met raw fruit.”

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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

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania
critic: ferda KOLATAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

MegaZoo: melody REES and arthur AZOULAI: Project Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico.
This project is a morphological study based on self-organizing biological systems. At its pure essence, it is a topological surface that links infrastructure, ecology, and architecture to articulate a new and unworldly environment. As the continuous surface bifurcates it creates a network of flowing circulation paths for pedestrians, trams and cars in addition to ebbing interior pavilion spaces, temporary food markets, pop-up retail shops, time-share housing and, finally, outdoor landscapes and parks.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

erich SCHOENENBERGER / ferda KOLATAN: The apartment was remodeled to generate a more flexible spatial and programmatic layout and also reflect the creative and dynamic personalities of the owners. A multi-purpose “Interior Sleeve” was introduced to blend together the two ends of the apartment without having to use conventional walls or room dividers.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

erich SCHOENENBERGER / ferda KOLATAN: TA proposal for EV (Electrical Vehicle) charging stations in NYC.

E_VINE positions itself between the realms of infrastructure, architecture and product design.

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