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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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SONG qin & XIAOLIANG lu: Although it is a fairy tale, we are inspired by the story about Sisyphus. In ancient time, Sisyphus was punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity. Why can’t we consider architecture construction as an eternal process?

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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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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

klarke WANG & jizheng GUO: As USC students, we realized that every single building in USC campus is of a static, simple, cardinal roman style which no longer serves a dynamic global leading university. Students become prisoners of the campus environment being deprived from access of imagination and creation. The aim of this project is about to free “prisoners” out of “Plato’s Cave” to embrace the dynamic and evolutionary future. The data lab is an intricate aggregation that follows the logic of “feather” attaching each other by various combinations of their cuts.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

juan francisco SALDARRIAGA & farzin LOTFI-JAM: sadic(t)ropisms—or the intransigent pursuit of the sublime

Stellavista inhabits the space between terrestrial and extra-terrestrial existence. Pressed by an extreme atmosphere, this scenario is in a constant state of renegotiation. It is an extreme, primal and nebulous public arena. An archive of dynamic patterns, behaviors and uses. It is a changing memory.

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new york NEW YORK

sP: Describe your project.

jennifer CHANG & belén GÁNDARA: As an escape from the vertical city, we construct an extension of the synesthetic minds, a literal imitation of a hallucinogen reality. We remap consciousness to break the notion between awareness and
delirium. The result is a parallel city of chambers where ayahuasca is both produced and consumed. The barrier between the mental and physical realities is blurred in these chambers by creating a continuity of the mind. In a continuous feedback loop of humans, machines, and their realities, it is no longer clear if the environment is producing an image of the mind, or if the mind is producing an image of the environment.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Oh_mami_mentum = helen n. LEVIN + jen WOOD: The Lonely Lover is constantly opposed, craving and craved for by the Permanent Bachelor. The physical space of the craving is the Love Room: a bubble at the end of a pheromone trail. This trail is forged through the interplay between those who sit and wait for love without direction and those who constantly seek love whilst lacking that same direction.

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new york NEW YORK

[JURY SELECTION]

Columbia University GSAPP
critic: francois ROCHE with ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

mengyi FAN & joseph JUSTUS: The scenario describes a structure that grew out from the ocean—facing a progressive rising of water as its colonizers struggle to maintain an equilibrium. It is forever undergoing constant repair as it struggles to stay afloat—supported only by a system of mechanic agents who supply it with the necessary substances and means to create inhabitable grottoes. Without this ongoing system, the structure would easily collapse, returning back to the depths of the ocean from which it has once risen.

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paris FRANCE

“an architecture of humors” is a research project / exhibition in which the r&sie[n] architectural practice has worked with a group comprised of a mathematician, programmers, architects, and a robotics designer to develop a computational approach based on biological and physiological data scanned from visitors who are put through situations inciting repulsion, stress and pleasure to conceive housing units and urban fragments based on relational protocols.

from january 22 through april 26 2010 at le labotatoire, 4 rue du bouli, 75003 paris

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

qi SU & shenyuan GUO: the contemporary city’s development is nothing but the future designed by predictability and limitation. however, in fact, people have already got tired of the intended purpose mode of space and invariable architectural materials, and they are trying to look forward to new breakthrough. so from this point on, there is no doubt that what contemporary architects did is funny and ridiculous. the complexities of society and technical development have made our urban life “out of control”. people should live in a new world with random growth and great diversity, rather than rigid pre-established planning. thus, in our project, based on adaptive scenario, an open porous and self generating structure is created. the rampant and illusive silks weave an urban future formatted by unpredictability and mystique.

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