helsinki FINLAND

The “Folding Fabrics” installation and furniture was created by Kivi and Tuuli Sotamaa of Sotamaa Design in collaboration with Marimekko’s in-house design team. Seasonal Marimekko fabrics were used to represent the contrasts of light during the Autumn season and the drama of nature. “Folding Fabrics” was a way of showing the full Marimekko pattern and respecting the tradition behind the original print. Each fold starts flat, and expands as a three dimensional functional object to become a table or stool in various sizes. It represents a new angle to seeing Marimekko’s patterns in another dimension.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Synthesis Design + Architecture - www.synthesis-dna.com
Team: Alvin Huang (Principal), David O. Wolthers, Thomas T. Jensen, Jurgen Strohmeyer.

sP: Describe your project.

Synthesis Design + Architecture: This home office for a private personal investment advisor responds to the clients brief of a discrete yet sculptural design solution for a home office by conceptually draping a dynamic surface over an orthogonal arrangement of the required home office elements including a work desk, storage units, printer, paper shredder, etc.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

shane NEUFELD & kevin KUNSTADT: When asked to propose a sculptural installation for the summer show in Jeff Bailey’s New York City gallery space, we wanted to invoke a narrative that would live up to the exhibition’s suggestive title, It’s Hot Inside. Drawing on some of the themes from our past projects, we designed and produced a one-of-a-kind loveseat consisting of five distinct heart-shaped components that billow up from the floor and kiss along their respective edges to form a single contiguous surface for summer loving. The seat’s voluptuous contours also provide for a dynamic spatial experience of the gallery: they frame the two dimensional work that is on the gallery walls while also giving visitors the option of viewing the work from a relaxed (seated) position.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Finalist for the Exterior Lighting Grant 2010: Street Furniture Light

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

steven MA: ec-O concept bench infuses nature into pedestrian traffic zones by creating a self-sustaining eco-system that envelops sitters in living and growing plant-life. ec-O bench collects and filters rainwater and harnesses sunlight using thin-film photovoltaics, creating a welcoming resting spot even when it’s dark outside.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture, critic Ben Pell, thanks to Joshua Rowley

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

melissa SHIN + william MUDGE : The Form(work) bench was inspired by the unique corduroy-textured concrete walls of Paul Rudolph’s Yale Art and Architecture Building. Each 1/2″ plywood profile fits precisely into the spacing of the wall’s texture (a nod to the original wooden concrete formwork) and articulates a sitting surface for two people. The surface emerges as a thickening of the wall’s sectional relationship between verticality and horizontality, and juxtaposes the roughness of the wall with the smoothness of NURBS surface geometry.

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novi sad SERBIA

student group a7: project presents both space installation and utilitarian object (part of furniture), designed and carried out with anthropological measures with 5 seating places. concept of sustainable development is consistently implemented throughout all phases of project, from selection of materials for processing, to final construction. cardboard plates are used, thickness 0.5cm, hand made and assembled in layers.these layers form structure which is geometrically shaped looked from outside (part of cube), and amorf inside. cardboard as material is suitable for processing, friendly for touch and renewable (recycling process can be repeated many times).

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cairo EGYPT

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

daniel DENDRA: the average speed of a car in a city is around 11km/h - the average speed of a bicycle is around 15km/h. still the trend in many emerging markets is from the bicycle to the car. the result of this trend and the expanding mega cities can be experienced in cairo. a city where a car trip can take 15min or 3 hours for the same distance. a city where it is almost impossible to cross a street. a city that is dominated by car pollution and where the public spaces become not usable anymore for pedestrians. for this reason the new york times entitled cairo as the noisiest city in the world: “it’s so noisy with horn honking and teaming people, as a matter of fact, that it’s like living in a factory.”

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erfurt GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

max WASSERKAMPF: the idea of this furniture for an exhibition was to develop a sculpture like a landscape or better said a formation. there should be no “in front of” and “behind”, i wanted the visitors to float around the furniture from all sides while getting into contact with the stuff and settling down at the counter. in the end the furniture should give a real corporate identity and a recognition value to the visitors. the whole counter consists of three parts which are also able to be used alone. the main part of the furniture is described as one big counter which can be added by a small stele(for example to use as a lectern) and a second stele which can be put on the top of the counter. this one includes one case for a beamer and below another one for a computer.

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london ENGLAND

timothy SCHREIBER: e_volve_table’s design was inspired by natural fluid patterns and naturally grown forms. this approach was translated into an initial digital model, which was subsequently optimized using digital structural and artificial intelligence algorithms. special attention was paid to the organic, bone-like connections at the branches, where the complete ensemble splits up into its supports, which make the table demountable for transport convenience.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS and heather FLOOD: c-hub, or central hub, is a 19 ft. diameter table that is designed to serve a range of cultural, social, academic, and administrative needs of the school. with this in mind, the project was framed within the following conceptual bookends: 1) to behave within a well-defined range of individual to collective performance criteria and 2) to employ contemporary fabrication methods in order to increase organizational intelligence, programmatic capabilities and sensual delights.

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