los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Homayoun Ismael ZARYOUNI:
This is a ghost Cultural Center proposal for the ghost city of Kilamba, Angola. Built by Chinese developers, occupied by families of the 220 units sold out of 2800*; a dream reality occurs. Surrounded by empty acres, a “furry” oasis ensues.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rachael McCALL: Aiming for boundless and edgeless mass, Frayed & Polished challenges the legibility of edges, figures & silhouettes by fraying edges and working with different gradients of polish. . . .
affect, architecture, hernan diaz ALONSO, painterly, Rachael McCALL, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
Gehry Prize, Best Graduate Thesis Award
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jeff HALSTEAD: Architecture can be posited as a relationship between interiority and form. Glass House embodies an agitated, non-negotiated relationship of both—done through a collapse of the sequencing between them. . . .
architecture, glass house, hernan diaz ALONSO, interior, Jeff HALSTEAD, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO & Ivan BERNAL.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rachael McCALL: Sitting beside the Secession Hall in Vienna, the project is a tower house and studio for an artist in residence.
animation, architecture, hernan diaz ALONSO, ivan BERNAL, Rachael McCALL
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO & Ivan BERNAL.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rachael McCALL: “The Disappearing Mass” works on the problem of edgeless form and undefined mass through distortion, ripples, wrinkles and striation overlapping in different directions. . . .
architecture, hernan diaz ALONSO, ivan BERNAL, massing, Rachael McCALL, striation
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Danny KARAS: M&N is a proposal for a competition proposed by ArchMedium for a fire house in San Francisco Port 30. The program includes rooms for living, working, and learning for the Fire Department. This thesis project draws most of its inspiration from a simple idea: repeating seemingly similar elements to create an off-kilter harmony.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO with Ivan BERNAL.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Austin SAMSON: This project aims to explore the possibilities of a mid-rise tower with a disrupted center rather than the normal, differentiated top or bottom.
Austin SAMSON, curime BATLINER, hernan diaz ALONSO, ivan BERNAL, Jake NEWSUM, Robot House, SCI-arc, tower
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.
TA: Ivan BERNAL.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jeff HALSTEAD & Danny KARAS: Carving in architecture is typically subjected to material that is quite homogeneous in relation to the scale in which it is buildable (carving out a marble column).
Danny KARAS, hernan diaz ALONSO, ivan BERNAL, Jeff HALSTEAD, miscreation, primitives, SCI-arc, topology
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Danny KARAS: In analysis of the modern skyscraper there is traditionally an aesthetic agenda that localizes itself in a “shoes” or “hat” location. . . .
Danny KARAS, exuberance, hernan diaz ALONSO, SCI-arc, skin, skyscraper, tower
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vienna AUSTRIA
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program, EXCESSIVE IV
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO & José Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Gonzalo VAÍLLO MARTÍNEZ: Located in the outskirts of Los Angeles, the starting point of the design is based on the standards of a single-family house.
excessive, Gonzalo VAÍLLO MARTÍNEZ, hernan diaz ALONSO, house, housing, Jose Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES, university of applied arts vienna
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