vienna AUSTRIA

CELETON, Excessive Music Hall
Postgraduate Master Thesis, Die Angewandte/University of Applied Arts Vienna

Studio Excessive, Hernan Diaz Alonso

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alex SMAGA: Music goes under your skin . . . How to translate the sensation of music into architecture? How to explain the pleasure we experience while listening to Mozart, Beethoven or Jimi Hendrix? How architectural mutation processes correspond to music making? How architecture can stimulate the development of new styles in music?

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

fernando HERRERA: The ambition of the studio was to apply ritualistic/religious procedures on the existing Our Lady of Los Angeles church. This particular project is an unraveling of the typical Catholic church organization alluding to the church’s roots in first century in catacombs. Being that the church was defined by community and not rituals the reformation of large spaces to smaller hubs was the central formal theme.

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hyderabad INDIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

santosh kumar KETHAM: Historically Vienna is known for its operas and concerts for music lovers. Designing a concert hall in this place is challenging and inspiring.

To me the challenge was to design a concert hall not only as a single architectural building but also as experiencing spaces through urban transition, At same time the design is unique from other music halls, in terms of architectural esthetics, vocabulary and tectonics.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

[EXHIBITION FINALIST]

SCI-Arc
critic: hernan diaz ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project

ivan BERNAL: Familiar Primitives. This thesis uses familiar primitives and operations among them to generate complex spatial systems that retain a high level of formal legibility and clarity. Throughout history primitives have been used as an expression of monumentality, religiousness or even utopian dreams. They carry an intrinsic value and formal expectancy that can be used to capture its users. Since childhood we have been playing with this basic shapes creating a predisposition to them, we have experienced them, and we know what to expect.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: hernan diaz ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

wilson WU / nicholas POULOS / michael GROSS: This project was designed by using a linear story line. A House that plays out in 3 acts. In the beginning the couple is together and lives in their first house. The middle the couple separates. Thus the house modifies and adapts to the change. The narrative ends with a natural disaster of an earthquake that cause the house to make one more shift.

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guatemala/china

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

frisly COLOP MORALES: As one approaches the new cathedral, an architectural composition merges the borders of the refined and the chaotic. It becomes the first experience for the visitor. This experience continues as a journey through the building interiorities, seeking for the spiritual light. This journey, for the believer and the non-believer, explores the conditions of darkness and infinite sacred light.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Yale University SOA
critic: hernan diaz ALONSO with erick CÁRCAMO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kyle STOVER: This studio examined the relationship of types versus species. Where type is viewed as “categories of standardization, then species are malleable entities in constant metamorphosis.” The brief called for a house to inspeciate a site in three acts by employing a cellular spatial logic. My project technologically romanticizes the idea of the house to present a radically picturesque possibility of inhabitation.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

chi wai CHAN: The project examines various notions and typology of a religious building bringing it closer to contemporary requirements and sensibilities. Many feel that Catholicism is just a grandiose relic on the outside without much substance on the inside. This superficiality rather than spirituality becomes the main agent for the explorations.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

emre ICDEM: The main idea of the project is to evaluate religion as a mystic power that occurs at the event of horrific. It gathers people, creates social interactions and conversions. In this case the cathedral is designed with the idea of a “religious campus” that serves as a public space. It is mechanical and elegant at the same time with the light effects that change between day and night. The aesthetic agenda creates an atmosphere which tries to answer the question “what is the representation of holy?”

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

liu CHIEN SHENG: This is a postgraduate thesis on a cathedral, presenting a new idea of societal multi-function, and the development of sanctity and form. The site is located in St. Stephen’s Cathedral which is the center of economy, culture and traffic in Vienna, Austria.

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