college station TEXAS

Texas A&M University, College of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kokkugia / Roland SNOOKS with Mitchell Lab: The Fibrous House is an experiment in the generation of volatile fibrous assemblages. . . .

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new york NEW YORK

Oyster House sets a new standard for entry-level housing in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. Developable land in Cape Cod is at a premium since much of the open space is now protected natural landscape. By building smaller, Oyster House achieves more density with less impact on Cape Cod’s precious landscape. Oyster House uses less; less energy, less building material, less building area. Simultaneously, the house does more. Its pentagonal plan makes for easy siting in multiple orientations, maximizing privacy, permitting views, and responding to the sun’s path through the southern sky. The house is conceived of as a repeatable unit that can be deployed across multiple sites in the town of Wellfleet—as a single unit and as a community of houses.

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chicago ILLINOIS

UIC SoA
critic: Paul PREISSNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jesus CORRAL: The goal of the project was to design a colony of single person cabins, ranging from 600-800 square feet. The project stood within a typical forest, that could possibly be found anywhere in the Midwest, United States.

Formally, I studied attributes that would not normally be taken seriously as architecture. Produced were balloon like forms, which tied around each other, along with box extrusions protruding from the shapes.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association, Design Research Lab (DRL)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SoftKill Design (nicholette CHAN, gilles RETSIN, aaron SILVER, & sophia TANG): Softkill Design investigated the architectural potential of the latest Selective Laser Sintering technologies, testing the boundaries of large scale 3-D printing by designing with computer algorithms that micro-organize the printed material itself. With the support of Materialise, Softkill Design produced a high-resolution prototype of a 3D Printed house at 1:33 scale. The model consists of 30 detailed fibrous pieces which can be assembled into one continuous cantilevering structure, without need for any adhesive material.

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stuttgart GERMANY

The Haus am Weinberg is located in a setting that is at one time rural, yet suburban. The location of the villa affords pastoral views of the stepped terraces of an ancient hillside vineyard on one side and cityscape vistas on the other.

The inner circulation, organisation of the views and the programme distribution of the house are determined by a single gesture, “the twist.” In the Haus am Weinberg the central twist element supports the main staircase as it guides and organises the main flows through the house. The direction of each curve is determined by a set of diagonal movements. Whilst the programme distribution follows the path of the sun, each evolution in the twist leads to moments in which views to the outside become an integral experience of the interior.

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