new york NEW YORK

Columbia GSAPP
critic: Charles ELDRED.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Carlo BAILEY & Lorenzo VILLAGGI: Eidos is a prototypical self-sufficient community based sometime in the near future.

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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.

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: Adam DAYEM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kevin Freitas CONLIN: The VUG Museum & Residency for the Storm King Arts Center in NY State takes its name from the veins of gemstones that form in rough openings in stone, the rougher cousin of geodes.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nicholas AUGER: XTAL-92 is a housing project that critically explores the relationship between specific geometric conditions and techniques to envelope aggregated bodies.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Chunlan ZENG: The project’s lineage is about the agglomeration of components in order to generate various spatial conditions.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

advisors: Ellie ABRONS & Ben SMITH

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Dorimar del RÍO VÉLEZ: FLATend challenges preconceptions of the architectural volume and its representation through the use of graphics applied and manipulated at different scales. Graphics—defined here as the flat composition of shapes and forms that construct figures and patterns— formally detached from architectural conventions but based upon cultural constructs of meaning and form through legibility.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kevin Yen-Po CHEN & Eric LaLONE: The multi-unit housing project studies and merges the eccentric grid that sandwiches the site in downtown Los Angeles. The unique triangular site and its restrictions form the tightly controlled project. The goal is to provide unique aperture and spaces for every single unit and to create pattern that juxtaposes yet merges within itself.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Illinois at Chicago
critic: Paul PREISSNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ryan HERNANDEZ: This project explores the idea of awkward architecture produced with a certain precision. The elements appear haphazard and ignored. The design seems to lack a certain amount of skill, though, these decisions are on purpose.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
Raoul Wallenberg Studio, Winter 2013
critic: Alex MAYMIND (2012-13 Walter B. Sanders Fellow)

students: Ciera CLAYBORNE & Alexis STEWART; Phil LOCKWOOD & Ross KUCHIN; Stella DWIFARADEWI & Christopher BAIR; Jake HOLBROOK & Matt JONIEC.

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innsbruck AUSTRIA

Institute of Urban Design, University of Innsbruck
Peter TRUMMER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Moritz KEITEL: The project einfamilienhaussiedlung questions how the individual rooms a house consists of, relate to each other and to the collective system of a colony. The distinct shapes of the houses are not predetermined fixed space-envelopes. But the result of an associative model of relationships existing between the rooms within each of the houses as well as between the different houses themselves. Although creating a group-form, the houses as such remain single and distinct entities.

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