rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS

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dimitrie STEFANESCU, patrick BEDARF, bogdan HAMBASAN: The project started out as an ambitious student-powered endeavor to design and fabricate at a 1:1 scale the flagship pavilion for the ZA11 Speaking Architecture event in Cluj, Romania. While at the same time integrating into its historically-charged context, the design boasts a strong representational power which was much needed in order to fulfill its main goal: attracting passers-by to the event. The object tries to make legible the new ontology which is slowly defined by computational architecture and is a showcase for the processes empowered by it. At the same time, the pavilion offers a sheltered space for the unfolding of different social events pertaining to the corresponding architecture festival.

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seoul SOUTH KOREA

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Y Design Office + Hacker Space Seoul: ‘BLOP’ is an interactive installation piece with strings hanging high and low near the ceiling of the venue, holding together a meshwork of balloons. Each of the silver balloons holds a LED module, which will light up when vibration from outside is detected. The ‘BLOP’ bobs over the heads of the partiers, blinking lights of different colors and bringing out the child in everyone in its bounce, character and mystic appearance.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

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PEG office of landscape + architecture (Karen M’Closkey + Keith VanDerSys): This project explores the efficacy of customized substrates to develop alternatives to conventional on-site stormwater collection. Utilizing digital modeling and computer-controlled fabrication, we were testing whether or not manipulating geo-cells (three dimensional in-grade structures filled with gravel, soil or plants) can produce innovative infiltration features that combine their functional requirements with a visibly expressive surface that can add color, pattern and texture to vacant sites.

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bryan TEXAS

The installation discusses issues of intimacy and self-contemplation, combining different sensations in a “blue mood” by combining two different sensibilities.

‘Black Narcissus’ highlights the importance of encompassing all methods of fabrication; digital and analog in terms of technology, management efficiency and time towards the production the project. The piece is constituted of 1,000 pieces including the 644 pieces of CNC routed syntra, 50 large flowers with jewel like crowns and 100 small flowers. The idea was to produce a structure that combines a parametrically designed large form ornamented and gardened with nonparametric flowers. Through this gardening process of aggregation, the flowers produce a sensation of excess in a garden of delight.

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kobe JAPAN

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24° Studio: Crater Lake, an installation - environment where people have a place to meet to observe the beauty of the surrounding environment and more importantly to call forth an emphasis on sustaining social interaction, which was the important catalyst that brought Kobe residents to revitalize their city after the disaster. The installation is situated in the man-made Port Island, Shiosai Park that provides a vast view of the Kobe urban center, its surrounding mountainscape and seascape.

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new york NEW YORK

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caterina TIAZZOLDI: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Milano furniture fair, the curator Marva Griffin invited the research Lab Non Linear Solutions Unit at GSAPP at Columbia University to develop a project in response to the question, “In what direction is design heading?”.

The Social Cave invents new forms of socialization.

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new york NEW YORK

Opening Reception
December 6th, 2011
8.00 pm to 11.00 pm

57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013

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prague CZECH REPUBLIC

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zbynek KRULICH: Installation Jewelry City was designed for the Czech association of jewelers UNOSTO and their presentation on Designblok’11. The object of installation reflects the contours of urban organism, clusters of buildings on the surface and engineering networks of the city underground. Jewelry City is composed of six modules that can be organised into various groups. Each module is self-supporting and offers space to accommodate 5 to 10 jewelry or small objects, it is welded from steel sticks, spheres, and metal parts. The installation was produced by Intebo and lit by iGuzzini Etna. Visual identity of UNOSTO by Jan Kloss.

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new york NEW YORK

Press Release: SOFTlab produced an installation for The Creators Project : New York 2011. Creators Project is a partnership between Vice and Intel. The two structures are made of plywood panels zip-tied together. The geometry is completely held together by the zip ties. There is no frame and the triangulation not only provides an irregular surface, but also a stable combination of points for each piece to rest on.

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new york NEW YORK

Press Release: “Transport” was commissioned by the Architectural League of New York for their annual Beaux Arts Ball event. Given the theme of transportation and the site of the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal, Leong Leong in collaboration with Jimi- nie Ha created a landscape of mutant cargo and shifting hues of color. The existing terminal, designed by architect Cas Gilbert in 1918, was transformed from a monumental industrial space into a series of atmospheric enclaves. Three separate environments created an episodic experience around eating, drinking, and dancing. Milk-crates shrink wrapped into ambiguous shapes clustered to form areas for gathering and socializing while a cloud of 400 UV lights illuminated the dance floor.

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