beijing CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Virginia MELNYK: The “Y” proposal uses a simple component in the shape of a small branch or the letter “Y”. This single unit is connected together at the ends allowing it to expand and grow to fill the window front. Using L systems to generate a growth with in a constrained bounding box shaping y to fill the box until the growth has exhausted all options.

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houston TEXAS

Soo Sunny Park’’s installation Unwoven Light animates Rice Gallery’’s expansive space, transforming it into a shimmering world of light, shadow, and brilliant color. Suspended from the walls and ceiling, thirty-seven individually sculpted units are arranged as a graceful, twisting flow of abstract form. Entering the gallery there is no set path to follow. Instead, we are invited to meander slowly as one might stroll along a river’s edge, stopping to admire the glints of light that dance on the water’s surface.

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hong kong CHINA

HONG KONG — Golden Connection, two light sculpture installations by Peruvian artist Grimanesa Amorós, was featured at BAZAAR ART NIGHT on May 23rd, 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Organized by BAZAAR ART, the most influential Chinese art magazine, and The Royal Academy of the Arts, the gala was held to celebrate the first edition of Art Basel Hong Kong. With a theme of “Art Changes the World,” the event confirmed Hong Kong’s place as a significant player in the emerging global art market.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Tempera is an indoor temporary pavilion for exhibition “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (June 16–September 16, 2013). The pavilion theme is a fantastic garden where visitors see their own images reflected into a three-dimensional immersive painted canvas. The subject of the graphic depictions of the pavilion reinterprets the topic of “Still Nature”; in particular, the original subject represented here is 3-D scanned acquisitions of natural elements such as flowers and insects.

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chojnice POLAND

“Stolarnia” is the sixth design in the collection called “XII”, entirely designed by Karina Wiciak (designer in Wamhouse). “Stolarnia” (in Polish - Carpenter’s Shop) was inspired by the landscapes of the Bory Tucholskie National Park, near which the author lives and works. According to the author, a forest is a unique carpenter’s shop, where the nature uses wood and plants to create the most beautiful forms. Thus, the forest in itself is a perfect, designer work and no man can invent anything more perfect than the nature itself. So why not transfer that which is perfect and which has already been invented by nature into an interior? Pine trees, the most typical of the Tuchola forests, were used in the restaurant as a modern decoration, yet in a metal form. This is also a way of, and a pretext for, emphasizing the structural elements and fittings.

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warsaw POLAND

Bridge and Platige Image created a physical space manifesto for new offices of Platige Image. Platige Image’s work in animation and post-production blurs boundaries between creativity and technology. The installation is a spatial canvas ready to display creative content from artists working at Platige and to engage visitors too. It was designed to be a living organism in the lobby space and take an active part in company’s everyday life.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Led by Professor Lydia Kallipoliti, in collaboration with Martha Giannakopoulou and Katerina Kourkoula, a group of engineering, architecture and art students from the Cooper Union will present an off-grid lighting installation at the Innovation Square of the World Science Festival. The installation will be powered by alternative energy generation techniques including solar cells, bioluminescent pods and an interactive performance with backwards motors that will illuminate the streetscape.

Cooper Union with Lydia KALLIPOLITI, Martha GIANNAKOPOULOU, & Katerina KOURKOULA, “GRID OFF; LIGHTS ON”
Saturday, 06/01
7.30-9.30 p.m. / Polytechnic Institute of New York University
6 Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, New York 11201

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tucson ARIZONA

University of Arizona, Tucson
Biomimetics elective class installation
critic: Susannah DICKINSON

Schematic Design Team: David KIM & Sheehan WACHTER
Design Development, Fabrication & Construction Team: Nada ASADULLAH, Sergio BARAJAS, Rene CORELLA, Joseph DIMATTEO, David KIM, Nikota LITZIN, Anh LUC, Joseph MIRANDA, Jaime SEVILLA, Sheehan WACHTER, Alex ZEE, & Yukun ZHOU

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Susannah DICKINSON: The group installation for the Beaux Art Ball at the Mercado San Agustin, Tucson was part of an elective class on Biomimetics at the University of Arizona.

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lexington KENTUCKY

University of Kentucky College of Design (UK/CoD)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Chico NICHOLS: Tangible Projection combines a tangible field condition of translucent strings at a variety of densities with an intangible two dimensional projection. The combination of the strings and the projection allow for the projection, until now a two dimensional medium, to manifest itself in three dimensions. The different densities of the strings create high density areas that act as a screen to catch the projection and are placed in combination with low density areas that allow a person to occupy the space of the projection.

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new york NEW YORK

The Non-Linear Solution Unit will feature the project “Instant Installation – Product Architecture” during the 2013 NY design week, May 18th-21st at Studio X New York.

Instant Installation is product is a pop-up Architecture developed by 24 international students guided by NSUs director Caterina Tiazzoldi.

Instant Installation at New York Design Week with Non-Linear Solution Unit & Caterina TIAZZOLDI
05/18–05/21
Studio X New York
180 Varick St.
New York, NY 10014

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