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The 5th annual Dale Taylor Visiting Seminar at the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design was led by Visiting Lecturer Alvin Huang (USC/Synthesis Design + Architecture) and Assistant Professor Jason S. Johnson (U. Calgary/Minus Architecture). This intensive 4 day design/fabricate/build workshop explored digital form-finding techniques to produce a series of scaled architectural prototypes for freestanding pavilion structures.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Synthetiques & minus Architecture studio {MAS}: Libraries are increasingly the places in which culture is produced, collected and disseminated. The Ambient Exchange promotes a culture of collaboration, creative inquiry and community engagement through provision of functional and exuberant spaces that engage the strong social and craft-oriented traditions of the Finnish built environment.

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calgary CANADA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jason s. JOHNSON (MINUS ARCHITECTURE STUDIO): AX2011 explores localized weather conditions as generative tactics for a parametrically limited undulating geometry. The project simulates the surface and formal effects produced by warm air masses often referred to as “Chinooks” or foehn winds as they collide with arctic air masses. This phenomenon which occurs in southern Alberta, is capable of producing rapid and extreme variations in air temperature as well as a cloud formation known as a Chinook arch. These formations are produced through orographic lifting and often manifest in variably coloured and rippled stratus clouds with a distinct trailing edge.

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