columbus OHIO

The Possible Mediums Conference, which took place at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture from February 07-10, 2013, brought together 18 designers, 120 students (from the four co-host schools: The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and University of Kentucky College of Design), and special guests John McMorrough and Jeffrey Kipnis, to participate in design workshops and formal discussions surrounding the question of mediums in contemporary architecture.

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columbus OHIO

The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Kentucky College of Design, and University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning will be co-hosting the upcoming Possible Mediums conference taking place in Columbus, Ohio from February 7th-10th. We are pleased to have suckerPUNCH as a co-sponsor.

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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sift Studio/adam FURE: This custom designed chandelier topped the staged at the University of Kentucky, College of Design’s 2012 Beaux-Arts Ball. An array of steel pyramids, spun with polyester fibers, dangle from an elevated steel disk. The fibers are bunched, burnt, and painted producing a thick sullied surface. Copper hoses carry electricity to a distributed web of amber LEDs, illuminating the insides of each shell.

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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sift Studio/adam FURE: In this weekend-long workshop students mixed multiplicitous material narratives through the construction of heterogeneous, saturated objects. The material palette was foreign, forcing students to develop novel potentials out of seemingly strange matter. Initial experimentation focused on the material’s latent tendencies to aggregate (how it naturally bundles, bunches, bends, and folds for example). Students tested, recorded, and codified techniques of assembly—ultimately coercing the unwieldy matter into working systems of aggregation that were supported by designed substructures.

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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kyle MILLER: This design proposal for rehabilitating the Pushinsky Cinema Facade in Moscow seeks to showcase and celebrate the virtual aesthetic potentials latent in non-representational architectural surface design, design which strategically employs color, pattern, texture, and translucency to create non-cognitive, visual sensations that leave the viewer void of mental representations and void of signified external imagery. The project is fundamentally about reconsidering ornamentation in contemporary architectural design and capitalizing on the capabilities of parametric design to simultaneously achieve variation and repetition across a field of self-similar building components (in this case, facade panels).

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