ann arbor MICHIGAN

Taubman College, University of Michigan
critics: Matias del CAMPO (Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor) & Adam FURE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Harold SPRAGUE SOLIE, Ning ZHOU, Mark WRIGHT, & Bennett SCORCIA: deferentialCONSTRUCTIONS takes its cue from the phenomenon known as Apophenia, which is the perceiving of meaningful patterns in seemingly random or meaningless data. If used advantageously, apophenia can allow for multiple readings within a single spatial environment. The project attempts to leverage a basic architectural proto-condition to test out the implications and possibilities inherent within this phenomenon.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sarah J. BLITZER: Intersecting Boundaries is an exploration of the deformations that result from the intersection of a random and a gridded system. I began with the idea of intersecting particles using two systems: regular/gridded and irregular. My aim was to explore how these two intersecting systems can be used to create space. These intersections are the basis of the form.

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Matias del Campo heads the Vienna-based Architecture firm SPAN, founded in 2003. Their award winning architecture designs are informed by an ecology of sources including romanticism, geometry, biology, and botany. Their works include the Design of the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010 and the award winning Brancusi Museum in Paris. Currently their work is on show at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy.

matias del CAMPO “Sublime Bodies”
Monday, 11/19
4.00 pm / Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A-51
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

dessau GERMANY

Dessau Institute of Architecture
critics: sandra MANNINGER & matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ana STEFANOVIC, andrew MOGYLNYI, claudia STOICA, mahmoud EL HAKIM, sebastian BIAŁKOWSKI, & xintian LI: The Convoluted Corrosion project is the future city concept for Maribor, Slovenia. The main idea of the project is to simulate the future city growth and expansion in the span of 100years. Based on the “Urban Millennium” fact that majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, which is caused by increasing factor of rural-urban migration.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

claudio GRANATO, dino KIRATZIDIS, & cecilia SANNELLA: The Atlas of Sensations was a 4 week summer school at The University of Applied Arts in Vienna. The brief was to design a pedestrian bridge near the Urania building in Vienna. Our project looked at techniques of producing highly articulated, “pleated” surfaces. This was achieved by moving between the software platforms, which was one of the objectives of the course: we modeled in Maya, deformed the generic mesh (a tube, with apertures) with Processing; further edited the deformed geometry in Maya to adapt to the site; and produced gradients and perforations in Grasshopper to produce atmospheric effects inside the tube.

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shanghai CHINA

Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger head the Vienna-based Architecture firm SPAN, founded together in 2003. Their award-winning architecture designs are informed by an ecology of sources including Romanticism, Geometry, Biology and Botany. Employing among the most sophisticated digital design and fabrication tools, SPAN has become among the leaders of a new generation of form based practices in Europe.

SPAN
Wednesday, 04/25
1.00 pm / Theater, Tuwen Information Centre
Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA)
No.2200 Wenxiang Rd.
Songjiang District, Shanghai, CHINA

vienna AUSTRIA

Matias del Campo heads the Vienna-based Architecture firm SPAN, founded together with Sandra Manninger in 2003. His award winning architecture designs are informed by an ecology of sources including Romanticism, Geometry, Biology and Botany. Employing among the most sophisticated digital design and fabrication tools, SPAN has become among the leaders of a new generation of form based practices in Europe. . . . SPAN’s work explores the opportunities present in the morphologies of advanced design techniques as a launching platform for the design of architectural conditions, simultaneously exploring the discursive implications of the individual projects.

matias del CAMPO
Tuesday, 04/17
7.00 pm / University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2 A-1010
vienna, AUSTRIA

vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SPAN (matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER): The Pearl,

The architecture of this project oscillates between historic lineage and most advanced contemporary atmospheres. Advanced computational techniques collide with romantic desires to produce an elegant space for the performance of operas, historic as well as novel ones.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SPAN (matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER): The main driving forces for the design of the New Maribor Art Gallery are based on a twofold concept: Continuity and Gradients. The continuous, swelling flows combine the interior and exterior space in a subtle way, creating a seamless connection between the outside garden areas of the new Maribor Art Gallery, the open plan ground floor level, and the river Drava. The trajectory of the curvilinear stream continues in a vertical motion along the ramp, rising into the upper levels. This motion creates a vertical cyclone, which serves as the main circulation hub for the gallery.

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vienna AUSTRIA

austrian pavilion, shanghai expo 2010
SPAN & Zeytinoglu [matias del CAMPO, sandra MANNiNGER, arkan ZEYTINOGLU]
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matias del CAMPO: Topology is the main driving force of the design of the Austrian pavilion, a major area of mathematics concerned with spatial properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, for example deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing. It emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as space, dimension, and transformation.

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