philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania
critic: ferda KOLATAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

MegaZoo: melody REES and arthur AZOULAI: Project Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico.
This project is a morphological study based on self-organizing biological systems. At its pure essence, it is a topological surface that links infrastructure, ecology, and architecture to articulate a new and unworldly environment. As the continuous surface bifurcates it creates a network of flowing circulation paths for pedestrians, trams and cars in addition to ebbing interior pavilion spaces, temporary food markets, pop-up retail shops, time-share housing and, finally, outdoor landscapes and parks.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

instructor: ferda KOLATAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

arthur AZOULAI + melody REES: This project is a morphological study that assumes an extended field of movement and circulating forces. It is designed by simulating self-organizing biological systems where selective decision making is used to sculpt innate yet deliberate spatial relationships and formal qualities. At its pure essence, this project is an infrastructural system that acts as a receiver and link-up for formal architectural systems. The inherent continuity of the overall form as a topological surface allows for the emergence of roadways, interstitial interior space, and landscape.

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