los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Darin JOHNSTONE.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Botio KUO & Austin ANDERSON: Buildings become monolithic when the scale of its members become small enough or ubiquitous enough to be erased by the presence of the whole object.
mexico city MEXICO and ithaca NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Isaac MICHAN & Isidoro MICHAN: The shelter appears as a free standing ice monolith in the landscape with an intriguing object on the inside.
autonomy, Isaac MICHAN, Isidoro MICHAN, monolithic, nature patterns & textures
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc (ESTm)
critics: M. Casey REHM & Marcelo SPINA.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Daniel CAVEN: Anamorphic Carcases is a generation of architectural artifacts using, as a medium, the polluted aquifers lining the Mojave desert. . . .
los angeles CALIFORNIA
UCLA SUPRASTUDIO
critics: Greg LYNN & Julia KOERNER.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ismael SOTO: This project implements a subtractive design process complemented by a resulting flying object at play in the monolithic mass of a hotel tower.
greg LYNN, julia KOERNER, monolithic, SUPRASTUDIO, UCLA, UCLA A.UD
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new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture
critic: Mark Foster GAGE.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Evan WISKUP: The goal of this project is to experiment how two, frequently assumed antagonistic forms, can coalesce to act as a foil to one another.
Evan WISKUP, mark GAGE, monolithic, symmetry, Yale, yale school of architecture, ysoa
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new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture
critics: Marcelo SPINA, Georgina HULJICH, & Nate HUME.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Constance VALE: In order to achieve monolithic qualities three primary formal strategies are employed, referencing those same qualities found in the bunkers of Paul Virilio located along the Atlantic Wall. . . .
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
advisor: Marcelo Spina
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ziba ESMAEILIAN: This thesis investigates the notion of duality in architecture by working across multiple genres rather than within a single one. It focuses on the notion of “productive dichotomy” as a form of development that aims not to dissolve opposites, erasing their contrast, but aims instead to bring them together into an even more complex state of dualism.
marcelo SPINA, monolithic, piling, SCI-arc, thesis, totem, Ziba ESMAEILIAN
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