melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kokkugia / Roland SNOOKS: The Composite Swarm installation is an architectural prototype exploring the relationship of robotic fabrication, composite materials, and algorithmic design. The complexity of the form and the excess of ornament make the prototype structurally efficient and minimize the amount of material used. . . .

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures: Post-professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
critics: Chris PERRY, Andrew SAUNDERS, & Fleet HOWER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tanzil Idmam SHAFIQUE: Lagoonous Assmblage can be described as a vision for Los Angeles that goes against the trend of overlooking topographical and climatic realities of the city and postulates a radical restructuring of the city’s morphological and topological armature.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

The Bartlett, UCL
critics: Alisa ANDRASEK, Daghan CAM, Maj PLEMENITAS, & David ANDREEN.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Elina CHRISTOU, Jan DIERCKX, Rodrigo NOVELO PASTRANA, & Nikola PAPIC: RoboFoam looks at the increasingly expanding category of foam-based materials and engaged with ubiquitous expandable foam which is characterised by a high degree of non-linearity.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
Spring 2014 Visual Studies Seminar
critic: M. Casey REHM

The “Fat and Filigree” seminar explored a series of operations which forced students to engage the codification design and disciplinary intent at the local level.

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san diego CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Gabriel MORALES-OLIVARES, Kate HANSON, Taylor McGRADY, & Abe GUTIERREZ: The established built environment perpetuates an entropy laden system that depends heavily on non-renewable resources. We set forth a holistic framework, embracing the needs of society and the capacities of technology, in which a renewable and recursive, high resolution, self-powered piezo-based synthetic ecology can flourish.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

USC School of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tiffany CHENG: The aim of my 2012 final undergraduate project was to develop a colony of low-tech robots that can sustainably reconstruct and reincarnate space using existing materials. By collecting, melting, and mixing scraps and parts of decimate structures, these robots transform existing materials into new hybrid composites, reallocating otherwise unusable matter into inhabitable spaces.

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
critic: Casey REHM.

Students explored the image making ability of complex systems through a series of exercises targeted at analyzing and leveraging behaviors expressed through color and mechanical precedents. Students analyzed physical relationships in early industrial automatons and machines to produce logics for the organization of material in a multi-agent systems. Students then explored color relationships in Dutch still life painting, which they then integrated into their mechanical systems as new behaviors.

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