los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Marcelo SPINA.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rome CAO: This thesis interrogates the constantly evolving relationship between liminal figures in architecture to produce cohesion and a state of contradiction simultaneously.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, marcelo SPINA, museum, robert VENTURI, Rome CAO, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Andrew ZAGO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Smita LUKOSE: Set in Rome, the context for this project looms larger over architecture and urbanism than any other city.
andrew ZAGO, architecture, housing, museum, rome, Smita LUKOSE
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london UNITED KINGDOM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Gilles RETSIN: This proposal for the new Guggenheim museum in Helsinki uses digital methodologies to design a carbon-negative building which is largely made of recycled and low-grade timber. . . .
algorithmic design, architecture, assemblage, computation, computational design, gilles RETSIN, Guggenheim, Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition, museum
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london UNITED KINGDOM
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
critics: Marjan COLLETTI, Guan LEE, & Hannes MAYER.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Eleftheria VARDA: Dealing with concepts of qualitative differentiation—and given a brief to design an ice museum in Quebec City, Canada—the aim of this year’s research was to challenge previously used techniques and materials or invent new ones in order to achieve fused qualities in liveable spaces.
architecture, Bartlett, Eleftheria VARDA, guan LEE, Hannes MAYER, marjan COLLETTI, museum, the bartlett
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troy NEW YORK
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: Adam DAYEM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Kevin Freitas CONLIN: The VUG Museum & Residency for the Storm King Arts Center in NY State takes its name from the veins of gemstones that form in rough openings in stone, the rougher cousin of geodes.
adam DAYEM, architecture, housing, Kevin Freitas CONLIN, museum, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI
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melbourne AUSTRALIA
RMIT University
advisor: Roland SNOOKS
Michael FERREYRA: This Museum of Science Fiction and Cinematic Affects explores the possibilities of a speculative architecture that embodies cinematic affects within the context of Melbourne, through the act of designing the image and drawing from the potential source of the science-fiction genre.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critics: François ROCHE, Stephan HENRICH, & Devin JERNIGAN.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Matthew STONE & Runing WANG: Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. — Henry Miller
Devin JERNIGAN, francois ROCHE, industrialization, Matthew STONE, museum, PennDesign, Runing WANG, Stephan HENRICH, surrealism, university of pennsylvania, UPenn
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london UNITED KINGDOM
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2013 M.Arch GAD (Distinction)
advisors: Marjan COLLETTI, Guan LEE, & Hannes MAYER.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Francois MANGION & Shuchi AGARWAL: The Synaesthetic Museum project forms part of a design research carried out during our Masters Degree and now forms part on an ongoing personal research project.
new orleans LOUISIANA
The Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame in historic Natchitoches, Louisiana merges two contrasting collections formerly housed in a university coliseum and a nineteenth century courthouse, elevating the visitor experience for both. Set in the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase on the banks of the Cane River Lake, the design mediates the dialogue between sports and history, past and future, container and contained.
architecture, geomorphology, mark HASH, museum, nature, Trahan Architects, trey TRAHAN
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2013
America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment.
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