los angeles CALIFORNIA

This proposal for the Taichung City Cultural Center is a singular, landmark building, which encompasses both the Taichung Public Library and the Taichung Fine Arts Museum. In response to Taichung City Government’s initiative to develop a notable entryway to Taichung Gateway Park, we propose a building that formally yields a “gateway” into the new park. Much like natural occurring openings between large rock formations, grand breezeways or tunnels are proposed to separate the two volumes of the library and museum. Through a series of studies and manipulations of historical archway precedents, a three-dimensional form of the tunnels was generated.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

The Taichung City Cultural Center stands as the gateway into Taichung Gateway Park in the Taichung Gateway District. The facility will include a world-class Museum of Fine Arts and a Public Library. Located on the northern end of the Park, The project will provide citizens with a multipurpose cultural, artistic and recreational facility.

The Taichung Cultural Center is first and foremost a symbol of progress. The building will command an International presence attracting venues and promoting new forms of the Arts. The building will have an iconic presence. The technologically advanced, environmentally mindful scheme projects a sophisticated, lively, progressive, forward thinking vision, catapulting Taichung into the 21st century.

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Critic: Andrew SAUNDERS.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Graham BILLINGS: “Normative Fluidity” is a museum extension that explores the process of transposition between a series of light studies, diagrammatic implications of the “affect,” and their resultant three-dimensional forms and spaces. Diffraction of light through water is known as caustics; a process that was coupled with a camera obscura during my initial research.

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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

PLUS-SUM (Martin SUMMERS): Museums represent our greatest cultural and social aspirations in their mission to collect and disseminate ideas while also striving for symbolic status within global cultural and national/local, shared aspirations. A Museum of Contemporary Art has a particularly elevated status within this shared cultural milieu, because it embodies our aspirations to shape and evolve culture. It collects and defines the edges of our cultural production and at it’s best, reflects the current and future states of our collective evolution.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critics: Andrew ZAGO w/ guest advisor Jeffrey KIPNIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Dale STRONG: This thesis is investigating formal architectural conditions existing between abstraction and legibility in order to challenge notions of sobriety and solemnity within the discipline of architecture. The context of the site, located on the campus of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is architecturally earnest with neighbors like Mies Van der Rohe’s Brown Pavilion and Raphael Moneo’s Audrey Jones Beck building. To counter the seriousness of the surrounding and help lighten the mood, this thesis will make a serious attempt to introduce comic and licentious characteristics to the new building.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture
critics: Tom WISCOMBE with Nate HUME

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jacqueline HO: Broad Museum Redux in L.A. Intricate figures pushing through elastic surfaces create razor-sharp edges and webbing. Tattoos track with, and sometimes diverge from morphology. Firmly sited but distinct from the ground, allowing movement into, under and around tattooed surfaces via a public plaza.

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buenos aires ARGENTINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Frisly COLOP MORALES, Jason EASTER, & Łukasz WAWRZEŃCZYK: This proposal for the New Contemporary Art Museum (NCAM) in Buenos Aires embodies the city’s dynamic cultural vibrancy. The building sits along the Rio de la Plata, plugging into the internationally influenced urban context as an architectural artifact representing the city itself.

The design provides various exhibition and gathering spaces for both programmed and passive interaction between local visitors, tourist and the various exhibits of architecture, painting, sculpture, fashion and textiles.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, located at the northern edge of the Michigan State University campus, is influenced by a set of movement paths that traverse and border the site. The vitality of street life on the northern side of Grand River Avenue and the historic heart of the university campus at the south side generate a network of paths and visual connections; some are part of the existing footpath layout, others create shortcuts between the city and the campus side of Grand River Avenue.

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shanghai CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

DEDODESIGN (nunzia CARBONE, partner-in-charge; tomas LABANC, project leader; stefan WARNAAR & mincheng HUI, team members):The concept for the new Contemporary Art Museum seeks to create an iconic building on the riverfront promenade. We see the Puerto Madero district as a platform for a new urban redevelopment that reflects the latest tendencies in architectural design. We attract local and global public attention, not just for the museum itself, but for the whole area of the city, and ultimately the country.

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buenos aires ARGENTINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

prechteck: Austrian architecture studio prechteck has proposed a concept plan that deals with the revitalization of Puerto Madero and development of the new contemporary art museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The design of the building draws influence from contextual associations like waves of the waterfront, or setting sail for the Fragata Sarmiento, where viewpoints of the main parameter are highlighted.

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