wellington NEW ZEALAND

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Britt BELL: Exploring the future Earth that has sunk into decay due to the decreased intensity of the Earth’s magnetic field. This has allowed animals to mutate and caused them to grow taller and more fearsome.

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paris FRANCE

Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture
critic : Ricardo de Ostos

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

Jonas BRAOUDÉ: Today most of us are aware of human impacts on our planet. Despite the efforts of environmentalists one question still remains: Are we the last witnesses of the last wilderness?

The project takes place in a global deforestation issues. It focused on the emergence of a significant threat to the mangrove coastal forests in Madagascar: the shrimp farming industry.

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lawrence KANSAS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Melissa ANDERSON: This project attempts to make people become more empathetic by relating environmental issues to the human body by pairing portraits with unadulterated photographs of a local stream. By doing this, I encourage the viewer to question our relationship with nature.

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna

Jensen LIU & Sally HSU: Siivet aurora, the Aurora Borealis Arctic Observatory is an architectural project situated in argument between the historic mystic of the northern lights and the urban landmark of Rovaniemi.

This proposal explores the awakening moment of the Eos (the goddess of dawn), enhancing a natural phenomenon that continues to amaze audiences.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jennifer GEORGESCU: It seems that while that we can recognize that we are a part of nature, there is evidence of a disconnect taking place. We have no solid definition of what it is that we claim to be a part of, and rationality is privileged over wildness and chaos. We set aside small areas of land for enjoyment, we pay to see caged animals; we want to “dabble” in nature so that we can feel closer to it. Sand, Stones, Dead Leaves & Bone examines our relationship to nature and the anxiety that comes from our lack of contact with it.

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bologna ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Power Agents (Francesco LANCIOTTI, Ervis LAPI, Davide MINUTELLI, & Alessandra POLI): Cataclysm is a disaster caused by natural phenomenon, in this case caused by man-kind who is becoming a geological factor, able to pour out events that have always belonged to nature.

University of Bologna
critics: Alessio ERIOLI (Studio Master); Tommaso CASUCCI, Filippo NASSETTI, & Alessandro ZOMPARELLI (Tutors)

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belgrade SERBIA

University of Belgrade
critics: Djordje STOJANOVIC & Milutin CEROVIC

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Aleksandar BURSAC: The design intent was to retain the existing atmosphere of the river beach, and to introduce its qualities into the educational environment or the New Media institute. The “institute” and the “beach” are formulated as initial typologies that polarize the space in between, creating the field of transitional types. These types are exhibited differently, on some occasion they are more inclined towards the character of the beach while at others they are closer to the idea of the institute.

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chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Richard BLACKWELL: Grottos are group of works included in a 3 Part exhibition series of the same name, which exhibited In Australia and Chicago in 2010–11.

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new york NEW YORK

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
critic: chris PERRY

sP: Describe your project.

kieran MARTIN: Detroit is the quintessential car city. The lack of public transportation has gained exposure recently and there is currently funding and a design in place for an elevated rail line along Woodward Ave. bigNATURE re-envisions the Woodward corridor through the lens of 1960’s Megastructuralists, challenging popular notions of Ecological Urbanism with drastic urban translations of exotic natural environments.

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