macau CHINA

University of St. Joseph
critics: Kristof CROLLA & Dannes KOK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Designed and built by University of St. Joseph (Macau) third- and fourth-year undergraduate architecture students, led by guest professors Kristof Crolla and Dannes Kok, the Pulse Pavilion is a temporary structure that stands at Plaza Sai Van, adjacent to Macau Tower, from 1–10 June 2013. It is an inhabitable sculpture, a parametrically generated organic lattice structure created from split bamboo rods, interwoven with fabric panels, and featuring an interactive LED lighting system.

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barcelona SPAIN

Naves, the proposal for a temporary pavilion for the city of Mons, Capital of Culture in 2015, addresses a contextual relationship to the gothic surroundings as an exploration on lightness and transparency.

Historically, the gothic edifice, by reducing the building to its bare bones, shows the perfect expression of lightness as the manifestation of light itself.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Tempera is an indoor temporary pavilion for exhibition “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (June 16–September 16, 2013). The pavilion theme is a fantastic garden where visitors see their own images reflected into a three-dimensional immersive painted canvas. The subject of the graphic depictions of the pavilion reinterprets the topic of “Still Nature”; in particular, the original subject represented here is 3-D scanned acquisitions of natural elements such as flowers and insects.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Southern California
critic: Roland WAHLROOS-RITTER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Katie AMRINE, Meaghan CAMP, Morgan FENG, Shelley FU, Saeed GHODS, Peter JEUNG, Jonathan LEE, Andrea MENDOZA, David NICHOLSON, Krithika PRABHAKARAN, Zenah SAKAAMINI, Eugene SU, Vicky WONG, & Graham WOOD: The Glass Pavilion is an investigation of the aesthetic and structural qualities of glass. The use of polycarbonate, a transparent material with many of the same structural properties as glass, allowed us to create a self-supporting structure on a smaller budget.

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shenzhen CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Cho CHUNG MAN, WANG Yang, YANG Zhenyuan, & Jaenes BONG: This pavilion should be an icon of the parametric movement in SZU, located at the prime location of the department. It represents an atypical and unusual construction techniques that exhibit the superior technical knowledge through a research and exploration methodology. The pavilion should consider in a holistic manner from conceptual idea to digital modeling until on-site construction.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN & chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

McLain CLUTTER & Kyle REYNOLDS: The Empty Pavilion is a meditation on Detroit’s evacuated urban context and an experiment in architecture’s ability to activate a latent public in the city. The project aspires to distribute just enough material across empty space – an element Detroit has in excess – to make that space legible and promote interaction. From a distance, the project engages the onlooker in a visual game of fleeting figuration. The pavilion is conceived as a collection of architectural figures drawn-in-space.

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budapest HUNGARY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Roland Dániel NÉMETH & Anett FARKAS: The aim of the “Para-Mat” workshop, held during the annual European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA), was to create a pavilion/object, that would instantly become a meeting point, a tool for social interaction for the inhabitants of the Spanish city of Cádiz, the host of the event in 2011. Right along the Atlantic coast of the old city lies a promenade, that already had nearby meeting points for distinct local groups, like old fishermen, couples enjoying a walk, youth having a “botellón”, or mothers with their small children. We wanted to bring these groups together to the same spot, by giving each of them something useful.

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florence ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

AmniosyA (marino MORETTI, marco CARRATELLI, fabio FORCONI, natalia GIACOMINO, lucia LUNGHI, elvira PERFETTO, lorenzo PIANIGIANI, & leonardo PILATI): The idea came up from a study on the main functions associated with research for a dynamic organism. The structure developed across a regular shape, a rectangle that from a transversal deformation ideally gives back a parallelogram. This form is self-organized and is altered in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional way, following a symmetrical order.

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porto PORTUGAL

Constructive Geometry Pavilion 2011/12

On its 3rd edition, the course on Constructive Geometry at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), has finally reached the 1:1 scale! For their last assignment of the 2nd semester, 46 students investigated the design of dome structures using computational design processes.

Differently from previous editions, this year goal was to select one solution and build it at full scale using corrugated cardboard. For the selection process, a review was set-up where the groups had to show the mock-up of a building component to inform the general discussion about the design interest, production timeframe, economic feasibility, and structural integrity.

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copenhagen DENMARK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

MAST (ivar HEGGHEIM, jon ANDERSEN, rasmus MØLLER, & mads m. ANDERSEN): Vaaler kirke: contemporary spiritual spaces.

In this project we focused on how to design a contemporary sacred space. While considering social, cultural and historic dimensions.
We transformed the 2 dimensional draped ornaments from the baroque into 3-D draping of the ceiling. This simple geometry in combination with the texture of the wooden shingles creates ambience, rhytm and playful effects. The daylight connects and underline the soft and heavy draping of the roof. The Church is entirely made out of timber - from the loadbearing construction to the roof and facades cladded with wood shingles.

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