ann arbor MICHIGAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Clark THENHAUS / Endemic: The recently completed “Surface Gardens: Drawing Relief” project considers pre-digital drawing processes characterized by expressive materiality, competing formations, and non-delineated drawings as translatable compositions for surface articulation.

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louisville KENTUCKY

When was the last time you got punched by design? Fresh Punches is an exhibition featuring the collision of experimentation and contemporary discourse in the work of American architecture students. Collected from the spring and fall semesters of 2011, the cutting-edge work exhibited features provocative explorations in technology, space, and materials. In this collection, architecture is contaminated by the likes of transmogrifications, strange sensations, primal textures, unfamiliar geometries, self-propagating architectural species, augmented atmospherics, vicissitudinous juxtapositions, reinvented building typologies, sensual pleated skins, a crisis or two, physiologically responsive interfaces, threshold blurring gizmos, and plenty of robots.

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chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jimenez LAI: The White Elephant is roughly 10’x10’x10’. It has three basic premises:
A building inside a building, somewhere between a super-furniture and a small house.
An object that tumbles to attain multiple orientations to blur the qualification plans and sections.
An object that is hard on the outside, soft on the inside.

What is a building that can tumble freely without gravity or fixed orientations, hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and obstructs the continuity of interior spaces like an elephant in a room? This installation is a freestanding micro building / macro furniture that questions projection, inside/outside, rigidity/fluidity and size/scale.

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