london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
B-Pro, M.Arch Graduate Architectural Design
Interactive Architecture Studio RC3
critics: Ruairi GLYNN & Ollie PALMER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Chryssa VARNA: Architecture nowadays uses industrial robotics as a tool; Industrial Improvisation is using them as a material.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

USC School of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tiffany CHENG: The aim of my 2012 final undergraduate project was to develop a colony of low-tech robots that can sustainably reconstruct and reincarnate space using existing materials. By collecting, melting, and mixing scraps and parts of decimate structures, these robots transform existing materials into new hybrid composites, reallocating otherwise unusable matter into inhabitable spaces.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Marcelyn GOW

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nicholas BARGER & Brian HARMS: Buoyant Depositions focuses on the implications of technology in the design process by exploring questions of reproducibility, fluctuation and variability, as well as an aesthetic of the undesigned, or perhaps, the undesignable. The project specifically explores how robotic motion control may allow designers to generate and analyze inexact forms through unpredictable material interactions.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

California College of the Arts (CCA)
critic: Jason K. JOHNSON

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Alex WOODHOUSE & Leah ZALDUMBIDE: Desert Driftbot investigates the prospect of an alternative, event-driven, nomadic society, fleeing the overbearing,cosmopolitan lifestyle of urbanity in favor of a simplified yet profound way of living. Seeking respite from a culture of extreme density, poor air quality, automotive dependence, materialism and ownership, this nomadic civilization has emerged in the barren desertscape of the Salton Sea.

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Galo MONCAYO-ASAN & Dominik STRZELEC: Driven by its immediate surrounding, little by little, the machine deposits material while sensing and moving within its territory. Traces left by its passing alter the landscape it operates within, step by step. Instant decisions solidify, aggregate and therefore shift or constrain its possible future trajectories.

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Immersive Kinematics is a unique research group focusing on integrating robotics, interaction, and embedded intelligence in our buildings, cities, and cultures. Directed by Simon Kim and Mark Yim, IK is a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania schools of Engineering and Design, teaming architecture and engineering students in mechatronic projects. Recent collaborations include Technology in Shakespeare, Unethical Machines, a PS1 pavilion, and a Cyborg Ballet.

simon KIM & mark YIM, “Engineering Architects”
Monday, 11/05
6.00 pm / Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213