vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SPAN (Matias del CAMPO & Sandra MANNINGER): The leitmotiv of the Guggenheim Museum, Helsinki is the 9-square grid. . . .

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shanghai CHINA

PROCESS explores the evolving nature of the contemporary design methodologies and their various conceptual and material connotations. The exhibition brings together for the first time a range of architects and designers pushing the boundaries of their fields using the revolutionary possibilities offered by creative coding, digital simulations of natural phenomena or various other iterative techniques.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

FULL SCALE, the exhibition and installation of first-year studio heralds a new curriculum from the chair of the Department of Architecture. This collection of work presents modular architecture that expresses tectonics, assembly logics, and spatial intelligence. More than abstract geometries and digital models, FULL SCALE requires proof of constructibilty and craft. Please join us.

exhibition & installation: FULL SCALE.
Wednesday, 09/25–09/29
opening: 6.00 p.m., 09/25 / Meyerson Hall
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

*image: Gregory WHITNEY (M.Arch 2015), “Tensegrity.”

dessau GERMANY

Dessau Institute of Architecture
critics: sandra MANNINGER & matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ana STEFANOVIC, andrew MOGYLNYI, claudia STOICA, mahmoud EL HAKIM, sebastian BIAŁKOWSKI, & xintian LI: The Convoluted Corrosion project is the future city concept for Maribor, Slovenia. The main idea of the project is to simulate the future city growth and expansion in the span of 100years. Based on the “Urban Millennium” fact that majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, which is caused by increasing factor of rural-urban migration.

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vienna AUSTRIA

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claudio GRANATO, dino KIRATZIDIS, & cecilia SANNELLA: The Atlas of Sensations was a 4 week summer school at The University of Applied Arts in Vienna. The brief was to design a pedestrian bridge near the Urania building in Vienna. Our project looked at techniques of producing highly articulated, “pleated” surfaces. This was achieved by moving between the software platforms, which was one of the objectives of the course: we modeled in Maya, deformed the generic mesh (a tube, with apertures) with Processing; further edited the deformed geometry in Maya to adapt to the site; and produced gradients and perforations in Grasshopper to produce atmospheric effects inside the tube.

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shanghai CHINA

Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger head the Vienna-based Architecture firm SPAN, founded together in 2003. Their award-winning architecture designs are informed by an ecology of sources including Romanticism, Geometry, Biology and Botany. Employing among the most sophisticated digital design and fabrication tools, SPAN has become among the leaders of a new generation of form based practices in Europe.

SPAN
Wednesday, 04/25
1.00 pm / Theater, Tuwen Information Centre
Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA)
No.2200 Wenxiang Rd.
Songjiang District, Shanghai, CHINA

vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SPAN (matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER): The Pearl,

The architecture of this project oscillates between historic lineage and most advanced contemporary atmospheres. Advanced computational techniques collide with romantic desires to produce an elegant space for the performance of operas, historic as well as novel ones.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SPAN (matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER): The main driving forces for the design of the New Maribor Art Gallery are based on a twofold concept: Continuity and Gradients. The continuous, swelling flows combine the interior and exterior space in a subtle way, creating a seamless connection between the outside garden areas of the new Maribor Art Gallery, the open plan ground floor level, and the river Drava. The trajectory of the curvilinear stream continues in a vertical motion along the ramp, rising into the upper levels. This motion creates a vertical cyclone, which serves as the main circulation hub for the gallery.

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vienna AUSTRIA

austrian pavilion, shanghai expo 2010
SPAN & Zeytinoglu [matias del CAMPO, sandra MANNiNGER, arkan ZEYTINOGLU]
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matias del CAMPO: Topology is the main driving force of the design of the Austrian pavilion, a major area of mathematics concerned with spatial properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, for example deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing. It emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as space, dimension, and transformation.

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