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SCI-Arc (ESTm)
critics: Peter TESTA with Brandon KRUYSMAN & Jonathan PROTO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Brian HARMS with Haejun JUNG, Vince HUANG, & Yuying CHEN: This project aims to blur the line between processes of design and fabrication in the context of rapid prototyping by increasing the fluidity of the fabrication process through coordinated material and robotic processes. The project exploits feedback loops that allow the process to be used as a live generative form-finding tool as well as a method for reification of designed objects.

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In the evolution of image culture from Marshall McLuhan’s claims of medium supplanting message to the mid-’90s paperless studios’ fetishization of computer rendering, the rise of suckerPUNCH has added a new visceral dimension. . . Projects published on suckerPUNCH . . . are elevated beyond the ordinary and contribute to a new kind of nuanced visual discourse uniquely enabled by the Web. The underlying visual logic of this discussion is the “field,” a now default technique for describing environment and indexing parametric process. Sensorial, geometric, and spatial, the field conveniently conflates the three into a rich digital milieu. . . .

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Andrew ZAGO speaks on topological novelty and the sectional object problem, incusion, architecture as discipline or profession, the role of precedent and history in architecture education today, and more.

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SCI-Arc
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kevin Yen-Po CHEN & Eric LaLONE: The multi-unit housing project studies and merges the eccentric grid that sandwiches the site in downtown Los Angeles. The unique triangular site and its restrictions form the tightly controlled project. The goal is to provide unique aperture and spaces for every single unit and to create pattern that juxtaposes yet merges within itself.

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Commonly understood today as a set of beliefs or practices in conflict with prevailing dogma, the word “heresy” derives from the Greek “heiresis,” meaning “choice.” In classical antiquity, the term also signified a period during which a young philosopher would examine various schools of thought in order to determine his future way of life.

symposium: “Modern Architecture in L.A.: A Confederacy of Heretics” with Ewan BRANDA, Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Todd GANNON, Wes JONES, Jeffrey KIPNIS, Thom MAYNE, Eric MOSS, Andrew ZAGO, & more.
Friday, 06/14, 3.00-9.00 p.m,
Saturday, 06/15, 10.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m.
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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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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SCI-Arc
critic: Andrew ATWOOD

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Austin SAMSON & Danny KARAS:
Painting: The project revolves around the idea of using the Chiaroscuro effect as a way to create and manipulate three-dimensional space within a two dimensional drawing or image. This is done by using conventional drawing techniques, such as hatching, in new ways to represent shade and shadow. The layering of these hatching techniques may either enhance shadow, produce fake shadow (where shade is literally painted on) or flatten areas of the image in order to produce moments of ambiguity within each drawing.

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SCI-Arc
critic: Ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Spike LIU & Mark A. SANTA INES: As an object on the block, our interest was to develop a unit interlocking strategy that would integrate in section, composing neighborhoods within a hinged bar, collectively coming together as a massing that would remain undefined as a housing project.

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SCI-Arc
critic: Florencia PITA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kyle ONAGA: The figure in architecture is neglected and feared. This thesis embraces the figure.
The exploration seeks an alternative starting point for architecture that does not originate from abstracted forms.
Using a literal figure as massing, the head is taken as the architectural primitive.

The figure in its nature, has apriori associations. In its reading, the figure creates an engagement.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Oyler Wu Collaborative: Designed and built by the office of Oyler Wu Collaborative along with students of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Stormcloud is the third project in a series of installations designed for SCI-ARC. The previous two installations, Netscape and Centerstage were designed for the school’s graduation ceremonies in 2011 and 2012 respectively. With SCI-Arc celebrating its 40th anniversary, the school commissioned the new pavilion for the after-party of its April 2013 gala. Tasked with the challenge of revamping the existing Netscape pavilion, Oyler Wu Collaborative saw the project as an opportunity to take a completely different approach to the problem.

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