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SCI-ARC
critic: Erick CÁRCAMO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Lord CENIZA & Juan C. BAEZ: Our objective was to develop a design proposal for a housing complex in downtown Los Angeles that deviates from the constricting demands of the typology of housing with a goal towards the eccentric. Breaking from the standard but respecting functionality we searched for a middle ground. The challenge was to not let repetition becoming monotonous rather to inspire thought and lead to new discoveries.

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Eugene KOSGORON & Evelina SAUSINA: Fractal Projections is a play on the idea of the cube broken in space to create an interlocking grid system that follows a linear deformation, allowing them to break from the norm grid behavior into a family of fractal surfaces. Audience is meant to circulate the space to discover the projections that is composed from a series of smaller cubes that houses these fractal surfaces. Fractal Projections pays homage to architecture and how SCI-Arc Alumni have transformed the school over the 40 years.

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Satoru SUGIHARA speaks on agent-based design, consumption and development of scripted tools, emergence, and much more.

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Peter ZELLNER discusses SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Differential Urbanism, computational design, and much more.

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SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Fall 2012
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Joel KERNER: Our cities have traded good congestion, that being pedestrian movement and necessitated interaction, for a congestion of automobiles and transit. Our architecture—and ultimately our urban space—is increasingly getting out of scale as we trade traditional planning and hierarchy for Bigness and isolation. Our once great urban space has slowly been replaced by lifeless infrastructure that separates pedestrians from their destinations.

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SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Fall 2012
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jinming FENG: The project challenge the conventional urban design approaches, and specifically focuses on the traversal rationality between urban figure, field, ground, and network. The design scrutinizes several new and topical urban design approaches that blur figure-field relations via mathematically and digitally driven techniques.

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SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Fall 2012
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Steve MOODY: An attempt at increasing density and improving access for pedestrian, bicycle and mass transit in Los Angeles via architectural intervention, “LAND” uses logics of aggregation to create piles of units that adapt to different uses, circulation, and scales. The primary form of the aggregation is in leaning piles that create an over/under condition—terraced units create private outdoor space for residences and pedestrian circulation on top, while roads, mass transit, parking and other service spaces are placed underneath.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Eugene KOSGORON & Evelina SAUSINA: Fractal Projections is a play on the idea of the cube broken in space to create an interlocking grid system that follows a linear deformation, allowing them to break from the norm grid behavior into a family of fractal surfaces. Audience is meant to circulate the space to discover the projections that is composed from a series of smaller cubes that houses these fractal surfaces. Fractal Projections pays homage to architecture and how SCI-Arc Alumni have transformed the school over the 40 years.

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Ingeborg M. Rocker was appointed Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard in 2011, after serving as assistant professor there since 2005. Rocker’s theoretical work is devoted to questions regarding the impact of media on the perception, production, and thinking of architecture. As a designer and teacher of design, she deploys computer modeling as a tool for giving form to theoretical hypotheses in a didactic way. Rocker’s ongoing research has been widely publicized through numerous international magazines and books.

Ingeborg ROCKER, “Recursion: Aesthetics + Logics of Computation”
intro. by Marcelo SPINA
Wednesday, 04/03
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jason ORBE-SMITH: This thesis examines elements of vernacular architecture as a means to influence and generate contemporary form.

As society moves towards a state of interconnectivity, heterogeneity and the globalization of politics, culture and economy, this thesis reinvestigates the discussion concerning the native, indigenous and local with notions of the cosmopolitan, global and foreign.

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