troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
critic: Jeremy CARVALHO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Shen LI: O Seventy-Seven is a synthetic ecology for human, agricultural, and cyborg life developed and operated by fictional biotech / pharmaceuticals conglomerate “Bio-Codex.”

The complex supports market structures, produce farming, a capsule hotel, and parking in a single unibody topology. This exoskeleton uses single-sided “herringbone” surfacing at multiple scales to erase the distinction between over and under, inside and outside.

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: Brian de LUNA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Shen LI: Whereas nearby Palm Springs is an artifice of pleasure, lifestyle, and nostalgia, the Salton Sea is a terrain vague of desire, a Ballardian machine for dying. Like a mechanized bird of paradise, the Salton Sea crematorium is an ulterior motive in an dionysian world in crisis, a singular instance of repose whirring above a weaponized landscape.

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troy NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SHEN li: Toroidal porosity allows the global morphology, equationally derived from the lemniscate, to be defined by a topology of continous local surfacure. Both interior and exterior of the global geometry have distinct surface animations, yet are connected by a field of toroidal holes. Local units deform according to the speed of oscillation, torquing and loosening relative to the lemniscate geometry and producing a dual-sided sea of ever-changing figurations and dispositions.

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