cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critics: mariana IBAÑEZ & simon KIM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

brandon CUFFY, judy FULTON, & stacy MORTON: CoFLEXions is a responsive inflatable that creates a unique connection between the individual user, the collective, and a spatial environment. This responsive inflatable is a project that tests the implications of responsive architecture through formal and spatial means. As responsive technologies become readily accessible to architects and designers, they provide an opportunity for users to have unique agency over their spatial environments.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Cloud Cloak: The Cloak is a device that emits a wearable cloud. It emits a cover that negates the objectifying gaze of the observer. In a pervasive urban environment, the occupant may obscure their gender, their race, their identity.

The device also allows the subject to choose a moment of respite and willful separation from the city as the cloud creates a singular space of occupancy.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

glen j. SANTAYANA: In imagining the architecture of the future, I thought about the current trend that technology plays in our lives today, mainly referring to the heavy consumption of social media networks, status updates, and monitoring the latest trends. We are constantly plugged in; developing a relationship between ourselves, the viewing apparatus, and the virtual world. This perpetual fix to our device has generated a culture in which human qualities and interaction between one another have subsided and declined. As a result, I am interested in human qualities and its role in the architecture of the future through methods of emotional and sensorial inquiries.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Imagine an alternative use for vacant lots and scrap yards. ICA Assistant Curator Kate Kraczon moderates a conversation between Simon Kim, PennDesign Assistant Professor of Architecture, and artists Billy and Steven Dufala about their respective reclamation projects, Philadelphia Masque and RAIR (Recycled Artist-in-Residency).

simon KIM & the DUFALA brothers
Thursday, 04/26
6.30 pm / Institute of Contemporary Art
University of Pennsylvania
118 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA 19104

philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Simon KIM talks about machine learning, modular robotics, rethinking Loos’s Raumplan, “retroactive futures,” and more.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Ibañez Kim Studio (Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim) proposes a Mechanical Garden that enjoyed a unique partnership with artists and engineers in Philadelphia.

The Mechanical Garden is a social stage for PS1 activities as well as for architecture-as-characters. A strong figural demarcation assembles a series of Characters into generously shaded arcades and walkways. This peripheral organization reinforces the existing geometries of the courtyard walls, but thickens them with canopy and programme - to allow for indeterminacy and found situations. Each Character is constructed from similar elements in fixed modules, but have differentiation in traits and features. They vary in orientation, internal spaces and function.

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Cambridge PHILADELPHIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

Mariana IBAÑEZ + Simon KIM: Philadelphia has identified a disproportionate urban condition of vacant lots that are not only large in number but are widely distributed regardless of real-estate value. Ownership among the private, and public (Redevelopment Authority, Philadelphia Housing Authority and others) suggest that there is intention held back by onerous conditions. While these voids can be seen as endemic of urban blight, our studio is interested in researching how we cognitively map our environment, or how we perceive our location via references.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

immersive kinematics group
professors simon KIM and mark YIM

reception at 6pm saturday may 7th

SINErgy Project Space+Gallery
2310 N. American St.
Philadelphia, PA, 19133

SINErgy
immersive kinematics group

philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Immersive Kinematics is a Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania directed by professors Simon Kim and Mark Yim. This group is a collaboration between Penn Engineering and Penn Design and expands the roles of architecture and engineering focusing on integrating robotics, interaction, and embedded intelligence in our buildings, cities, and cultures. The group offers a class teaming architecture and engineering students in mechatronic projects.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

registration begins 04.19.10

submissions due 08.16.10

awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH

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