santa monica CALIFORNIA

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
critic: stephen PHILLIPS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

nema ASHJAEE: This biennale in downtown LA expresses the modern Network Culture on multiple levels. Aside from its obvious network morphology, the structure itself is conceived from a bottom-up methodology that builds an open framework to accept event and display spaces. Network Culture’s temporal nature is further expressed in the temporary structure as it reconfigures every two years to accommodate a new organization of spaces.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critic: lisa IWAMOTO & craig SCOTT, visiting critics

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

paul CATTANEO: The America’s Cup Pavilion, designed for the America’s Cup Yacht Race to take place throughout 2012, is a design deploying the characteristics of folded plate structural geometries to re-form a site – here specifically Piers 27/29 in San Francisco – in structural efficiency experimentation at a variety of scales, and was designed for a Harvard GSD Option Studio led by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott of IwamotoScott Architecture.

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san francsico CALIFORNIA

Academy of Art University
critic: kory BIEG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

yao GAO: Reality Investigating the relationship between humans and the built environment when the virtual, real, and augmented realities of our world collide. As a temporary pavilion the intensity and frequency of visitors drawn to the site will amplify the extreme spaces and force the occupants to question what is real.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critic: lisa IWAMOTO & craig SCOTT

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

sandra HERRERA: The 2013 America’s Cup sailing regatta will take place in San Francisco Bay. The project’s site (and program) is the original proposed for this venue: the wedge shaped pier 27. The proposal is generated based on the idea of the pier itself becoming a building out of the interaction of three interdependent skins, all of which are both structure and enclosure.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale University SOA
critic: michael YOUNG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

melissa SHIN: This project explores the vicissitudinous juxtaposition between contemporary art and the environment in which it is exhibited. A grid or lattice was imposed upon the site as a response to the studio’s challenge of building on a site with very little organized urban context (the Brooklyn Navy yard) but within a city defined by a predominantly strong grid.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critic: lisa IWAMOTO & craig SCOTT

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jeremy JIH: Vaultscape is a proposal for the 2012 San Francisco America’s Cup that attempts to reshape the structural geometries and material narrative of the architectural vault while producing a fluid spatial frame to support the variable scales of the Cup’s sailing races.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critic: wes JONES

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

conway PEDRON: Within the context of the studio taught by visiting critic Wes Jones, the project, a museum for the Space Shutlte Endeavour in Exhibition Park, Los Angeles, was to be thought of as a “game”. Games are distinguished as much by their rules as by the play those rules enable or circumscribe. In architecture the more important rules are not inherited or legislated, but discovered on the fly, in the feeling of rightness that settles over the project as it is refined during the course of design.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: eric owen MOSS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

francisco alarcón RUIZ:
“When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture”, -John Constable (1776–1837)

This thesis is a dialog in between the representation of abstraction and abstract representation.
It is the intersection between the exterior landscape [the material world] and the internal landscape [the world of the mind] that coalesce to form a new urban neighbor in the sky over Los Angeles. How they coalesce is my project.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: david RUY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

michelle FOWLER: This project illustrates a scenario where the economy of energy is reversed, from an economy of scarcity, in which we live, to one of abundance. Central to the design is the idea of fusion energy and feeding cities with the power harvested from their own synthetic sun. Spatial and aesthetic representations follow the philosophical theory of economic abundance, in which the individual consumes energy to the point of satiation then proliferates until maximum occupancy is reached.

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Carnegie Mellon University
critic: jennifer GALLAGHER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alex FISCHER: The Frick Park Environmental Center began with the idea that environmental centers should be a fun and engaging place for kids and should stand out as a sustainable building. This is a place for children to come learn about their local park and some broader sustainable living ideas. The architecture is meant to provide an exciting learning environment while reinforcing good sustainable practices.

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