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critic: Neil DENARI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Nawid PIRACHA: Sometime in the near future, the high-rise tower will no longer be seen as an expression of corporate wealth or singularity. Current projections indicate a migration from suburban and rural to urban environments.
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critic: Neil DENARI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jeisler SALUNGA: House 1-2-3-4 primarily focuses on sequencing program and framing them in elevation. The house utilizes the pitched roofs to give each house a clear formal identity and elicit a sense of domesticity and vernacular.
architecture, case study houses, house, Jeisler SALUNGA, neil DENARI, UCLA, University of California Los Angeles
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UCLA
critic: Neil DENARI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Amanda SHIN: Staycation is an all inclusive micro-unit housing tower that makes coming home feel like a vacation. Complete with bars, shopping, water parks, and sun-drenched outdoor lounges, it is a vertical complex that encourages recreation and relaxation.
Amanda SHIN, housing, neil DENARI, UCLA, University of California Los Angeles
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UCLA SUPRASTUDIO
critics: Julia KOERNER & Guvenc OZEL.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Xueqi BAI, CHEN Danfeng, Joseph SARAFIAN, Matt WHITHAM, Hun-Tao YU, & Xianshuang ZENG: Exploring the relationship between the component, the object, and the aggregation, this series of transformations begins with a cuboctahedron and subdivides it internally and externally. The interior geometry is severed into four pieces that can be assembled in various configurations while the exterior is transformed with a series of recursive subdivisions.
architecture, CHEN Danfeng, geometry, guvenc OZEL, Hun-Tao YU, Joseph SARAFIAN, julia KOERNER, Matt WHITHAM, SUPRASTUDIO, UCLA, UCLA A.UD, Xianshuang ZENG, Xueqi BAI
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UCLA SUPRASTUDIO
critics: Greg LYNN & Julia KOERNER.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ismael SOTO: This project implements a subtractive design process complemented by a resulting flying object at play in the monolithic mass of a hotel tower.
greg LYNN, julia KOERNER, monolithic, SUPRASTUDIO, UCLA, UCLA A.UD
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UCLA’s Kivi Sotamaa and his Spring 2013 Technology Seminar students set out to focuses on design as a method for exploring new applications and business potentials of Additive Manufacturing Technologies, and nanoscopically structured fibrous cellulose.
digital fabrication, fabrication, kivi SOTAMAA, prototype, rapid prototyping, UCLA, UCLA A.UD
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UCLA A.UD
critics: Guvenc OZEL with Casey REAS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Refik ANADOL, Raman MUSTAFA, Julietta GIL, & Farzad MIRSHAFIEI: As a part of UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) advanced design studio course “Architectural Intelligence: Exploring Space as an Interactive Medium,” researchers Refik Anadol, Raman Mustafa, Julietta Gil and Farzad Mirshafiei created The Aether Project.
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UCLA A.UD
critic: Niall McLAUGHLIN.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Kaveh ARBAB: The aim of this project was to explore and push understandings of my design process—specifically, the relationship between drawing and physical modeling.
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Jason PAYNE speaks on his recent studios and seminars at UCLA A.UD; history, precedent, and “contamination”; the “affect” project and the return to formalism; and much more.
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* image courtesy the author. “Space Oddities: or, Variations on the Disco Ball,” Technology Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Assistant Professor Jason PAYNE, instructor.
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Technology Seminar, Spring 2013
“ADD OPPORTUNITY: Additive Manufacturing & New Business Models”
critic: Kivi SOTAMAA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Nicholas SOLAKIAN, Derek BUELL, & Peter NGUYEN: International Aid organizations ship billions of dollars of aid and relief supplies to people in need around the world. One such organizations is Direct Relief International, based out of Santa Barbara, CA. Our research looks at the possible demand for 3-D printed, on-demand products in such disaster zones.
