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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

david VUONG, yuna KUBOTA, ivan RODRIQUEZ, & sheena OLIMPO: This studio was intended to investigate a composite wall system of focused material and fabrication process through formulation of a half scale mockup. As a group of four, we explored an intelligent concrete wall system of horizontal draping fabric forming method. The concrete panels were designed to maximize the unique characteristics of the fabric form concrete, which included flexibility and softness of fabric opposing to the permanence and hardness of concrete, varieties in the elasticity and permeability of different fabric types, and reusability of formwork.

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UCLA AUD
Instructors: jesse REISER & jason PAYNE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
wael BATAL, anne SCHNEIDER, & adrian YIM: Emergency response shelters are typically designed for maximum usability, quick set-up time and issues of economy. This project seeks to reevaluate the terms of design for the emergency tent in order to promote vitality, optimism and comfort.

The tent’s form is propelled by two parallel objectives; the first is to challenge the relationship between object, ground and the horizontal datum that is typically struck in between. The second objective is to fit a wrinkled surface to the resulting body.

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UCLA
critic: greg LYNN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

james DIEWALD & matt GOLDSBERRY: Window Shopping Across the Void features three hundred thousand square feet of showrooms for fashion furniture and fine art in downtown Los Angeles. Contemporary media culture’s capacity to distract, captivate and capture large audiences is largely unrivalled by architecture. This is particularly the case in Los Angeles. Our project speculates on the spatial innovation made possible when the potentials of media experience motivate physical organization.

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UCLA
critic: georgina HULJICH

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jessica DOVLETIAN & wenny HSU: Manifold Masses: Kaohsiung Port Terminal, Taiwan. This project investigates formal internal orders of architecture, specifically saddle polyhedral and their potential for generating intensive massing and figural interstices. We were interested in a rigorous and playful examination of these systems and their capacity to generate new forms and spatial expressions that are themselves embedded within a deep underlying order.

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UCLA
critic: greg LYNN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

harlen MILLER & sontaya BLUANGTOOK: The Vault at Beverly Hills redefines the fine art and jewelry retail experience by merging commercial display and architectural form. The Vault acts as a display window and vertical plinth that emerges from the ground rather than the facade. Merchandise displays are oriented both towards the street as well as to the interior of the department store. The retail window display no long becomes a static plane, but an activated three dimensional construct.

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

sofia BORGES / danika VOORHEES: Ghostly Illumination enhances the sensory potentials of the Orthodox church through the strategic alignment of spatial boundaries. Through a series of pulls and pinches, spaces that once maintained rigid edge conditions begin to erode. This spatial erosion provides for a more dynamic and engaged experience for the user as sight lines collapse and extend and programmatic hierarchy dissolves, allowing for wider range of opportunities to intermingle between the priests and their patrons.

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

francesco VALENTE-GORJUP: “Sometimes the structure of a building is designed to reinforce another idea. In these cases the structure is not the element that generates the building’s form. The structure assumes a secondary, supporting role. For aesthetic or formal reasons it may even assume so much of a minor role that it may be for all intents and purposes invisible, inessential to the architectural experience, i.e., pure background. Alternatively, an idea about the structure may be what generates the design, where the building’s structure and form are one in the same. The structure may even function as a didactic tool that is omnipresent at all levels, conditioning multiple scales of the architectural experience. In this case, structure is all foreground” (Jeffrey Inaba).

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

aleris RODGERS+francesco VALENTE-GORJUP: The Culver City Innovation Center caters to budding designers and inventors, providing them with work and display space, as well as the services necessary for them to conceive, design, fabricate, and market their inventions on site. In order to make the workshops as accessible as possible to the studios, we stacked the shops vertically in a central core and wrapped the studios around them. The glazed shops are interconnected both internally via private circulation and externally by a more public atrium, meant to increase awareness of activities taking place in other levels of the shop core.

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sofia BORGES/fallon JAMES/jei jeeyea KIM: Literally Twisted Library applies a single continuous surface logic interspersed with moments of articulated disruption, creating varied experiences for the user based on programmatic function.

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roland SNOOKS
April 21 7.00pm / Perloff Hall
UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095