troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures: Post-professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
critics: Chris PERRY, Andrew SAUNDERS, & Fleet HOWER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tanzil Idmam SHAFIQUE: Lagoonous Assmblage can be described as a vision for Los Angeles that goes against the trend of overlooking topographical and climatic realities of the city and postulates a radical restructuring of the city’s morphological and topological armature.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association

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Tianyi CHEN, Vineeth Thappalli KANNOTH, Haocheng YANG, & Lei YANG: This thesis rethinks high-density urban housing typology through the removal of lifts, cores, and corridor circulation and by the employment of an exterior, decentralized lift system.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
tutors: Daniel WIDRIG & Fulvio WIRZ.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Pegah JALALY, Fatemeh KHATAMI, Gopal P. SANKARANARAYANAN, & Anamaria SPULBER: Space is considered as the precious commodity in an urban environment. . . .

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
advisors: Michael CHEN & Jason LEE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Melissa BALCAZAR & Amir KARIMPOUR: “Intermodal Urbanism” is a proposal for Hunts Point, Bronx, NY.

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures Post-Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
design critics: Chris PERRY & Andrew SAUNDERS with Fleet HOWER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Huanyu GUO, Bhawya JOSHI, & Sisi QIAN: Sea Garden City mixes urban fabric with a variety of landscape elements, including agricultural belts and salt-water filtration ponds, in the production of a self-contained, self-supporting city on the sea.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Technically, chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of change. — Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in Breaking Bad

While ever more sophisticated digital techniques have become the norm in many advanced design-research studios, the application of the digital in urban design is still somewhat untested ground. “Parametric” concepts, of course, have been postulated in large correlative networks, where all things matter to all other things and where behavioral input is both traceable from and dependent on this abstract and invisible scaffold.

*image: Daniela MERCADO. Material studies investigating synthetic landscaping and geo-forming. Pratt Institute GAUD. Ferda KOLATAN, instructor.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Satoru SUGIHARA speaks on agent-based design, consumption and development of scripted tools, emergence, and much more.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Peter ZELLNER discusses SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Differential Urbanism, computational design, and much more.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Fall 2012
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Joel KERNER: Our cities have traded good congestion, that being pedestrian movement and necessitated interaction, for a congestion of automobiles and transit. Our architecture—and ultimately our urban space—is increasingly getting out of scale as we trade traditional planning and hierarchy for Bigness and isolation. Our once great urban space has slowly been replaced by lifeless infrastructure that separates pedestrians from their destinations.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Fall 2012
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jinming FENG: The project challenge the conventional urban design approaches, and specifically focuses on the traversal rationality between urban figure, field, ground, and network. The design scrutinizes several new and topical urban design approaches that blur figure-field relations via mathematically and digitally driven techniques.

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