los angeles CALIFORNIA

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

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Steve MOODY: An attempt at increasing density and improving access for pedestrian, bicycle and mass transit in Los Angeles via architectural intervention, “LAND” uses logics of aggregation to create piles of units that adapt to different uses, circulation, and scales. The primary form of the aggregation is in leaning piles that create an over/under condition—terraced units create private outdoor space for residences and pedestrian circulation on top, while roads, mass transit, parking and other service spaces are placed underneath.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA & new york NEW YORK

SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI)
critics: Peter ZELLNER & Alfonso MEDINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Duygun INAL: Cities have never been singular entities as they do have molecular compositions based on interactions in between diverse & active constellations that unite to co-habit the city. Looking at the urban pattern of LA, the project takes on the idea of map figurations and a different position towards densifying Los Angeles. Rather than ideal & existing forms with closed shapes, rigid boundaries and defined figures, the basic building blocks have irregular shapes with maximized porosity within the field.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: Ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sofia XANTHAKOU, Greg LeMAIRE, & Dimitris MOUSTROUFIS: The project is an overall premise concerning an intervention into the conventional city fabric and the repeal of commonly acknowledged truths about urbanism. Arguably ideas about flow, ownership and occupation are the most closely guarded and regulated within a community and therefore are the most in need of confrontation. By imposing adverse conditions and forms on rigid expectations we hope to create a dialogue about an alternative to accepted norms.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Adam VUKMANOV: Slavija square, Belgrade (Serbia)—competition entry.

According to the analysis done by local advert companies, there are around 1.2 million people circulating every day through Slavija Square and its roundabout. Public transport which includes buses, trolleybuses and trams is overlapped with dens traffic and the current situation, although positively dynamic, is creating a cataclysmic and rough space where pedestrians do not feel safe.

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innsbruck AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

[uto] ursula FRICK & thomas GRABNER: Our modern times are unimaginable without planning. The growth of settlements and cities is so tempestuous that a slow process of adaptation is no longer possible. This, therefore, poses the question, whether by means of more adaptable planning theories, processes can be promoted or simulated which, seen as a whole, are “more natural”—Frei Otto (1)
This work examines the thesis of Otto regarding the future direction of urban planning theory through the lens of parametric urbanism. The urban theory proposed translates the type of generating principles of the natural systems and unplanned settlements invoked by Otto, into a means of developing new forms of emergent urbanism.

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