london UNITED KINGDOM

AA Visting School Jordan 2013
director: Riyad JOUCKA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

AAVS Jordan 2013 (Riyad JOUCKA, director): AA Visiting School Jordan 2013 was an intensive research program dedicated to the mimicry of natural formations evident in desert ecologies.

[MORE]

los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc, MArch 2 Thesis

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ta (david) YU: The forming of the urban context is based on the existing territory, something that changes slowly, and human activities, which are changing all the time. Due to the non-stop pace of human activities, the urban context remains in a cycle of perpetual negotiation. Like organic tissue, the city is always in a state of growth, decay, and rebirth.

[MORE]

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.

[MORE]