los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

sontaya BLUANGTOOK + harlen MILLER: The Kaohsiung Port Terminal attempts to create a socially communicative atmosphere by re-envisioning typical programmatic organizations. With any major public transportation facility comes the responsibility of creating large public venues while securing portions of the building for security concerns. The interior/exterior boundary generally signifies the divide between passengers and visitors, however in this proposal the exterior becomes an internalized void allowing visual interaction between different programmatic elements.

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new york NEW YORK

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mark GAGE/ marc BAILLY: During July, August and September of this year, Gage / Clemenceau Architects is collaborating on the design and production of a temporary installation with Nicola Formichetti, Fashion Director for Lady Gaga, Creative Director for Mugler as well as fashion stylist to Uniqlo, MAC and V Magazine. This collaboration is intended to produce an installation that experimentally fuses ideas from both fashion and architecture into a new type of physical environment, accessible to the general public, for a two week period coinciding with Fashion Week in New York City, in September 2011.

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busan KOREA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

marc FORNES / volkan ALKANOGLU: CONCEPT | The design of the Opera House is based on an integrated process that allows for a wide range of solutions and strategies to solve many challenges simultaneously. Interrelated to these design building issues are approaches on landscape integration, sustainability, environmental strategies, plant efficiency and economic viability of the building form. By recognizing and exploiting these multi-layers of interactions, the building design will advance to the status of a global landmark representing Busan and South Korea worldwide.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

nathan SMITH: A city is a variegated set of cultural influences. It stems from an initial condition (host) and is transformed and mutilated by parasitic operatives that work in differing speeds, locales, powers, and times. In order to further postulate the effects that culture has on architecture and the spatial realm, I created a false scenario and employed the rules of a custom game to postulate such possibilities. This was created through a series of grasshopper scripts that worked along with the script of the game which was then played a multitude of times to study urban growth. This is one example of a particular game.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

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Pratt Institute
critics: michael CHEN & jason LEE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

carla LORES + michael YARINSKY: New York City’s Watershed is a site in crisis. Not only is there a larger demand for water due to the growth of the population, but due to further suburban development in upland areas, water catchment sites are not as hygienic as once thought. Within the Croton Watershed lies Carmel. This suburban town in Putnam County has large basins for water catchment integrated into a developed suburban community. The distributed system currently in place for the dispersal of sewage, though, has a very high risk of contaminating the watershed.

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orleans FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

marc FORNES / THEVERYMANYTM ©2011: nonLin/Lin Pavilion – is a prototype which engages in a series of architectural experiments referred to as text based morphologies. Beyond its visual perception of sculptural and formal qualities, the prototypes are built forms developed through custom computational protocols. The parameters of these protocols are based on form finding (surface relaxation), form description (composition of developable linear elements), information modeling (re-assembly data), generational hierarchy (distributed networks), and digital fabrication (logistic of production).

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college station TEXAS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

atelier MANFERDINI: This installation focuses on the relationship between scripting and fabrication in architecture. The wall has been designed following general rules of planar tessellation and aggregation. “tessella” is a small piece of glass used to make mosaics. The design of the components was obtained by running a script that blended two primitive figures along an axial plane of the installation with no overlaps and no gaps. A basic dia-grid anchored the size and the rhythm of each cell. The initial script was not based on the logic of the Penrose algorithm, which relies on 2 modules to tile the entire plane. Instead the script was engineered to follow a linear deformation of one cell into another. Therefore each component is perfectly interlocking with each other into the grid but also is different from the surrounding ones.

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new york NEW YORK

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Ever -After, a solo exhibition of new work by Nick Cave. Cave will present a group of ‘Soundsuits.’ This sculptural form based on the scale of the artist’s body is at the core of Cave’s practice. It camouflages the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender, and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment. However, Ever-After marks a noticeable shift in his approach. The ‘Soundsuits’ will interact within subtly narrative tableaux. These figurative landscapes connect the viewer to a social consciousness, summoning the echoes and voices which Cave believes have been paralyzed to silence and subjected to unfair altercations in an often hostile society.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

stephan SOBL: The Diploma is about the interplay of vast opaque surfaces with poché and lightweight, fragile structure. The environments developed by these distinct architectural languages are exploited and distributed vertically to create extreme spatial sequences. The project is a casino resort akin to Las Vegas, located on a dramatic site between the Hoover Dam and the Bypass Bridge. The resort caters to various 21st century vices such as: entertainment (concert venues, MMA Fighting), gambling and luxury living.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

adam VUKMANOV + julia KOERNER: Morphology of Biodivers[c]ity is a research project that studies form and structure in natural and biological environment of California. It was generated through 6 months residency program and scholarship at MAK Center, Los Angeles. The exhibition, held in the new gallery at Mackey apartments (design and built by Rudolph Schindler in 1939), was design as a multimedia set of results showing the morphologies of diverse natural and organic phenomenons as well as the man-made environment.

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