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louisville KENTUCKY
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louisville KENTUCKY
We’re happy to announce the finalists of the Exhibition Competition! The three finalists which each have a portion of their project prototypes by PR&vD. There are also 6 projects that received votes from the jury so they will be in the exhibition as the “jury selection.” We’d like to thank PR&vD and LoT for partnering up in this exciting project and to thank our fantastic jury — Greg Lynn, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Michael Speaks, Aaron Betsky, Tom Wiscombe, and Mark Gage. The projects are posted here with some of the jury comments.
finalists ///
ivan BERNAL; ji-young YOON; and donovan BALLANTYNE
jury selection ///
paul MECOMBER; christopher SAVANELLI & ivan OSTAPENKO; carla LORES + michael YARINSKY; jon BAILEY; jessica DOVLETIAN & wenny HSU; and mengyi FAN & joseph JUSTUS
chicago ILLINOIS
[JURY SELECTION]
University of Illinois at Chicago
critic: sean LALLY
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
christopher SAVANELLI & ivan OSTAPENKO: As metropolitan economies outgrow their bases in industrial manufacturing and trade into global markets for cultural production and consumption, large tracts of now disused land are being redeveloped to serve contemporary cultural institutions.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
[EXHIBITION FINALIST]
SCI-Arc
critic: hernan diaz ALONSO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project
ivan BERNAL: Familiar Primitives. This thesis uses familiar primitives and operations among them to generate complex spatial systems that retain a high level of formal legibility and clarity. Throughout history primitives have been used as an expression of monumentality, religiousness or even utopian dreams. They carry an intrinsic value and formal expectancy that can be used to capture its users. Since childhood we have been playing with this basic shapes creating a predisposition to them, we have experienced them, and we know what to expect.
new haven CONNECTICUT
[EXHIBITION FINALIST]
Yale University SOA
critic: greg LYNN & brennan BUCK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
ji-young YOON: This is an advanced studio project from Yale School of Architecture. The goal of this project was to explore the hypostyle hall as a new typology for high speed rail stations capable of connecting the space of the station to the existing city fabric. The site for this project was Los Angeles, California.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
[EXHIBITION FINALIST]
SCI-Arc
critic: elena MANFERDINI
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
donovan BALLANTYNE: By amplifying the tessellation and porosity of the geodesic dome I am giving the geodesic dome a face-lift.
This thesis looks to misconstrue the face of the geodesic dome by amplifying its unintentional, yet inherent esthetic, and monumental qualities. I am proposing to bring depth and discontinuity to a typology that has been about continuity and surface. A face with no ears, no eyes, and no nose is not a face. Similarly, a building with no face is not architecture.
new york NEW YORK
[JURY SELECTION]
Columbia University GSAPP
critic: francois ROCHE with ezio BLASETTI
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
mengyi FAN & joseph JUSTUS: The scenario describes a structure that grew out from the ocean—facing a progressive rising of water as its colonizers struggle to maintain an equilibrium. It is forever undergoing constant repair as it struggles to stay afloat—supported only by a system of mechanic agents who supply it with the necessary substances and means to create inhabitable grottoes. Without this ongoing system, the structure would easily collapse, returning back to the depths of the ocean from which it has once risen.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
[JURY SELECTION]
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.
ann arbor MICHIGAN
[JURY SELECTION]
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
critic: jason YOUNG, perry KULPER, thomas MORAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
jon BAILEY: Increasing infatuations with technology and biology have created a society of biophilia and technophilia, where these ideaologies have seeped into nearly every facet of human existence. With architecture dependently bound to the technologies of human creation, as we are able to manipulate biological matter at the unit of the molecule, simulate complex biological systems and synthesize DNA our habitat shall too become more bionic.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
[JURY SELECTION]
SCI-Arc
critic: andrew ZAGO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
paul MECOMBER: The Whitney Museum, by architect Marcel Breuer, is an iconic cultural artifact of New York City, and serves as the identity of the institution of the museum itself. This identity has been thrown into a state of turmoil as a result of plans to relocate from Madison Avenue to the southern terminal end of the Highline Park. Seeing this as an opportunity, this project seeks to re-imagine the problems associated with iconic identity in museum design by twining Breuer’s Whitney on the new Highline site.
