los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

LADG: Snail Pavilion is a competition entry for the Ceramic Tiles of Italy trade show pavilion. The purpose of the pavilion is for the trade association to represent its member companies’ products at a series of shows over a three-year term. Instead of selecting just a few sample products to feature, the scheme uses hundreds of tiles from Ceramic Tiles of Italy member companies to create giant snails that bristle with the range and depth of Italian ceramic products. In this way the pavilion is more like a library with tiles stacked on shelves than it is a surface against which tiles are set in a rigid grout bed. Visitors can literally occupy the entire history and product catalog of the member companies, arrayed as plumage that alternately bristles or lays flat in cowlick whorls.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

farooq KHAYYAT: This project is designed in a graduate design studio at the Academy of Art University. Using parametric manipulation processes, the focus of this project is to generate a form catalog of different morphing forms to be used as a tectonic reference to inform the architecture of the project. The final result is achieved by analyzing these forms and borrowing elements that best represent different needs of the program. By combining certain formal qualities, it shapes a synthesized form that connects the building with its surrounding and hybridizes its program elements. The building features an exhibition for Smart cars, hotel and gym in an attempt to reactivate mid-Market Street in San Francisco and draw a diverse crowd into the project.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jonathan WIMMEL: The idea is for an urban experiment scaled to the boundaries of a dynamic site and encompassing all components of a city. This experiment is proposed to imagine and self-manufacture the phenomena of the urban ecology in its own context. Catalyzed by engaging the participant through a reciprocal evolution of the social and tectonic aspects of architecture—the hypothesis of the experiment is imagined to allow for the reinvention of space through social interaction, on multiple scales of production.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kathryn McKENZIE & sarah PAPADOPOULLOS: The scenario describes a situation of remote, dangerous and extreme Austarlian bush living: survival and sustainability in a remote location requires new innovations in biological and robotic mechanical systems. These systems are developed in direct response to the found substances and characteristics of the site itself.

The parasitic mechanism is proposed to continuously seek and harvest substances from the surrounding native trees – Banksia Serrata- in order to survive and continue a physical growth.

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athens GREECE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

christos KOUKIS: Created entirely from the cell and the organ, these proto-typological and proto-spatial units can combine, mutate and multiply themselves in order to produce many different spatial qualities and form a housing unit. The different experimental stages—breeding—contribute to the discovering of a connection mechanism that is the base for future mutation.

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baton rouge LOUISIANA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Trahan Architects: The Baton Rouge River Center, formerly called the Riverside Centroplex is comprised of five main facilities: the Arena, the Exhibition Hall, the Ballroom, Theater for Performing Arts and the River Center Library. Designed by John Desmond, the Riverside Centroplex was conceived as a chain of buildings that would create a framework around the Old State Capitol. These buildings share a similar aesthetic that is both simple and stark, allowing one to appreciate the significance of the Old State Capitol. With closest proximity, the existing River Center Library frames the Old State Capitol with its interior atrium. Built in the 1970’s, the library carries with it many of that era’s unfavorable traits in it design, particularly an introverted monumentality that fails to effectively connect to the urban context.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Critic: jennifer BONNER, Woodbury University

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

henry CHEUNG: Machinic Veils is a machinic laboratory that assimilates into the “naturally-artificial” landscape of Owens Lake through the anticipation of the physical forces of its geographical location, toxic emissivity of dust, and the salt inundated landscape. These physical forces are simultaneously amplified, controlled, and directed through a series of six veils – ranging in function, porosity, and translucency.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

fernando HERRERA: The ambition of the studio was to apply ritualistic/religious procedures on the existing Our Lady of Los Angeles church. This particular project is an unraveling of the typical Catholic church organization alluding to the church’s roots in first century in catacombs. Being that the church was defined by community and not rituals the reformation of large spaces to smaller hubs was the central formal theme.

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san francisco CALFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

surasuk PATTANAPANITCHAKUL: This project intends to illustrate the synthesis between nature, urban and architecture, which supports and collaborate to each other, showing the soul of interconnection which increasingly synthesize with the space, in order to show how architecture can act as an instrument.Traditionally, music defined as aural element expressed through time. architecture as instrument explores the idea of music as defined by visual expressed through time, specificially shadows cast as the sun traverse the sky visual representation of temporal experience—the cycle of the day. Structure as instrument explores the idea that the structure itself is an orchestra and the ever-changing and continual shadows that fall across it and beside it are music experience by users.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Join the Tarp staff to celebrate the release of tarp: Not Nature this Friday at Metropolitan Exchange.

Tarp: Not Nature
Friday, 05/04
7.00-10.00 pm / Metropolitan Exchange
33 Flatbush Avenue, 6th Floor
Brooklyn, NEW YORK 11217