boston MASSACHUSETTS
LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
First place — $1200
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:
james LENG: MOON SEED is a speculative proposal that attempts to situate a Lunar Crater Cultural Center along a continuous timeline of human space development. This Lunar development is not the beginning, nor the final goal of humanity’s presence on the moon; it is merely a point-in-time of a perpetual, phased-project to expand human presence extra-terrestrially.
laurel canyon CALIFORNIA
LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
Second Place — $800
Hirsuta Architectural Design and Research
Project Team: jason PAYNE and timothy CALLAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Hirsuta: On The Turning Away: Crater 308
There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.
—Pink Floyd, 1973
new haven CONNECTICUT
LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
Third Place — $300
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:
amy DEDONATO: The Moon can be described as a ‘non-site’—a vacuous, untamed territory lacking limitation (gravity, vertical boundaries, atmosphere, temperature, edges, etc.) The project proposes a lunar city of culture that develops according to predetermined constraints. The outer wall of the urban complex serves as an infrastructural frame, one that maintains the cultural center’s artificial atmosphere, power supply, and transportation hubs. Growth of the cultural center develops inward along the infrastructural frame and its cross supply axes until its internal growth reaches maximum capacity.
london UNITED KINGDOM
LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
dave EDWARDS: The project explores the speculative notion from two directions first speculating on the cultural behaviour of such an enterprise, asking questions like who would like on the moon? What and why would you go there. And how would this change humanities perception on itself. Would living on the moon lead to new forms of spirituality, new social structures or would we export our current ways of being which would be exposed in a completely new context.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
gabriel a. HUERTA: The design of the Lunar Crater Cultural Center (LC3) is based on a vision that the proposed design is not an end product, but the starting point for an ever-evolving building on the lunar surface. By utilizing up and coming fabrication technologies like Counter Crafting, the LC3 would be a conglomeration of “3D printed” components. The technology would not only allow for minor modifications and refurbishment, but could potentially support the emergent expansion of the base building form to accommodate future programmatic needs.
brooklyn NEW YORK
registration begins 12.30.11
submissions due 04.02.12
awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH
new york NEW YORK
NON-STOP: Speed Rail Tower Station
Honorable Mention, Van Alen Institute, “Life at the Speed of Rail Competition.”
The circumference of the mega-city is defined by the amount of travel time acceptable to the daily commuter. Speed rail will connect major city hubs, yet leave vast amounts of space between urban centers, outside of the mega city equation. For this speculative ideas competition NON-STOP proposes a way to link medium and even small urban centers to the speed rail circuit without increasing travel time.
ILLINOIS
CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
First Place – $1200
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
Stewart HICKS, Allison NEWMEYER of DESIGN WITH COMPANY with Joseph ALTSHULER: Fin’s Labyrinth is an architecture and urban strategy that encourages you to play with your food. Both a working fish farm and a new form of public (civic) amenity, this project uses the infrastructure for raising fish as a backdrop to a wide range of activities designed to entertain you while getting you acquainted with your next meal. It reintroduces the production of food into the daily lives of city dwellers, making a more concrete connection between what we put in our mouths and the environment required to generate it.
London, UNITED KINGDOM
CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Second Place – $800
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
Darrick BOROWSKI / Jeroen JANSSEN / Nicoletta POULIMENI : Edible Infrastructures: Seed for A City
We propose a neighborhood to serve as a Center for Urban Farming for Brooklyn and the greater New York City region. This new neighborhood type is organized around edible infrastructures, a systems-based approach to the food production, distribution, consumption and waste cycles.
san luis obispo/pittsburgh
CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Third Place – $300
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
mason HAYES + richman NEUMANN: FarmvilleNYC represents a new way of thinking about community, garden, and the intersection of the two terms in the digital age. FVNYC evolved from a fundamental desire to maximize farming efficiency – faced with the question of “build on the ground or build up”, we answered “build everywhere, by recruiting every New Yorker”.
