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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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vienna AUSTRIA

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention – $100

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

luis daniel pozo TORRES: By giving to project the right orientation, and developing the surfaces in a way that the most gets exposed to the solar irradiation, both light and solar energy are being collected . The perforations of the floors are oriented so that the light can penetrate the interior minimizing the use of electric energy during the day. Meanwhile the outer skin works as a translucent shell that maintains during the entire year an interior climate conditions proper for farming.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention – $100

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jorge E. MUTIS : Recently the concept of urban farming has gained a well deserved amount of popularity. While consciousness is no longer an obstacle, the reality is that city centers are not designed to accommodate such ideals. This proposal investigates the potential of using inflatable structures to begin to occupy places we couldn’t before. The idea was to research the possibility of lunching theme up into the sky. Instead of using air as their structural material, helium would enable these structures to lift and float above the ground.

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registration begins 7.21.11

submissions due 12.19.11

awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH

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