new york NEW YORK

SOFTlab: After a month of printing, kickstarting, laser cutting, and binder clipping we are done! CHROMAtex.me will be opening this Thursday night at the bridgegallery. Thanks everyone for your support through kickstarter! It has been a ridiculous amount of work, but also a lot of fun. The people that have volunteered to give a hand have been great. We all can’t wait till Thursday night.

opening thursday august 26 6-8pm
bridge gallery 98 orchard st NY (between broom & delancey)

new york NEW YORK + los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project

brennan BUCK + david FREELAND: Earl’s is an artisanal deli and gourmet market in Los Angeles. For us, it was a test case in how we could use computation less as a fabrication technique than an aesthetic filter to enrich a small space’s everyday use. The restaurant was designed with cutting-edge technology to fit an old-world sensibility inspired by its food. Torquing ceiling surfaces and inscribed digital patterns are combined with a rich material and color palette to evoke both technological refinement and the more rustic feel of alpine landscapes and Viennese cafes.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

zoe COOMBES of Cmmnwlth: Is the provisional name we’ve been using for a cabinet that will be launching in the fall as part of our upcoming ‘Morfina Series’, for MatterMade. We’ve been exploring the effects of gouged solids via soft body collisions, and cloth simulations on a relatively thin surfaces.

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vancouver BRITISH COLUMBIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

kimiis: this installation was designed for the “bright ideas” exhibition by interaxon of toronto, ontario.  Displayed at the ontario house at the vancouver 2010 winter olympics, participants were able to engage in the largest ever thought-controlled computing experience:controlling the lighting of three prominent ontario landmarks – the cn tower, niagara falls, and the parliament buildings in ottawa – using the power of thought.

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

team: arthur AZOULAI, nelly DACIC, jared FRIEDMAN, christopher GALLOT,spencer GREGSON, matthew HUBER, jaclyn PACELEY, puja PATEL, rita, craig ROSMAN, giacomo TINARI, eddie WONG

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

this is the work of undergraduate architecture students in the digital tectonics course at carnegie mellon university, taught by jeremy FICCA and zach ALI.

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new york NEW YORK

softlab presents CHROMAesthesiae
an installation of modular color
opening: 7 p.m., friday, march 19th, 2010 until april 5th, 2010.
location: devotion gallery 54 maujer st, brooklyn, ny, 11206 (l to lorimer/metropolitan)
website: areyoudevoted.com

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atlanta GEORGIA

instructor: jennifer BONNER
georgia tech, college of architecture

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jennifer BONNER: the project is a culmination of 27,000 sheets of recycled paper, four sheets of birch plywood, and the charting of 100 years of student population within the architecture school.

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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project

rives RASH: these are planters made from fly-ash, a byproduct of burning coal. the designs are drawn and built by students from uky-cod (university of kentucky college of design) fad elective (fabrication and design). the goal of the class is to discover a drawing technique and use it to design a product (in this case a planter) and then produce it.

image: carrie WAHL and justin TRIMBLE

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

brian OSBORN: openhouse prototype 2 is an illuminated canopy that fills the upper portion of a private courtyard in the french quarter. the canopy reconfigures itself as it receives input from the seating in the space.   

francis BITONTI: intensities in the ceiling vary and shift with occupancy. people become actuators as they begin to take advantage of the seating; gathering in small groups or sitting in isolation. the behavior of the canopy is driven by social structures and human activity.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH:describe your project.

joe MACDONALD: conceived as a “gravity-free space of creative imagination,” the ge “healthymagination” showcase developed into an experience organized around three “pods” and a central gathering space. urban a&o, thinc design and local projects partnered to design and produce the event. urban a&o developed the sinuous, organic overhead pod structures and their corresponding ramped floors in catia, which allowed them to rapidly generate the extremely complex, flowing forms that became the signature of the project.

(photos: esto)

additional credits: thinc design, local projects

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