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.
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
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.
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
lexington KENTUCKY
performa is an advanced graduate seminar taught at the university of kentucky college of design.
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
performa: this work seeks to create multi-performative material systems utilizing optimization, aggregation and efficiency. simple units and semi-finished materials were physically tested in order to extract potential performative characteristics and limits. these limits were negotiated through rigorous digital and physical techniques in order to produce strategies of fabrication.
new york NEW YORK
press release: theverymany (marc fornes + skylar tibbits + mat staudt), have recently designed and built an installation, echinoids, at bridge gallery nyc, part of the larger show wild child, by peter macapia. echinoids is the fourth in a series of built installations proposing aperiodic packing algorithms that provide a system of self-similar building modules and combine to approximate full scale surfaces.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
skylar TIBBITS: started as a problem solving exploration the surface milling tests began to lead to an eye opening opportunity. we were able to control the 3d surface output as well as detailed, non-uniform, or orthogonal cnc tool paths simply by programming patterns as 2.5 axis curve output. the surfaces were generated based on attractor/repulser codes that manipulate a field of points. tool paths were then generated from the curvature of the surface and undulate independently, responding to the attractor/repulsers.
produced in collaboration with point b design. design team: skylar TIBBITS, brandon KRUSYMAN and jon PROTO.
cairo EGYPT
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
daniel DENDRA: the average speed of a car in a city is around 11km/h – the average speed of a bicycle is around 15km/h. still the trend in many emerging markets is from the bicycle to the car. the result of this trend and the expanding mega cities can be experienced in cairo. a city where a car trip can take 15min or 3 hours for the same distance. a city where it is almost impossible to cross a street. a city that is dominated by car pollution and where the public spaces become not usable anymore for pedestrians. for this reason the new york times entitled cairo as the noisiest city in the world: “it’s so noisy with horn honking and teaming people, as a matter of fact, that it’s like living in a factory.”
chicago ILLINOIS
zaha hadid architects: as part of the burnham plan centennial celebrations, the burnham pavilion by zaha HADID architects triggers the visitors’ curiosity and encourages them to consider the future of chicago. the design merges new formal concepts with the memory of burnham’s bold, historic urban planning. superimpositions of spatial structures with hidden traces of burnham’s plan are overlaid and inscribed within the structure to create unexpected results. “the burnham plan centennial is all about celebrating the bold plans and big dreams of daniel burnham’s visionary plan of chicago. it’s about reinvention and improvement on an urban scale and about welcoming the future with innovative ideas and technologies.
florence ITALY
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
I.M.A.D.E: morpholuminesence is a kinetic ceiling prototype, originally described as a simple surface in rhino. the surface was triangulated into panels or “petals,” laser cut from white acrylic, which hang from stems of clear tubular acrylic with planar elbow joints. the acrylic tubes were laser cut using custom fabricated jigs to create angles and grooves along each piece. the compound joints of each petal were created using unique laser cut acrylic angles and pivoting model airplane hinges. the surface is actuated using monofilament attached to small, high torque servos. the servos are mounted to acrylic towers above the mdf top surface, providing maximum leverage. variable value rgb leds above the petal surface are tuned across the visual spectrum to provide a wide variety of lighting effects.
