saint louis MISSOURI
Fall 2011 digital fabrication studio. Students in order by last name: Zephyr Anthony, Andrew Davis, Kyle Fant, Xiaoshuang Hu, Allyson Justmann, Andrew McCready, Kelly Peoples, Xiaofei Ren, Bo Sheng, Jody Smith, Ben Stephenson, Tommy Watkins, Duo Yu.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
SALTWORKS: The installation requirements were the piece had to be designed on a bio-mimetic principal using parametric modelling, and the end result should be kinetic.
chicago ILLINOIS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
stephen COORLAS & dominic PETERNEL: For this installation we were challenged by the gallery curator to exhibit “architecture” in an experimental fashion. Our response was to design an intensive experience that would locate the viewer in the convoluted realm of graphic, product, and architectural design.
chicago ILLINOIS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
jimenez LAI: The White Elephant is roughly 10’x10’x10’. It has three basic premises:
A building inside a building, somewhere between a super-furniture and a small house.
An object that tumbles to attain multiple orientations to blur the qualification plans and sections.
An object that is hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
What is a building that can tumble freely without gravity or fixed orientations, hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and obstructs the continuity of interior spaces like an elephant in a room? This installation is a freestanding micro building / macro furniture that questions projection, inside/outside, rigidity/fluidity and size/scale.
brooklyn NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
shane NEUFELD & kevin KUNSTADT: When asked to propose a sculptural installation for the summer show in Jeff Bailey’s New York City gallery space, we wanted to invoke a narrative that would live up to the exhibition’s suggestive title, It’s Hot Inside. Drawing on some of the themes from our past projects, we designed and produced a one-of-a-kind loveseat consisting of five distinct heart-shaped components that billow up from the floor and kiss along their respective edges to form a single contiguous surface for summer loving. The seat’s voluptuous contours also provide for a dynamic spatial experience of the gallery: they frame the two dimensional work that is on the gallery walls while also giving visitors the option of viewing the work from a relaxed (seated) position.
san francisco CALIFORNIA
IwamotoScott designed, directed fabrication for, and assembled this hybrid bookcase/screenwall that acts as edge and interface between their own office and the larger offices and headquarters of creative agency, Obscura Digital (also designed by IwamotoScott and completed in 2010). The wall is made from 186 laser-cut white powder-coated five-sided folded sheet metal modules. The modules are suspended from 32 laser-cut light gray powder-coated sheet metal vertical ribs that are anchored to the floor at the bottom, and mounted with beam clamps to a structural wide flange beam at the top.
london UNITED KINGDOM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
pablo ZAMORANO, nacho MARTÍ & jacob BEK: This is an exploration through a material system that becomes form, function, and support for contextual relationships. The game is ruled by two operations, cuts and expansion. These operations perform several form finding processes, as an expandable surface system.
cambridge MASSACHUSETTS
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
skylar TIBBITS: Single-Strand Structures are a series of prototypes looking at constructing structures from single chain of tent poles. Tent poles provide a cheap and quick assembly kit for constructing complex geometry with universal joints. These prototypes follow in a line of research on programmable matter and deconstructing complex geometry into single strand sequences of fold instructions, much like our Ribosome’s decoding of RNA into fold sequences of complex proteins.
austin TEXAS
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
igor SIDDIQUI: Calystegia is a part of an ongoing series of working prototypes, titled Florals, that investigate the behaviors of component-based soft structures under the influence of gravity, time, and chance.
london UNITED KINGDOM
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
sean william MCGUIRE: CThese lighting discs utilize chlorophyll extract from spinach as a biological coloring agent for polyester resin under ultraviolet lighting. A consistent 3 ml extract of chlorophyll is injected into dozens of different sized cells before polymerization, creating a luminous gradient. Without the addition of UV lighting, the disc is transparent.
new haven CONNECTICUT
brennan BUCK: Contemporary interest in the architectural interior can be tied to changes in the way we understand the psychic interior. The popularization of and recent developments in contemporary neuroscience have renewed the importance of subjectivity for architecture. Research by Antonio Damasio, among others, has shown that the presence and emotional state of the body-in-space directly affects cognitive processing. Beyond the cliché of emotions clouding logical thought, ideas have an emotional component that plays a direct role in deduction and decision making. Within architecture, these discoveries suggest a renewed consideration of bodily experience, one that may underlie the recent disciplinary interest in sensation and affect and raise the specter of a return to phenomenology.
Work by: David Bench, Dawood Rouben, Jonathan Reyes, Laura Wagner, Liam Lowry, Margaret Hu, Nancy Putnam, Owen Howlett, Tom Fryer, Vincent Calabro, Zac Heaps, Zhai Shuo
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