new york NEW YORK

Columbia University GSAPP
critic: francois ROCHE with ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

mengyi FAN & joseph JUSTUS: The scenario describes a structure that grew out from the ocean—facing a progressive rising of water as its colonizers struggle to maintain an equilibrium. It is forever undergoing constant repair as it struggles to stay afloat—supported only by a system of mechanic agents who supply it with the necessary substances and means to create inhabitable grottoes. Without this ongoing system, the structure would easily collapse, returning back to the depths of the ocean from which it has once risen.

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paris FRANCE

“an architecture of humors” is a research project / exhibition in which the r&sie[n] architectural practice has worked with a group comprised of a mathematician, programmers, architects, and a robotics designer to develop a computational approach based on biological and physiological data scanned from visitors who are put through situations inciting repulsion, stress and pleasure to conceive housing units and urban fragments based on relational protocols.

from january 22 through april 26 2010 at le labotatoire, 4 rue du bouli, 75003 paris

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

qi SU & shenyuan GUO: the contemporary city’s development is nothing but the future designed by predictability and limitation. however, in fact, people have already got tired of the intended purpose mode of space and invariable architectural materials, and they are trying to look forward to new breakthrough. so from this point on, there is no doubt that what contemporary architects did is funny and ridiculous. the complexities of society and technical development have made our urban life “out of control”. people should live in a new world with random growth and great diversity, rather than rigid pre-established planning. thus, in our project, based on adaptive scenario, an open porous and self generating structure is created. the rampant and illusive silks weave an urban future formatted by unpredictability and mystique.

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