los angeles CA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

nick KINNEY: A botanical garden on the verge of collapse, “The Garden” is the result of two different functional agendas.  The contest between architecture and plant life plays out as a drama in this project, wherein the architecture is designed to sift the atmosphere for seed, pollen and the like while the plant matter cares only for resource and propagation.  As the two functions become intertwined, collapse is imminent and part of the architectural life cycle.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alex CORNELIUS: the project explores how we understand the habitation of seemingly uninhabitable territory. the project explores conflicting notions of figure-ground and figure-figure as mechanisms of creating simultaneous ambiguity and specificity of the relationship between the building and groundscape – between interior and exterior. in this sense, the groundplane is strategically and hierarchically thickened with proximity to the building to the point of creating inhabitable space. this decomposition of the boundary, or building edge becomes a means of separation from the hostile environment around. while bunkering, reinforcing, or walling-in/out serve as contemporary responses to protecting oneself from or harnessing hostility (politically, religiously, socially, or otherwise).

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

nick BENNER: the intent of this project was to explore the systematic relationship between growth and consumption. architecture has become obsessed with the idea of one system becoming another, whether it be the single surface floor to ceiling, surface to strand, or continuous ground plane. my interest lies in how systems can contain each other, and even consume each other to produce new conditions. this project explores an armature system and skin system wherein the armature hijacks the skin in order to reproduce itself, the skin in turn splits and regenerates as a result of the growth. the house becomes a cannibal in a constant state of growth and self-consumption.

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london ENGLAND

selfridges x-installation – corner store front_london_nov 2008

proposal for an installation: the scheme was part of a design call under the theme of “explosion”…

xefirotarch
principle: hernan DIAZ ALONSO
project architect: steven MA

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san sebasastina SPAIN

XEFIROTARCH : the logic of the project is not working on the idea of building types, but developing a concept of “species”. create a new dynamic logic that allows the project and the city develop a relationship over the game and joy. the project is not based on an organization of functions but in the generation of sensations through cells that are multiplying producer for the building. the addition also operates as a prosthesis, adding, transforming but not completely replacing, producing a dialogue between history and the past. museums, has been said, are the cathedrals of today, this is a concept that has concerned us since we are convinced that the project is a new icon for the city but also a place where the interior creates an atmosphere that involves the visitor.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

edward KIM: the proposal for city_x is derived from the act of distorting the existing grid plan using logic of growth. the friction, between found condition of the orthogonal grid and the need for its disregard, emerges as the catalyst for the distortion that enables the city to adapt to individualistic desires. instead of relating public space to existing urban infrastructure, existing orthogonal city grid is distorted following the growth of this unconstrained geometry, causing compression and expansion of existing city blocks. the distortion creates series of subtractive voids which provide sites for potential projects and developments.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

stevenMA: this thesis is about style. stylistic individuation is the contemporary meaning of style. this thesis investigates how style emerges in practice at the highest articulation of a coherent combination of forms and aesthetics. it is also the intention of this thesis to evolve new speciation, new style and new aesthetics through the production of liminality.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

edward KIM: we are interested in exploring potential architectural expressions of a contemporary biopolitical malaise. the symptoms are many and don’t point to any single condition or cause, and we’re working with just a few that interest us in particular.

model assembly and photograph by linda VAKHRAMEEVA

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

christophHERMANN: current architectural approaches succeed in conceiving coherent structures through different operations of morphology. through the gradual change of single components space looses the variety of sensations. techniques as growth and evolution offer the advantage of pertaining the legibility of particular areas with their specific characteristics, sensations, and atmospheres within the integrity of the whole.

cross over studio ws07/08
hernan diaz alonso
xefirotarch.com
mutter-museumextension philadelphia

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

peterMITTERER: An extension of an existing building creating new
figure-figure relations and dependencies on various levels of scale.

cross over studio ws07/08
hernan diaz alonso
xefirotarch.com
mutter-museumextension philadelphia

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