los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
wilson WU / nicholas POULOS / michael GROSS: This project was designed by using a linear story line. A House that plays out in 3 acts. In the beginning the couple is together and lives in their first house. The middle the couple separates. Thus the house modifies and adapts to the change. The narrative ends with a natural disaster of an earthquake that cause the house to make one more shift.
guatemala/china
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
frisly COLOP MORALES: As one approaches the new cathedral, an architectural composition merges the borders of the refined and the chaotic. It becomes the first experience for the visitor. This experience continues as a journey through the building interiorities, seeking for the spiritual light. This journey, for the believer and the non-believer, explores the conditions of darkness and infinite sacred light.
vienna AUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
chi wai CHAN: The project examines various notions and typology of a religious building bringing it closer to contemporary requirements and sensibilities. Many feel that Catholicism is just a grandiose relic on the outside without much substance on the inside. This superficiality rather than spirituality becomes the main agent for the explorations.
vienna AUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project:
emre ICDEM: The main idea of the project is to evaluate religion as a mystic power that occurs at the event of horrific. It gathers people, creates social interactions and conversions. In this case the cathedral is designed with the idea of a “religious campus” that serves as a public space. It is mechanical and elegant at the same time with the light effects that change between day and night. The aesthetic agenda creates an atmosphere which tries to answer the question “what is the representation of holy?”
vienna AUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
liu CHIEN SHENG: This is a postgraduate thesis on a cathedral, presenting a new idea of societal multi-function, and the development of sanctity and form. The site is located in St. Stephen’s Cathedral which is the center of economy, culture and traffic in Vienna, Austria.
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
