hong kong CHINA

Tutors: cho chung MAN, wang YANG, & ben DAI.
Students: Hu Zulong, Yu Xiaotong, Du Xiaohui, Xu Hao, Dai Sen, Zhao Bing, Mu Li, Liu Yu, Zhai Bingbo, Liang Yuan, Li Xinyao, Zhang Bowei, Liang Xianliang, Wang Xiang, Wang Yingzi, Zheng Chunyang, Luo Kejun, Zhu Hui, Xie Xincong, Yang Sen, Liang Meijun, Liu Shenglan, Hu Yande.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
cho chung MAN, wang YANG, & ben DAI: Paper as parameter. Paper is a “flexible material”—the ease to fold, cut, twist, and mass fabricate give paper an “immateriality” and “digital” property next to the flexibility in computational forms.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

rob LEY (of URBANA): Draper is permanent installation for the Visual Arts Department building at Florida State University.

Composed of hundreds of unique stainless steel strips, this project is an experiment in how mass and gravity, along with an experimental force-feedback fabrication technique can create a carefully tuned lattice structure. At 75′ in height, the project passes through 5 separate floors and sub-departments of a visual arts school, offering each level a unique view of the project.

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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.

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beijing CHINA

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xin WANG + christoph KLEMMT (ORPROJECT):

1. ANISOTROPIA: Anisotropia is based on Klavierstück I, a composition for piano by Orproject director Christoph Klemmt. The piano piece uses a twelve tone row which is repeated and altered by the different voices, in order to create complex rhythmic patterns.
Anisotropia becomes the physical manifestation of Klavierstück I, a frozen piece of music.

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silivri TURKEY

This project was built as part of the student event MEDS, Meeting of European Design Students, during a two week period in August 2011. The theme was to design a pavilion that relates to the connection between Europe and Asia.

The interior of the Blue Mosque represents the starting point for the concept. The ellipse of light is the geometry that inspired the project. In order to determine the interior space of the pavilion, an ellipse is used to generate a fluid organic shape which eventually has to adapt to the constraints of the diagonals of the box.

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zurich SWITZERLAND

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

GRAMAZIO & KOHLER: Flight Assembled Architecture is the first installation to be built by flying machines. Conceived as an architectural structure at a scale of a 600m high “vertical village”, the installation addresses radical new ways of thinking and materializing architecture as a physical process of dynamic formation. Here, a multitude of mobile agents working in parallel and acting together as scalable production means. Those are programmed to interact, lift, transport and assemble small modules in order to erect a building structure that synthesizes a rigorous architectural approach and a visionary autonomous system design.

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rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS

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dimitrie STEFANESCU, patrick BEDARF, bogdan HAMBASAN: The project started out as an ambitious student-powered endeavor to design and fabricate at a 1:1 scale the flagship pavilion for the ZA11 Speaking Architecture event in Cluj, Romania. While at the same time integrating into its historically-charged context, the design boasts a strong representational power which was much needed in order to fulfill its main goal: attracting passers-by to the event. The object tries to make legible the new ontology which is slowly defined by computational architecture and is a showcase for the processes empowered by it. At the same time, the pavilion offers a sheltered space for the unfolding of different social events pertaining to the corresponding architecture festival.

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seoul SOUTH KOREA

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Y Design Office + Hacker Space Seoul: ‘BLOP’ is an interactive installation piece with strings hanging high and low near the ceiling of the venue, holding together a meshwork of balloons. Each of the silver balloons holds a LED module, which will light up when vibration from outside is detected. The ‘BLOP’ bobs over the heads of the partiers, blinking lights of different colors and bringing out the child in everyone in its bounce, character and mystic appearance.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

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PEG office of landscape + architecture (Karen M’Closkey + Keith VanDerSys): This project explores the efficacy of customized substrates to develop alternatives to conventional on-site stormwater collection. Utilizing digital modeling and computer-controlled fabrication, we were testing whether or not manipulating geo-cells (three dimensional in-grade structures filled with gravel, soil or plants) can produce innovative infiltration features that combine their functional requirements with a visibly expressive surface that can add color, pattern and texture to vacant sites.

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bryan TEXAS

The installation discusses issues of intimacy and self-contemplation, combining different sensations in a “blue mood” by combining two different sensibilities.

‘Black Narcissus’ highlights the importance of encompassing all methods of fabrication; digital and analog in terms of technology, management efficiency and time towards the production the project. The piece is constituted of 1,000 pieces including the 644 pieces of CNC routed syntra, 50 large flowers with jewel like crowns and 100 small flowers. The idea was to produce a structure that combines a parametrically designed large form ornamented and gardened with nonparametric flowers. Through this gardening process of aggregation, the flowers produce a sensation of excess in a garden of delight.

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