novi sad SERBIA

student group a7: project presents both space installation and utilitarian object (part of furniture), designed and carried out with anthropological measures with 5 seating places. concept of sustainable development is consistently implemented throughout all phases of project, from selection of materials for processing, to final construction. cardboard plates are used, thickness 0.5cm, hand made and assembled in layers.these layers form structure which is geometrically shaped looked from outside (part of cube), and amorf inside. cardboard as material is suitable for processing, friendly for touch and renewable (recycling process can be repeated many times).

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new york NEW YORK

spencer FINCH: this work is based on the year 1862, emily dickinson’s annus mirabilis, when she wrote an amazing 366 poems in 365 days. it is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. the sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. the color of each candle matches a color mentioned in the corresponding poem; poems in which no color is mentioned are made out of natural paraffin.

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atlanta GEORGIA

instructor: jennifer BONNER
georgia tech, college of architecture

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jennifer BONNER: the project is a culmination of 27,000 sheets of recycled paper, four sheets of birch plywood, and the charting of 100 years of student population within the architecture school.

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new york NEW YORK

layers of paper build up in charles CLARY’S compositions to appear as mutant rose windows hiding behind gallery walls. the color gradient created by the changing shades within the stacks amplifies their depth and gives the clusters a pop as they replicate and spread across the room.

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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

brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

lonn COMBS + rona EASTON: the story of the rise of stained glass use in religious gothic architecture served as an important analogy for our design approach. we were intrigued by the idea that stained glass was a material technology which was much older when it was first experimented with as a window material. it was the desire to extend the idea of painterly narrative across the window portal that lead to a breakthrough in it’s use and widespread subsequent adaptation in religious (collective) gothic architecture. hence, without the need for social narrative to extend the painterly surface of architecture across the window portal of the gothic church the breakthrough of material innovation and novel application would not have taken place then.

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columbus OHIO

alyson SHOTZ: standing wave

sat, jan 16 – sun, apr 11, 2010
wexner center lower level

alyson SHOTZ (b. 1964), an artist based in brooklyn, is interested in the principles of physics, as well as the interaction between technology and the environment.

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chambly québec CANADA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

andrée-anne DUPUIS BOURRET: la débâcle is a paper installation made of 1700 silkscreen printed modules of folded papers. the project was conceptualized during my master’s degree in visual and media arts at université du québec à montréal (uqam). la débâcle takes form through many aspects of production, including an installation (modules of encasable folded papers), numeric images (as results of the installation) and stop motion animations.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

sabin + jones labstudio: branching morphogenesis explores fundamental processes in living systems and their potential application in architecture. the project investigates part-to-whole relationships revealed during the generation of branched structures formed in real-time by interacting lung endothelial cells placed within a 3d matrix environment. the installation materializes five slices in time that capture the force network exerted by interacting vascular cells upon their matrix environment.

design team: jenny SABIN and andrew LUCIA with peter lloyd JONES and annette FIERRO

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH:describe your project.

joe MACDONALD: conceived as a “gravity-free space of creative imagination,” the ge “healthymagination” showcase developed into an experience organized around three “pods” and a central gathering space. urban a&o, thinc design and local projects partnered to design and produce the event. urban a&o developed the sinuous, organic overhead pod structures and their corresponding ramped floors in catia, which allowed them to rapidly generate the extremely complex, flowing forms that became the signature of the project.

(photos: esto)

additional credits: thinc design, local projects

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