calgary CANADA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jason s. JOHNSON (MINUS ARCHITECTURE STUDIO): AX2011 explores localized weather conditions as generative tactics for a parametrically limited undulating geometry. The project simulates the surface and formal effects produced by warm air masses often referred to as “Chinooks” or foehn winds as they collide with arctic air masses. This phenomenon which occurs in southern Alberta, is capable of producing rapid and extreme variations in air temperature as well as a cloud formation known as a Chinook arch. These formations are produced through orographic lifting and often manifest in variably coloured and rippled stratus clouds with a distinct trailing edge.

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copenhagen DENMARK

Distortion II is both an acoustic architectural installation and a sound experience. The research creates new interfaces between acoustic science and the built environment by integrating sound performance, design and production. The installation is a complex surface that has been designed to create multiple visual and acoustic effects within a single, open space. Distortion II is part of a larger research project to develop new architectural tools that consider sound as key design parameter.

Collaborators: Patric Gustafson, Magnus Gustafsson – Akustikmiljö; Martin Tamke, Brady Peters, Stig Anton Nielsen, Lisa Uhlmann – CITA; Niels Jakubiak Andersen, Hasse Selvig Sandell, Dave Stasiuk – Krydsrum Arkitekter; Søren Vestbjerg Andersen, Matthias Haase, Claus Møller Petersen – Grontmij A/S.

Open from March 8th, 2012.

atlanta GEORGIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

joseph CHOMA, Design Topology Lab: In linguistics, a boundary is anything that defines a limit. Numerically, it may be straightforward to determine a boundary, however, perceptually it is often more ambiguous and subjective. This installation challenges fixed preconceptions of what it means to draw and experience a drawing. The drawing itself is computationally generated using a thickening trigonometric transformation. As the sphere thickens over a series of recursions its geometry begins to mediate between multiple envelopes. The sphere no longer has one boundary but rather has multiple boundaries.

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thessaloniki GREECE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

INFRARED: Madren 5340 is a temporary installation designed and fabricated by infrared in the context of the platforma 1 exhibition, organized by arqlab and the Art|House gallery bar. The exhibition was on display from January 13th to 15th, 2012, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The theme of the exhibition was asking for proposals that would investigate the concept of private or personal space, like that of one’s own bedroom. Infrared focused on the idea of a filter the regulates what comes in and what stays out from such a personal space.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Cameron Wu (Cambridge, MA) proposed Coney Inland, an architectural strategy which formally unifies and spatially modulates the challenging MoMA PS1 courtyard site. A series of developable surfaces (cones and cylinders) and their base structures normalize the contingencies of scale and shape of the three courtyard spaces, while their legible transformations register the idiosyncratic nature of the overall site geometry.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

igor SIDDIQUI & matt HUTCHINSON: Bayou-luminescence is an architectural installation that fuses material surface, structural volume and lighting effects into an immersive spatial experience. Its title is a play-on-words that refers to bioluminescence, a phenomenon whereby living organisms produce and emit light. Like a strange creature in the night, the installation glows from within, casting intricate shadows onto adjacent architectural surfaces. Temporarily sited at the end of a dark residential alley in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Bayou-luminescence invited passersby to cross the otherwise accepted boundary between the public sidewalk and the private space beyond, in order to experience its intensely haptic surfaces, both inside and out.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

sP: Describe your project.

carlos MONCADA: Chroma[RED] was an installation placed at SCI-Arc, focused on the perception of the object inside the space in order to stimulate people to experience a new recreation of it through interaction. Each individual experience made invisible tangible limits, developing a dialogue that induced the observer to create new limits and new interpretations of the space.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Anemone
Oyler Wu Collaborative
Taipei, Taiwan, 2011

Anemone is an art/architectural installation aimed at weaving together aesthetic experience and tactile engagement—a combination generally considered off limits within the world of contemporary art. All too often, art installations are considered precious, almost sacred objects; while they are meant to be appreciated for their aesthetic beauty, they offer little in terms of human interaction. In other words, they are meant to be seen, not felt. Recognizing that human engagement is one of the key factors in creating a rich experience, Anemone has been designed with the idea of interaction as one of its key design objectives.

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new york NEW YORK

HWKN’s “Wendy” wins MoMA PS1’s 2012 Young Architects Program (YAP).

From the designers: Wendy does not play the typical architecture game of ecological apology – instead she is pro-active. . That is why Wendy is composed of nylon fabric treated with a ground breaking titania nanoparticle spray to neutralize airborne pollutants. During the summer of 2012 Wendy will clean the air to an equivalent of taking 260 cars off the road. Wendy’s boundary is defined by tools like shade, wind, rain, music, and visual identity to reach past the confines of physical limits. Wendy crafts an environment – not just a space. Spikey arms reach out with micro-programs like blasts of cool air, music, water canons and mists to create social zones throughout the courtyard.

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college station TEXAS

Texas A&M University
critic: gabriel ESQUIVEL

Team: Matt MILLER, Dale FENTON, Emau VEGA, Aubrie DAMRON, Adrian CORTEZ
Photos: Emau VEGA

Texas A&M University FabLab, Gabriel ESQUIVEL: The project began as a performative wall system that reacted differently to exterior and interior spaces. We realized we had to confront the fact we had two different surface logics, so rather than trying to blend these conditions, we decided to emphasize the difference indicating two current design directions. This resulted in two polar opposite geometries with opposite personalities that strongly defined exteriority and interiority.

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