philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jenna BOLINO: This housing/spa project is located catty-corner to one of the largest public squares in Vienna, Austria known as Stephansplatz surrounding the city’s Gothic cathedral, Stephansdom. It addresses the street with a subtle, but differentiated façade in comparison with the surrounding neighborhood. The aluminum louvers create a sleek, clean façade which run parallel to each other on the street side and are shifted and bent on the inner edge to allow for privacy and views at different parts of the housing program inside.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania School of Design
critic: Matias DEL CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Michael ISKANDAR: This project continues to investigate the architectural conditions of symmetries and repetitions, in what became my own personal fixation on how the future can accept a more contemporary means of gothic architecture. Taking the affect and geometric principles of traditional gothic vault patterns, the project manifests itself in how external facade systems can convey an internal organizational logic that is both culturally functional and beautifully new.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
critics: Matias del CAMPO & Adam FURE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

David de CÉSPEDES, ZIULIANG Guo, Justin TINGUE, & Andrew WOLKING: Construction sites within the vertical territory of recursion are unrecognizable; they are uninhabited to the naive eye, at least. The near silent efficiency of thermo-depositers moving in choreographed precision construct new spaces in perpetuity; each level indifferent to the last. The sudden appearance of the vertical territories suggests life beyond their geologic timelessness.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

Taubman College, University of Michigan
critics: Matias del CAMPO (Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor) & Adam FURE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Harold SPRAGUE SOLIE, Ning ZHOU, Mark WRIGHT, & Bennett SCORCIA: deferentialCONSTRUCTIONS takes its cue from the phenomenon known as Apophenia, which is the perceiving of meaningful patterns in seemingly random or meaningless data. If used advantageously, apophenia can allow for multiple readings within a single spatial environment. The project attempts to leverage a basic architectural proto-condition to test out the implications and possibilities inherent within this phenomenon.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sarah J. BLITZER: Intersecting Boundaries is an exploration of the deformations that result from the intersection of a random and a gridded system. I began with the idea of intersecting particles using two systems: regular/gridded and irregular. My aim was to explore how these two intersecting systems can be used to create space. These intersections are the basis of the form.

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Matias del Campo heads the Vienna-based Architecture firm SPAN, founded in 2003. Their award winning architecture designs are informed by an ecology of sources including romanticism, geometry, biology, and botany. Their works include the Design of the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010 and the award winning Brancusi Museum in Paris. Currently their work is on show at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy.

matias del CAMPO “Sublime Bodies”
Monday, 11/19
4.00 pm / Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A-51
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

dessau GERMANY

Dessau Institute of Architecture
critics: sandra MANNINGER & matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ana STEFANOVIC, andrew MOGYLNYI, claudia STOICA, mahmoud EL HAKIM, sebastian BIAŁKOWSKI, & xintian LI: The Convoluted Corrosion project is the future city concept for Maribor, Slovenia. The main idea of the project is to simulate the future city growth and expansion in the span of 100years. Based on the “Urban Millennium” fact that majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, which is caused by increasing factor of rural-urban migration.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

claudio GRANATO, dino KIRATZIDIS, & cecilia SANNELLA: The Atlas of Sensations was a 4 week summer school at The University of Applied Arts in Vienna. The brief was to design a pedestrian bridge near the Urania building in Vienna. Our project looked at techniques of producing highly articulated, “pleated” surfaces. This was achieved by moving between the software platforms, which was one of the objectives of the course: we modeled in Maya, deformed the generic mesh (a tube, with apertures) with Processing; further edited the deformed geometry in Maya to adapt to the site; and produced gradients and perforations in Grasshopper to produce atmospheric effects inside the tube.

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shanghai CHINA

Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger head the Vienna-based Architecture firm SPAN, founded together in 2003. Their award-winning architecture designs are informed by an ecology of sources including Romanticism, Geometry, Biology and Botany. Employing among the most sophisticated digital design and fabrication tools, SPAN has become among the leaders of a new generation of form based practices in Europe.

SPAN
Wednesday, 04/25
1.00 pm / Theater, Tuwen Information Centre
Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA)
No.2200 Wenxiang Rd.
Songjiang District, Shanghai, CHINA

vienna AUSTRIA

Matias del Campo heads the Vienna-based Architecture firm SPAN, founded together with Sandra Manninger in 2003. His award winning architecture designs are informed by an ecology of sources including Romanticism, Geometry, Biology and Botany. Employing among the most sophisticated digital design and fabrication tools, SPAN has become among the leaders of a new generation of form based practices in Europe. . . . SPAN’s work explores the opportunities present in the morphologies of advanced design techniques as a launching platform for the design of architectural conditions, simultaneously exploring the discursive implications of the individual projects.

matias del CAMPO
Tuesday, 04/17
7.00 pm / University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2 A-1010
vienna, AUSTRIA