philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
michael WETMORE / hang XU / winda XIAO: Eroded Matter seeks to explore notions of aesthetic ambiguity through the stigmergic erosion of a material. Operating through local agent behaviors within a high population multi-agent system, the project explores the transformation of a normative substrate into a highly differentiated system with macro-level order.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
valmikVYAS+hyungwooKIM: ‘Radial Fluidity’ is a new set of towers and site for Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. The site is transformed into a dynamic and winding flow of circulation with pockets of programmed space.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
instructor: ferda KOLATAN
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
arthur AZOULAI + melody REES: This project is a morphological study that assumes an extended field of movement and circulating forces. It is designed by simulating self-organizing biological systems where selective decision making is used to sculpt innate yet deliberate spatial relationships and formal qualities. At its pure essence, this project is an infrastructural system that acts as a receiver and link-up for formal architectural systems. The inherent continuity of the overall form as a topological surface allows for the emergence of roadways, interstitial interior space, and landscape.
new york NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
tiffany DAHLEN and virginia MELNYK: The urban night club responds to the vibrant and eclectic youth culture of Harajuku and balances the high end fashion of Omontesando. The urban club consists of a large meet and greet entry area, sushi restaurant, sake bar, music lounge and two VIP lounges; Pockets of unique intensities are held within a white framework, creating zones of spatiality, surficiality, and crenalation. Five distinct qualities corresponding to the specific programs and aesthetic desires, transform between the different spaces through the medium of the framework and are embedded within it. They differ from a sweet salivating sushi restaurant to a soft pillowy lounge space.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
Immersive Kinematics is a Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania directed by professors Simon Kim and Mark Yim. This group is a collaboration between Penn Engineering and Penn Design and expands the roles of architecture and engineering focusing on integrating robotics, interaction, and embedded intelligence in our buildings, cities, and cultures. The group offers a class teaming architecture and engineering students in mechatronic projects.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
julie ROBERTS + david CHEN:The project’s primary goal is to develop an integrated technique and aesthetic sensibility through interior environments. Working from the inside out allows the potential to create and refine specific affects, which transform and differentiate according to their own internal logic. The design aims to reach an unprecedented level of designed luxury and intensities recalling the excessiveness of baroque or rococo interiors. Emphasis lies in the qualitative differentiation of components and part to whole relationships in terms of changing intensities in a continuous system.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
han TANG: LABYRINTH is to try to map the non-linear evolution of dynamic spatial system in ecologically-based models. It reviews the self-organizing process by investigating in particular the relevance of chaos theory. The structure formation starts with a chaotic situation, and after long term evolution, a stable structure system emerges. It reflects the spaticial relationship between solid and void through time. Here, we argue that inherent randomness is a sufficient condition for the generation of ordered patterns under evolutionary dynamics.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
michael WETMORE & lucas SANJUAN : The course Advanced Mechatronic Reactive Spaces, a collaboration between architects and robotics engineers at the University of Pennsylvania, forms interdisciplinary teams that together design and build electro-mechanical reactive spaces. With an initial research task of fusing mechatronics and lighting design, we explored the potential of polyhedra for their transformative qualities. Using a Voronoi algorithm, we created a set of both fixed and motorized polyhedra. Interest in atmospheric affect led us to pursue the object as a transformative lighting element in which a user is given control over a reactive object and the space it inhabits. In its closed state, LED’s are focused inward resulting in an ambient object.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project:
han TANG: tequila is to rethink the relationship between function and ornament in terms of interior design by incorporating stair, chandelier, and wall. on a local scale, each of these elements is carried out in a very programmatic and functional perspective in regards to its own utilization. each component changes in quality from close(solid) to open(skeleton) which adds to its variation. then by different connections, these components aggregate in a way that alternating through iteration and scale. different formation starts to emerge following those local rules through many iterations in the end.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
liwen MAO: this project finds potential geometries that arise within a swarm intelligence system. such bottom up systems can not only create global complex phenomena but also unexpected smaller scale forms and gives the designer more localized control within the system. the project uses curves negotiate between the hierarchies of ornament and structure based on local rules. the advantage of this methodology of form finding is that it can break the limit of human imagination and create unlimited yet reasonable forms by changing specific parameters.
