los angeles CALIFORNIA
michel ROJKIND
Wednesday, 01/25
7.00 pm / W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Southern California Institute of Architecture
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
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los angeles CALIFORNIAsuckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
cheng GONG: For a public library the main idea is to emphasize the order and relationship between solids and voids. The final geometry derives from petals of flowers and small branches from trunks, the building walls are two sides within the site and grow like a generation of branches in their early development phases. Floors are inserted into the volume to divide spaces vertically while creating a domino structural system. Branches are detached out of a bounding solid which is restricted by the site so that the rest of the space in the solid box plays the role of an envelope. As a result, voids are large spaces with abundant light. In contrast, in spite of providing light to the other interior spaces, visitors are able to “touch” and “feel” the negative spaces in between the masses.
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los angeles CALIFORNIAsuckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
cheng GONG & jinming FENG: Flamenco, as one of the typical Spanish culture that still actively extends its vibrancy today. Its most impressive aspect could be found in the strong rhythm that generated from the synthetic reaction in between music and dancing.
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los angeles CALIFORNIAInstallation Brief: Rawhide explores Hirsuta’s critically-acclaimed project Raspberry Fields, a residential project sited in northern Utah, focusing on its signature use of curled shingles as exterior cladding.
The Problem: Architectural Surface, From “Skin” to “Hide”
The architectural “skin” is, by now, a rather well-worn path through the conceptualization of built exterior surfaces. And as is typical of well-worn paths, this one has become hard and dry, no longer particularly interesting underfoot. Building surface as “hide,” however, seems a fresh new way to push the dialogue of cladding toward an expanded array of associations and models less well-known to the discipline. Possible interpretations abound: where the skin is bald and shaven, the hide retains its thick fur.Photographs by Josh White
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los angeles CALIFORNIAsuckerPUNCH: describe your project.
wilson WU / nicholas POULOS / michael GROSS: This project was designed by using a linear story line. A House that plays out in 3 acts. In the beginning the couple is together and lives in their first house. The middle the couple separates. Thus the house modifies and adapts to the change. The narrative ends with a natural disaster of an earthquake that cause the house to make one more shift.
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los angeles CALIFORNIA / shanghai CHINAsuckerPUNCH: describe your project.
zifan LIU: Long concerned with the articulation of form by means of volume to mass, and way beyond a contemporary threshold of hyper articulation, the discipline seems to be at a critical juncture by having to choose between polar opposites: to continue the search for more complexity via the willful sculpting of soft surface, or to return to a fundamental purity by the articulation of simple platonic volumes.
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los angeles CALIFORNIAsuckerPUNCH: describe your project.
mikhail GLADCHENKO: The project in this studio looked at current conditions of downtown Los Angeles’s private sector, exploring the idea that more and more high-rise real estate goes to businesses, and less and less to housing development.
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los angeles CALIFORNIAsuckerPUNCH: describe your project.
robert GILSON:
Anti-Air: Air, or the invisible atmosphere that surrounds us, can be activated. Air can be transformed naturally or artificially into an “anti-air.” Twenty-four slaughterhouse workers have reported symptoms of extreme numbness and paralysis. Researchers find that brain mist, a microscopic industrial byproduct, can impair human motor functions when inhaled. -
los angeles CALIFORNIAsuckerPUNCH: describe your project.
nidal HAMIDA / jose MACIAS: Hydro-Thread is a greenhouse project located in the suburbs of Las Vegas, Nevada. This project seeks to connect the isolated neighborhoods with a bike path that dissects the building which leads to adjacent neighborhoods.
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los angeles CAsanford KWINTER
Tuesday 5 April 7:00 pm
SCI-Arc / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
960 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA
