vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

joseph HOFMARCHER, rangel KARAIVANOV, jurgen STROHMAYER, siim TUKSAM: Sitting at a high point of the Bosphorus valley, Levent Vertical Mass responds to the urban context of the Istanbul metropolis at large by integrating the high velocity axes of the Golden Horn highways and contextualizing views to the old city. The building’s urban scale ceiling facade is oriented towards the boulevard of Levent, characterized by commercial high-rise buildings, as well as the adjacent valley neighborhood.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

lisa SOMMERHUBER: Academia Somaesthetica envisions a new perception of interior and exterior through the human body. It elevates outdoor fitness to a new, urban dimension: The Copacabana beach promenade, known as the largest outdoor sports field in the world and situated in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, gets extended into the building.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

isaïe BLOCH / ERAGATORY: While the architectonic aesthetic may seem to revolve around a straightforward gimmick, the work is much richer than that. The more you look, the more you realize how many levels it operates on, from its allusions of architectural ruïnification/collapse as in the romantic era to its connections to our current culture of remixes and mash-ups.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Starting with the winter semester 2011/12 Hani Rashid will head the Studio Architekturentwurf (architectural design) 3 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Hani Rashid’s studio will focus on students working to develop conceptual, practical and critical skills and means for the making of new, compelling and forward thinking architecture. The studio focus will move between architecture as object to environment and phenomena. Operative terms in this studio include architecture as atmospheric experience, architecture as fetishized artifacts, architecture and new forms of dwelling and being, and architecture as an aesthetic, philosophical and metaphysical experience.

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kunst WIEN

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

hend ALMATROUK: How does one rethink an opera? There is no lack in ambition. But more often than not ambition becomes pretentious.The constant all consuming urge for innovation can be destructive and self serving. But there is no mistaking the impact of creative processes fuelled by these seemingly undesirable traits . To dissect the traditional opera, gnawing away at the foundations of the sacred opera house till that threshold is reached when the heirarchies are disintegrated, when the instrument becomes the artist, and artist the facilitator.

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vienna AUSTRIA

IoA Sliver Lecture
May 26, 2011,7pm

Through the work of FreelandBuck, ‘Eine heiße Viertelstunde’ will document an architectural formalism that combines the complex continuity of topological surfaces and the articulation of tectonics. Enabled by the precise modulation of computation, the firm’s work at the scales of installations, interiors, buildings and infrastructure aims to catalyze a contemporary yet multiplicitous mode of formal continuity: pattern.

vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

bika REBEK:
“Panama Supercharge” is an architectural dialogue between mass and fragility, expressed as thin patterned developable surfaces out of metal sheets and heavy masses out of raw concrete.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

melina a. GIRARDI: small airport terminal for riga, estonia, based on the typology of the hypostyle hall.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

stephan SOBL: The epitome of a Hypostyle Hall in my project is a field of massive and fragile columns that define a variation of spatial and volumetric interiors of the terminal. Denser areas of the field create intimate spaces and become areas to rest whereas less dens areas are circulation routes and contain architectural program.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

xin-yu WAN: As a project to replace St. Stephen Cathedral in Vienna, the overall concept is based on a fantasy about the architectural history of Vienna. That is to say: if Art Nouveau had had a greater influence and had lasted for a longer period in Vienna; if the articulated geometries not only work as ornaments or enclosure as is the case for the Secession, but also serves as real structure to hold the main parts of the building, what would a new cathedral be and what its sublime and magical effects.

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