new haven CONNECTICUT

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jt BACHMAN: This semester-long research project investigated the use of two dimensional images to generate three dimensional spatial configurations. The initial iterations of this process generated iconic yet impenetrable masses. In the final iteration of this process, each tetrahedron was scaled down and subtracted from the parent mass ultimately creating an inverse solid/void relationship between the interior and the exterior. What was at first an object to be looked at, became a space which begins to imply inhabitation.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

teoman AYAS: The hostel for traveling musicians is located in downtown New Haven on a highly restricted site. Requirement to allow passage through the narrow site generated the idea of exposing the building from underneath. The eroded void that confronts you when walking through the site runs through the center of the building inverting its organization as the main public space where the building connects to the street. Different sounds from the musicians seeps into this void, turning the building itself into and instrument that encourages interaction.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

brennan BUCK: Contemporary interest in the architectural interior can be tied to changes in the way we understand the psychic interior. The popularization of and recent developments in contemporary neuroscience have renewed the importance of subjectivity for architecture. Research by Antonio Damasio, among others, has shown that the presence and emotional state of the body-in-space directly affects cognitive processing. Beyond the cliché of emotions clouding logical thought, ideas have an emotional component that plays a direct role in deduction and decision making. Within architecture, these discoveries suggest a renewed consideration of bodily experience, one that may underlie the recent disciplinary interest in sensation and affect and raise the specter of a return to phenomenology.
Work by: David Bench, Dawood Rouben, Jonathan Reyes, Laura Wagner, Liam Lowry, Margaret Hu, Nancy Putnam, Owen Howlett, Tom Fryer, Vincent Calabro, Zac Heaps, Zhai Shuo
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new haven CONNECTICUT

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

gregory GUNDERSEN: A striking feature of Beaux-Arts sections is the light pink poché, a figural void separating one rendered space from another. Implicit in this drawing convention is the belief that a section should convey the effects of each architectural space, rather than building tectonics.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

christos BOLOS: In considering a new museum for Yale’s campus to accompany Louis Kahn’s Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, the primary impetus was that contemporary art has necessitated such a museum be one for housing objects of radically different scales.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kyle STOVER: This studio examined the relationship of types versus species. Where type is viewed as ‘categories of standardization, then species are malleable entities in constant metamorphosis.’  The brief called for a house to inspeciate a site in three acts by employing a cellular spatial logic. My project technologically romanticizes the idea of the house to present a radically picturesque possibility of inhabitation. Sited adjacent to a series of Neutra Houses in Silverlake, key destinations on the Grand Tour of the West, this house seeks to create an infinite space in which today’s prostheticized subject can operate.  This project takes on the discourse of the house as image, or rather the house as a product, to question the nature of daily occupation.  

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

dino KIRATZIDIS: Program: Museum for objects, a contemporary Wunderkammer
The precedent for the project was the Wunderkammer (a precursor to the museum), in which objects across different categories were typically exhibited in the same space.  The “Cross-Referencing Museum”, by comparison, is a museum where objects are not literally in the same space, but rather perceptually ‘in the same space’, through the manipulation of views.
View-lines are manifested in a series of cones. Overlapping regions of the cones are voided through Boolean operations, resulting in articulated interior surfaces.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

miroslava BROOKS / amy DEDONATO / james GIRODAY: thermoCLOUDS was an experiment investigating the thermal dynamics of plastic. Through natural processes of heat and gravity, we were able to exploit the plastic’s inherent material logic and measure discrepancies through its limitations. Plastic panels were fabricated and painted for a specific aperture in the Yale Art and Architecture building. The points were performative, framing certain views and modulating light to produce an ambient effect on the interior of the hallway.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH will be posting interviews in a new section – in the ring

the second of five interviews will also be featured in the current publication of tarp: coding parameters. tarp is the architecture manual published by PRATT.

image: stack pavilion by freeland buck

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new haven CONNECTICUT

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kyle STOVER: this project is from the first comprehensive building studio at yale university. the project is for an extension to the beinecke rare book and manuscript archives, which has run out of adequate storage space, particularly for large format materials. my project seeks to explore a paradigm emerging out of a conceptual study of poche, and exploring the figural possibilities of a mass/void relationship.

yale university m.arch i – 3rd semester core studio
critic: mark GAGE
ta: cody DAVIS

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