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suckerPUNCH
sundsvall performing arts center/dance theater
chicagoILLINOIS
paul PREISSNER ARCHITECTS, LIMITED:
by developing the plaza as a choreographed series of meetings and outdoor performance spaces, the proposal for sundsvall is able to reach from the historic art center to the advancement of the city/river. the theater offers a gradient of moments, from the impromptu participations in the plaza, to the formal performances within the hall.
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location: sundsvall, sweden
client: steen&strom sverige ab, the municipality of sundsvall
program: arts centre, dance theatre, city plaza, parking
area: 16,000 sm
status: design 2008
paulpreissner.com
sundsvall performing arts theater
los angelesCALIFORNIA
tom WISCOMBE: the structure of the building is based on a hybrid of shell behavior, which is surface-based, and spaceframe behavior, which is vector-based. the structure adapts from an underdimensioned condition based on local geometrical and bending moment conditions. where the building shape allows for shell behavior, the depth approaches this minimum. where bending occurs, member depth is increased on a smooth gradient up to the maximum economical depth for a plate girder, at which point the structure delaminates to become a three dimensional vector-based spaceframe. this is a kind of structural phase change, or emergent effect, where the structural system changes in kind rather than simply in degree. it produces highly intricate and ornamental spatial conditions which can be understood qualitatively as well as quantitatively.
emergentarchitecture.com
practice report
copenhagenDENMARK
Practice report: digital design strategies and the sustainable agenda
Wednesday 26.11.2008 15.30 - 18.00h
Auditorium 6 - Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Copenhagen
panel
josh mason (aedas, london) aedas.com
andreas eggertsen (snøhetta, oslo) snohetta.com
volker mueller (bentley, research director for computational design) bentley.com
christophe barlieb (cdmb, berlin) http://www.barlieb.com
martin tamke (cita, copenhagen) cita.karch.dk
cita : centre for it and architecture
royal danish academy of fine arts, school of architecture
philip de langes alle 10
1435 copenhagen k
cita.karch.dk
karch.dk/uk
floralities
viennaAUSTRIA
stefan RITTER: floralities is an exploration into the aesthetics of artificial natures. at the scale of ornamentation, the piece creates a volumetric pattern based on the packing of blossoms. the formal language and curvatures were developed out of a dialogue between the lofting logic of the computer software and the inherent bending capabilities and elasticities of sponge rubber, the material used for the physical model.
dieangewandte.at/archlynn
student.uni-ak.ac.at/stefan-ritter
live wire
los angelesCALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
dwayne OYLER + jenny WU: motivated by the desire to occupy the sci-arc gallery in a way that exploits the spatial potential of the existing venue, this oyler wu collaborative installation argues for an expanded relationship between tectonic expression and functional performance. the installation proposes a vertical circulation system linking the floor level of the gallery to the catwalk above.
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collaborators: ming JIAN HUANG, matt EVANS, fayez AHDAB, phillip CAMERON, huy LE, erik MATHIESEN
engineering: buro happold
oylerwu.com
monumental articulation
los angelesCALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
jovan RODRIGUEZ YAPUR: before the advent of the print, books were a rare item only privileged to royalty, aristocracy and the clergy. this lack of information fueled the emergence of monumental cathedrals overloaded with visceral imagery to spread its sacred message. as the technology of printed books become obsolete and media starts to take on new forms of organizing and communicating, the public library, as we know it, will undergo a dramatic transformation. a return to this monumentality of space will be founded in the newly sacred typology of the public library.
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taipei performing arts center
los angelesCALIFORNIA
tom WISCOMBE: the morphology of the project is based on patterns of armatures and pleats which form an intricate ornamental network. armatures are woven together to create the circulation and structure of the concourse, forming deep spaces and views from the plaza into the building as well as from the building down into the plaza and out into the city. micro-pleats track along the armatures but also spread out along surfaces, spatially drawing visitors inside the plaza. the sensations produced by this fluid geometry are heightened by a gradient of color which is most intense on the interior but fades out to the exterior of the building. formal and color intensities are at their peak in the concourse, and begin to atrophe toward the theater blocks at the perimeter of the site. in this way this project attempts to bridge classifications of generic and articulated form as well as monochromatic and variegated color.
emergentarchitecture.com
hydrology research center
los angelesCALIFORNIA
project team: tin-shun but / matthew milton
acsa steel competition 2008 (woodbury university)
suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.
tin-shun BUT: the project is to use the undeveloped site of the sepulveda dam flood control area along the l.a river to create a promenade that connects the local community of the valley to the sepulveda dam. the lightweight steel structure is raised above the river bed surface in order to survive a 100 year flood. the concept of the structural skin is based on the idea of surface tension of water.
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huaxi urban centre tower
los angelesCALIFORNIA
tom WISCOMBE: this project revisits the problem of architecturalizing tower infrastructural systems. rather than expressing the literal image of technology, the goal is to create technological ambience. this ambience is defined by translucency, shrouding, and exotic lighting and color effects. but it is also the result of hybridizing mechanical systems with other building systems in a way that cross-wires traditional hierarchies and produces synergetic forms. the point of departure for the design was to allow ductwork to migrate out of the central core toward the exterior. the glass envelope begins to take on duct behavior by delaminating to create pleats where air can flow. these pleats branch and run across the building facades, linking to floor plenums on each level at several locations along the perimeter.
emergentarchitecture.com
responsive skin
bostonMASSACHUSETTS
suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.
systemic PROCESS: responsive skin is an experiment in the conception of physical systems designed by scripted processes as a viable means towards producing an architecture which may form a tailored response specific to structural, environmental, and programmatic criteria.
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systemicprocess.com
moma tower
los angelesCALIFORNIA
robust morphologies & emergent tectonics
project team: steven ma/ tri do/ sanne kampinga
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
"the intercalated urban system extends to the integration of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal movement at a range of speeds and viscosities. movement patterns develop as an emergent system of organization, and in combination with tectonic ordering systems, challenge the tyranny of centralized core and associated striation of space. this urban topology implies seamless connectivity through circulation patterns, extending into and reprogramming adjacent systems and spaces within the moma.
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dotportfolio.net
the body as an image machine
los angelesCALIFORNIA
thesis 2008 sci_arc advisor elena manferdini
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
thorne RANSOM: the body has been used to determine a sense of proportions in relationship to units of measure and used to create the notion of scale.these are based on an ideal form of the body, describing what is beauty due to what is normal. this notion of beauty in the body comes from the larger worldview associated with classical western notions of the body in the way of anthropocentricity.
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thorneransom.com
expo pavilion
copenhagenDENMARK
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
MAPT: the expo pavilion is a new way of thinking about sustainability. it is about mentality! the danish pavilion offer the visitors the possibility of making a difference; challenging people to interact with the building, by uploading information or even by extracting information. the pavilion reads your global fingerprint and projects it on the building, along with 7 million other visitors. the mentality is about understanding a network of global relations and thereby evoking people to make a difference.
the pavilion is a tree-like structure, with a huge digital screen on the underbelly of the "tree top". this is where all information is gathered and shared using rfid technology. the tree crown articulates 3 different exhibitions, all addressing sustainability on different scales.
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mapt.dk
ford-internal communication
kentENGLAND
brianFICHTNER: nick veasey calls himself the original x-ray nerd. having spent over a decade obsessively chronicling thousands of objects through x-ray photography, it's an appropriate label. while our society is taught to concern itself with the alluring surface of things, veasey uses industrial x-ray machines to peel back those upper layers, often revealing a far more beautiful, and complex, underside. [veasey] produced the largest x-ray photograph ever—a boeing 777 that required over 500 separate x-rays of individual elements.
nickveasey.com
full interview at cool hunting
main event
los angelesCALIFORNIA
since its debut in 2000, the sci a3 annual fundraiser – known as main event – has grown to become a highly anticipated and fun affair among the sci-arc community of alumni, students, faculty, board of directors, staff and constituents. the highlight of this event is its auction that features work from renowned architects and up and coming designers. thanks to contributions to this auction over the years, we have provided deserving students with much-needed scholarships. to that end, this year's auction will be an interpretation of the event's theme, "dueling chiralities".
historic farmers & merchants bank
401 s. main street (corner of 4th and main streets)
saturday november 8 2008
7 p.m. – 11 p.m.
(vip entry begins at 6 p.m.)
contact lynn ordinario 213-356-5312 lynn_ordinario@sciarc.edu
2009 s/s inertia
londonENGLAND
sarahMOWER: it takes an incredible designer to probe the live anxieties of this scary moment and yet still come up with a wearable fashion collection, and that person is hussein chalayan. his show literally ended with a crash: the live smashing of dozens of wine glasses lined up along a pseudo-bar inset in the back of the set. while that happened, the stage was occupied by a circle of girls standing on a revolving dais, wearing molded-latex dresses that appeared to be frozen in aerodynamic motion. each dress was hand-painted with images of crushed cars. "it's about the speed in our lives and how it can only result in a crash," chalayan explained, adding that the prints, which included number plates, car handles, and fenders, were "taken from pictures of car graves." the extraordinary talent chalayan has is his ability to project something emotionally and politically pertinent onto his runway without making it oppressively doom-laden.
husseinchalayan.com
neighbors
washington DC
matthewCURRY: the graffiti aspect of my work now isn’t so much about writing one specific name or doing letters - i’m more focused on the layering that occurs when years and years of writing or posters etc are going up on the surface - you see these little windows popping thru from the previous husk and it all becomes much more abstract and unfocused messaging. i apply my interest in that layering to my paintings, by letting my works sit around and then i’ll hit it up randomly and eventually begin to try and bring it all together - and i guess that’s where the design comes in-trying to make some sense out of it in composition and mark making.
ninjacruise.com
xuberant
los angelesCALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
stevenMA: this thesis is about style. stylistic individuation is the contemporary meaning of style. this thesis investigates how style emerges in practice at the highest articulation of a coherent combination of forms and aesthetics. it is also the intention of this thesis to evolve new speciation, new style and new aesthetics through the production of liminality.
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mass no. 04 of 07
los angelesCALIFORNIA
DAVIDCLOVERS and c.e.b. REAS:
mass no.04 is one of a series of seven speculative houses designed by the architectural firm davidclovers with artist c.e.b. reas. the comprehensive project titled 07 masses (for more information see www.davidclovers.com) sets out to produce a system for developing speculative homes that embrace the sensorial aspects of living. using form, texture, live/work programs, artificial and natural light each mass explores specific moods and sensations inside and out.
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design team:david ERDMAN, clover LEE and casey REAS
design assistant:laura GOARD, juliet HSIEH, jei yun KIM
davidclovers.com
sectional model of mass04 on display through november 15:
artistsspace.org/exhibitions
office park
brooklynNEW YORK
sP: describe your project in one sentence.
takuma KAKEHI: this project is the redesign of an office park typology into a communal social infrastructure questioning the significance of outdated corporate systems in the current social network driven by the technological advancement.
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ta-kuma.com
eleganTECH
mexico cityMEXICO
eleganTECH
conference in mexico city, october 8, 9 and 10 2008.
reven and the tecnologico of monterrey campus xochimilco in mexico city invite you to attend.
with:benjamin ball, marc fornes, alex pincus, brennan buck, pedro alvarado, and gabriel esquivel
university auditorium - wednesday at 10:00 am
auditorium of the national museum of anthropology - thursday 5:00 pm
theoremas-gabe00fab.blogspot.com
paint my house
berlinGERMANY
rapper, actor, and magazine and fashion label entrepreneur, jaybo aka monk has lent his graphic sensibility to the paint my house project in berlin. cartoon hands wave in both action and form in their projection onto the berliner dom. as a temporal graffiti, the sea of plump, disney-fied gloves creates a second perspective across the facade of the building. this opposing depth of space defamiliarizes the conventional perception of the facade.
circleculture-gallery.com
hakoniwa
tokyoJAPAN
dense, overlapping flows of shades of gray define the work of kahori maki. her figures gracefully sculpt lush, monochromatic forms equally as rich in the negative spaces that they create. the voluptuous vegetation creates an overgrown world of weaving throns and butterflies.
k-maki.com
matters of sensation
new yorkNEW YORK
patterns (georgina HULJICH and marcelo SPINA ) presents matters of sensation @ artist space, a major group exhibition of contemporary architecture comprised solely of large-scale material objects. in view from september 25 to november 22, 2008 at artists space [38 greene street, 3rd floor, new york, ny 10013]
exhibiting architects: davidclovers, emergent, gage/clemenceau architects, gnuform, hirsuta, höweler+yoon architecture, iwamotoscott architecture, mod, mos, murmur, ruy klein, sotamaa, su11, xefirotarch
public opening: wednesday, september 24, 6-10 pm, in conjunction with soho night
panel discussion:monday, september 22, 6:30 pm, columbia university gsapp
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artistsspace.org/exhibitions
fw 2008
new yorkNEW YORK
laird BORELLI-PERSSON: japan was again the starting point of the sisters' journey, but the happy, shiny, pastel-colored, and manga-inflected confections of spring gave way to "slasher" dresses in black, white, and bloodred. the mulleavys turned their imaginations loose on "the connection between the kabuki tradition and that of modern japanese horror films." yes, the gothic knitwear had a torn-web quality, and the torturous, sadomachistic shoes [a reworking of last season's] wrung winces from the audience, but the show was bigger than just that, more ambitious. string sculptures by the german-american artist eva hesse gave birth to the shaggy pieces with a primitive rag-doll look. romantic, full-skirted cocktail numbers looked like they could have been painted by the impressionist edgar degas.
style.com/fashionshows
love song
londonENGLAND
non-FORMAT'S design philosophy: simplicity. we like to keep things simple. once we’ve sorted out the hierarchy of what we want to communicate, we tend to design things using very few layers, especially if one of those layers is incredibly detailed and aesthetically busy. when starting a new project, where do you look for inspiration? non-FORMAT: we draw inspiration from many varied sources but we would never want to be too strongly influenced by any single designer. it’s important not to look too closely at what other designers are doing. in fact, it’s a good idea to avoid looking at all.
non-format.com
a mixture of frailties
londonENGLAND
susie macmurray is interested in ambiguity and in the kind of intrinsic duality present in many fairy tales. the sensuality of her work and its materials often elicits conflicting responses, while the sisyphean nature of her creative process is itself an integral part. constructed from perishable latex balloons and domestic rubber gloves, the three flamboyant performance garments presented (gladrags, icon and a mixture of frailties) make reference to protection, entrapment and mortality. their delicious opulence contains an underlying ambivalence concerning notions of beauty, desirability and power.
fab_susie_m.htm
susiemacmurray.co.uk
on display: second lives:
remixing the ordinary
september 27
museum of art and design
new york city
madmuseum.org
fw 2008
new yorkNEW YORK
tim BLANKS:
all the socioeconomic evidence you can muster suggests it's no longer a man’s world. so browne's clothes emphasized male helplessness. you could blame the staging for the model who hobbled arduously around the rink in a mummy wrap of plasticized argyle, or the stilt walker who tentatively emerged for the finale with two choirboy acolytes keeping him upright, but mannequin mobility was also hindered by back-buttoning capelets, side-buttoning waders, papal skirts, and a suspendered onesie that elongated babywear for the male. (no fetish there!)
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thombrowne.com
men.style.com
strange attractors
brooklynNEW YORK
susannahBRESLIN: ...there is little distinction for him, it appears, between the personal and the professional. as a photographer, he has crossed the proverbial line, including himself - as voyeur and participant - in an on-camera life that utterly obliterates the distinction between object and subject, rendering objectivity an archaic term. with his rock star dalliances and a desire to marry high-art style and low-brow subjects, cubitt sits at the photographic edge.
claytoncubitt.com
eyemazing.com
factory for tomorrow
viennaAUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
nora graw & maja ozvaldic & martina lesjak: the concept is based on exploration of the sectional relationship between inside and outside. the massing, with its orientation, reacts on the city and coast line and creates a diverse set of spatial conditions along the "s" axis. the building as a sequence, deals with the interweaving of two major components: plenum and shell. the designed pattern for the structural plenum reacts to the sun angles in terms of its depth, density and the way it is tilted. this creates not only a visual effect on the façade but different lighting conditions and shading in the building.
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www.dieangewandte.at/archlynn
wovensource
viennaAUSTRIA
peter VIKAR: this project explores a thick structural facade system for a contemporary library in downtown of budapest. from one side it reinvents the operation - books are being locally printed and not stored - and relation to physical content, and at the same time it shifts the usage of the library towards a more city, and event oriented direction.
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dieangewandte.at/archlynn
voussoir cloud
los angelesCALIFORNIA
upcoming exhibitionvoussoir cloud
opens august 8, 2008, 7PM sci-arc
the sci-arc gallery is pleased to present voussoir cloud, a site-specific installation by san francisco based architecture and design practice iwamotoscott in collaboration with buro happold. voussoir cloud’s design explores the coupling of potentially conflicting constructional logics – the pure compression of a vault with an ultra-light sheet material. opening august 8, this installation will be fabricated by iwamotoscott in association with sci-arc students.
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www.sciarc.edu/exhibition.php
www.iwamotoscott.com
ways
sao pauloBRASIL
the swirling monochromatic forms of brazilian street artist herbert baglione manifest themselves in multiple ways from urban walls to adidas sneakers. his work capitalizes on the expansion and contraction of line as its curvature transforms to define figures and text. baglione says of his beginnings as an artist, "i started to draw over photos like putting horns in their head and knives in their hands, like every child does." if only all kids were fascinated with horns and knives.
www.herbert.ind.br
reflective formations
san franciscoCALIFORNIA
maxi SPINA: at a time when contemporary digital responses in architecture often emphasize the total erasure of the seam in favor of the smooth, continuous form -suggesting an apparent new type of continuous magical wrap for buildings that would enable them to become literally seamless- the work presented in reflective formations is an endeavor to articulate architecture's corporeal presence and tectonic basis through a scalar system of subdivision, serialization, repetition and variation without at the same time weakening its capacity for representational values.
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www.flickr.com/photos
uc berkeley, college of environmental design exhibitions + symposia, spring 08. apr 9 - may 9
dashed line
osloNORWAY
dashed line, a series by graphic designer hans christian, thrives off of a density of line. the lines themselves are not simply dashed, but range in point and texture while remaining in a greyscale pallet. through an intense build up, these simple lines emerge to form fields with multiple readings shifting from single figure to pattern. monolithic shapes are panelized through lines that subtly trace the geometry of the forms in an intriguing fashion bordering on the clinical.
dashed line
arctichans.com
gothic bullfight
columbusOHIO
team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, dan STARCHER, tim COUSINO , terry LERNER, jessica DAY
the original premise of the studio was to develop a performative surface using light as the main inspiration. my studio took a different approach and we began to investigate the idea of producing an emotional surface. this lead to the idea of investigating different effects try to have an ontological change from an architecture of thinking and process to an architecture of feeling. the response was to create a series of atmospheric installations.
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theoremas
centrepointe
lexingtonKENTUCKY
team: paul PREISSNER (quavirarch), anton BAKERJIAN, ian MAHONE, rebekah SCHABERG, warren, WEAVER
paul PREISSNER: organized by the university of kentucky college of design, a two day charrette produced this alternate proposal for the centerpointe development project in downtown lexington, kentucky. It decidedly creates a new form of public engagement and civic interactivity through the imposition of a massive volume of program which reframe the views to its context (instead of focusing attention inwards, the project assists with the outward observation of lexington).
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www.quavirarch.com
www.kentucky.com
symbiote
columbusOHIO
suckerPUNCH: describe your project:
gabriel ESQUIVEL: The concept behind this project started by creating a cartoon character that has an overwhelming dream of being entrapped by a strange organism. The group started by looking at natural atmospheres of decay and shadows, like roots taking over ruins, or the ideas of some pattern taking over a surface this guided the research to look into architectural precedents that produced similar effects like the tassel hotel by victor horta where the geometry game of the two dimensional ornament of the wall that looks like a shadow and the three dimensional ornamentation of the stair rail.
team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, jon BLISTAN, ryan WHITBY, steve CHRISTY, mike GRIESER
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theoremas
fragment.series
wuppertalGERMANY
tim BORGMANN: my main target when working on free art projects is to deviate from the usual way of creating shapes/images with 3d programs, into a more intuitive, organic way like abstract painting. i gather my main inspiration from what i see during the work on an image. quite simply, i try a more emotional and less planned approach.
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art.bt-3d.de
features.cgsociety.org
v
san franciscoCALIFORNIA
leahOLLMAN: in contemplating how letters accrete into words and words into meanings, painter tauba auerbach depicts a variety of alphabets and semantic systems-from cuneiform to digital code-while leaving the essential mystery intact.
taubaauerbach.com
generative
vila do condePORTUGAL
prickly orbs squirm through the recent generative compositions of leonel cunha. this work benefits from a variation of readings at multiple scales. at the macro scale his images appear to be of some mutated centipede, while at the micro scale each conglomerate of pixels reveals an amazing complexity. each figure is comprised of an infinite number of gray scale lines from whose shear accumulation these subtly creepy forms emerge.
leonelcunha.no.sapo.pt
flickr
experiments
antwerpBELGIUM
liquefied shapes frozen in space define the 3-d experimentations of artist tim muller. his forms ooze and drip through one another as the hover weightless with no directionality. looking at similar forms rendered in variations of solid and depth of field, muller's creations oscillate between object and environment. the inherent ambiguity of form, place, and context make these images all the more intriguing.
timmuller.com/project/experiments
superintendent tendencies
viennaAUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: descibe your project.
julia KOERNER +adam VUKMANOV + miljan RADOJEVIC: the project explores figure to figure relationships and their deformations caused by dynamic wind forces. it rigorously addresses the context of the site, cres/croatia, by nesting the volumes in linear production system and orientation dependent on existing winds which are the parameter of latent mutability and transformation of the shapes. volumetric continuity achieved by multi materiality, surface creasing, seams and structure porosity is defining the complexity of sustainable architectural processes incorporated within the building.
Boat Fabrication Yard
Greg Lynn Studio SS2008
dieangewandte.at/archlynn
interactive heart
minneapolisMINNESOTA
phosphorescent cells swarm through the microscopic worlds of hybrid medical animation. a throbbing heart cycles through various levels of opacity as an interactive teaching tool. as a body within a body the inner workings of the heart are revealed. mechanisms of disease float over landscapes and bounce through flesh-colored tunnels. these medical animations go beyond demonstration in the development of an exquisite aesthetic of the interior of the human body.
video
hybridmedicalanimation.com
oxygen
brooklynNEW YORK
wrists shattered by basketballs and hot pink gasoline comprise the print and motion compositions of jason salo. salo's work is comprised of a heavily layered intermingling of photos, vectors, and graphics that move through both page and video. even his static work appears to be exploding the picture plane of the page. salo defamiliarizes his very real subjects as they travel through his worlds of shooting stars and oozing cheese.
themassacre.cc
binaural
londonENGLAND
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
daniel WIDRIG + shajay BHOOSHAN: binaural is an attempt to 'visualize' and physically manifest, aural information.
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flickr.com/photos/danielwidrig
data-tribe.net
flickr.com/photos/watz/sets
emerald plaza
los angelesCALIFORNIA
tom WISCOMBE:
the project is based on creating continuity between the three elements called for in the brief: a garden, a central sculptural volume, and a network of canopies. during the day, when temperatures can reach 120 degrees fahrenheit, this involuted, grotto-like space becomes an inviting sanctuary. indeed, in an environment where people often avoid the outdoors during daytime hours, this project offers a spatial and atmospheric solution. the surface of the roof transforms into a volume at the center of the plaza. this surface-to-volume transformation is an extension of an investigation into surface-to-strand geometries in recent projects. hybrid, transformative geometries offer a wider range of flexibility than surface, strand, or volume systems alone.
emergentarchitecture.com
icon
londonENGLAND
futureFACTORIES: using rapid prototyping techniques, it costs the same to produce similar parts as identical ones, so why produce two products the same? envisage a future with "living" consumer products, forms that grow, change, and mutate on-screen. at any given moment a product may be frozen creaing a unique design, digitally manufactured and delivered to the door. an original...a one-off...a work of art?
futurefactories.com
the big valley
los angelesCALIFORNIA
girlish innocence is shattered by bud tallboys in the latest work by photographer alex prager. in this set of pictures, prager places her timeless heroines in disjointed hypercolored contexts that leave the viewer feeling slightly disoriented. wigs and lipstick disguise characters that appear simultaneously familiar and unrecognizable as they pose in their pseudo-cinematic sets. each image is composed as a freeze-frame of a much larger narrative of a vintage plastic world.
alexprager.com
eve bracelet
stockholmSWEDEN
claesson koivisto rune: aluminium is a fantastic material. strong. lightweight. beautiful. often employed in technical constructions and industrially formed and manufactured, but seldom seen in a context where aluminium’s beauty becomes apparent.
the bracelet eve is formed of extruded aluminium. by rotating the raw extrusion and at the same time cutting it at different angles, a large number of bracelets with varying dimensions are made. in addition, we have chosen several variations for the surface treatment (anodising) to give the bracelets different characters. despite the fact that the manufacturing process is entirely industrial and the raw material is formed via a single tool the result is a jewellery series where each piece differs from the next—each bracelet is unique.
claesson-koivisto-rune.se
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honoluluHAWAII
feric: design is not only a game, but also a tool by deconstructing the concept. it needs to be destroyed in a creative way. the structure of the objects would emerge by breaking up and reconstructing themselves. new possibilities and values would be found out through the process of reconstruction. compare the new model being reconstructed and the original one. a discussion would occur upon the topic. the discussion is open-minded and public. this is the core stone of the design. this is the core value of design.
feric.com
pinup patterns
san franciscoCALIFORNIA
computer arts projects magazine: “some things stay consistent, though,” she adds, “like luxury and elegance,” before reeling off a comprehensive list of loves: “french victoriana. icons. solid gold. classic contemporary. femininity. textile patterns. pin-ups. colour combinations. si scott. deanne cheuk. andy warhol. baroque furniture. old magazines. vintage postcards. wild america. friends. family. love. lust. ornamental embellishments. decorative text. romance.” it may seem impossible to mix warhol with french victoriana, but a glance at some of stouffer’s magazine illos might convince you otherwise. “i’m always picking up new inspirations, learning, discovering. i’m kind of like a sponge.” she pauses. “one that can’t hold anything.”
grandarray.com
computerarts.co.uk
gina light
munichGERMANY
press release:
the gina light visionary model has dispensed with the usual body elements found on production vehicles such as front apron, bonnet, side panels, doors, wheel arches, roof, trunk lid and rear deck. instead, a new structure with a minimum amount of components has taken their place. a special, highly durable and extremely expansion-resistant fabric material stretches across a metal structure. this new material offers designers a significantly higher level of freedom of design and functionality. . .the innovation of a flexible outer skin breaks new ground in automotive engineering. this revolutionary solution opens up new design, production and functionality potential. it has a major impact on the interaction between driver and car and enhances it by offering a variety of entirely new options. some elements of the substructure are moveable.
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mirror
peoriaILLINOIS
a multiplicity of color and form characterizes the new work of erik natzke. distortions of natural forms overlap and distort one another in generative stills and animations. through repetition and overlap, patterns emerge and are frozen by natzke's eye. evolving from vector to image and back again, natzke's images blur the boundary between line and solid and enable them to be viewed as a single technique.
eriknatzke.com
the floating city of waterdog
torontoONTARIO
tyler HILTON: what are you thinking about now?
nicholas DI GENOVA: i'm coming up with a theme around some facts of science, but more from the perspective of a naturalist from the industrial revolution, the golden age of the natural sciences... ah, that doesn't really say much, i'm trying to put together large complex drawings based on science that is largely made up of myth and misinformation and religious oppression... to try to chart the natural world without a reliable basis of facts as a foundation... ah, man, these are new baby thoughts in my head. i need time to let them develop...
interview: inqmnd.ca
mediumphobic.com
bloom
san franciscoCALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your work
sean CANTY: my work explores the compositional intricacies of line and figure ground relationships explored in graphic design and type, the attenuated lines and curvatures of car and product design, and the bridging of self similar bodies found in plants with the tectonics of architecture.
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flickr.com/photos/spec26
living museum
viennaAUSTRIA
diploma s07
zaha hadid studio
centro de la biodiversidad
dieangewandte.at
chrysanthemum
new yorkNEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
skylar TIBBITS: the chrysanthemum piece was generated through networking logic. a series of points were plotted based on site constraints while a series of closed curves were generated from a nearest neighbor algorithm. the z axis scale was transformed based on nearest/farthest proximity and directly relates to programmatic space versus circulation zones. color gradients demonstrate density and proximity across the network and are reminiscent of botanic growth.
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sjet.us
antlia : : : machine pneumatique
torontoCANADA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project:
christian JOAKIM: antlia is a constellation of oscillating mechatronic elements which operate in concert with information absorbed from the surroundings. this "machine pneumatique" exists in a constant condition of latency, a state of digitally filtered reverie, producing an extended composition of experience.modular components made of laser-cut impact-resistant acrylic and mylar materials aggregate to (in)form a hybrid environment consisting of robotic activation and open-loop communication with occupants. movement is achieved via fluidic actuators controlled by electronically conditioned supplies of compressed air. various sensors absorb data from the environment generating a layered reading of the space.
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blobwall pavilion
los angelesCALIFORNIA
sci-arc: blobwall pavilion is a collaboration between greg lynn form, machineous who developed the manufacturing method for the "bricks" and panelite who produced and distributed the architectural material. it is an innovative redefinition of the brick – architecture’s most basic building unit – into a lightweight object made of colorful plastic and reinterpreted into modular elements. the blob unit, or “brick,” is a robotically cut mass-produced hollow tri-lobed shape formed through rotational molding, which is then assembled with interlocking precision to form the wall. the blobwall pavilion is a contemporary wall system that recovers the voluptuous shapes, chiaroscuro and grotto-like textures of baroque and renaissance architecture in pixilated gradients of vivid color. on three walls of the installation, custom fabricated acrylic bubble cabinets will be installed to display small objects.
blobwallpavillion.wordpress.com
winning design: brancusi museum
parisFRANCE
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER: within constantin brancusis body of work is one specific characteristic that emerges on a regular basis: the application of constrictions as specific leitmotiv. these constrictions can be read in various ways, reaching from the definition of rhythmically repeating volumes, as in the endless column, or as description of curvilinear bodies, as in la negresse blonde and the notoriously famous bird in space series. these curvilinear bodies, voluptuous components and undulating elements, are seamlessly and continuously formed into beautiful waistlines, radiating in tension. the design of the new atelier brancusi picks up the characteristics of constrictions and explores the opportunities, in terms of architectural space, provided by this technique of spatial formation.
span-vox.com
span-arch.com
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