May 19

May 19 375 / Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane: Collaged Collections

Submission #375 | Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane: Collaged Collections — “145,000 sqft. the new art museum at 106-72 marginal street, Boston; culminates contemporary ideas in architecture about allure, collage, and collections as ideological drivers for the spatial and representational design process of the project. thinking about the irresolute and the misaligned and the unknown; the project looked towards contemporary ideas about allure and collage to produce deceptions and irregularities in the project to draw the user in. we pose to question in this post-digital age of architecture what it means to be simultaneously object and field.”

Jan 29

Jan 29 360 / Studio Ekphrasis: Harmony of the Spheres

Maria Flores

students

Submission #360 | Studio Ekphrasis: Harmony of the Spheres — “Harmony of the spheres is a proposal for the 2020 Burning Man gathering located at Black Rock City in Nevada, USA that will physically transform itself through the event. In Dali's work, the desert acts as a backdrop for absurd and imagined dimensions of life.”

Mar 1

Mar 1 290_Justin Heu: Density n Void

Maria Flores

students

Submission #290 | Justin Heu: Density n Void — “A brief focus into designing a new urban mixed use building... residential, commercial, office space. Redesigning what we formally know about a building and warping it inside out. Residential units are encapsulated into tunnel like voids that face each other and can hide away with privacy smart glass.”

Jan 15

Jan 15 274_Seetharam Vallabhaneni and Mauricio Casian: Giga Village

Maria Flores

students

Submission #274 | Seetharam Vallabhaneni and Mauricio Casian: Giga Village — Giga village is a project that aims to provide innovative workspaces and services to the neighborhood by creating a highly walkable/pedestrian urban community center that offers unique experiences at the intersection of technology and culture. Giga Village packs modern technology and vernacular craft into the density of a pixel by combining the digital and the analog.

Dec 27

Dec 27 262_Claudio Triassi: Recycling Past Architectural Ideas and Forms

Maria Flores

students

Submission #262 | Claudio Triassi: Recycling Past Architectural Ideas and Forms — “My illustrations reflect the contemporary architectural drawing tendency to look for its emotional strength in past iconography. They use past architectural ideas and forms to catch their charm offering an anachronistic spatial and temporal dimension and questioning at the same time their validity nowadays. As a result of it, they are in ruins sometimes.”

May 26

May 26 169_François-Luc Giraldeau: Contemporary Monuments, an Architecture of Frugality

Maria Flores

students

Submission #169 | François-Luc Giraldeau: Contemporary Monuments, an Architecture of Frugality — "A bare-bones reclamation of three derelict International Style buildings, this project offers a timely architectural appendage which uses twenty-ﬁrst-century thinking on urbanism, sustainability, and architecture’s social role to reinvigorate a failed utopia from the past."

May 20

May 20 160_Hieu Nguyen

Maria Flores

students

Submission #160 | Hieu Nguyen — The thesis is emphasised in the study of contemporary characteristics in towers in order to create the new typologies in the tower where misreading and misfit between exterior and interior are introduced. By using certain element of contemporary aspects (such as typical floor plans), the thesis tries to create familiar characters while unfamiliar those characters to create misunderstanding between the old and the new of architecture elements.

Mar 10

Mar 10 125_Giada Maria Pillitteri: Disassemble and Reassemble Palermo North #19

Maria Flores

students

Submission #125 | Giada Maria Pillitteri: Disassemble and Reassemble Palermo North #19 — My thesis is insert in a currently research from 2007 (professors: Roberto Collovà/Gaetano Licata) about the potential of the transformation in the expansion north area of Palermo. Starting from observations about the study area emerges a North Palermo shaped by a double face: the facades show themselves as the “representative’s fronts”, the “planned” side of buildings and almost originals, who oppose the backs, internal and hidden parts that, changed over time, include heterogeneous "additions", arising from the needs of the inhabitants.

Feb 11

Feb 11 108_Matthew Bohne: Iceland Resolution, The View from Nowhere

Maria Flores

students

Submission #108 | Matthew Bohne: Iceland Resolution, The View from Nowhere — In Iceland, 99% of electricity is produced from renewable resources. To meet the demand for commercial energy consumption, several experimental forms of energy production have been developed. This has accelerated the encounter with new dissolved solids, toxic metals, and corrosive gasses. The “beasts” or dýrið, as they are referred to by locals, are gaseous excretion systems that move across the terrain assisting with the substantial underground operations.

Nov 24

Nov 24 22_Saad Boujane: Artist Residence

Maria Flores

students

Saad Boujane: Artist Residence — This project aimed to reconnect those values and synthesize them in a more contextual and contemporary fashion. The task was to design a pair of art studios/exhibition spaces which will house the creative activities of two different artists.