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Submission #364 | Ricardo Palacio: Cluster — Cultural production has entered a stage in which archived digital material can be used at will, thus making canonical architectural work accessible beyond mere quotation by turning it into hackable material for new work. The project takes Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, as a database to be hacked and extended into a residential high-rise in Downtown Brooklyn.
Submission #362 | Kelly Deak: Architectural Allusion of the Everyday Object — “The material panel system alludes towards an everyday object, the button, which is used to impose or imply formal association. Here the button is looked at in terms of materiality, not the physical, but rather its functionality and properties. The button-like panel systems consist of a button case, free-flowing joints, and low resolution projected shadows.”
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.”
Submission #359 | Dana Barale Burdman: The Net Blvd — “The culture of the archive was produced by memory and destined to remain eternal. Currently, culture is based on a mutable process: the virtual is made up of representations and artificial simulations of the real, in real time. Everything is replicable, editable and expandable. The virtual derive-The new flâneur: The spaces are multiplied to be experienced online. Social networks redefine and restructure the physical space in which we move, our relationship with objects and with others.”
Submission #291 | Dinorah Martinez Schulte: Flextructure — “This project is dedicated to making an innovative proposal, redesigning a new strategy and structural system totally adaptable to any building scale and conditions, where the computational tools and technology are used to optimize a solution to the problems caused by a natural disaster. generate impact not only in architecture, but at the social level, by a new search for design strategies and structural criteria.”
Submission #286 | Anderson Beuting: Chapel Project — “Upon request for a renovation and amplification of an existing chapel, that could later be used independently from the building it was attached to, for weddings and celebrations to take place, the concept was to create a small piece of art in the middle of the city of Joinville.”
Submission #269 | Gary Polk: Ambivalent Object VI: Gigantic — “From Ptolemy to the Pixies, humans find both fascination and fear in the gigantic. Ironically, little attention has been paid to the form and shape of data centers, Iceland’s newest rapidly developing crop, which often combines geothermal dynamics with information architecture to be housed in gigantic volumes.”
Submission #267 | Elise Francis: Santuario alle Edicole Votive — “Secret Genoa waits patiently to be discovered. Over an eight-month period I have endeavored to explore Genoa’s well-kept (and sometimes unkempt) treasures. My design methodology is an architectural form of narrative collage inspired by the writing of Italo Calvino and Bruno Schulz. The city is understood as a dense space of intertwined and overlapping stories that can be (re)written using alternative narratives that reveal essential qualities of the city without relying on what may be considered strictly factual.”
Submission #219 | Peter Hsi: Inner Skyline — "Gentrification in Brooklyn have transformed the cultural representation by inviting and enriching the thinking of a better life. Carrying on with that new development in Brooklyn, I believe these changes needs to happen in a much smaller scale."
Submission #212 | Jose Coba: Nantou Waste Managment Project — "The proposal is motivated by the need of new and efficient infrastructure related with waste production inside traditional neighborhoods in China. By learning from their culture, needs, and consumption, the intervention tries to solve waste generation by creating urban and material solutions in order to created integrated and efficient communities."
Submission #211 | Celdin Fajardo: L-Nergy — "The aim of this project is to develop a material health monitoring system and demonstrate its capability to qualitatively and quantitatively assesses the performance of material in service. Light, Sound, and thermal that can detect and access the health of a user and improve life-threatening illnesses."
Gaetano Giardano, Emanuela Cammarata and Eleonora Gelardi: Tokyo Vertical Cemetery — The way the vertical cemetery presents itself differs greatly from the stereotypical compact texture of Shinjuku, in contrast it presents a totem for the city of Tokyo: a volcano. Detached from the land of the real of the living through a solid base, which accomodates the earthly activities, it becomes ethereal and impalpable thanks to the tensile structure to guard those who have gone on their last journey.
