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342 / Renzo Lopez and Richard Jaffe: Sensorial Ambiguity

342 / Renzo Lopez and Richard Jaffe: Sensorial Ambiguity

Maria Flores
students

Submission #342 | Renzo Lopez and Richard Jaffe: Sensorial Ambiguity — “Despite this long running inequality of marketing and promotion, during the 2016 Rio Olympic season the Paralympics broke worldwide audience records by eclipsing the audience of the main, heavily marketed Olympics by 500 million worldwide viewers to reach a total audience of 4.1 billion. Given this condition along with the hidden, underappreciated nature of the Paralympics, it is the goal of this Project to create a spatial experience which will promote and enhance the public perception of Paralympic athletes.”

325_Dan Whelan: Sanctuary for the Harrowed

325_Dan Whelan: Sanctuary for the Harrowed

Maria Flores
students

Submission #325 | Dan Whelan: Sanctuary for the Harrowed — “Since the beginning of human existence, people have been crafting spaces to house the processes of life and the inevitable event of death. These spaces range from monumental to economical, and display a vast array of cultural indicators, such as status and religion. While extremely diverse across the globe and universally significant, this typology has experienced less evolution through the centuries as its primary purpose of housing the dead has gone unchanged.”

136_Catalina Guerra: Comme des Garçons Boutique

136_Catalina Guerra: Comme des Garçons Boutique

Maria Flores
students

Submission #136 | Catalina Guerra: Comme des Garçons Boutique — "The concept that has led the design of this project is the ambiguity between the interior and the exterior objects. The ambivalent volume is created by the juxtaposition of the spaces created by the different objects. The super-component composite shell, as well as interior objects, ground condition, and articulation/tattoo work together to create the overall shape, but at the same time, they work against each other, creating uncertainty regarding the parts that integrate the discrete object provoking a sense of mysterious depth beyond the superficial qualities.

134_José María Rodríguez: A New Plant Store in Tokyo 

134_José María Rodríguez: A New Plant Store in Tokyo 

Maria Flores
students

Submission #134 | José María Rodríguez: A New Plant Store in Tokyo — "Mr. Sato is a widowed man of 60 years. He worked as a lawyer until a few months ago, when he decided to retire. However, his whole life was a passionate for plants. "It's time to build my dream," he told me.  Mr. Sato wants to meet people with the same interest. He wishes to offer them different spaces where they can share. He needs to live surrounded by those natural beings that make him happy."

6_Gaetano Giardano, Emanuela Cammarata and Eleonora Gelardi: Tokyo Vertical Cemetery

6_Gaetano Giardano, Emanuela Cammarata and Eleonora Gelardi: Tokyo Vertical Cemetery

Maria Flores
students

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.