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Submission #368 | Inca Hernandez: "MM34" - Mar Mediterraneo 34 — “‘MM34’ designed by Inca Hernandez, is a rehabilitation, restoration and intervention project applied in a historical house, built in 1910, during the Porfiriato, with a Frenchified eclectic style, located in Colonia Tacuba, considered one of the magical neighborhoods of Mexico City.”
Submission #367 | Mateo Mantilla: THE BRANCH — “ The corner of Congress & Drayton St. (Savannah, GA) served as a parking lot located next to BB&T. The emptiness of this space made the surrounding buildings considerably bigger and heavier which made this side of Johnson Square a very uncomfortable place to be. The contrast between the lightness and comfort in the square and the heaviness of the site inspired this project, which has the intention to unify the opposing concepts of heaviness and lightness through its architecture and materiality.”
Submission #366 | Poyao Shih: Bifurcate: Rethinking Taipei Railway Museum — “This thesis challenges existing models of traditional preservation by introducing the idea of the formal difference between old and new, public and private space. The introduction of formal difference into the renovation creates new spatial conditions within the existing structure which can then be viewed with a new perspective. The project deals with the renovation of a railway factory located in Taipei, Taiwan, which was the largest workshop of Taiwan Railways Administration.”
Submission #365 | Ernesto Medina: Castelvecchio Composite — “After visiting and photographing this 14th-century castle restored by the great Carlo Scarpa in the 1950s, an analytical drawing was produced in order to understand the many motifs carried out by the architect when renovating this military construction in order for it to now work as a museum; one that would not only reflect history through the exhibits on display but also through the exposed architectural details of the building itself.”
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 #363 | Matteo Gawlak, Riccardo Gialloreto, Eren Gazioglu, and Cristiano Gerardi: Resilient City — “Evolve and adapt urbanity to the new natural conditions and climate-changing: a wireframe ecosystem that creates a new reality above old cities. Allow nature to follow its process and reclaim its space. Introduce a new idea of resiliency that is not only related to the landscape but to the architecture and way to build itself.”
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 #361 | Renzo Lopez: Plug-In City 2.0 — “The tower located in Skid Row Los Angeles is composed of 220 unit berths and is populated by a series of hour based deployable housing and office/work modules which allow the user to only pay for the direct amount of time being occupied. Within this system, the original otherwise fixed 220 unit berths are given a double occupancy throughout the cycle of a single day.”
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 #358 | Daniel Anderi and Drew Pederson: Gugalun House — “STRICKBAU - "knitted construction" Peter Zumthor creates a seamless connection to this remote site through knitted wood construction between an existing original 1708 cabin and the 1994 addition. Located in Versam Switzerland, Zumthor is careful to preserve the existing building and landscape through his use of detailed joinery, selection of wood, and signature “knitted” approach.”
Submission #357 | Andreas Tsenis: Rural Town Community Wellness Center — “A proposed support center for a rural town in Northern Michigan. The support center embraces the use of layers or skins that form spaces and add a level of transparency to each space that can adopt to the different needs of the spaces. The integrated seating in the structures allows the user to observe and receive the environment in which it is situated in.”
Submission #356 | Christian Verde Mendoza: Iconic Leaning Towers — “ Iconic Leaning Towers Hybrid architecture project | tower A: culture program, Tower B: office and leisure program, Tower C: vertical gym. (Tower A and B United for a floating auditorium). Workshop.”
Submission #355 | Enric Ballera: U9 Umeå Pump Station — “Deconstruction of the largest wastewater pump station in Umeå.”
Submission #354 | Jakob Krauss, Alexander Jerosch-Herold, Micha Kretschmann: Stadthaus Bonn — “As the former capital of West Germany, Bonn is one of many European cities faced with the question of how to reurbanise itself. But what do we mean when we talk about reurbanisation? In our work, we interpret »reurbanisation« as the endeavor to reintegrate the functionally segregated city and the coexistence within it that have been lost as a result. In Bonns’ topographical and administrative heart lies the »Stadthaus« [City Hall].”
Submission #353 | Rotem Guy: Gilbert & George House — “Gilbert & George House is an interior decoration project inspired by the British Pop artists Gilbert Passmore and George Proesch. The couple is known, among other things, for their big scale photographs, titled ‘THE PICTURE’. Those works deal with the complex relations between the individual – the frame – and space, while examining interrelations between documenting reality and creating fantasy. Decomposing their works and identifying the different components enabled the creation of a formally, graphically and functionally empowered explicit space.”
Submission #352 | Camille Vigil and Giovanni Casalini: Rwanda Chapel; “Our project was a submission for the international competition by Young Architects Competition called Rwanda Chapel. Our project was awarded the ranking of Finalist as judged by the jury, comprised of Eduardo Souto de Moura, Tatiana Bilbao, Peter Eisenman, Sean Godsell, Jean Paul Uzabakiriho, Simon Frommenwiler, Sol Madridejos, Walter Mariotti, and Andrew Boeri.”
Submission #350 | Ghaith Alrahwanji: Museum of the Syrian Civil War: “The aim of the museum is to showcase the major impacts from the heavy war through architectural representations in this beautiful old building. A story telling of an ongoing story. Please note that this project is not a memorial, it is not a biased approach toward any political views, or anything related to ethics or cult or a group of people.”
Submission #349 | Jonathan Ben David: Terra Nullius: “Terra Nullius is situated at the southern coast of the city of Jaffa, once a busy Arab metropolis, and today a poverty stricken neighborhood on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, undergoing dramatic gentrification. The projects aims to trace the traditional violence stirring identities of the middle east, and replace them with alternative frame of reference in which individuals can gather upon, no matter of nationality or religious belief.”
Submission #348 | Suzi Pain: Adaptive Design, City Thresholds: “This is one of my student projects from 2013. This project explores the design of an adaptable building. The idea is that an adaptable building is a generic structure capable of adapting to a range of different programmes over time.”
