Chicago Union Station | Todd Swanson + Louie Boffil

October 7, 2015 by bg-martin

Chicago Union Station by Todd SWANSON + Louie BOFILL | SCI-Arc The project centres around Chicago’s Union Station, a complex shared between a historic terminal and a mid-high-rise office building overlooking the Chicago River. The abstract addresses the continuing problem of a public space in decline due to its subterranean concourse and dark enclosed spaces, and creates a hub for a future high speed rail intersecting the city. The initial project redefines the space by retrofitting the tower with a hexagonal […]

Categories: Academia, Architecture, Design Research • Tags: 3D Modelling, architecture, Chicago, context, design, Louie Boffil, office building, public space, Rendering, SCI-Arc, structural system, Todd Swanson, tower

BLUSH | Viola Ago

October 3, 2015 by bg-martin

BLUSH by Viola Ago | Los Angeles, CA // SCI-Arc // Critic: Elena Manferdini This is a focused obsession of color and facial expression in architecturalizing the theatrical behaviour of blushing. The ambition is to have the blush belong to the materiality of the architecture as it brings faciality into the behaviour of the skin. diagrams-wasp – Horizontal The blush is a response to the attention paid to surface in architecture, particularly the post-modern attempt of expressive fac­ades, but without […]

Categories: Academia, Digital • Tags: academia, architecture, SCI-Arc

DrawDEL Strands | Nikita Troufanov + Gonzalo Padilla

August 23, 2015 by bg-martin

DrawDEL Strands: An Experiment in the Oscillation of Materiality Nikita Troufanov and Gonzalo Padilla SCI-Arc Los Angeles, California | 2010 “Representation can be thought of as the place of articulation between architectural practice and theory. It is precisely in such moments of change where critical thought and new theories are produced and practice is radically restructured. What makes representation a crucial field in the understanding of architecture is the mediated character of representation itself. — Stan Allen DrawDEL Strands // […]

Categories: Academia, Fabrication, Modelmaking • Tags: academia, fabrication, materiality, modelmaking, SCI-Arc

Aggregated Figure | Sarah Månsson + Federico Pessani

August 22, 2015 by bg-martin

Aggregated Figure — The City as Folded Blocks Sarah Månsson + Federico Pessani Los Angeles, CA The project took its starting point from the deformation and aggregation of the Cerdá block. The deformation of the original block, by means of folding, establishes new relationships between parts of the individual blocks, and between separated blocks as they start to aggregate to form a larger figure. The concept of aggregation thus leads to the definition of a new urban form, while still […]

Categories: Academia, Architecture • Tags: academia, architecture, SCI-Arc