http://aapassociation.org Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:07:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Personal favorite. A pavilion in Ithaca built entirely out of scaffolding that is specified from construction companies. The temporary elevator is fetishized for its industrial utility. First image is portfolio page, second is actual plot used in Seipp Memorial Prize Competition. Lester S. Yu B. Arch ‘09 Spring 2007, Third Year Design ... http://aapassociation.org/?p=1060 I like to think that this one was heavily influenced by Raphael but it doesn't really make for a good narrative... Apart from that I guess it should be noted that triangles make for super inefficient plans but they sure look cool! Lester S. Yu B. Arch ‘09 Spring 2007, Third Year ... http://aapassociation.org/?p=1042 A predatory insertion and new entryway into the Capitoline museums of Rome. Contra posta is heavily employed to introduce a new addition -part building, part landscape into one of the historically most densely layered sites in Rome, Italy. Lester S. Yu B. Arch '09 Spring 2008, Fourth Year Rome Design Studio Critics: Francesco ... http://aapassociation.org/?p=1023 This project uses the topological capacity of a game as an organizational device in architectural design. The first phase is to design a garden of 60000 sf. Game: 3d cousin of tic-tac-toe. Capacity: dictate relationship between pieces by nodes and links. Site: A transformation of the game is used to create a ... http://aapassociation.org/?p=1008 http://aapassociation.org/?p=997 The studio imagined Fiber Placement Technology as an alternative future of building production and methodology.  The placement of each composite fiber is computationally controlled to optimize structural and programmatic requirements throughout the material of the pavilion.  Therefore the architectural effect is an elegant hybrid of spatial performance. Marc Mintsioulis, M.Arch. I http://aapassociation.org/?p=983           panel 1 panel 2 panel 2 fiber pattern by processing studio with fiber composite material. http://aapassociation.org/?p=965 xiang-zhangdrawing1xiang-zhangdrawing2 http://aapassociation.org/?p=959 [caption id="attachment_952" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="By Moran Nachum and Illika Sahu"][/caption] http://aapassociation.org/?p=953 Our term project for CRP1101 was to explore Urban Agriculture through images of life in cities. In addition to the posters presented here, we also wrote an extensive term paper on the subject. Our research involved Urban Agriculture and its effects on community health, sustainability, development, and economics, as ... http://aapassociation.org/?p=934 Cemetery Towers located on E. Houston between Bowery and 1st Ave.  There is an amazing ramen place nearby. Credit : Kevin Lim, Wendy Tsai, Gary He Critics : Inaki Abalos, Urtzi Grau AAP NYC Spring 08 http://aapassociation.org/?p=928 [caption id="attachment_919" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Tanker Settlement, 2067"][/caption] A screaming came across the sky….. In the post- apocalyptic scenario the carcass of a beached oil supertanker becomes the basis for a complex human ecology. The structure is communally re- appropriated, erected vertically and embedded in the shore of a former metropolitan port. The ... http://aapassociation.org/?p=923