NEWS
Student work that recasts emergency-shelter architecture as a deployable high-rise is featured by eVolo magazine and design weblog Inhabitat.
SCI-Arc students Adrian Ariosa and Doy Laufer created the Transient Response System (TRS-1) to provide immediate large-scale shelter to victims of natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods in cities like Jakarta.
Their proposal involves a seven-step strategy, in which a vehicle called The Mastodon, delivers an infrastructural base, on which a tower is quickly assembled as for residents. Following the city's recovery, the TRS-1 can become a permanent building in the city or be moved and redeployed.
A student project which places a cricket stadium atop a skyscraper in India is featured in architecture blog Design Daily. SCI-Arc students Mike Lamprides and Matthew Graham created their cricket stadium-skyscraper concept as a requirement for a studio taught last fall by faculty member Darin Johnstone. The two used their classroom project to compete in eVolo magazine's 2010 International Skyscraper Competition.
Read the Design Daily blog post >>
Fellow senior colleagues Ryohei Koike (B.Arch '10) and Jarod Poenisch (B.Arch '10) were awarded third prize in eVolo's competition. Read the story about the Koike-Poenisch project >>
An installation of student work resulting from two seminars led by Elena Manferdini and Ilaria Mazzoleni of SCI-Arc, will be on display in Milan at the 2010 Fuori Salone taking place at the Nuova Accademia di Bele Arti, April 12-16th.
The exhibition, Inspired by Nature, includes design proposals and interpretations developed by SCI-Arc students in the Synthetic and Biomimetic Envelopes seminars taught by Manferdini and Mazzoleni this spring, as well as projects by students in the architecture program at Milan's Nuova Accademia di Belli Arti.
For this collective installation, the premise of the projects was to analyze and develop a unique relationship with the natural world, exploring design at different scales, to provide a variety of interpretations and design proposals.
Following the exhibit in Milan, the show will travel to other locations during the coming months.
The NABA gallery is located at Via Carlo Darwin 20 in Milan.
Read more in Italian publication Abitare >>
LOS ANGELES, January 11 - A group of SCI-Arc students, working under the guidance of faculty member Heather Flood, submitted proposals to a design competition hosted by Wherever the Need — a non-profit that works to provide access to clean water for sanitation purposes to communities throughout India and Africa.
The juried competition - created by architect Ron Goldman, FAIA of Goldman, Firth and Rossi in association with WTN USA - was open to students of SCI-Arc, OTIS and USC.
Several of them received top awards in the three categories of the competition: (1) Temporary facilities for disaster relief situations; (2) Permanent facilities for a single family; and (3) Permanent facilities for a community.
Awards received by SCI-Arc students:
HONOR AWARD (single designs category)
Ruben Alejandre, Jeffrey Kuruvilla, and Kainoa Westermark
HONOR AWARD (community design category)
Nina Handelman and Michael He
MERIT AWARD (community design category)
Anna Androsova, Janica Ley, Melody Nazareno
CITATION AWARD (community design category)
Nanao Shimizu and Dohnbi Kim
CITATION AWARD (community design category)
Hector Campagna Oliveros
The student proposals will be exhibited at the A+D Museum in January and February 2010. The opening date is to be determined.
An exhibition of SCI-Arc student work from the spring 2009 Japan Studio opens Friday, November 13, in the small gallery north of the W.M. Keck Lecture Hall.
The exhibition consists of the studio design project,"A New Bunraku Puppet Theatre," located in Osaka. Also exhibited will be material from seminars held in Kyoto and Tokyo, dealing with various aspects of both traditional and contemporary Japanese culture. Material documenting an extensive tour taken by the students is also included.
Led by faculty member Greg Walsh, a group of eight SCI-Arc students spent 15 weeks in Japan this past spring.
SCI-Arc students Thomas Cheng, Adam Grove, Charles Liu and Richard Molina, coordinated by faculty member Ilaria Mazzoleni, are working on a feasibility study for the development of a pilot bike-sharing program to be implemented in the Wilshire Center District in Los Angeles. The research and feasibility plan are core deliverables for a seminar Mazzoleni teaches at SCI-Arc this fall, CRITICAL MASS: Exploring Design Solutions for Bike Sharing in Los Angeles.
The study and final master plan, with detailed locations for the bike stations, will be presented to the Wilshire Center Business Improvement District by mid-December. If approved and funded, the project could be the first bike-sharing system implemented in the city of Los Angeles.
The first in a series of project discussions open to the public is scheduled Tuesday, November 3, 7pm, at AIA Los Angeles (3780 Wilshire Blvd). Visitors must RSVP at will@aialosangeles.org (limited capacity)
SCI-Arc students Christopher Barker, Tada Ryvola and Michael Sandstrom form the winning team in a campus-wide competition held early this year to design and build a new stage and podium for the school’s W.M. Keck Lecture Hall.
The winning entry emphasized issues of flexible use and mobility, with a design for a mechanized, collapsing stage that could be easily wheeled to other parts of the school. Currently under construction, the project utilizes reclaimed aerospace hydraulics, pallet-jack parts and wood from shipping pallets. Completion is slated for December 2009.
The W.M. Keck Lecture Hall hosts SCI-Arc’s lecture series, faculty talks and other public programs organized by the school. www.sciarc.edu/lectures.php
Making + Meaning: The Summer Foundation in Architecture is having an Information Session for interested applicants on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 from 4-6pm in the W.M. Keck Lecture Hall.
RSVP:
SCI-Arc Admissions Office
admissions@sciarc.edu
or
213.356.5320
For more information online about Making + Meaning, click here.
The $4,000 Scholarship was made possible through a generous grant from the national American Institute of Architects/American Architectural Foundation (AIA/AAF). This grant, awarded to the San Diego Architectural Foundation for the third straight year, reinforces the national AIA’s beliefs that the investment to support the education of future architectural professional is a crucial part of its mission.
The Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship program was created in 1984 following the death of an award-winning and inspirational fellow architect, Steve Ladislaus who died in 1980. Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $31,000 in scholarships to twenty-nine uniquely qualified students who possessed the talent, enthusiasm and dedication to architecture and design that Steve Ladislaus pursued, until his death at age 33.
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This day is designed for prospective undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to our programs, our faculty and students, and the SCI-Arc experience as a whole. We hope you can join us!
Schedule of Events
12:15-12:30pm: Check-in at W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
12:30-1:00pm: Welcome & SCI-Arc Overview
1:00-2:00pm: Q&A Sessions with Faculty (by Program)
2:00-3:00pm: Observation of Midterm Reviews
3:00-3:30pm: Break
3:30-4:00pm: Q&A Session with Students
4:00-4:45pm: Campus Tours
4:45-5:45pm: Optional Financial Aid Session
7:00pm Opening Reception for the Oyler Wu Collaborative exhibit, Live Wire
SCI-Arc Gallery
Please RSVP to the Admissions Office:
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