Students: David Eskenazi
Studio Title: Hernan Diaz Alonso Vertical Fall 2012
Instructor: Hernan Diaz Alonso

“There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.” –Ad Reinhardt

This house generates distinctions from character. The distinct elements of a house, its apertures, ground, and domestic arrangement, are untied from the character of its forms: elegant, fat, and graphic.
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Students: Stefano Passeri
Studio Title: Hernan Diaz Alonso Vertical Fall 2012
Instructor: Hernan Diaz Alonso

Dust Breeding deals with the legibility of amorphous forms in a pseudo-familiar landscape. The forms and the landscape are independent of each other and are governed by independent rules. At the same time, what is initially mere coexistence, gradually determines unexpected moments of empathy resulting in new sets of relationships.
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Students: Liz von Hasseln, Kyle von Hasseln
Studio Title: Graduate Thesis Summer 2012
Instructor: Peter Testa & Devyn Weiser

This work is centered on the development of a system for generating material volume from streaming information. The system uses UV light from a modified DLP projector to continuously and selectively cure photo initiated resin within a shallow vat system we developed for the project. The cured part is simultaneously and continually pulled away from the vat, allowing un-cured resin to flood in beneath it to be subsequently cured.
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Students: Alberto Alfonso
Studio Title: Wiscombe Vertical Fall2012 – ESTm/EMBEDDED SUPERCOMPONENT
Instructor: Tom Wiscombe

Strong figures are embedded in a bigger Form “The Sack”, advancing the “Box in the Box “ and the “Sectional Object” typology and leading to the definition of SuperComponents that establish, thanks to their different behave, a new series of relations between themselves and the Sack. Towards a conception of Design features that are alway less categorized and much more Fused together leading to a Hybrid Typology.
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Students: Anass Benhachmi, William Hu,Viola Ago, David Eskenazi, Ryan Tyler Martinez, Alex Phi, Rafael Ruiz, Philippe Arias, Scott Starr, Chris Jimenez, Zhexiong Hu, Shitong Zhang, Jack Gaumer, Nicholas Barger, Rangel Karaivanov, Andrew Kragness, Chheng Lim, Matthew Asfaw, Jung Huang, Brian Harms, Haejun Jung, Yuying Chen, Daniela Arriagada, Antonio Follo, Kervin Lau, Maria Setaro, Simon Alvarez, Naomi Scully
Studio Title: Kruysman-Proto Applied Studies Fall 2013 – Eye,Robot
Instructor: Brandon Kruysman / Jonathan Proto

“Eye, Robot” focuses on the intersection of computation, robotic fabrication, and cinematography. The course will explore robotic motion control as a creative medium for designers, mainly through the use of the custom robotic animation software platform, designed specifically for the SCI-Arc Robot House.
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