Ballston Quarter Pedestrian Bridge studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Lead Designer
Practice FORM as a relationship between structure, movement and place.
Construction begins 2017
2017
CWRU Think[box] studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Design Team
Practice FORM as a resultant of a relationship to ‘making’
Completed
2015
CWRU Think[box] studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Design Team
Practice FORM as a resultant of a relationship to ‘making’
Completed
2015
CWRU Think[box] - Veale Connector studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Project Manager Lead Designer
Practice FORM as a resultant of a relationship to ‘making’ An exploration of Wildness vs. Parametricism
Completed
2015
Amenities Space studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Lead Designer
Practice FORM as a resultant of methods of habitation
Design Development
2015
Cincinnati Country Day School michael mcinturf ARCHITECTS Cincinnati, Ohio Design Team
Practice FORM as a resultant of programmatic and daylighting conditions
Under Construction
2014
Cincinnati Country Day School michael mcinturf ARCHITECTS Cincinnati, Ohio Design Team
Practice FORM as a resultant of programmatic conditions
Under Construction
2014
Xiamen Highrise Competition GBBN Architects Xiamen, China Design Team
Practice FORM as a resultant of urban conditions
First Prize
2012
Waterfront Highrise Competition GBBN Architects Quingdao, China Design Team
Practice FORM as a resultant of programmatic conditions
First Prize Under Construction
2012
Huangzhou Competition Musee des Confluences Coop-Himmelb[l]au Huangzhou + Lyon Design Team Model Team
Practice FORM is “Viva la CHBL”
Honorable Mention
2010
Editors’ Preface An authentic Navajo rug contains a single line of contrasting yarn - an intentional error – in order to distance itself from perfection, a quality that is deemed impossible for mortals to achieve. The mistake provides a way into and out of the object. The weaver confronts the equivalent of a contemporary architectural dilemma, acting as a gatherer of diverse strands, imparting just enough chaos or setting exactly the right limits in order to disassociate the product of his or her labor from an impossible - or entirely undesirable - normative condition. In this issue of Offramp we seek to interrogate what might remain as a tool, or tools, for producing the idiosyncratic in a technological era of increasing precision. The term tolerance has historically been defined in the practice of architecture as a degree of dimensional variation that takes into account variables that will affect the accuracy of construction. Woodwork may require tolerance as small as 1/64 inches whereas concrete footings can be acceptable within a variance of up to 2 inches. Through the digital turn we are capable of precision that was previously unattainable. The human eye, however, craves a degree of the imprecise, thus this “allowable amount of variation” has drifted from material application to the design process itself. The role of the architect has thereby shifted from acting as a decisive instrument to operating as the definer of constraining behaviors within a field of possibilities.
The projects presented in this issue are considered categorically as the effort afforded by multiple inputs within carefully considered rulesets. These rulesets pertain to tolerances of construction but also to aesthetic outcomes - be it through a glitch, the incorporation of solar data into the design process, or the use of interactive surfaces - the final result of which is not directly controlled. The disciplinary outlook on tolerance requires a lens through which we can navigate philosophical and aesthetic variation. The architectural discourse changes as it reacts to other disciplines such as art or philosophy. An alternate definition of tolerance in architecture emerges; it can be understood as an ability to resist intoxication. This can be beneficial to those attempting to have a conversation in the midst of the excessive forms of communication in contemporary society.
SCI-Arc Offramp 12: Tolerance SCI-Arc Editor Ghostwriter
The essays and texts included in this issue examine the relationship architectural discourse has with other disciplines and the effects on and of architecture. By shedding light on these relationships, Offramp 12 establishes new frameworks through which to view projects seeking such aesthetic variation. The Design Theory and Pedagogy Team Majeda Alhinai Garet Ammerman Wendy Cox Matthew Lopez Maria Penovi Pooyan Ruhi Ryan Scavnicky Henry Yang
Academic Offramp is the academic journal published by SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.
2016
Sucker Punch Studio DAAP Prof. Stephen Slaughter
Academic How can generative strategies and digital tools create novel form?
2011
Perverted Cube Sculpture Foundry Cincinnati, Ohio Farron Allen
Academic Can an intensely hand-crafted process reveal a deeper relationship between a digital form and our real, lived experience?
iMadeThat, 2015
2014
Speculation through Making Distractions Speculation and Exploration often involves Parti mistakes, sparks, distractions and unexplored Failed Prints ideas or forms. Sketches Girlfriends wearing your Prints as Earrings
Academic iMadeThat, 2015 Super // Architects 2014
Speculation through Making Distractions Speculation and Exploration often involves Parti mistakes, sparks, distractions and unexplored Failed Prints ideas or forms. Sketches 3D Scanned co worker wears your flooring tile Garment in Fashion Show
Academic iMadeThat, 2015 Super // Architects 2014
_JPEG2000 “Blurry Architecture” John Stoughton Quinn Kummer David Corns
Academic Speculative and ongoing project censors architecture so that it is “rated E for everyone” and provides commentary on the sexualization of design.
2015
Studio Bangarang 3D Printed Jewelry
Academic A line of 3D Printed Jewelry is for sale which is hand made in Germany, and designed in Cleveland under the umbrella of “Studio Bangarang�
Stilnest, 2015
2015
“In the Face of Decay I see Emerging Architectures� Rust Belt
Academic Documentation of instances of Decay becoming possible methodologies for architecture.
Pit Crit, 2015 Crit.Day, 2015 iMadeThat, 2015
2015
The Bangarang Contagion University of Cincinnati DAAP Thesis Michael McInturf Aaron Betsky
Academic Are the theories and warning signs behind the devolution of mankind beocming all too real in today’s placeless and increasingly digital culture?
Taller Al Cubo 2014 Pit Crit 2015 Critical MASS 2014 Lantern Journal 2014
2014
The Bangarang Contagion University of Cincinnati DAAP Thesis Michael McInturf Aaron Betsky
Academic Are the theories and warning signs behind the devolution of mankind beocming all too real in today’s placeless and increasingly digital culture?
Taller Al Cubo 2014 Pit Crit 2015 Critical MASS 2014 Lantern Journal 2014
2014