SCI-Arc
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SCI-Arc, an independent, accredited degree-granting institution, offers undergraduate and graduate programs. An educational laboratory, SCI-Arc tests the limits of architecture in order to transform existing conditions into the designs for the future. With its location in a quarter-mile-long former freight depot in the intensely urban Artist District in downtown Los Angeles, SCI-Arc provides a uniquely inspiring environment in which to study architecture. An integral part of the emerging cultural hub of a city with a tradition of architectural experimentation, the school is devoted to finding radically new responses to the real needs and aspirations of today's world. It is distinguished by the vibrant atmosphere of its studios, where some 500 students and 80 faculty members&emdash;mostly practicing architects&emdash;work together in a fluid, non-hierarchical manner, re-examining assumptions and exploring and testing new ideas through making.
Alexis Rochas
FAB pavillion
Combining air pressure
and high-strength fabrics as a tectonic solution for the
creation of minimal mass self-sustaining structures, the
design engages notions of scalability, rapid assembly and
ephemeral logistics.
AIR/AEROMADS
The SCI-Arc Community
Outreach and Design Build Programs is pleased to present 99%
AIR/AEROMADS by Los Angeles-based architect Alexis Rochas.
The AEROMADS project outlines an architectural system that
combines air pressure and high-strength intelligent fabrics
as a tectonic solution for the creation of minimal mass,
self-sustaining structures. Unplugged and detached from
source networks, AEROMADS is a discreet architectural unit
that utilizes air pressure as a tectonic resource and
building material, and sets out to explore the nomadic
applications of groundless architectonics. images
