CNN’ Rachel Crane recently visited AUD’s Hyperloop SUPRASTUDIO led by Professor Craig Hodgetts.
HYPERLOOP SUPRASTUDIO FACTS
What is the Hyperloop?
Hyperloop is a unique transportation technology based on centuries-old pneumatic tube principles, promising to provide ultra-clean, ultra safe, affordable, intra-urban travel at super-high speed. It will achieve these goals by employing a high-tech mix of physics, material science, and highly efficient engineering principles to minimize its impact on the environment while offering trip times as short as thirty minutes between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Hyperloop concept, like most transforming innovations, is not an elaboration on existing technologies, it is a comprehensive new system-wide, highly integrated transportation utility. There is no precedent that exists for this new transportation system including station design, right-of-way, capsule movement along the tracks, or even how to address safety regulations.
The Hyperloop, like the internet and the smart phone ten to fifteen years ago, will represent the coming together of technologies never before employed into mass transportation.
UCLA’s Hyperloop SUPRASTUDIO with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. Powered by JumpStartFund in conjunction with engineers and expert consultants are having a meaningful critical discussion to begin the process to impact the way we think about high-speed transit tube systems for the future.
SUPRASTUDIO
UCLA’s HYPERLOOP SUPRASTUDIO is a platform for critical appraisal, analysis, and research leading to the creation of an innovative, global way to develop a practical and passenger friendly transit tube system.
Under the direction of architecture and urban design professor Craig Hodgetts, students in the 2014–15 M.S.AUD SUPRASTUDIO program will contemplate where stations in major cities could be based, what the urban planning around those areas might look like, what design solutions could enhance the experience for travelers (as it relates to station design, vessel design and local transportation options to and from Hyperloop stations) and how such a project could be brought to life.
SUPRASTUDIO 2014–15 is part of AUD’s IDEAS, a platform for cross-disciplinary research and collaborations among students, faculty and industry partners that questions, challenges and expands the current parameters of architectural practice. IDEAS is located at the Hercules Campus in Playa Vista, Calif., the historic site where Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose aircraft in the 1940s.
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