Course: SUPRASTUDIO Lynn, SUPERAEROROBOSPATIAL MOTION:
Greg Lynn, Professor with Julia Koerner, Lecture
The SUPRASTUDIO begins with the assumption that robotic technology might
contribute to a dynamic spatial experience. Boeing collaborated with the studio
as a thought leader, enabling the students to work in partnership with an industry
who is in the business of innovating and thinking decades into the future as a
core aspect of their business. This provoked the studio to formulate concepts
and develop design proposals that engaged innovation and conceptual thinking
about robotics beyond replacing menial tasks or increasing complexity through
precision. In addition, the fact that Boeing is in the business of motion has made
this a vibrant collaboration.
Despite all the moving parts in any building; from doors and windows to
elevators, architecture assumes that people and things move while buildings
remain static. One of the ways people are provoked to move is by spatial
inflection and formal gestures. This idea of buildings being imbued with
dynamism is an old idea. When deciding what small percentage of a room
moves the question of the relationship between the moving elements and the
static elements was posed at the outset. A main focus of the year was the
relationship between literal motion and phenomenal motion. The studio explored
reorientation and movement of spaces and rooms at a variety of scales but
always from the inside out.
Each student worked individually on three projects during the year: the first an
abstract motion study; the second rethinking an aircraft factory hangar using
alternative moving rooms and structures; and the third one of four building types
that can be transformed by the use of a small percentage of moving room(s).
Students: Keith Berry, Michael Duran, Mingru He, Aidi Ma, Oleg Mikhalik,
Jacqueline Perez, Mohammad Poustinchi, Sima Shahverdi, Baichuan Song,
Ismaeil Soto, Mark Billanueva, Kaiji Yan
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