COMPETITION - SONA SUPERSTUDIO, 2012
SONA Superstudio is a 24 hour Australian and New Zealand nation-wide design competition that aims to refurbish studio culture, lay foundations for creative design solutions and assemble networks between students and the profession. Students are to work in team of three to prepare a 3 minutes presentation to deliver their idea or solution.
Question:
We architects and students of architecture are standing on shifting sands. The practice of architecture is moving into new territories beyond the old disciplinary boundaries. We must anticipate and interrogate the future for a mongrelised profession.
We architects and students of architecture are standing on shifting sands. The practice of architecture is moving into new territories beyond the old disciplinary boundaries. We must anticipate and interrogate the future for a mongrelised profession.
With the current stretching of architecture into new territories we can observe a concurrent and perverse retreat into architectural primitivism, limiting architecture to corporeal materiality. How will architects engage with the fast future while affirming material reality? What is your radical proposition for future culture, architecture, environment, and thought? What is the role of architecture in the coming centuries? Is the future of architecture fast, slow, ephemeral, digital, material, linguistic, political, economic, propositional, or dead?
SuperStudio 2012 requires you to materialise a future for architecture while engaging with the present. Entrants are asked to eschew objectivity and immerse themselves in a new critical practice. SuperStudio 2012 asks you for your personal architecture.
Proposal:
The project questions how we perceive architecture and our environments? Questions such as 'is physical materiality the only we can perceive our environment?' 'is architecture limited to only built forms?'
We approach the subject and the production of future achitectre as a broad and curious field that oscillates between representatiom and reaslisation, experience and expertise. The project proposes that architecture as an experience of multisensory and multiperspective, where physical realm is overlapped with the synthetic realm that is reconstructed based on rules and physical reality.
Team credit: Siew Moon Chow, Yee Von Low and Justin Tan
We approach the subject and the production of future achitectre as a broad and curious field that oscillates between representatiom and reaslisation, experience and expertise. The project proposes that architecture as an experience of multisensory and multiperspective, where physical realm is overlapped with the synthetic realm that is reconstructed based on rules and physical reality.
Team credit: Siew Moon Chow, Yee Von Low and Justin Tan
