Contemporary Architecture, Modern Design

Program:

Undefined

Building off our prior collaboration on the Super//Architects thesis call, “objectspace[s] +”,  Bryan Cantley, Owen Duross, Devin Gharakanian (co-founder of Super//Architects), & Martin Summers continued the work into the next phase of an ongoing project. The desire was to transform the cross-country collaborative drawing process into a call and response between 3D printed models, their virtual representation through renderings, and their translation through drawing as a conflation of 2d to 3d space. Both spaces are dishonest in that neither completely tell the full story, and require that observers engage the whole presentation to form their own narrative. This research was already being tested in architecture studios led by Martin Summers at the University of Kentucky College of Design, School of Architecture, where themes related to patterns as camouflage and glitch were projected back onto the digital models as a means to challenge formal legibility and singular solutions. This process began to emerge as a new research agenda under the umbrella title, “Patterns of Obfuscation.” Thompson Burry was a critical part of the Point of Departure project with Owen Duross, and was critical to the evolution of these ideas in the studio context – he naturally joined the continuation of the project through the summer and extended this research into this project. The research in Kentucky was combined with Bryan Cantley’s work in Southern California where he transforms the disciplinary conventions of notations through the products of architectural process (drawings and models) where the notations are not about how one would construct the architectural object, but how the notations challenge the translation of its “reality.” In addition to the melding of these agendas and team-members, we were fortunate to add Megan Maupin to our team through Devin Gharakanian’s forming a stronger relationship between Super//Architects and Formlabs, an emerging, high-resolution 3D printing company. Megan was working as an intern at Formlabs at the time, just prior to heading to MIT for her graduate education. With her addition to the team, we were able to work directly with her and Formlabs latest printer and materials to develop a workflow, test the tolerance of the tools, and to test print versions before the final