LINK TO SUPRASTUDIO 2013/2014 BLOG

check out the new LYNN SUPRASTUDIO BLOG
http://www.aud.ucla.edu/programs/m_arch_ii_degree_1/studios/2013_2014/lynn/

RUMBLE SUPRASTUDIO 10/11th JUNE

FINAL JURY SUPRASTUDIO

Sylvia Lavin
Heather Roberge
Thom Mayne
Sunil Bald
Brian Boigon
Cameron Wu
Matt Shaw
Ciro Najle

SUPRASTUDIO TRAILER 2012/2013

SUPRASTUDIO TRAILER from David Stamatis on Vimeo.

GALLERY SPACE 10 JUNE at UCLA

check out the gallery exhibition of SUPRASTUDIO 2012/2013

RUMBLE FINAL REVIEWS AND EXHIBITION UCLA

SUPRASTUDIO FINAL REVIEW - MASSES IN MOTION
11th JUNE 2-6pm GALLERY SPACE

http://www.aud.ucla.edu/news/rumble_2013_273.html

PRECEDENT RESEARCH

STUDENTS CREATED THIS PRECEDENT RESEARCH TO STUDY MOVEMENT IN ARCHITECTURE

COMPOSITES AND ARCHITECTURE

http://compositesandarchitecture.com/?p=1555

Innovative techniques were developed for the production of 27 sliding domes for the Prophet‘s Holy Mosque in Medinah.

STUDIO VISIT JIM GOLDSTEIN HOUSE

Sheats Goldstein Residence designed by architect John Lautner 1963 on Angelo View Drive in Hollywood - A precedence for ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE with many moving elements

HOTEL SITE VISIT 13/04/05

LINK TO MAP

figueroa hotel

http://www.figueroahotel.com

939 S. Figueroa Street

Los Angeles CA 90015

standard hotel

http://standardhotels.com/downtown-la

550 South Flower at Sixth Street

Los Angeles CA 90071

builtmore hotel

http://www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumbiltmorelosangeles/

506 S Grand Ave  

Los Angeles, CA 90071

omni hotel

http://www.omnihotels.com

251 S Olive St, 

Los Angeles, CA 90012

bonaventure hotel 

http://www.thebonaventure.com

404 South Figueroa Street

cocktails with Greg in the rotating bar

NIKE 3D printed shoes

http://www.dezeen.com/2013/03/04/nike-vapor-laser-talon-3d-printed-football-boot-studs-by-nike/

Sports brand Nike has unveiled the first boots for American football players with 3D-printed studs. Nike's Vapor Laser Talon boots are fitted with a footplate made by selective laser sintering, a process that uses lasers to fuse small particles of material together. With laser sintering, Nike's designers were able to prototype the boots much faster than usual and make updates as they went along. In future, boots could be individually shaped for each player. The 3D-printed footplate also makes the boot extremely light, weighing in at 158 grams, and improves traction on the turf to help players run faster. According to the sportswear company, the boots can markedly improve a player's "40-yard dash" time – the standard measure used by scouts to assess speed and ability.

David Stamatis_ Cirque Performance Space

DS from David Stamatis on Vimeo.



As Performance Space Typologies the Opera and Circus are on opposite ends of the typology spectrum. Cirque Du Soliel shows are a kind of a hybrid between the two.

In the plan of the Paris Opera House the figure ground of performance space compared to back of house, amenities, and procession is a very small proportion. In the Barnum & Baily Big Top plan there is the opposite effect with almost the entire plan devoted to performance space.

This project utilizes a moving element to fluidly transition between these typologies.


The first move was a typology shift as well as a formal idea. Called the TRI FLY.

So, here we take the traditional theater setup with flytower side and back stages and perform a series of operations. The first of which deletes the side stages and splits the flytower and backs stage into two.The second operation cants the flytowers and lifts the backstage chunks up in the air. The last operation cants the substage to create a third diagonal fly that comes from below the ground.

This gives the performance hall the advantage of three separate multi-use backstage areas with direct diagonal access to the hall.


As a visitor to the performance center you have three options in terms of seeing a show. The first is that you pay for a normal ticket and go directly from the bifurcated lobby to the performance hall and watch the show from conventional seats. The second option would be just to enter the public restaurant and lounge side of the building and you would see the back stage performance with a few glimpses into the hall as the grid moves open and closed. The third option would be to go see the first show of the night as a backstage show while eating dinner then going to see the second show in the hall.

Greg speaking at Taubman College

Greg Lynn, Greg Lynn FORM; Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design from Taubman College on Vimeo.

CELENE LEHRER - Cirque Du Soleil Theater

Video Presentation

This project is a nod to historical outdoor theaters, re-conceptualized through form and motion within the busy city.  Formally, there are two interacting systems: a faceted, semi-transparent skin that acts as envelope and provides noise reduction, and a secondary system that provides a partial black box, and becomes volumetric in order to create seating, stage, fly tower, sound booth, speakers, and truss systems for lighting and performers...  People get to experience walking under, around, and slipping through and into this system as it follows them throughout the theater.  At night, when the theater lights are on, glimpses of the performers, as well as the secondary system, show through to the city.  

Incorporated into the secondary system, the moving element of the building both engages with the city, as well as dives into the building itself, carving its motion path through the central core.  In its initial position as facade, it acts as marquee during the day.  As the performance approaches, it pivots open to become an awning, where theatergoers are able to experience this massive structure above head as they gather and enter the theater.  Once people take their seats, this portion of the building performs one last motion, as it raises back to facade and then penetrates the building, rotating into place as it becomes the main stage.   The issue of encloser is addressed with 2 layers of the semi-transparent skin, which sandwich the motion element.  Depending on the direction of the motion, the opposing slice remains in place. 

Plan

 Section

Context Photographs

 Detail Photographs

LAUREN RATH - "Skin Tight" Cirque du Soleil theater

Skin Tight: a circus from Lauren Rath on Vimeo.

Skin Tight brings the excitement and spectacle of the circus out onto the streets.  Masked in a costume of rubberized fabric, the building enacts its own performance—as a jumbo-sized street performer—animating during performances and rehearsals when mechanized interior stage elements and rooms poke into the elastic skin.  During off-hours, the building poses as tableau vivant, and is overtaken by an unnatural stillness, countered by the subtle, nearly-imperceptible motion of its protuberant bar and cafe.  

In action, the façade wrapper hints at the motions of the interior performance, without betraying the ulterior, much like peeking around the edge of a circus tent might exacerbate the sense of anticipation and curiosity about the show.  The façade is proportioned like a billboard.  It can transform from being completely blank to a raised state of hyper-relief, emphasizing the façade’s complicated history mediating sign and signified.

The exterior draws upon the iconic shape of the circus tent and the motion of “raising the bigtop”.  The interior is amassed like a contortionist in a box, turned onto itself.  Upon entering the building, guests follow a sequence of encounters with the supple building skin, its fixed internal walls, and the sliding stage elements and rooms, emphasizing the nested closeness and interiority of the building.  People will feel as though they are “inside the machine”, a world unto itself, drawn through the sequential spaces by anticipatory views of what’s next.  Space is choreographed through a sequential progression of experiential vignettes during the ascent from entry to foyer and into the theater.  Interspersed bar and café areas offer intersecting views across the atrium.  Drawer-like moving rooms dock against each other before a performance and during intermissions, condensing social encounters and highlighting amusements during non-performance times.  

Within the theater auditorium, the stationary audience is treated to an immersive theatrical spectacle.  The radical frontality of the traditional proscenium is countered by moving stage elements that emerge from behind and above the audience, punctuating the performance with anticipation and surprise.