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Dave Pigram and Dane Voorderhake
This, the second SuperRoof studio, is dedicated to extending the techniques and concepts of computational design in architecture with a specific focus on responding to the climate crisis. The studio seeks to take up the search for post-carbon, and post-comfort forms while aiming to prove that serious formal investigation and serious programmatic investigation are not mutually exclusive. We will begin with the hypothesis that the negotiation of competing demands and desires in order to seek integration, differentiation and hybridity is a fertile path towards the production of architecture that is novel, spatially and experientially rich and high performing. To focus the enquiry, students will produce highly articulated architectural projects (almost) without walls, focussing on pushing the limits of what can be achieved via a highly differentiated, spatially complex roof. The roof (taken here to include the ceiling), is a strategic choice, as it is the one element that is entirely obliged to serve simultaneously as structure and enclosure and has the potential to engage with spatial definition, programme, lighting, storytelling, context, and much more. It will also usefully avoid many of the conventional ways of approaching programmatic organisation. Each project will take-on one of a list of typologies that have a proven history of yielding canonical architectural projects: Gallery, Library, Museum, Market, Place of Worship, Sports Hall, Thermal Baths, School.