SuperStudio is a national competition designed to develop studio culture, provide networking opportunities between different universities and study years, and promote critique and analysis of topical subjects. The competition is organised by SONA, the student group of the Australian Institute of Architects.
BRIEF
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 retreatinto 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 architecturefast, 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.
THE PROPOSAL
The very essence of this competition was to urge architects to question and re-think our perception of architecture. Should architecture be limited to the built forms ? How can architecture transcend beyond the physical realm?
In response , we approach this matter with with a broad and curoius mind; and proposed that the architecture of tomorrowland should oscillate between representatiom and reaslisation, experience and expertise. We proposed that future architecture is a tangible yet immaterial sub-architecture that defines new dynamicspatial conditions within existing environment. This spatial conditions which is mismatch between the actually perceived and the unexpected conceives an architecture that is multisensory and multiperspective.
