With the anticipated growth of Manhattan within the next decade the studio set out by working through spatialised conceptions of making something 'a little larger'. The artificially constructed category of 'not necessarily spatial' served as the frame to the two driving concepts; the idea of something like a thick digital drawing pad that necessitates more than one person interacting with it at the same time, and the idea of intensifying the architecture on a site with a limited spatial boundary. This intensification was not seen in terms of making physically larger or saturated experience, but rather constructing precise mathematical formulations, whose invented logics became the material of construction of the thick drawing pad - enabling a drawing that constantly evolves and changes in and of itself - a drawing where there is no need of (re)presentation, but in which things happen sometimes by themselves, always 'at the same time' and with absolute immediacy.

Multi-platforms - of 'drawing/painting/image making into architecture, and back again' - allowed the discourse to be taken away from contemporary use of 'teamwork' or 'collaboration', and more towards the strategic relation of 'more than one' and 'more of the same.' This was a questioning of not only how 'new onto existing' can be thought about differently - outside of spatial or spatialised relations - but also the specific ways in which to construct thought processes which actively critique contemporary language of generative, evolutionary, growth, parametric, etc.


Deniz Idil Erdemli
Martin Henn
Kyung Sic Kim
Andres Mier-Y-Teran Lopez
Prae Lorvidhaya
Thanassis Manis
Ciro Miguel
Yuri Miyamoto
Matthew Pauly
Haripriya Rangarajan
Xin Wang