METRO

UCLA Core Studio
Fall, 2018
Location: Siteless
Prof. Claus Benjamin Freyinger

In our first studio we began with a material exploration of sculpey. I started worked with an interest in the physics behind sculpey’s natural inclination to be both structural and not structural enough. I then produced an arch that out of another material would be stage but out of sculpey naturally re organized its pieces into a stable state.

The re organization of these pieces combined with an emphasis on describing the inherent features in the sculpey resulted in a project understanding the metro station as a location where these new forms landed and organized themselves in the most stable way.

Shown are the pieces, models, photos, and renderings all conflating and re interpreting the features of the sculpey. The final asserts its new structural logics on an inground metro site. This creates a natural and at the same time artificial architecture.

METRO

Morgan Jacobs