SUPER CREEP
Academic Project, UCLA (2013)
Critic: Jason Payne, UCLA
In collaboration with Trenman Yau and Ryan Hong
Formal Analysis of Archigram/David Green’s Living Pod (1966)
Model: 3/8"=1'-0"
Honors: UCLA Gallery Exhibition and Colloquium in 2013, "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps"
The strangeness of the Living Pod is its desire to disguise, like a caveman dressing as an astronaut. Its ability to mask itself is precisely what makes it relevant within architectural discourse. Its precedent is the Spray Plastic House. The two are derived from the same formal strategy, a cave enveloped by a shell. However, the Spray House never pretends to be anything other than what it is, but the Living Pod presents itself as a futuristic object via the accumulation of abstract machines. In reality it is a primitive, utilitarian object. While it is meant to develop a nomadic lifestyle, it cannot move but only level itself. Next, despite the vision of reproducibility and stacking, the Pod lacks any form of precision or modularity. Lastly, the machines in which it is covered are simultaneously a mask and an enabler of the primitive cave like form of the interior space.
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Critic: Jason Payne, UCLA
In collaboration with Trenman Yau and Ryan Hong
Formal Analysis of Archigram/David Green’s Living Pod (1966)
Model: 3/8"=1'-0"
Honors: UCLA Gallery Exhibition and Colloquium in 2013, "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps"
The strangeness of the Living Pod is its desire to disguise, like a caveman dressing as an astronaut. Its ability to mask itself is precisely what makes it relevant within architectural discourse. Its precedent is the Spray Plastic House. The two are derived from the same formal strategy, a cave enveloped by a shell. However, the Spray House never pretends to be anything other than what it is, but the Living Pod presents itself as a futuristic object via the accumulation of abstract machines. In reality it is a primitive, utilitarian object. While it is meant to develop a nomadic lifestyle, it cannot move but only level itself. Next, despite the vision of reproducibility and stacking, the Pod lacks any form of precision or modularity. Lastly, the machines in which it is covered are simultaneously a mask and an enabler of the primitive cave like form of the interior space.
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FLOOR PLAN
EXHIBITION PHOTOS
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