‘Hidden Infrastructures – Cultural Edition’ is an exploration into the novel, playful, and critical discourse of architectural disguise, related to topics of data and fossil fuel (oil) in cities and suburban neighborhoods. With a focus on LA28, the cultural programming and institutional architectural typography, this edition of “hidden infrastructures” studio focuses on the urban and adaptive reuse of brown sites to challenge the cultural and architectural discourse.
Premised on data as the new form of oil, this thematic research studio challenges the contemporary American (or, perhaps international) “vernacular architecture”, through the S, M, L, XL lens of hidden infrastructures embedded into our phygital world.
“The true vernacular architecture, at least in my opinion, in the United States, is the trailer, or the module, or the mobile house.” – Paul Rudolph Institute of Modern Architecture
As architects, we often build physical spaces and megastructures that host various infrastructural and architectural typographies. Through the study of various architectural buildings and paradigms, we will look at how to convert, conceal, reveal, and challenge buildings that veil their original intentions.
