Superstudio: Hybris Drawings
This Superstudio explores the intersection of digital and analogue methodologies through hybrid drawings, pushing the limits of representation and architectural speculation.
The focus is on composite visual constructs—drawings that merge digital modelling, collage, hand sketching, and experimental mapping into complex spatial narratives. By layering different techniques and media, students will produce drawings that challenge conventional hierarchies of representation, embracing ambiguity, density, and multiplicity as core design strategies.
Hybrid drawing in this context is not just about aesthetics; it is an active design tool—a process of assemblage, mutation, and translation, where forms and ideas evolve through iterative acts of combination and reinterpretation. Each drawing becomes a site of hybridisation, where disparate elements fuse, overlap, and dissolve into one another, generating new architectural possibilities.
Throughout the workshop, we investigate how superimposition, fragmentation, and abstraction can construct rich spatial readings that oscillate between the real and the imagined. How does a drawing hold multiple readings at once? How do hybrid representations unlock speculative architectures that are not yet realized? Students engage with these questions through experimental workflows that demand both precision and open-ended exploration.
The ambition is to redefine architectural drawing as a space of invention, rather than mere documentation. By breaking down disciplinary boundaries and embracing hybrid modes of working, this Superstudio aims to cultivate a new generation of architectural images—ones that are less about fixed solutions and more about unfolding possibilities.
