Graduate Options Studio: Spectroplexus

Spring 2017

Co-taught with Jason Foster Butz

Washington University in St. Louis | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design

Students: Sam Brown, Rachel Burch, Marija Draškić, Daniel Ho, Yigang Li, Ellie Sonnenwirth Weisz, Greg Smolkovich, Michael Zhou

Client and Site: St. Louis Lambert International Airport

Partners: Lambert Art and Culture Program | St. Louis Regional Arts Commission | TechShop

The installation reacts to the site with the idea of “confluence”, addressing both the geographical context of St. Louis as well as the constant current of diverse passengers through the airport. The terminal itself is a unique space that exhibits various hybrid identities, such as organic movement versus rigid configurations of people, as well as the artificial mechanisms of flight that resemble the biological organisms after which they were modeled. The title Spectroplexus reflects these concepts through a gradating array of geometric surfaces and the intricate armature on which it is suspended.