Studio 1.3 invites students to think about architecture in the fourth dimension: as something temporal as well as with physical flesh, as something live, dynamic and negotiable. As such, we encourage the expansion of the designer’s toolkit to create mediated, 'intelligent' architectures that respond to presence through playfully hacking our perceptual systems. This year, drawing inspiration from Leonard Cohen’s “love is the only engine of survival” we explored architectures that foreground nurturing and question our own agency in relation to natural cycles. Two pavilions were designed and built by students for public exhibition in Alfred’s Meadow at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

‘Volatility’ follows in the footsteps of Lefebvre's ‘rhyhtmanalysis’: building an interactive spatial-musical instrument that explores aphasia, eurhythmia and the phenomenology of sound through auditory metaphors of disruption and ‘tuning’ to our environment.

‘Dispersal’ explores ideas of ‘natural hitchhiking’ and chance in promoting biodiversity through an array of whimsical, wind-driven seed launchers.