Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Winy Maas
of MVDRV and Grace La of UWM present the work of twelve students who
explored the relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and
urban form. This highly investigative studio pushed the physical and
conceptual limits of given definitions of city, circulation, and
program. Tested in two scenarios (one real in Tianjin, China and the
other purely hypothetical), the studio severed vehicular traffic flow
from its traditional two-dimensional plane and then forecast the
potentials of a new, hyper-volumetric city where given urban activity
inflate to fully occupy all three-dimensions. Populated by 5 million
inhabitants and rising 800 meters high, this new 'sky car city' is
buzzing with the flows of goods and people, as they navigate the airways
in several models of newly designed air-born vehicles.