
SPEED UP
Super Car Headquarter Design
Location: Lincoln Road, Miami. USA
In the early stage of this studio, we studied the aesthetic and assembly technique of car’s bodyshell. We highlight three features that contribute most to its machine aesthetics: the indentation, seaming, and nesting. Through a process of selective seaming and creative indentation protrusion, the design aims to transform the façade into a habitable space. On the conjunction of Lincoln and Alton road, the building is facing Herzog & De Meuron's 1111 Lincoln Project, which exposed the interior by removing the façade. In contrast, our project fully explores the potential spatiality of the façade which allows people to walk on it and car runs along it. We challenge the idea that façade, instead of just a single layer of skin, could it become an inhabitable space; the seams and patterns, instead of just visually satisfying, could it drive the design of novel interior space. In our project, the seam and volume on façade later influence the programming process of the interior. Part of volume becomes the space for human beings, and the rest becomes either mechanical space or space for the automobile. These two types of space are volumetrically interlocked but spatially disconnected.








In the early stage of this studio, we studied the aesthetic and assembly technique of car’s bodyshell. We highlight three features that contribute most to its machine aesthetics: the indentation, seaming, and nesting. Through a process of selective seaming and creative indentation protrusion, the design aims to transform the façade into a habitable space. On the conjunction of Lincoln and Alton road, the building is facing Herzog & De Meuron's 1111 Lincoln Project, which exposed the interior by removing the façade. In contrast, our project fully explores the potential spatiality of the façade which allows people to walk on it and car runs along it. We challenge the idea that façade, instead of just a single layer of skin, could it become an inhabitable space; the seams and patterns, instead of just visually satisfying, could it drive the design of novel interior space. In our project, the seam and volume on façade later influence the programming process of the interior. Part of volume becomes the space for human beings, and the rest becomes either mechanical space or space for the automobile. These two types of space are volumetrically interlocked but spatially disconnected.