October 10, 2025 - Surjan Super School Weekly Newsletter - PART 2

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER PART 2

WEEK OF OCTOBER 10, 2025

Title: Climates of Imagination: Floating Forests & Infrastructures of Belonging

As the second installment of this week’s visual archive, Part 2 expands our understanding of architecture as both ecology and choreography—rooted in the earth yet suspended in the imagination. These drawings do not depict buildings in the conventional sense. They render worlds, each one choreographed with modular rhythms, candy-colored canopies, clustered dwellings, and weather that feels painted by a dream.

This week we ask: What does it mean to dwell together at scale? To float instead of build? To stitch together domesticities across rooftops, piers, valleys, and sky?

❶ COASTLINES AS PATCHWORK ECOLOGIES

Images 01–03

These hexagonal interventions along a dense urban coastline represent a new civic porosity. Red, yellow, and blue tiles bleed into planted zones and waterways, producing zones of rest, shade, play, and planting. The rigid skyline of glass towers gives way to a soft, vibrant shore where the edge of land becomes an event.

An urban quilt laid across the hem of a megacity—where architecture meets algae, picnic, and pause.

❷ HOMES UNDER MONUMENTAL SKIES

Images 04–06

Pyramidal houses with candy-colored doors and blue-tiled roofs sit beneath enormous cloud formations and vibrant sunset skies. These dwellings suggest a quiet resistance: they are modest, but mythic. Repeated across suburban grids, the form of the triangle becomes a kind of gentle utopia.

A neighborhood stitched from sky, slope, and shade. A place to grow small under a large horizon.

❸ DOUBLE-CURVE HOMES IN PASTEL TONES

Images 07–08

A playful counterpoint to conventional gables, these homes feature rounded barrel roofs in soft yellows and oranges. The facades are divided symmetrically, making each duplex feel like two halves of a larger, shared thought. Behind them, the clouds animate like stage backdrops in a children’s play.

Two roofs, one cloud. Domestic architecture as mirroring gesture.

❹ GEOMETRIC VILLAGES IN DESERTED GRIDS

Images 09–12

Whether it’s sawtooth roofs or A-frames, these suburban vistas are awash in geometry. The triangle becomes a civic module, multiplied across a desert-like flatland. Trees—each hand-drawn and carefully placed—become central protagonists, suggesting this is not a neighborhood for efficiency, but for ritual, shade, and gathering.

Here, repetition is a radical form of care.

❺ THREE WORLDS OF DWELLING

Images 13–15

From lush vertical towers with vegetation crawling down, to rural retreats in triangular cabins nestled in flowering wetlands, to colorful floating villages stitched together by walkways—this triptych proposes three models of eco-domesticity. Architecture merges with ecology, community, and water.

This is not “greenwashing.” This is green dwelling.

❻ AERIAL TEXTILES OF TOPOGRAPHIC LIVING

Images 16–18

Like architectural embroidery, these dense housing clusters are woven across hillsides and water edges. They balance verticality with intimacy, layering balconies, overhangs, gardens, and stairs to create spatial textiles of inhabited tapestry. The sections are stacked like drawers full of domestic joy.

A hillside city drawn like a quilt—a place where each thread is someone’s threshold.

❼ WATERFRONT PYRAMIDS AS PUBLIC STAGES

Images 19–21

Along the waterfront, sharp pyramidal buildings rise from a dense urban base. They are not mausoleums, but cathedrals of gathering—flanked by boats, gardens, and stepped amphitheaters. The juxtaposition of triangular forms against soft blue waters and modern towers creates a civic contrast full of promise.

Architecture as lighthouse, stage, and storyteller.

❽ DOMESTICITY AS SECTIONAL SYMPHONY

Images 22–24

These massive sectional drawings offer a radical transparency: we see into every room, hallway, and terrace. They are vertical neighborhoods, where color and community animate every crevice. Some rise like terraced mountains, others grow like coral.

A drawing becomes a city. A window becomes a page.

❾ CLOUD CITIES OF THE FUTURE

Images 25–27

Floating villages of cubic modules bloom like a tree canopy. Suspended above red plazas, the clusters house communities that don’t just live vertically, but float horizontally. These are habitats for new atmospheres—lighter, brighter, and shared.

Not towers of power, but treetop sanctuaries of care.

❿ THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIFTED DREAMS

Images 28–30

A final trio of visions suspends hexagonal modules on stilts, arranged like giant beehives or seed pods. Elevated from the ground, these surreal habitats merge sci-fi with soft civics. With coral bases and lemon staircases, they ask: what if we built our future on lightness?

These are not buildings. These are planetary bouquets.

Closing Note from Surjan:

This week, Part 2 of the newsletter invites us to think beyond the street, beyond the block, and beyond the basement. We are suspended, stitched, lifted, and rooted—simultaneously.

We dream new sections.We plant rooftops like gardens.We lift children’s libraries on stilts above rivers and clouds.

Let your next drawing float.Let your next building sing.Let your next neighborhood be drawn like a poem.

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Surjan Super School is not just a place for students.

It’s a climate.

A rhythm. A gathering of floating dreams.

—Surjan 🌈