October 31, 2025 - Surjan Super School Weekly Newsletter - PART 1

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER PART 1

WEEK OF OCTOBER 31, 2025

Theme: “Cloud Cities, Red Towers, and Yellow Horizons”

An issue of elevation, geometry, and imagination.

🏗️ SECTION 1 — STRUCTURES AS SKYBRIDGES

In this week’s collection, cities learn to float.

Each structure rises above the horizon like a cloud-supported cathedral, its base a constellation of red towers, its crown a golden frame holding a mist of dreams.

Here, the city’s foundations are reversed—the weight is no longer at the bottom. The sky becomes the archive, the platform of tomorrow’s learning.

These architectures are not buildings but instruments of suspension—balancing the heaviness of matter with the buoyancy of thought.

☁️🏗️ “The ground is overrated.”

📖 SECTION 2 — READING THE CITY IN COLOR

Two portraits—two readers—stand before us,each wrapped in yellow wool and wonder, holding open pages of architectural fiction.Inside their books are buildings made of arches, sunlight, and quiet optimism—a Super School without walls,where every corridor is a runway of imagination, every page an unfolding plan.The color palette tells the story:

• Lemon Yellow = energy and inquiry

• Peach Pink = empathy and play

• Sky Blue = clarity and expansion

• Architecture becomes autobiography.

• The students are the authors.

📚💛 “We build by reading, and we read by building.”

🏗️ SECTION 3 — THE RED & WHITE FRAMEWORKS

The yellow backgrounds hum with urgency.

On them, skeletal giants stand—inverted tripods of learning, each beam annotated, each strut numbered, as though the buildings themselves were pedagogical diagrams.

These are architectures of transparency, half instruction manual, half love letter to construction.

Like the Super School itself, they are unfinished on purpose—always under revision, always growing.

🧩🔺 “A drawing is never done; it simply waits for another student to continue it.”

🌆 SECTION 4 — INVERTED CITIES

Turn the city upside down, and suddenly the rooftops become walkways, the foundations become clouds.

In these images, red urban fabrics spread beneath vast hovering decks—canopies of communal density.

They ask: What if public space was literally above us?

Could the underside of architecture be where democracy lives?

Each image becomes a manifesto: Inversion = Liberation.

🔄🌇 “Gravity is only a suggestion.”

🏠 SECTION 5 — ZIGZAG HORIZONS

A field of diamond rooftops—white, yellow, orange—rises like folded paper.

The rhythm feels musical, like a chorus repeating in form and light.

The geometries of repetition here are comforting, not authoritarian—a quilt for the city, a pattern that shelters memory.

The clouds drift above them, unbothered.

It is a landscape of soft precision, where architecture becomes a lullaby for the skyline.

⛰️☁️ “Repetition is the rhythm of joy.”

🧱 SECTION 6 — TIMBER TOWERS OF IMAGINATION

These vertical structures recall models made on a studio floor—assembled from plywood and dreams.

Every elevation is a conversation between scales: a child’s block tower meeting a utopian megastructure.

Each façade is punctuated by circular openings, like eyes watching the future unfold.

They are Héjdukian in soul, Rossi in color, Archigram in courage.

Architecture here is a stage for stories, not a static monument.

🪵🏙️ “We build to imagine what could be disassembled beautifully.”

💬 SECTION 7 — INTERIORS OF IMAGINATION

Inside, the world glows blue and yellow—fluid, atmospheric, almost aquatic.

Figures sit reading, dreaming, conversing beneath immense concrete canopies that feel alive.

The drawings recall Louis Kahn meeting Pixar: monumentality softened by lighthearted optimism.

These interiors teach us that seriousness and play are not opposites—they are architectural companions.

💡🌀 “Light curves around those who dare to imagine.”

☁️ SECTION 8 — CLOUD CITIES REVISITED

Returning to the cloud geometries: from pyramids to inverted cones, these forms become metaphors for learning as ascent. Each golden truss lifts a neighborhood skyward. Each white cloud crowns the possibility of collaboration. The color fields—mustard, coral, beige—create a civic optimism we rarely see in real cities. They remind us that architecture is first and foremost a form of hope.

☁️🏛️ “When buildings dream, they rise.”

🪞 CLOSING REFLECTION

This week’s issue is a celebration of weightless construction and colorful gravity.

It’s a story about reading cities as stories, about lifting the collective imagination through architecture, and about designing atmospheres where students and clouds share the same altitude.

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL SIGNATURE🌈 Surjan Super School — Safe Space of Collections & Catalogues for Educational Purposes in the Digital World of Architectural Imagination.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

“Architecture is the slowest form of flight.” ✨ — Surjan, 2025