This is the website for a section of Graduate Design 2 (GD2) in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. This section of GD2 is about how the material labors of construction machines (kinetic formwork, prestressing mechanisms, lamination processes, excavation equipment, etc.) can reshape how we design and build structures. Students start the semester by collectively building adhoc construction machines that can simultaneously dig, cast, and stretch material. The machines are used to study structure, spatial/ material nesting, and labor mobility. The intersection of these areas of study connect to the studio’s primary programmatic idea, sports as a cultural practice. During the last 10 weeks of the semester, students work on the design of a stacked sports hall on a compact site in downtown St. Paul.