Designing the Hyperspace: UCLA studio imagines Hyperloop's future in California

2015-04-01T09:01:00-04:00

Walking into the enormous Hercules building on UCLA’s IDEAS campus, in the tech-infused suburb of Playa Vista, feels a bit like a traveling through a rip in space-time. The Hercules building is a giant airplane hangar – now, it’s neighbor to YouTube’s offices and a twin hangar where film studios stage scenes for steroidal Hollywood blockbusters like Transformers and Avatar, and formerly, it housed Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose. And since last fall, the hangar has played host to another audacious promise of transportation technology: the Hyperloop.

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Designing the Hyperspace: UCLA studio imagines Hyperloop's future in California