I am interested in exploring strategies toward the effective use of community space between drug users and housed families. Because I want to find safe…
SHOP-OP is a proposal for a new retail typology built around the cooperative business model. By providing flexible shop modules and encouraging participation through workshops…
Rewilding Suburbia is a project focused on creating new networks of sustainable practices that can teach, encourage, and provide a more sustainable lifestyle to all…
As metropolitan Bangkok sprawls and expands, the boundaries of the nearby Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai (DPKY) Forest Complex and UNESCO World Heritage site are under increasing…
The urban center of Rome, a preserved UNESCO site, has witnessed many pandemics throughout its history and COVID-19 will presumably not be its last. The…
Special Economic Zones (SEZs), which proliferate in Southeast Asia, are populated by a type of architecture that has no place, origin, local customs or culture….
Much of the lineage found in architectural history books document the various theories and cultural shifts up to the end of the twentieth century leaving…
Based on case study about Olgiati’s Swiss International Center, I found some interesting items especially the confilct between simple rectangle shapes and diagonal walls. In…
793b_LisaLittle_ChelseaHeckenkamp_Thumbnail – Chelsea Heckenkamp
This thesis attempts to develop a generative approach, through the dual lens of music and architecture similar to Libeskind’s Chamberworks series, from two to three…
This is a research about unhoused people and their accessibility to food, conducted during the pandemic. Yau Tsim Mong District has the highest amount of…
Arch502_MarcosSanchez_YiminHu_Thumbnail – Yimin Hu
This project proposes to transform a portion of the existing UNESCO Paris headquarters building into a comprehensive archive. Many World Heritage sites, particularly “natural” sites…
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a decommissioned complex located on the eastern portion of the San Francisco peninsula, was long used as a support facility for…
New Normal Architecture introduces a new form of live+work in architectural practice. The space is designed for collectives of designers, tech developers, and influencers. Each…
Contemporary playgrounds prescribe standardized and inflexible play for children, thus my playscape, a primer of shapes and functions formed around a gravity acknowledging field with…
This project is studying the pressures and challenges of women experiencing vehicular homelessness in Los Angeles. Move from living on the street to living in…
This project is an exploration of urban infrastructure that goes beyond the physical and impact the social, economic, and political fabric of the city. It…
An exploration of future urbanism development, a refutation and criticism of traditional architectural design logic, and a research and development of the urban living environment.
ARCH793b_J.YolandeDaniels_XinranHe_Cover – Xinran He
Architecture is designed as an extension of nature and forms a spatial experience that frames the horizontal expanse. In response to the precedent study, a…
By minimizing the scale of a city with the concept of ‘Negative Welfare Society’, treating the volume as a system, a megastructure, pushing people’s lives…
This project is an exploration of how designers can redefine and understand architectural saturation, and debunk the techniques that mystically ‘saturated’ environments are created. Included…
Located on the northern edge of UNESCO’s Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in Quintana Roo, Mexico, this project imagines a near-future reorganization of Cancun’s numerous tourist…
Coming from the practice, the architectural life-work practice made influences on different area, like architectural theory, the way of expression and technology development. On the…
Arch502_Hadrian-Predick_James-McLeish_Thumbnail-10 – James McLeish
Multilingualism is a work life practice with an agency that claims responsibility to study overlapping fields; specifically art, music, computer science, and urban planning. We…
I’m working on assessing the potential of the Elysian Park area to reinstate the ancient reciprocal relationship between people and sanctuary, so that individuals in…
To expand the critiques from hegemony of elitism to democratic negotiation, a metric of what constitutes the value of architecture will be used in the…
This thesis research chose architectural Façade as main research theme. Façade plays a role as a medium between various elements in life and architecture. Elements…
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This thesis is driven by an investigation into the liminal spatial conditions of the Salish Sea, a dis-placed place suspended from ordinary time. Four folies…
This thesis aims to transfer the natural texture of Los Angeles River to the final project. To architecture, which comes from the discription and collage…
As we know, in high-density urban areas, people have to give up transparency because of privacy considerations and live in concrete boxes, which undoubtedly separates…
Glass as an architectural material always contains a property that fulfills the space visibly but intangibly with light, granting the space meaning and making space…
The concept the project is to create flexible and minimalist space that can accommodate various activities by dividing the combined forces of the internal functional…
The Pyramid Fields is an exercise aimed at producing a design alternative for additions done to masterpiece of architecture in order to preserve the architects…
Physical and virtual reality perpetuate each other while remaining inseparable. Gaming with skeuomorphism, this project connects an existing office space with the digital world. They…
ARCH502a_Mary Casper_Weijia Sun_Cover Photo – Weijia Sun
This project exploits technology fully to make new stories. As it is now possible to overlay realities onto existing structures, I take on the “Continuous…
“Hidden Gems is an exploration of light, its manifestations and how these can transform the urban landscape. The project looks specifically into the experience of…
ARCH502_MaryCasper_ZhaohuiWang_Cover – Zhaohui Wang
This project begins by envisioning the repatriation of objects made by the 19th century inhabitants of East Rennell, Solomon Islands, taken from the island as…
ARCH402a_HadrianPredock_ChristinaDiaz_Page1-04 – Christina Diaz
THE HYBRID HOUSE is the headquarters of IMAGINARY ____________, a multidisciplinary practice of 11 individuals dedicated to alternative architectural representation that transcends the standard building…
Daughenbaugh_Andrew_Final_0510_Page_01 – Andrew Daughenbaugh
ArchiCoRe is a practice specializing in Augmented and Virtual reality. Designing their own work/live space, ArchiCoRe uses their knowledge in virtual worlds to create spatial…
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