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Student work from the graduating class

Arch698b_KATY FOLEY& HYUNCH SUNG_SiweiChen_Page19 – Siwei Chen

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

Landscape Intervention for Safe Outdoor Cohabitation Models

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…

parkimage – Qingru Yang

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

Leisure Facilitator

My project argues that the unhoused as citizens and part of the community in our society have the right to enjoy leisure as we are…

ARCH698b-HyunchSung-KatyFoley_DanielleVonLehe__Page_25 – Danielle Vonlehe

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

Your Heart on the Whole Will Last

I am studying how artistic platforms can be used to amplify unhoused individuals’ voices in the public realm of Los Angeles because I want to…

ARCH698b_Hyunchoo_WantingZhou_coverpage

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

Social justice for next generation: emotional therapy for unhoused children

We have more sense than ever to be part of the entire human race this year. We have more awareness of establishing a collective consciousness…

502a_SaschaDelz_BeatrizSuarez_Page5 – Beatriz Suarez

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

SHOP-OP

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…

34 – Qiushi Dong

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Co-exist with the Wild

The goal of this project is to build affordable houses with good fire resistance at the WUI so that people who have lost their homes…

Arch502a_SaschaDelz_IsabellaMariles_Title – Isabella Mariles-Ostheimer

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

REWILDING SUBURBIA

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…

Arch502_MarcosSanchez_BrianWeiChunChou2 – Wei-Chun Chou

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Laboratory Landscape for the Outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand

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…

Arch502_Sanchez_Derman_Page21 – Can Derman

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Hospital Infecting Rome

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…

ARCH502_SANCHEZ_AGUIRRE_COVER – Jorge Aguirre

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Golfo Nuevo Sea Rise Laboratory

This project proposes the creation of a Sea Level Rise laboratory in the Golfo Nuevo area of Southern Argentina; the laboratory would have a main…

502_marcossanchez_teresaadams_coverpage – Teresa Adams

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Network of Medical Service Architecture for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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….

ARCH502a_HadrianPredock_BryanChen_CoverPhoto-01 (1) – Bryan Chen

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Patient Zero

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…

ARCH 793B Final Review_18 – Jing Zhang

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Shining Triangles and Ramps

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

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Sketchposition

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…

cover – Ji Shen

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Geometry Old Care

Based on research about Reversible destiny, I try to create a building for the elder to extend their life and improve their health.

cover photo – Yue Xi

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Journey

The theme of the project is journey, which means that the experience of life is like a journey full of unknown and curiosity, constantly exploring…

pp3 – Sze Hin So

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

HomeFood

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

An Archive for Endangered UNESCO Sites, Paris

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…

502_Sanchez_Cavagnero_Cover – William Cavagnero

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Preservation Landscape for Hunter’s Point Radiological Laboratory, San Francisco

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…

Arch502_HadrianPredock_InhongJung_Page3 – Inhong Jung

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

New Normal Archtiecture

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…

Expo – Lara Mendez

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

The Last Children Playing

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…

ARCH698b_KatyFoley+HyunchooSung_YiyiPeng_cover – Yiyi Peng

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

Urban Co-living: home for women experiencing vehicular homelessness

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…

01 Hillside-Town – Jp Luikart

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Radical Urbanism

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…

793a_J. Yolande-Daniels_Haodong-Pan – Haodong Pan

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Urban Exhibits

Play is the tool to dedicate the process from psychic space (abstract space) to concrete space. As a player, I am questioning what the city…

cover – Fang Jiang

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Unlimited Growth

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

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

INTO THE EXPANSE

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…

isometric副本 – Meiyi Chen

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

City Folding

The second law of thermodynamics states that an isolated system tends to increase the degree of confusion. So it is the natural law that everything…

Project Cover Photo

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Hollow Earth – From Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas

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…

thumbnail – Vern Stelzer

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

The Spectrum of Saturation

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…

CoverPhoto – Erika Studney

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Future for Tourist Enclaves in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico

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…

cover photo – Peiran Ye

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Fusion Studio

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Multilingualism

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…

Cover – Hector Covarrubias Del Cueto

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

Home Territory: Past and Present Sanctuary

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…

Thumbnail – Seung Won Chung

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A New Movement for Evaluation of Architecture

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…

Project Cover – Ziyi Li

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Look INTO Facade

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…

210407 793b thesis concept savage44 – Devon Savage

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

A liminal transfer [Folie 1, 2, 3, 4]

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…

Project Cover Photo – Can Huang

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

LA River Museum

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…

ARCH793b_Wes Jones_Jianghan Dong – Jianghan Dong

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Hperlink

My concept comes from a very old writing in China which means that we built the wall but not using it. We define the spaces…

AECH793B_Wes Jones_Kunlong Ma_Cover – Kunlong Ma

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Rosen Houseand Its Application in High-Density Urban Area

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…

Cover Page – Yifei Lian

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Translucent World

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…

Project cover photo – Junyou Liu (1)

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Less is more: Spatial variety

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…

A32 – Gaurav Kapoor

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

The Pyramid Fields

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…

ARCH-793b_Wes Jones_Weiyao Sun_Cover – Weiyao Sun

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Proliferation in two dimensions

Based on the study of the structural form and space layout of Tamalpais Pavilion, the Pavilion space based on structure and the In-between space that…

voer-01 – Yiwei Lyu

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Design Like A Gamer

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Tale of the Citied Wall

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…

ARCH502_MaryCasper_StephanieBarragan_CoverPhoto-01 – Stephanie Barragan

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Hidden Gems

“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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Liquid Theatre

We are living in a world where negation and disputation become the nature of our environment. Our public building needs to be malleable and adaptable…

502_MarcosSanchez_AmberLawhorn_Thumbnail – Amber Lawhorn

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

An Architecture of Repatriation for East Rennell, Solomon Islands

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

THE HYBRID HOUSE

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

ArchiCoRe

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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