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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Sh.tudio also known as shop + studio proposes a new form of work-life in architectural practice. Based on a typical suburban home, Sh.tudio critiques the…
Through the eyes of Dante as he travels “El Paradiso”, this project offers a conceptual understanding of space, registered by visualizing Form as it transitions…
My analytical system will transform misused lots into social nodes through understanding existing communal spaces and assigning programmatic tags to address social voids. This tagging…
What if practice was the performance? An architectural critique to unseen processes, Muscle Memory elevates practice over performance by engaging the fundamental technique of Vaganova…
Mend the Gap proposes a new form a street development where users can directly participate in the design and construction process of their neighborhood streets….
Collective good is the sum of individual goods, and also a balance between individual and collective. But what’s problematic about many urban mass housing is…
Hack-a-way was inspired by the research of ‘hack cabs’ in subaltern urban areas to define a a concept of ‘hacking’ which broadly encompasses actions which…
ARCH502A_MARYCASPER_CATHERINEWEILEIN_PAGE1. BILLBOARD – Eli Assraf
A critique of the present rigidity and bias of 3D modeling software followed by an encouragement toward technologies rooted in a set of new ideologies.
Connect + Play Art Park is a new urban site for the community displaying 10 Art Installations of different material, scale and concept. These installations…
ARCH502 SANCHEZ JORGEDELATORRE COVERPHOTO – Jorge De La Torre
This project begins by acknowledging the biopiracy conducted by multinational biotech corporations in the Amazon. With patents registered on materials and knowledge pirated from indigenous…
My project illustrates the culpability of architecture in today’s postural conditions and chronic diseases, and provides a foundational framework that can be used to understand…
Architecture of Machine Systems delves into the parallels between Rube Goldberg machines and architecture. The architecture machine uses words to drive design while rejecting the…
Conflicting concerns and desires naturally reside in the promise of a site. The near future commune will serve to organize the impulses of these participants…
Communities should revert to primal outdoor living while retaining thermal comfort and privacy through operable structures. Reducing enclosure changes how people live, work, and interact….
Optimist Studios is a collective of architects, designers, artists, and engineers investigating lifework space and how they can be reimagined in the future. The collective…
CONNECT(ION) IS A MEMBER BASED CO-OPERATIVE WITH THE INTENTION OF ADDRESSING TWO VERY BIG ISSUES THAT SOCIETY FACES TODAY. THE FIRST OF THESE ISSUES IS…
This project explores the future of retail by addressing a future hybrid of physical and online shopping. It supposes a future where Maximal consumerism is…
ARCH502a_SaschaDelz_GuyLaforet_Thumbnail – Guy Laforet-Kawaguchi
The NOMAD system is a hyper-mobile shelter unit that gives the users agency to embark on self-improving journeys without the limitation of being stuck in…
Alta Scape combines the more basic neighborhood with the walkability of the theme park and the projective elements of the theme park attraction. With this…
Studying Americanized bathroom spaces and how to implement Eastern social factors as if they were Roman bathhouse or sentos. I would argue that the only…
Following the study of Andreas Gursky’s architectural photography, the site was chosen as the place Gursky photographed 27 years ago in Central Hong Kong. A…
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