502a_SaschaDelz_BeatrizSuarez_Page5 – Beatriz Suarez
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…
Arch502a_SaschaDelz_IsabellaMariles_Title – Isabella Mariles-Ostheimer
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Arch502_MarcosSanchez_YiminHu_Thumbnail – Yimin Hu
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
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
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
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…
thumbnail – Vern Stelzer
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
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
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
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…
Thumbnail – Seung Won Chung
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…
voer-01 – Yiwei Lyu
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Thumbnail – Christina Shin
Sh.tudio
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…
ARCH502a_EricHaas_JorgeLasa_Cover-01 – Jorge Lasa
A Quantum Paradox in a Paradise of Form
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…
ARCH502a_EricHaas_AdriannaFransz_Cover – Adrianna Fransz
TAG | DESIGN | ACTIVATE
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…
thumbnail – Alexa Blanchet
Muscle Memory
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…
Cover Image – John Gerard Perez
Mend the Gap
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….
ARCH502_SaschaDelz_ErikaHuang_cover – Xinyi Huang
Collective Support
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…
PANOmiro – Noah Samuels
Hack-a-way
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
Building Generator
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.
Grkikian_Georgina_thesis_deck-01 – Georgina Grkikian
Connect + Play
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
Unbuilding Spanish Colonial Architecture in Mexico City
This project begins by dissecting a block in the historic center of Mexico City, revealing an Aztec causeway, or “cuepotli” as it was known in…
COVER PAGE – Zida Liu
Central Amazon Intellectual Property Complex, Brazil
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…
502_Haas_BenStout_COVER – Benjamin Stout (1)
Comfort-Able
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…
Thumbnail-01 – Irving Tian
Architecture of Machine Systems
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…
502A_Haas_AlvinLi_Thumbnail – Muze Li
Land of a Thousand Desires
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…
Perspective 1 – Katie Hayes
Dis-closing Indoorsness
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….
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Optimist Studios
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…
Cover page-01 – Mary Perez
Re gen
Re gen is a proposal for a radical way to recycle local used items through a multi-scale material conversion and repurpose system. The Re gen…
ARCH502a_SaschaDelz_AdamYona_Page22
Connect(ion)
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…
502_Casper_Gonzalez_Cover – Nataly Gonzalez-Fimbres
NOW PRODUCTS
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
Urban Nomads
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…
502_SaschaDelz_AbriannahAiken_Thumbnail-46 – Abriannah Aiken
Spaces of Expression
Society is riddled with injustice and the built environment is not immune; Architects have a responsibility to actively play a role in making a more…
ARCH502a_MaryCasper_VirginiaLeopard_Page1 copy – Virginia Leopard
Edible Spaces
Our relationship with food is strained, unfamiliar and wasteful. my thesis strives to reimagine how and where we eat, looking at each element of the…
ARCH502a_MaryCasper_ChailaJohnson_CoverPhoto – Chaila Johnson
Alta Scape
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…
ARCH502a_MaryCasper_NastassjaLafontant_BILLBOARD – Nastassja Lafontant
Bathroom Rituals
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…
thumbnail – Qifan Wang
Media Mania
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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Cooperatively Coliving
Cooperatively Coliving seeks to make coliving the primary form of housing in Los Angeles by 2040 through a system of coliving modules which can fit…