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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…

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…

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…

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…

793B#_Andy-Ku_Yao-Tong_thumbnail – Yao Tong

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Airbnb D&S Space

Recent developments in virtual technologies increasingly points to the possibility of a 3D virtual future, the inhabitable virtual world might eventually become a collective place…

ThesisCoverPage – Candice Suh

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

“Untitled (The Domestic Space)”

While we interact with and embody ourselves within architecture, there is still so much that can be learned through the perspectives of the user. However,…

793b_AndyKu_EsraDaghestani_Slide54_project cover photo – Esra Daghestani

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

EHSAN

This project aims to investigate the precedents’ performance in terms of their functionality, lighting, air quality, and permanency. Moreover, using precedents from Islamic Architecture to…

ARCH793B_GEOFFREYVONOEYEN_CELINABROWNOTTER_THUMBNAIL – Celina Brownotter

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

The Urban Indigenous Collective Community

The analysis of key intersections between the past and present of Tongvaangar, now known as the Los Angeles region, generates the site for this design…

Microsoft PowerPoint – Review_0510.pptx

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Dwelling on Water

By 2100, climate will be the world’s biggest problem. Most large cities in the world, like Los Angeles, will be exposed to the problem of…

ARC793B_GeoffreyvonOeyen_PanizFarshchiha_coverphoto – Paniz Farshchiha

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Circle Of Public Life

The goal of this project is to repurpose turbine blades to create a structure of modular units to address the landfilling problems of wind turbine…

Arch793-LisaLittle-MingxuanLi-Coverpage – Mingxuan Li

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Self-growing Blocks

Since people’s need for their living space may change from time to time, and it could be inconvenient to reform their home or move away,…

ARCH793b_GeoffreyvonOeyen_LouiseRogier_Cover-THUMBNAIL – Louise Rogier

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Transformation Strip Malls

Based on 3 different kinds of studies, this thesis project proposes the repurpose and transformation of the single story strip mall near LA Metro stops…

ARCH793B_Wesley Clayton Jones_Dingdong Tang_Cover Page – Dingdong Tang

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Mobitecture: Architecture In Motion

Architecture is commonly designed with the aim of providing a fixed, ideal solution based upon the assumption of future situations being certain, invariable and at…

ARCH793b_LisaLittle_AlisonIwashita_Cover – Alison Iwashita

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Venice Esplanade

Harnessing research in environmental psychology to respond to inadequate urban conditions, a new pedestrian bridge addresses mental health in a publicly accessible way, appealing to…

ARCH793B_ImanAnsari_SanjanaSatyaPrakash_CoverImage – Sanjana Satya Prakash

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The processes and spaces of food production, distribution and consumption has often remained distinct from one another, with direct implications on public and environmental health….

cover.001 – Biao Han

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Doomsday Abbey: A Clockwork Life

Circulation spaces have often remained separate and residual areas where building occupants use to move from one programmatic space to another. Instead of assigning more…

793b_GeoffreyvonOeyen_SergeevaLiudmila_COVER_Thumbnail – Liudmila Sergeev

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

RTUs To ADUs

Improvements of typical LA commercial boulevards by investing in new collective housing: RTUs to ADUs. The lack of adequate, convenient, safe, and attractive places for…

ARCH793_GeoffreyvonOeyen_EkaxiHernandez_COVERIMAGE – Ekaxi Hernandez

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Nomad

This project proposes a new type of nomadic housing typology that caters to people seeking a high level of flexibility. At an urban scale, the…

cover – Kevin Hu

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Facade Opening Structure

In the limited façade openings, functions are consciously gathered together to achieve simple divisions and partition of the façade, and form strong architectural features and…

Cover Page – Ning Gao

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

On Culture and Architecture – From Kimono to Buildings

The project is theater, which has potentially the narrative is connected to the drama with a story line. There’s parallel in a way in which…

ARCH402a_JenniferSiegal_JohnSmith – Qingyu Zhu

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Form the Joyful

“Pleasure is the goal of play” by Takefumi, who using brick and figurative graphic to guide the design. While kids play Lego, the higher they…

ARCH793b_YaohuaWang_JiaweiJi_CoverPhoto – Jiawei Ji

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Cutting the Boundary

The thesis investigates the potential to use CUTTING as a tool to break boundaries and create new spatial conditions. Cutting through a building establishes connections…

Thumbnail – Alexander Jamroz

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

imprint

This thesis delves into site as a palimpsest of collective narratives told both through the impact of the natural and built landscapes. Carving, imprinting, gouging,…

thumbnail – Mayer Ma

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Reimagine Tectonics as Space

The project pays attention to design a high-rise building as a mixture of public activity, commercial space, office and appartment, with elements extracted from Mies’…

ARCH793B_YaohuaWang_LiemTran_Cover Photo – Liem Tran

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Terra – Tropical Verticality

This thesis focuses on the definition of a boundary not as a division, but a condition of difference. A meeting point defined by the characteristics…

ARCH793b_YaohuaWang_ZhijinShen_COVER – Zhijin Shen

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Skid Row Dwells in Fragmented Bonaventure

This thesis attempts to address Los Angeles’s shortage of supportive housing for the homeless from a new perspective by reimagining John Portman’s Westin Bonaventure Hotel…

Arch793b_YaohuaWang_HiuChingPinkyLam_Coverphoto – Pinky Lam

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Reform

Experimenting the different perspective of basic architecture elements. Maximize the opportunity with the spatial area with ambiguity. Final goal is to achieve a project work…

COVER – Ning Zhou

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

The Other Side of the Screen

The materialization of the cyber world. Using online life as a principle, I’ve evolved Phillip Johnson’s Glass House into the 2020 version.Build a new way…

Arch793b_WesJones_ZhaoxiongHan_Cover Photo – Zhaoxiong Han

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

No-stop Sharing

As family patterns, cities and society change, the house constantly changes its appearance. More and more people who move from small towns to big cities…

cover – Mudi Niu

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

X-SPACE: In between Circulations and Programs

During the modern period, Architecture has always been seen as a combination of programs and circulations between them. For most of the modern movement, the…

ARCH793b_WesJones_AndrewBlumm_CoverImage-01 – Andrew Blumm

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

A Temple to Transit

The architectural development of this station was based heavily on the form, proportions and organization of peripteral temples. Both the primary material and the program…

Arch 793B_ImanAnsari_HieuPhung_Thumbnail – Hieu Phung

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Bewilderment

Bewilderment is an architecture thesis project exploring the idea of performers as audience and audience as performers. Utilizing architecture strategies, the thesis create scenarios where…

Arch793b_ImanAnsari_NateMiller_Cover – Nate Miller

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

W H I R L

My thesis project explores the relationship between temporary and adaptable architectural design and the changing needs of an educational facility facing current technological demands. By…

explode 1

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Office lab

This project considers the office itself as Lab o fill in the gap among the research , test and sale, the project not only aims…

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