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 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 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
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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’…
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…
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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