34 – Qiushi Dong
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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…
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
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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…