This thesis aims to create an architectural condition by using envelope as a medium to translate nature language to architecture forms and three-dimensional space. The…
The project studies the creation of space driven by formal qualities of the lines. It grapples with this concept at various levels, massing autonomy, program…
The restructuring, deformation, and contrast of these urban intentions will create new systems and urban infrastructure, and the geometric meaning behind them will lead to…
ARCH793b_Wes Jones_Jennifer Otsuki_Thumbnail – Jennifer Otsuki
Paffard Keatinge-Clay’s Mt. Tamalpais Pavilion has been subjected to many subsequent changes since the initial building was produced. Tam2.0 implements the strategies of vaulting and…
ARCH793b_LisaLittle_LuisSalasJImenez_Thumbnail – Luis Salas Jimenez
The global climatic issue of rising sea levels makes the neighbourhood of Venice, Los Angeles, a potential flooding site which would disrupt the current living…
Shengtong Xie_ final presentation15 – Shengtong Xie
The project explores essential graphic elements in an architectural drawing. The combination of architectural drawing and graphics yields new methods of reading the drawings. The…
This thesis focuses on methods of alchemy, the process of assembly + manipulation of elements with rigor + precision, yielding a series of collections on…
Since the advent of modern shopping malls, retail has coexisted with entertainment within a shared building—from coffee shops and food courts to movie theaters and…
Since the advent of modern hospitals, healthcare has been confined to fixed institutional space that lacks flexibility. The thesis aims to rethink the hospital and…
Luis Barragan said Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well-being. Street…
The future is an infrastructural utopia for disenfranchised city dwellers that want public programs in their cities. City planning in the New York Metropolitan Area…
793B_ImanAnsari_KateBogdanova_Cover – Kate Bogdanova
Housing has traditionally been defined and understood as a fixed, formal space where living functions take place. This thesis looks at the housing as a…
As long as architecture has been taken as materiality and static visual medium. But space is dynamic, and multi-sensory. Nowadays, with emerging smart devices, we…
Primordia is a collective housing response to the formation of new coastal biomes caused by rising sea levels through a permeable blending of built and…
ARCH793b_LisaLittle_ThiagoLisboa_Thumbnail – Thiago Augusto Ferreira Lisboa
The aim of this thesis is to propose a new architectural language as an improvement to the riparian population’s living conditions. Nowadays they live in…
ARCH793b_LisaLittle_BettinaBrown_ProjectCoverPhoto – Bettina Brown
Homelessness is a well-known global issue. Within the existence and the realities of homelessness, there are added issues within the system itself. Specifically looking at…
Stations serve as static transit and transition spaces en route to a destination. This thesis emphasizes the socio-economic role of public transportation and envisions the…
The thesis takes commercial lifestyle as an example to exploit the spatial interactions of signage graphic arts. Based on the present consumeristic urban context, signage…
Airports are unique transitory spaces that exist outside national, political, and economic borders. This thesis aims to build on the neutral identity of the airport…
In the past, architecture created buildings under the assumption that they will last in theory forever. This idea has led to creating buildings that materially…
Inspired by photography, murals and film shots, CONVERGE focuses on patterns, perspectives, and urban experience. It challenges the typical design process based on plans or…
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