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Thumbnail – Christina Shin

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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…

city_sunset-strip-1920px – Devon Savage

ARCH 499: Exhibiting the Body of Architecture

Liminal L.A.

Placelessness as a measure of time. This collection of photographs and short videos depicts liminal threshold conditions across Los Angeles County. Unlike liminal spaces within…

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…

Cover Image – John Gerard Perez

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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)

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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…

ARCH698b_HyunchSungKatyFoley_JaredEdgarMcKnight_CoverPhotoThumbnail – Jared McKnight

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

Criminalized for their very existence: The Spatial Politics of Homelessness

The largest congregate setting of LA County’s 66,000+ unhoused individuals resides in the streets of Skid Row, and for as long as it takes 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…

Perspective 1 – Katie Hayes

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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….

axon

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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…

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…

Cover page-01 – Mary Perez

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

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…

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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