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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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
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.
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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….
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
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…
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
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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