USC Architecture XpoInstructor: Hadrian Predock
Fieldwork transforms a decommissioned oil extraction site into a campus where architecture becomes an instrument of exposure and inquiry. Ordinary building types—the house, the gas station, the office complex—are manipulated like deconstructed pumpjacks, revealing the hidden systems that power daily comfort and ambition. By dismantling and exaggerating these familiar structures, this experimentive campus becomes a […]
This project leverages the neutralization of strip malls in order to optimize their expressive and social potential. It repositions the parking lot, typically seen as an accessory, as the central spatial and social catalyst of the strip mall. By exploiting the seemingly bland quality of strip malls—disrupting its generic condition through acts of preserving, recoding, […]
My design philosophy is deeply rooted in my community, cultural heritage, and Neo-futurism. The unification of architecture, hand signs and street art will celebrate valuable insights into architecture that are often neglected, particularly focusing on South Central Los Angeles. These elements often reflect the flavor of Watts. My thesis Watts In Color is not an […]
This project speculates on how the ordinary architecture of the warehouse, through its scalar drifting and automation is evolving into a new form of urbanism- one where logistics, data, and fulfillment infrastructures radically reorganize the city. At the core of the project is the strategy of radical adjacencies in which ex-urban programs like schools, housing […]
This project reimagines spaces for the dead as urban cultural zones, built from the layered footprints of demolished and existing buildings. Their intersections shape the columbarium, while fragments generate both everyday and memorial spaces. The facade of the living projects generic openings, echoing the structured systems that define daily life. In contrast, the fractured facade […]
Horror media explores the alterity of those unconventional spaces that inhabit the ordinary house. How can we redesign closets, attics, and spaces between walls to create new types of living conditions that allow us to embrace those moments of the house we rarely visit? This project proposes new ways of exploiting these elements of the […]
Neglected sites of industrial ordinary often sit as reminders of the historic economic vulnerability of rural communities heavily dependent on material refinement. Beehive kilns are remnants of a past dependent on the firing of greenware bricks for use in structural construction and road pavers. These overlooked artifacts, Currently in a state of decay, hold a […]
This project speculates on how specific interventions, derived as antitheses to the hallmark traits of a traditional house, might radically engage the ordinary site of the domestic house, disrupting the rigidity, boundaries, and hierarchy of suburban living, opening up new opportunities for residents to take agency in the way the home and block are inhabited […]
This project reinterprets the abandoned New Haven Clock Company building by translating digital tropes, such as glitches, deep fry, photogrammetry, and collage, into architectural form. Informed by the building’s layered history as both an industrial site and a haven of subculture, this proposal uses these digital distortions to expose, warp, and recompose material traces of […]
This thesis speculates that the city is not just a collection of buildings but a layered text where architecture, advertising, and media intersect, entangle, and mesh to redefine boundaries. By shaping urban perception and engagement, these elements transform spatial relationships and generate new architectural meanings. Billboards, as symbols of consumerism, prioritize commercial interests and visual […]