USC Architecture XpoInstructor: Jimenez Lai
Architecture is choreography. In this project, eight dance environments are assigned to street dance styles and designed to alternate over time. These spaces introduce elements that disrupt norms: angled or curved mirrors, sensory variations, and thematically driven spaces that direct orientations and spotlight moments of expression. As a work of total spatial arrangement, the project […]
In response to Hyderabad’s increasing reliance on glass and steel inpursuit of global aesthetics, this thesis proposes that the shape and materiality of Modernisation in Hyderabad are Boulders. By embracing the natural abundance of boulders on the Deccan Plateau, it redefines modernisation through the materiality and permanence of rock. Using stereotomic techniques to carve regular, […]
In this thesis group, each student will construct a large model at roughly 100 x 100 x 100 cm (or max out at 48”x48”x48”). This studio calls for each thesis project to be articulated in the medium of architecture, completing the B.Arch degree with an oversized model. Additionally, each student will produce a large axonometric […]