USC Architecture Xpo
This project aims to explore the role of technology in shaping the future of park recreation and public health. As park recreation and public health evolve, emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and augmented Reality (AR) play an increasingly critical role in shaping the future of public spaces. This project explores the potential contributions […]
Drawing upon the rules set forth in Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language (1977), garden designs inspired by C.T. Sørensen (1966), principles guided by Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) and a liberation ecology field curriculum sourced from the Critical Ecology Lab, the Exposition Park Alternative Education Project aims to serve as a knowledge transfer hub […]
Throughout human history, every century has witnessed a groundbreaking invention that revolutionized the way people travel. In the 19th century, the steam engine led to the creation of steam trains, ships, and the first automobiles, making distant places accessible like never before. In the 20th century, the invention of the internal combustion engine enabled even […]
Expo Wilderness Park encourages the coexistence of nature and people, reintroducing native habitats and embracing ecological wildness. Moving away from rigid, artificial aesthetics, the park uses wild planting strategies as a symbol of ecological and queer resilience throughout time. At the heart of this transformation is an AIDS memorial landscape, a living tribute that commemorates […]
This project reimagines Exposition Park as a space that reconnects people, culture, and ecology through Indigenous stewardship and community-driven design. By restoring native plants and traditional land practices through Rematriation, the park can honor its history while embracing a more sustainable future. The redesign also tackles the Eurocentric “one size fits all” design of Exposition […]
As the future feels infinite and change inevitable, the value of parks has surged, but their design has seen little change in a century. This studio asks students to imagine how Exposition Park can be the most valuable open space in the Southern California region for the surrounding community, and for people from around the […]
This project explores how incorporating intergenerational nature play can augment Exposition Park’s biodiversity and promote the well-being of the community. In response to inequitable access and dominance of hardscapes, the design integrates native planting, topography, enhanced circulation, and structures dedicated for community-driven activities and enjoyment of nature. Through careful consideration of climate resiliency and park […]
The digital and physical worlds exist in a lateral relationship, constantly translating and reshaping one another. Architectural interfaces must abandon their role as passive mediators and become active sites for reality negotiation. By fusing material agency with digital responsiveness into unstable, embodied interfaces, we can create spaces where users may debate, disrupt, and co-author the […]
Humankind’ s self-destruction approaches. The human architect must bring the nonhuman actors that will remain into their ethical regard. They will draw from past sacrificial architectures and humanity ’ s detritus to design constructs that will first serve humanity and then decay into new sacrificial architectures, leaving behind apologies to the nonhuman pantheon.
The implementation of vague spaces in architecture allows for further development of the edge conditions, allowing for new discoveries visually and experientially in a mundane environment. Boundaries constantly expand or are blurred through time, different atmospheric conditions, and movement, where streets transform into a new third space for its users.