USC Architecture Xpo
My hometown – Parker, Colorado – sports a visual drabness that is particularly emblematic of American suburbia. Dominated by swaths of developer-made structures, the environment can feel lifeless and confining. Drawing from Mugler’s disruption of the fashion industry through his couture shows, my project creates “necessary irritants” that disrupt a bland status quo. These insertions […]
In a fictional isekai world, the absence of control towers leads to the destruction of pure nature. Without regulation, humans spread unchecked, causing serious urban sprawl. This worldbuilding, expressed allegorically, proposes a new ideology—towers as boundaries—to sustain self-sufficient societies, keeping people within the city and preserving the surrounding wilderness from harm.
Architectural diagrams idealize buildings, yet our world is flawed. The Future Forensic Diagram emerges as the new Building Information Model (BIM), harnessing unconventional data-driven simulations that embrace imperfection, revealing architecture’s vulnerabilities before construction. Using novel visualization techniques to interrogate this model, architects can foster collaboration with those who lie outside of the field to explore […]
“Revoir” reimagines architecture as a tool for recovery, resilience, and revival. Emerging from post-disaster conditions, it proposes a regenerative system where modular housing and protective structures embody the ethos of collective strength, nurturing neighborhood empowerment, integration with conscious design, and impacting the transformation of vertical cities. This thesis envisions design as a living canvas for […]
This thesis proposes a diorama-inspired floating architecture, designed with a glacial-form block and an elevated platform, that responds to the ecological and spatial challenges of the melting Arctic. The architecture creates interspecies zones that support the coexistence of polar bears, seals, and human activities such as research, photography, and environmental education. Below the surface, innovative […]
Architecture is a dynamic process shaped by continuous change rather than a static, finished product. Designing with planned incompleteness and flexibility enables buildings to evolve alongside the people who use them, without imposing a fixed outcome. This approach anticipates future needs, empowering both surrounding communities and advancing technologies to shape spatial experiences over time. As […]
Los Angeles’s flood control dams have long been built with no regard for social integration. The architect is positioned to transform these pieces of infrastructure into visually and socially engaging places. This will be done through the use of landform design and by engaging sloped surfaces as places to occupy.
To foster engagement and cultural preservation, architecture must transform from a passive backdrop to an active trigger. Hyper-immersive environments influence the human psyche and ground users in an ultra-present understanding of time, proving that intentional spatial design can drive deeper emotional, cultural, and cognitive connections. Using texture, sound, and space, this project establishes a framework […]
This thesis proposes the redefinition of mental asylums and rehabilitation facilities. With an approach not only towards the formal design but also the programmatic one, my thesis focuses on mimicking the outside world’s programmatic exploration manifesting as well in the formal representation of them. Helping patients develop new skills and develop pre existing interests preparing […]
Within the sphere of home versus shelter for those who are unhoused or experiencing homelessness in Southern California, more housing is not the only simple solution to a wicked problem. It is the architect’s duty to better the quality of life of a space through embracing temporality, breaking away from typical market rate housing design, […]