USC Architecture Xpo
Re:Alley explores the transformation of Los Angeles’ overlooked alleyways into dynamic, community-driven spaces. This thesis proposes a modular, flat-pack kit system inspired by traditional Japanese joinery to activate and reimagine these underutilized corridors. Drawing from the principles of craftsmanship, modularity, and tactical urbanism, Re:Alley presents a scalable solution that fosters flexibility, adaptability, and inclusivity in […]
Fire-Resistant Modular ADU is a response to the wildfire-resilient designs that have recently surged in Los Angeles. The California wildfires of 2025 left a devastating impact on the state, and as a result, this design has been created with the damaged structures in mind. These wildfires have been reported to have severely damages over 12,000 […]
Henry Bell and Kelly Dinh (co-designers)
MacArthur Park is a liminal zone between place and non-place, an area of the city that oscillates between cultural identity and anonymity. Differing ideas and perceptions of the park are shaped by the range of memories of those who occupy, and move around and through, this space daily. R.A.M. leverages these random, everyday memories of […]
The porch is an ideal place for community engagement, offering an architectural element that is simultaneously intimate, familiar, and public. Equally, the porch, with its varied lineage, holds deep significance in African-American history as an element whose development traces back to West Africa and continues to be a marker of black domesticity within the United […]
In Los Angeles, urban boundaries, shaped by capitalist development, restrictive infrastructure, and fragmented governance practices, reinforce spatial and social divisions across the city. These conditions often lead to neglect, fragmentation, and disinvestment. However, by leveraging components of control and separation—such as jurisdictional edges, zoning lines, and infrastructural barriers—and making them visible and interactive, boundaries can […]
Innovation in the public realm relies on acknowledging and reinterpreting the past to address urgent environmental, social, and spatial challenges. Using the LA River as a testing ground for deployable, community-driven infrastructure, this project draws from the adaptive principles of the Metabolist movement to propose a modular system of small, medium, and large-scale interventions. These […]
Streets increasingly have become edge conditions—fractures in the urban fabric that privilege movement over interaction, functioning more as corridors of separation than spaces of connection. Yet public space is fundamentally about relationships—between people, programs, and places—and the street must reclaim its role as an active field of engagement. Here, movement becomes more than just passage; […]
What if the fragments of the past could shape the public spaces of the future? Spolia, as a contemporary architectural strategy, leverages digital technology to reimagine fragments of existing structures, creating spaces that foster human encounters within the public realm. Through a process of extracting, transforming, and grafting these fragments, a new language is developed—one […]