Category: STUDIO CIRCULAR – Enough is Enough: Circularity and Non-Speculation as a Catalyst for Housing Innovation

Break the Cycle addresses the post-abuse environment for survivors of domestic violence, confronting housing models that reduce survivors to temporary occupants while reproducing conditions of control, surveillance, and instability. While shelter networks have historically operated as emergency refuge, they rarely support transition from crisis to long-term autonomy or stability. In response, this project proposes a […]

Atopia rejects the static and reactive nature of resilience, advancing antifragility as a proactive and adaptive framework to address systemic challenges. This shift directly confronts two of Los Angeles’s most damaging and fragile systems: its speculation-driven housing market and its monofunctional highway infrastructure. Both persist as enduring scars on the urban fabric, producing division, inequity, […]

The Resilient Public Housing Catalog proposes a framework for how to rehouse low-income and working-class citizens of Myanmar after, in the event of, and in anticipation of natural disasters such as earthquakes. Building on public investments, proactive community agency, and high-level material circularity, the project aims to integrate local, vernacular knowledge and practices to address […]

Transit-oriented developments in Los Angeles are currently driven by quantitative metrics that prioritize unit counts and development capacity over long-term affordability. As a result, these developments often place pressure on existing communities, contributing to gentrification and displacement. To counter these trends, the Transit-Oriented Co-operative framework proposes using LA Metro’s Joint Development Program to advance large-scale […]

Residents of Los Angeles County face deep financial, social and structural inequities in housing. Groundwork Collective Trust (GCT) proposes breaking the extractive cycle of private profit and single-family production and increasing density, starting with Altadena as a catalyst. In the wake of the Eaton Fire many Altadena residents are left with limited options: daunting costs […]

The Patch Commons reimagines how housing can transform neighborhoods through community participation rather than by external forces of speculation. Introducing an alternative community currency based on SCCs (Social Contribution Credits) and CCCs (Commons Contribution Credits), value is measured not through commodified ownership but through personal contribution and collective stewardship. With earned SCCs and CCCs, residents […]