USC Architecture XpoInstructor: Evelyn Tickle
This thesis proposes a funerary architectural approach to post-industrial sites, framing the disappearance of industry as a collective death requiring spatial and cultural recognition. Rather than demolition or static preservation, fragments of factories are encased in glass as archival chambers of memory, while other portions are opened to natural processes of decay, soil, and vegetation. […]
Why should architecture be defined by an unattainable pursuit of perfection when the environment it inhabits is fundamentally impermanent? Let's break away from the traditional disciplines and let architecture breathe and act as adaptive instruments. Introducing biomimetic intervention in the Gowanus Canal, the exercise replaces rigid infrastructure with a living architecture system modeled after the […]
R E T H I N K I N G T H E A R C H I T E T C U R A L V O I D T H R O U G H F I L T R A T I O N Emerging from the study of radiolaria, microscopic organisms […]