USC Architecture XpoInstructor: Doris Sung
This thesis, Scale of Imperfection, explores wabi-sabi as a spatial and material process rather than a visual style. It investigates how architecture can be generated through acts of repair across different scales, from joints to building systems. Through material transitions, visible joints, and deliberate acts of patching and substitution, imperfection and aging become active design […]
Rumbles Thuds and Hums: Bringing Theatricality to Change Public Spaces Too often in our everyday journey, we spend without truly experiencing the world around us, absorbed in thought, on screens, in the momentum of the day. Theatre holds a unique power: it suspends reality, momentarily creating different worlds, through sound, light and atmosphere. My project […]
Architecture controls us, directing our movements and shaping interactions, often to the point of alienation. As a cornerstone of modern Americana, the American shopping mall exemplifies this. Historically, these controlled interior urban spaces have segregated society; an architecture of control that this project dissects. By stripping away commercial artifice to focus on spatial massing and […]