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502a_SaschaDelz_BeatrizSuarez_Page5 – Beatriz Suarez

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

SHOP-OP

SHOP-OP is a proposal for a new retail typology built around the cooperative business model. By providing flexible shop modules and encouraging participation through workshops…

Arch502a_SaschaDelz_IsabellaMariles_Title – Isabella Mariles-Ostheimer

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

REWILDING SUBURBIA

Rewilding Suburbia is a project focused on creating new networks of sustainable practices that can teach, encourage, and provide a more sustainable lifestyle to all…

Arch502_MarcosSanchez_BrianWeiChunChou2 – Wei-Chun Chou

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Laboratory Landscape for the Outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand

As metropolitan Bangkok sprawls and expands, the boundaries of the nearby Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai (DPKY) Forest Complex and UNESCO World Heritage site are under increasing…

Arch502_Sanchez_Derman_Page21 – Can Derman

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Hospital Infecting Rome

The urban center of Rome, a preserved UNESCO site, has witnessed many pandemics throughout its history and COVID-19 will presumably not be its last. The…

ARCH502_SANCHEZ_AGUIRRE_COVER – Jorge Aguirre

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Golfo Nuevo Sea Rise Laboratory

This project proposes the creation of a Sea Level Rise laboratory in the Golfo Nuevo area of Southern Argentina; the laboratory would have a main…

502_marcossanchez_teresaadams_coverpage – Teresa Adams

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Network of Medical Service Architecture for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Special Economic Zones (SEZs), which proliferate in Southeast Asia, are populated by a type of architecture that has no place, origin, local customs or culture….

ARCH502a_HadrianPredock_BryanChen_CoverPhoto-01 (1) – Bryan Chen

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Patient Zero

Much of the lineage found in architectural history books document the various theories and cultural shifts up to the end of the twentieth century leaving…

Arch502_MarcosSanchez_YiminHu_Thumbnail – Yimin Hu

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

An Archive for Endangered UNESCO Sites, Paris

This project proposes to transform a portion of the existing UNESCO Paris headquarters building into a comprehensive archive. Many World Heritage sites, particularly “natural” sites…

502_Sanchez_Cavagnero_Cover – William Cavagnero

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Preservation Landscape for Hunter’s Point Radiological Laboratory, San Francisco

Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a decommissioned complex located on the eastern portion of the San Francisco peninsula, was long used as a support facility for…

Arch502_HadrianPredock_InhongJung_Page3 – Inhong Jung

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

New Normal Archtiecture

New Normal Architecture introduces a new form of live+work in architectural practice. The space is designed for collectives of designers, tech developers, and influencers. Each…

Expo – Lara Mendez

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

The Last Children Playing

Contemporary playgrounds prescribe standardized and inflexible play for children, thus my playscape, a primer of shapes and functions formed around a gravity acknowledging field with…

thumbnail – Vern Stelzer

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

The Spectrum of Saturation

This project is an exploration of how designers can redefine and understand architectural saturation, and debunk the techniques that mystically ‘saturated’ environments are created. Included…

CoverPhoto – Erika Studney

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Future for Tourist Enclaves in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Located on the northern edge of UNESCO’s Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in Quintana Roo, Mexico, this project imagines a near-future reorganization of Cancun’s numerous tourist…

cover photo – Peiran Ye

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Fusion Studio

Coming from the practice, the architectural life-work practice made influences on different area, like architectural theory, the way of expression and technology development. On the…

Arch502_Hadrian-Predick_James-McLeish_Thumbnail-10 – James McLeish

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Multilingualism

Multilingualism is a work life practice with an agency that claims responsibility to study overlapping fields; specifically art, music, computer science, and urban planning. We…

Thumbnail – Seung Won Chung

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A New Movement for Evaluation of Architecture

To expand the critiques from hegemony of elitism to democratic negotiation, a metric of what constitutes the value of architecture will be used in the…

voer-01 – Yiwei Lyu

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Design Like A Gamer

Physical and virtual reality perpetuate each other while remaining inseparable. Gaming with skeuomorphism, this project connects an existing office space with the digital world. They…

ARCH502a_Mary Casper_Weijia Sun_Cover Photo – Weijia Sun

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Tale of the Citied Wall

This project exploits technology fully to make new stories. As it is now possible to overlay realities onto existing structures, I take on the “Continuous…

ARCH502_MaryCasper_StephanieBarragan_CoverPhoto-01 – Stephanie Barragan

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Hidden Gems

“Hidden Gems is an exploration of light, its manifestations and how these can transform the urban landscape. The project looks specifically into the experience of…

ARCH502_MaryCasper_ZhaohuiWang_Cover – Zhaohui Wang

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Liquid Theatre

We are living in a world where negation and disputation become the nature of our environment. Our public building needs to be malleable and adaptable…

502_MarcosSanchez_AmberLawhorn_Thumbnail – Amber Lawhorn

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

An Architecture of Repatriation for East Rennell, Solomon Islands

This project begins by envisioning the repatriation of objects made by the 19th century inhabitants of East Rennell, Solomon Islands, taken from the island as…

ARCH402a_HadrianPredock_ChristinaDiaz_Page1-04 – Christina Diaz

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

THE HYBRID HOUSE

THE HYBRID HOUSE is the headquarters of IMAGINARY ____________, a multidisciplinary practice of 11 individuals dedicated to alternative architectural representation that transcends the standard building…

Daughenbaugh_Andrew_Final_0510_Page_01 – Andrew Daughenbaugh

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

ArchiCoRe

ArchiCoRe is a practice specializing in Augmented and Virtual reality. Designing their own work/live space, ArchiCoRe uses their knowledge in virtual worlds to create spatial…

Thumbnail – Christina Shin

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Sh.tudio

Sh.tudio also known as shop + studio proposes a new form of work-life in architectural practice. Based on a typical suburban home, Sh.tudio critiques the…

ARCH502a_EricHaas_JorgeLasa_Cover-01 – Jorge Lasa

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

A Quantum Paradox in a Paradise of Form

Through the eyes of Dante as he travels “El Paradiso”, this project offers a conceptual understanding of space, registered by visualizing Form as it transitions…

ARCH502a_EricHaas_AdriannaFransz_Cover – Adrianna Fransz

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

TAG | DESIGN | ACTIVATE

My analytical system will transform misused lots into social nodes through understanding existing communal spaces and assigning programmatic tags to address social voids. This tagging…

thumbnail – Alexa Blanchet

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Muscle Memory

What if practice was the performance? An architectural critique to unseen processes, Muscle Memory elevates practice over performance by engaging the fundamental technique of Vaganova…

Cover Image – John Gerard Perez

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Mend the Gap

Mend the Gap proposes a new form a street development where users can directly participate in the design and construction process of their neighborhood streets….

ARCH502_SaschaDelz_ErikaHuang_cover – Xinyi Huang

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Collective Support

Collective good is the sum of individual goods, and also a balance between individual and collective. But what’s problematic about many urban mass housing is…

PANOmiro – Noah Samuels

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Hack-a-way

Hack-a-way was inspired by the research of ‘hack cabs’ in subaltern urban areas to define a a concept of ‘hacking’ which broadly encompasses actions which…

ARCH502A_MARYCASPER_CATHERINEWEILEIN_PAGE1. BILLBOARD – Eli Assraf

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Building Generator

A critique of the present rigidity and bias of 3D modeling software followed by an encouragement toward technologies rooted in a set of new ideologies.

Grkikian_Georgina_thesis_deck-01 – Georgina Grkikian

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Connect + Play

Connect + Play Art Park is a new urban site for the community displaying 10 Art Installations of different material, scale and concept. These installations…

ARCH502 SANCHEZ JORGEDELATORRE COVERPHOTO – Jorge De La Torre

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Unbuilding Spanish Colonial Architecture in Mexico City

This project begins by dissecting a block in the historic center of Mexico City, revealing an Aztec causeway, or “cuepotli” as it was known in…

COVER PAGE – Zida Liu

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Central Amazon Intellectual Property Complex, Brazil

This project begins by acknowledging the biopiracy conducted by multinational biotech corporations in the Amazon. With patents registered on materials and knowledge pirated from indigenous…

502_Haas_BenStout_COVER – Benjamin Stout (1)

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Comfort-Able

My project illustrates the culpability of architecture in today’s postural conditions and chronic diseases, and provides a foundational framework that can be used to understand…

Thumbnail-01 – Irving Tian

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Architecture of Machine Systems

Architecture of Machine Systems delves into the parallels between Rube Goldberg machines and architecture. The architecture machine uses words to drive design while rejecting the…

502A_Haas_AlvinLi_Thumbnail – Muze Li

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Land of a Thousand Desires

Conflicting concerns and desires naturally reside in the promise of a site. The near future commune will serve to organize the impulses of these participants…

Perspective 1 – Katie Hayes

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Dis-closing Indoorsness

Communities should revert to primal outdoor living while retaining thermal comfort and privacy through operable structures. Reducing enclosure changes how people live, work, and interact….

axon

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Optimist Studios

Optimist Studios is a collective of architects, designers, artists, and engineers investigating lifework space and how they can be reimagined in the future. The collective…

Cover page-01 – Mary Perez

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Re gen

Re gen is a proposal for a radical way to recycle local used items through a multi-scale material conversion and repurpose system. The Re gen…

ARCH502a_SaschaDelz_AdamYona_Page22

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Connect(ion)

CONNECT(ION) IS A MEMBER BASED CO-OPERATIVE WITH THE INTENTION OF ADDRESSING TWO VERY BIG ISSUES THAT SOCIETY FACES TODAY. THE FIRST OF THESE ISSUES IS…

502_Casper_Gonzalez_Cover – Nataly Gonzalez-Fimbres

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

NOW PRODUCTS

This project explores the future of retail by addressing a future hybrid of physical and online shopping. It supposes a future where Maximal consumerism is…

ARCH502a_SaschaDelz_GuyLaforet_Thumbnail – Guy Laforet-Kawaguchi

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Urban Nomads

The NOMAD system is a hyper-mobile shelter unit that gives the users agency to embark on self-improving journeys without the limitation of being stuck in…

502_SaschaDelz_AbriannahAiken_Thumbnail-46 – Abriannah Aiken

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Spaces of Expression

Society is riddled with injustice and the built environment is not immune; Architects have a responsibility to actively play a role in making a more…

ARCH502a_MaryCasper_VirginiaLeopard_Page1 copy – Virginia Leopard

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Edible Spaces

Our relationship with food is strained, unfamiliar and wasteful. my thesis strives to reimagine how and where we eat, looking at each element of the…

ARCH502a_MaryCasper_ChailaJohnson_CoverPhoto – Chaila Johnson

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Alta Scape

Alta Scape combines the more basic neighborhood with the walkability of the theme park and the projective elements of the theme park attraction. With this…

ARCH502a_MaryCasper_NastassjaLafontant_BILLBOARD – Nastassja Lafontant

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Bathroom Rituals

Studying Americanized bathroom spaces and how to implement Eastern social factors as if they were Roman bathhouse or sentos. I would argue that the only…

thumbnail – Qifan Wang

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Media Mania

Following the study of Andreas Gursky’s architectural photography, the site was chosen as the place Gursky photographed 27 years ago in Central Hong Kong. A…

Boards

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Cooperatively Coliving

Cooperatively Coliving seeks to make coliving the primary form of housing in Los Angeles by 2040 through a system of coliving modules which can fit…

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