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Class of 2021 Gallery

Student work from the graduating class

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…

Thesis cover_Yilu Chen – Yilu Chen

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Extension And Reflection In Envelope

This thesis aims to create an architectural condition by using envelope as a medium to translate nature language to architecture forms and three-dimensional space. The…

Cover Photo – Barbara Aguirre-Garayzar

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Fragments to Fluidity

The project studies the creation of space driven by formal qualities of the lines. It grapples with this concept at various levels, massing autonomy, program…

Untitled

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Inversion of positive and negative streetscape

The restructuring, deformation, and contrast of these urban intentions will create new systems and urban infrastructure, and the geometric meaning behind them will lead to…

ARCH793b_Wes Jones_Jennifer Otsuki_Thumbnail – Jennifer Otsuki

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Tam2.0

Paffard Keatinge-Clay’s Mt. Tamalpais Pavilion has been subjected to many subsequent changes since the initial building was produced. Tam2.0 implements the strategies of vaulting and…

ARCH793b_LisaLittle_LuisSalasJImenez_Thumbnail – Luis Salas Jimenez

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Invisible Neighbors

There has been an explosion of van dwellers in both our major cities and rural areas and evidence shows that these communities will continue this…

793b_GeoffreyvonOeyen_ApurvaRavi_Cover – Apurva Ravi

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Fiber Float

The global climatic issue of rising sea levels makes the neighbourhood of Venice, Los Angeles, a potential flooding site which would disrupt the current living…

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…

Shengtong Xie_ final presentation15 – Shengtong Xie

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Fragment Museum

The project is called “fragment museum”. It’s an urban pop-up exhibition. My overall position is to develop a spatial quality as a series which can…

ARCH 793b_AndyKu_MinyueGe_CoverPage – Minyue Ge

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

The Elements

The project explores essential graphic elements in an architectural drawing. The combination of architectural drawing and graphics yields new methods of reading the drawings. The…

ARCH793b_AndyKu_AlexiaHix_ProjectCoverPhoto – Alexia Hix

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

TASTE&typeFACE- a documentary library

This thesis focuses on methods of alchemy, the process of assembly + manipulation of elements with rigor + precision, yielding a series of collections on…

cover image – Yunfan Chen (1)

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

LESS STORE MORE STORY

Since the advent of modern shopping malls, retail has coexisted with entertainment within a shared building—from coffee shops and food courts to movie theaters and…

Arch 793B_ImanAnsari_AnushkaKantak_Coverphorto – Anushka Kantak

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Healthcare as an instrument

Since the advent of modern hospitals, healthcare has been confined to fixed institutional space that lacks flexibility. The thesis aims to rethink the hospital and…

Jiaqing Lyu expo cover – Jiaqing Lyu

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Let street present itself

Luis Barragan said Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well-being. Street…

793_Lisa Little_Desi Petkova_Cover Photo – Desi Petkova

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Highline Unleashed

The future is an infrastructural utopia for disenfranchised city dwellers that want public programs in their cities. City planning in the New York Metropolitan Area…

793B_ImanAnsari_KateBogdanova_Cover – Kate Bogdanova

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Dwelling On Housing

Housing has traditionally been defined and understood as a fixed, formal space where living functions take place. This thesis looks at the housing as a…

Project Cover PhotoThumbnail – Ashrita Hegde

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Hot Wheels

Modern offices are conceived based on the conventional idea that work takes place in a rigid interior environment with an open floor plan or occupied…

AG_Cover_Low – Yufan Xie

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Acoustic Garden

As long as architecture has been taken as materiality and static visual medium. But space is dynamic, and multi-sensory. Nowadays, with emerging smart devices, we…

Thumbnail_Minghan Cen – Minghan Cen

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Flashback Machine

The proposal is aims to create a memorilized center where people can store their fagments of memory and review them. The whole space is grid-base…

ARCH793b_LisaLittle_JakeSpector_THUMBNAIL – Jake Spector

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

CTRL + P

Over the past 40 years, 3D printing has amplified from its initial patent in the early 1980’s to the burgeoning industry set to intervene our…

ARCH793b_LisaLittle_MakotoIzu_CoverThumbnail – Makoto Izu

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Primordia

Primordia is a collective housing response to the formation of new coastal biomes caused by rising sea levels through a permeable blending of built and…

ARCH793b_LisaLittle_ThiagoLisboa_Thumbnail – Thiago Augusto Ferreira Lisboa

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

VILA DE IRUPÉ

The aim of this thesis is to propose a new architectural language as an improvement to the riparian population’s living conditions. Nowadays they live in…

ARCH793b_LisaLittle_BettinaBrown_ProjectCoverPhoto – Bettina Brown

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

South Los Angeles Center for Renewal

Homelessness is a well-known global issue. Within the existence and the realities of homelessness, there are added issues within the system itself. Specifically looking at…

ARCH 692b_Karen Kensek_Wenxin Hu_Cover Photo – Wenxin Hu

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

Automating Fire Code Compliance using BIM and Revit Plug-ins

Five BIM aided plugins were planned to be developed in Revit using C# programming language and based on International Building Code 2018 (IBC 2018) as…

1-04 – Aishwarya Pai

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

STATION DESTINATION

Stations serve as static transit and transition spaces en route to a destination. This thesis emphasizes the socio-economic role of public transportation and envisions the…

ARCH793b_AndyKu_ForestMcMillin_CoverPhoto – Forest McMillin

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Natural Transformation

My project aims to connect a building, specifically a clothing factory, to its purpose as well as to the natural world. To do this, I…

Cover page – Ruolin Lai

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Signage Spectacle

The thesis takes commercial lifestyle as an example to exploit the spatial interactions of signage graphic arts. Based on the present consumeristic urban context, signage…

Sixuehe project Cover 2 – Sixue He

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

The Third Place

Airports are unique transitory spaces that exist outside national, political, and economic borders. This thesis aims to build on the neutral identity of the airport…

ARCH793b_KennedyWells_thumbnail_reduced – Kennedy Wells

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Architecture in Decay

In the past, architecture created buildings under the assumption that they will last in theory forever. This idea has led to creating buildings that materially…

COVER PHOTO – Gaoge Yang

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

CONVERGE

Inspired by photography, murals and film shots, CONVERGE focuses on patterns, perspectives, and urban experience. It challenges the typical design process based on plans or…

thumb – JJ Kim

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

Development of data-driven building façade design preference guideline models: Machine Learning Techniques to Predict User Design Preferences

This study aims to develop a data-based design preference prediction model that performs design preference prediction based on design preference data of a specific user…

CoverPhoto_RushitaVora – Rushita Vora

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

Embodied Carbon of Wood Construction

The thesis analyses the embodied carbon of different timber structural systems, and also addresses the impact of carbon sequestration and transportation of materials on the…

Cover Photo – Xingbai Zhang

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

DEVELOPMENT OF AI-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINES: ESTABLISHING HUMAN BIOMETRIC SIGNAL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINE AS A FUNCTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES

In most architectural design projects, the clients and architects are the main members of the designing process. Architects and clients unescapably spend a large amount…

ARCH692b_KarenKensek_MuntaseerKhan_Thumbnail – Muntaseer Khan

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

AN ANALYSIS OF BUILDING COMPONENT ENERGY USAGE

The research follows a data analysis approach using large amounts of existing building data to explore the relationships of building components and it’s impacts on…

cover page – Zhequan Zhang

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

Office Floor Plans Generation Based on Generative Adversarial Network

Creating a new way of architecture drawing based on machine learning to save architecture or BIM modelers’ time: Based on the BIM data set of…

Course692B_KarenKensek_AishwaryaSwamy_projectcoverphoto – Aishwarya Virupaksha Swamy

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

Impacts of Building Performance on Occupants’ Work Productivity

The indoor environmental conditions at 1865 workstations from over 60 modern office buildings were studied as part of an integrated Post Occupancy Evaluation study. The…

revit model – Vidya Chowdary Chundru

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

IMPACT OF BAMBOO MATERIALS ON INDOOR AIR QUALITY

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is one of the components of indoor environmental quality that needs considerable attention from building designers. Currently, people spend 90% of…

Figure 3-8 a – Barbara Aguirre-Garayzar

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

DESIGN AND MODELING OF AN ENGINEERED BAMBOO STUD WALL IN SOLIDWORKS

Alternative, low carbon materials are emerging for use in construction. The presented research explored the use of laminated bamboo in a light-frame wood construction, a…

Cover page_Yushi Wang – Yushi Wang

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

Multi-occupancy Environmental Control for Smart Connected Communities

The project proposes an integrative approach that developed a community member-centered framework for determining the heating system control of the building through multi-standard decision-making driven…

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