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Lumps of Clay
By using ceramics as a framework to influence architectural spaces, this thesis explores the transformative potential of ceramics in architecture structurally and aesthetically. Between these two fields, coexist fundamental principles…
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Choreograph Everything
This thesis seeks to expand the concept of Architectural and Spatial choreographies by drawing inspiration from the art of Dance. Through diagramming human movement across different environments and contexts, the…
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The Bridges Over LA
My thesis supports the idea of adding bridges and walkways to the Los Angeles Downtown area for connectivity, accessibility, and facilitated pedestrian routes that assist the public in populating LA….
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Gateway to Fantasy
Verseluft is the desire to experience a fantasy environment for a planned amount of time and from that desire came the creation of “portals” that would act as the doorway…
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A Decade of Trauma
This thesis project endeavors to scrutinize a decade of American trauma through an architectural lens.It begins by investigating seemingly innocuous architectural elements and structures that harbor darker implications. Among these…
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Pixels to the Max
My thesis studies the urban potential of pixels in digital content, which are quite literally the building blocks of our media-consumption and thus our hyperrealities. The project utilizes cellular automata…
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Stitching New Surfaces
Throughout the 20th century, new freeway construction divided the city of Los Angeles. Where neighborhoods were once together, concrete and asphalt scars separated communities. Some of these freeways are built…
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Sensorial Density
To study sensorial density in architecture is to understand ocularcentrism and its ranging impact on the five senses when designing space. The five-part project targets the sub-genres of sensory design,…
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COUNTER-CANON
The counter-canon stems from both critical and canonical attitudes in architecture. The counter-canon acknowledges that the field of architecture has developed its own theoretical frameworks and guiding principles to regulate…
The Way of the Igbo
This thesis is dedicated to the examination and appreciation of the culture and individuality intrinsic to the ethnic lineages of the Igbo people in Nigeria, with the aim of challenging…
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Edible Architecture
This thesis explores the relationship between food and architecture. My exploration of this comparison is done by: diagramming architecture through food, plating food architecturally, photographing the construction process of a…
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Day Before War
The impact of trauma on our memory of architecture. Through excerpts from memoirs, this project explores pre-war memories of dwelling spaces. Layers of transparency separate what was forgoten from what…