USC Architecture Xpo
In an age of rapid urbanization, more and more people find themselves living with no access to light or intimate privacy. Many of these situations take place in decrepit and obscure locations, often previously abandoned by the city’s cycle of growth. Positioned in one of Los Angeles’ densest neighborhoods, the project seeks to find the balance between enclosure and isolation.
Resolution in architecture includes not only the hard and fixed material surfaces of the architectural body, but the objects, people and actions it contains. A more synthetic understanding of these accumulated effects within the “cells and circuits” of architecture is needed to fully exploit and engage the range of resolution and present the public with an architecture that begins to meet the advancing cultural and social spectacle of an image saturated world. Within this process, Spectacle speculates on the new culture of an architectural practice in different categories: production, discursive, support, documentation, and model making. Each program embeds different levels of architectural resolution and also questions the role of architects within the different spaces of practice.
This project explores the relationship of color to form, as it presents one being indwell with the other in a symbiotic relationship. The Color-form Synesthetic Initiative (CFSI) is implemented as a method of meeting the needs and wants of the Reseda community as well as exploring the ability to affordably, and still competitively, apply spatial situations to a pre-existing architecture. The relationship between color and form tests the limits of architecture as being greater than just building spaces, but rather painting as a method of creating space.
Includes an animation and a manual. This project appeals people to pay attention to privacy protection, and also explore the possibility of architectural design with a focus on dining privacy, which aims to bring unique dining experiences from a perspective of psychological feelings to diners.
A++ is an architectural practice as well as a proposal for an installation at the Geffen MOCA, seeking to showcase an answer for architectural practice itself. It posits that a new kind of architectural practice is meant to stage the relationship between human and machine, as collaborators in creation. This is the story of an architectural practice, its machine, and all the people involved with its architecture.
An architectural practice that shares a creative vision to push the boundaries of traditional structural techtonic by mixingand also provides a multi-sensory dinning experience in bespoke themed dinning rooms. It aims to bring back the excitement and surprise to diners and
create unique memories.
Markets are produced with little care for design, but the market is perhaps the most accessible form of architecture. Rather than a box can the market become a center for sustainability within its community? The idea for Mapping a Market idea stemmed from the tote bag. Although there have been multiple sustainable fads, the tote bag remains resilient. What makes the bag so resilient and how can we use to produce a better architecture? The ideas of being easy to obtain, adaption, and consumer motivation to an increase green moral.
The market, becomes a sustainable, being self sufficient and within the community around Los Angeles Historic Park. It caters to a diverse class, people living in the nearby housing project, and the new apartment complexes that have been going up, making the building easy to obtain by multiple of people. By producing its own food in the form of an urban market through technologies as Aeroponics, the market is able to provide quality produce to a number of people. It connects to the park and also becomes an extension of the park, and integrates nature in and about the building. It will also provide plots of land to where people can use in a form of a community garden to produce other vegetation. It also has a recycling center and a center for compost to help the community engage in green practices.
The degree of privacy and publicity in the housing project is always neglected. In my project, I will use the material to articulate the spectrum of sociability in the space. The variety of the material should execute the sociability in the space and affect the human behavior.
In its struggle for identity, Los Angeles has forged its own truths by twisting and stretching its architecture to reflect the ideals of a time that never was. What could be considered grotesque historical imitations have not only become the norm, their deeply rooted affiliation to the growth of the city has transformed them into valuable artifacts… Artifacts that will in their turn be distorted and altered, drowning future generations in their own romanticized visions of the past.
The notions that once made up the American Dream to own a home in suburbs have ruled the communities in the United States for over 70 years without question. This project questions those beliefs taken towards development in suburban tract home communities and subverts every aspect to find a solution that fits a new market that doesn’t have the “Nuclear Family”. I will be introducing a typology of housing that capitalizes off of residual land of current tract home communities to juxtapose the two together.