Tag: Class of 2020

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Markets

In Line, or Crossing the Line

My project transforms the South square of Beijing West Railway Station by introducing market programs to it. These programs will break the large-scale ceremonial public space into a series of spontaneous environments. As Benjamin stated in the Arcade Projects, the transformation from individual retails to large corporations’ shopping malls is a process of finding a collective identity. By reversing an ‘easy to be supervised’ square to a series of smaller retails, the project intent to encourage the interactions within individuals, and the personal opinions against the collective voice.

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Markets

THE ACCESS TOWER

My project involves the relationship between housing and the market by demonstrating how they benefit one another through accessibility, thus creating a tower that is constructed through intersected geometric forms that assimilates and disseminates culture in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Accessibility is presented through circulation and placement that is conveyed throughout the drawings. I first began studying a variety of precedents that involved a variety of typologies of unconventional housing units between the U.S and Japan, while also looking at how advertisements are utilized between both countries through the use of neon lights. These studies where a catalyst for a variety of primitive studies that assimilates conventional organization products, like a pencil organizer, into potential spaces for housing and market that crafted this accessible tower for residents.

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Dinner Party

Rainbowl

This project explores the relationship between our chromatic perception and food. A well-composed presentation of food can lower one’s stress and bring comfort to the dining routine, as every food item has its destined place. Nicely arranged food items thus have the therapeutic ability to ease emotions. Color is one of the attributes that can help to control the uncertainty in life. And the color is one of the attributes that can help to control the uncertainty in achieving visual harmony. The project conceptualized a new food box service that offers a weekly box delivery, featuring only one color of food each day. The mission of this project is to offer a delightful touch of creativity through colored food that would encourage creative ideas and ignite artistry as we review food and eating rituals.

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: House Tour: ten new models for domestic life in LA

The Psychology of Domesticity in Prisons

Through criticism of the current penitentiary system, comes an exploration of domesticity in prisons. The project asserts four mechanisms, or pillars, of domesticity: natural light, privacy, reality, and choice. Each mechanism is spatially introduced to the prison to create a new psychology of imprisonment.

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Unholy Alliances, Alchemical Processes and Black Box Magic

Abominable Zoo

Abominable Zoo places architecture in a new mold—one that holds a steadfast indifference to the conventions of standard practice. Through this new lens, Abominable Zoo seeks to make new discoveries about the relationship between product and process; namely, how the methods by which one makes something affects what it can become. Here, there is a balance between the inherent qualities that a work embodies and the creative intent of its artist.

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Markets

Virtual Frame – Under Nature

The influence of light and shadow on people is invisible and direct. It is the most important element that makes objects behave more three-dimensional and realistically. Although light and shadow are everywhere, it is often the easiest to be ignored. The architecture is produced by the characteristics of light and shadow is the best way to connect with the surrounding environment. Natural light is the most primitive and charming. This project explores how light and shadow might give the opportunity to change the social environment, architecture and people.

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Dinner Party

Little Bastards (Authenticity is Chimerical)

Little Bastards is a pop up experience that serves as an analogy between food and design where tangible objects and environments are recreated using the same processes as appropriated dishes. A fun and interrogative dining experience, diners are prompted to set up their own environments and create their own meals from an assemblage of elements with some guidance and rulesets. Leaving room for uncertainty and error, the aim is to create a meal in a space where both (food and setup) disrupt, challenge and redefine the notions of authenticity and correctness. Through this meal, the diners create a new authenticity of place and time.

Please view the full manual here: www.cutt.ly/littlebastards

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Proving Ground: UNESCO's Laboratories

UNESCO + MONUSCO

An exploration of borders and buffer zones under duress. Using (botanical) laboratories as a means for scaling down large buffer zones in order to apply such zoning techniques at multiple levels.

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Proving Ground: UNESCO's Laboratories

Dueling Identity of Arctic Laboratory

The project proposes a prefabricated modular laboratory system that could populate remote regions of the arctic circle. Laboratories in Arctic bares an unique characteristics of coherent purpose. It functions as an ordinary research lab but also convey completely distinct purpose when observed in a larger scale as a network. The architecture of the laboratory is bounded to lead complex relationships of science, urban developments, and geopolitical conflicts.

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ARCH 502: Architectural Design V Gallery: Unholy Alliances, Alchemical Processes and Black Box Magic

Community’s Individual Trust

Community’s Individual Trust establishes a collective where, although every family is living just within their means, home ownership does not put a heavy burden on them. The process of buying a home is not only simple, but it is safe and worth every penny. Because every family home is individually designed by a different architect, there is a sense of identity and individuality for the homeowners living here. With this new take on low income homes, families and individuals will come together collectively to create and secure a fresh lifestyle where they can grow old and always feel comfortable.