Tag: Class of 2021

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Terra – Tropical Verticality

This thesis focuses on the definition of a boundary not as a division, but a condition of difference. A meeting point defined by the characteristics of adjacent parts, this definition can be illustrated by the granular complexity of the terrain and natural landscapes, where boundaries are organic transition zones formed by changes in elevation, curvature, density, texture, transparency, etc. Can the reading of the map and the way we navigate space become a method to generate alternative spatial qualities? By extracting the formal and organizational language of terrain boundaries, the project aims to stress the ability of diverse and contradictory parts to form an architecture whole. How does this alternative design approach redefine architecture as a complex system of contextual, programmatic, functional, and experiential relationship that transcend scale, meaning, and interpretation?

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Skid Row Dwells in Fragmented Bonaventure

This thesis attempts to address Los Angeles’s shortage of supportive housing for the homeless from a new perspective by reimagining John Portman’s Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown LA.

Downtown LA is a fragmented place.

On the one hand, homeless and low-income population fragmentally distributes across the city, while the supportive housing development is far behind and most are unpleasant to live. Fighting for the basic needs of low-income people can be burdensome when some must migrate daily to find shelters; when they have to travel around the city to send their kids to daycare; when they struggle to get medical support for COVID; or when they simply desire social interaction.

Meanwhile, A few blocks away from Skid Row is the wealthy financial district with glistening glass boxes, among which the five-tower Bonaventure is by far the most appealing element of the Los Angeles skyline. With a clean, futuristic form and a lively and exciting base, Bonaventure is not just a hotel but an implementation of interior urbanism that brings the experience of the city at large into the building. However, the base’s concrete front presents an air of indifference to the city at street level.

Thus, this thesis brings the two completely different worlds to one site, examines how fragmentation operation on Bonaventure can expressively infuse the streetscape into the building, break the perception of order and hierarchy, and ultimately create a sense of equity and inclusivity to the disadvantaged groups.

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Reform

Experimenting the different perspective of basic architecture elements. Maximize the opportunity with the spatial area with ambiguity. Final goal is to achieve a project work both horizontally and vertically. The architecture elements will reform as other functionality through ambiguity.

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The Other Side of the Screen

The materialization of the cyber world. Using online life as a principle, I’ve evolved Phillip Johnson’s Glass House into the 2020 version.Build a new way of life that gives people freedom to show.

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No-stop Sharing

As family patterns, cities and society change, the house constantly changes its appearance. More and more people who move from small towns to big cities live alone in confined spaces, so I developed the idea of shared homes.

The basic idea of the project is to minimize the private space occupied by individuals, to create a wide and rich public space, and to make the whole into a city or a shared living space like a home.

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X-SPACE: In between Circulations and Programs

During the modern period, Architecture has always been seen as a combination of programs and circulations between them. For most of the modern movement, the main event was about exploring the programs, and the circulation was merely a way to make the program elements accessible. People are under serving circulation by minimizing it and almost giving it a neglected status. Since in some extent, programs is stands for more efficiency and served space, and circulations means servant for it. More generally, the rising attention on efficiency leads to a fast-pace lifestyle and a decreasing interaction with people.What if I treat circulations as the main part, and weaken the impact of programs?

My thesis is about exploring how circulation could be expanded to take advantage of positive attributes of programs, and how it overlapped with programs and other types of spaces, reversing the proportions and status of programs and circulations, guiding people to focus both efficiency and leisure time.

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A Temple to Transit

The architectural development of this station was based heavily on the form, proportions and organization of peripteral temples. Both the primary material and the program were adapted to our current setting in order to create another step in the evolution of this typology. These adaptations led to the discovery of new forms, tectonics and spatial possibilities. It also encourages further development, adaptation and evolution by others.

The timber bends itself above the street to display its structural capabilities and potential applications. This move completes a sequential iteration from gable to flat roof to curved surface, emphasizing the continuation of the typology through a literal warping of the form. The quality of motion implied in the double-curved surfaces is appropriate to the station’s function and the contemporary culture as a whole. The proportional relationships discovered and refined by Mies van der Rohe are preserved in this new iteration and punctuated by columns proudly facing the street and asserting the building’s importance through their resemblance of traditional architecture.

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Bewilderment

Bewilderment is an architecture thesis project exploring the idea of performers as audience and audience as performers. Utilizing architecture strategies, the thesis create scenarios where sensational elements such as smell, light, sound, movement can leak to adjacent space, thus, bringing the performance aspect with them. The project looks at the characteristic of spectator vs. spectated, voyeurism vs. performance and reimagines the architecture for the next generation of nightlife entertainment.

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W H I R L

My thesis project explores the relationship between temporary and adaptable architectural design and the changing needs of an educational facility facing current technological demands.

By developing a series of learning units at the individual, classroom, and community scale, I provide an architectural solution that enhances learning and creates a dynamic environment. The units will constantly adapt by rotating depending on the demand of the users. Not only does this unique design provide a more efficient learning environment, but it suggests unique relationships not found in traditional buildings – challenging the notion that one box fits all.

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Office lab

This project considers the office itself as Lab o fill in the gap among the research , test and sale, the project not only aims to better integrate administration, but also optimize the products by bringing both customers and researchers into the design process