Tag: Class of 2021

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ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V Gallery - The New New Realists: Building the Social Imaginary

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 the norm, including: parasitic brand symbiosis, new mechanisms for advertisement that hybridize the billboard and store, and advanced cookies. The outcome of these conditions create an extremely personalized retail experience that transcends physical space through future technologies. Each individual enjoys a fully unique, customizable reality according to their product preferences. This constructed reality uses QR coding as matter, itself, meaning that every object in one’s mirror reality would correspond to a targeted ad-object in physical space.

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ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V Gallery: Designing for a New Collective Good – Inclusive Alternatives of Urban Value Creation

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 a permanent location. The design concept takes inspiration from modern herding tribes where teamwork, trust and mobility are their lifeline. The shelter works in conjunction with NOMAD checkpoint stations, which are essentially urban hubs that serve as intermittent goals where NOMAD users will journey towards. The checkpoints operate as docking stations that grant access to electricity and water, but more importantly, a guaranteed place for companionship and support. The purpose of the NOMAD system is to re-establish the city into an environment that thrives on the collaboration of the homeless community and city dwellers.

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ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V Gallery: Designing for a New Collective Good – Inclusive Alternatives of Urban Value Creation

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 just society that empower communities and engages them through perpetuating agency. These spaces of expression promote democratized moments of cultural celebration, protest, community engagement, and connection. Demanding and creating public spaces for such expression is a step in the direction of a just built environment focused on autonomy, appropriation, and activation.

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ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V Gallery - The New New Realists: Building the Social Imaginary

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 process and curating a dining experience. by creating a tasting menu that correlates with tasting notes, I will build a dining experience that follows this kaiseki-esque menu that leads the guest through each space. by redefining and rediscovering our relationship with dining, we will find a newfound appreciation and love for our meals.

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ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V Gallery - The New New Realists: Building the Social Imaginary

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 new design strategy Alta Scape becomes a new type of community that focuses on spaces and environments that are optimized and focused on play!

With its own website it becomes easy to see all that your house can become. In addition, staying connected with your community is just at the tip of your fingers with the Alta Scape app. Alta Scape is “community reimagined”!

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ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V Gallery - The New New Realists: Building the Social Imaginary

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 way to revive those previous wondrous possibilities of the communal bath during the 1950s, is to introduce fantasy through mediums of film and collage, where non-native content and colors can add visual layers of emotion to the three-dimensional space

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ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V Gallery - The New New Realists: Building the Social Imaginary

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 new public space is established catering to people’s usage of social media, discussing the new role of architecture under the prevalence of social media.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: 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 architecture is no longer independent individual on site but turns to be a by-product of the understanding of the existed contexts. The design was applied the reversed process that the envelope become the reflection of adjacent nature landscape. By using the technique of projecting, reflecting, extending, and folding, the envelopes translated the landscape geometry and generate interesting space, and at the same time, they create visual boundaries between nature and architecture. The envelopes play critical roles in design process that the architecture forms were generated gradually when developing the envelope. As a result, the envelopes produce the reflection of the landscape, projection of the architecture forms, structure support, circulation and building facade.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: 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 autonomy and circulation autonomy. The project poses the question of how can architecture use a fragmented urban fabric and generate cohesive mobility between the two to achieve a certain degree of fluidity? Can fragmentation of space with a delineated limit, create the opportunities for centralities?

The Santa Monica Pier (SMP) is the setting for this thesis question. The addition to the pier was shaped by the life within and around it. SMP is currently fragmented accessibility wise. Fluidity is brought into architecture in an autonomous way as well as in a behavioral and psychological way. The design was informed by the way people move through the space, shaping the project itself.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: 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 the uncertainty of development and create new and indefinite space. And the architecture could respond flexibly, randomly reorganize, and deal with natural disorder in an orderly manner. Normal streetscapes are being produced by the exterior of the building and as the negative space between the exterior of the building. But in this project, intersect moment and the interior elevation become the elements to shape the interior streetscape. In essence, the idea here is to reverse almost the typical straight from the exterior of the building into something that is shipped by the interior of the building.