Tag: Class of 2021

The future is an infrastructural utopia for disenfranchised city dwellers that want public programs in their cities. City planning in the New York Metropolitan Area has failed regular people by choosing to work with developers and protect and promote unconstrained development. Long-time residents of Jersey City are fed up. In an age where private sectors and crowd sourced information are taking over, Jersey City residents have created a new park typology to take city development in their own hands. The park is a living piece of city infrastructure that has a memory and a conscious and that responds to the threat of new development. The park circumvents the inefficiencies and bureaucracy of city government and city planning and lets disenfranchised city residents decide the future of public space within their immediate urban fabric.

As long as architecture has been taken as materiality and static visual medium. But space is dynamic, and multi-sensory. Nowadays, with emerging smart devices, we can create augmented spatial experience beyond mere visuals, to enhance sensory diversity by using acoustics. We heading to a future, where architects will design through spatial computing, for user-centered experience, in real-time and human scale.

Acoustic Garden applies spatialized sound synthesis to the physical world with handheld AR. When the virtual world is mostly hidden in sight, sound becomes the core of narrative and guides us to rediscover our surroundings. Listen, and discover, our movement distorts the soundscape in turn, constructing an augmented acoustic space. Find the sound, a virtual garden “bloom” above both the visual and acoustic world.

The proposal is aims to create a memorilized center where people can store their fagments of memory and review them. The whole space is grid-base which contains space with different ratio of depth and height that can provide different space atomosphere. With the assistance of censors and algorithm, visitors is able to use a totem to trigger a customized memory review journey which highly relates to the content and emotions of the memory.

Over the past 40 years, 3D printing has amplified from its initial patent in the early 1980’s to the burgeoning industry set to intervene our standard models of creation. Architecture is tangibly working to introduce and expand the parameters of 3D printing, also commonly referred to as additive manufacturing. To date, architects have printed; components, walls, foundations and have pushed the limits to create sustainable dwellings, mid-rise structures, and pedestrian bridges. The thesis proposed aims to become the next architectural scale, a residential high-rise tower. By working at this level, new questions of construction, architecture and 3d printing come to the forefront of the conversation. A core constraint for the project, the 3D printing mechanisms are to part of the building enabling the entirety of the build to be done on site, thereby eliminating the need for mass deliveries and larger construction footprints. Concurrently, the project looks closely at how architectural language can be re-imagined through the printer and how mass customization can become the standard for residential living.

Primordia is a collective housing response to the formation of new coastal biomes caused by rising sea levels through a permeable blending of built and natural environments. Residential hubs form a series of collective communities that embrace their literal connection to the ocean through aqua-cultural farming, fresh water procurement, and wastewater recycling. The project is organized by two systems unified by the principle that a community must be allowed to grow in place. Adaptable units expand and contract relative to the number of tenants in residence, allowing for a comprehensive multi-generational living arrangement. Public infrastructure works in tandem with the growing population through a continuous expansion of food, water, and energy programs. By working in tandem, these systems allow for both long-term growth and stability in the creation of a new coastal collective.

The aim of this thesis is to propose a new architectural language as an improvement to the riparian population’s living conditions. Nowadays they live in collections of small houses – occupied by several generations – that are constantly susceptible to flooding and have very few or no adequate treatment of sewage, electricity or running water. The new project is a sustainable and self-sufficient floating housing community in a collection of artificial islands that respects the existing culture and uses it to inform the design moves, while they empower the community to build their aggregation.

A better life quality means a better sense of community, while being sustainable assures that the rainforest will remain as a natural resource. Added to that, a unique approach that follows the vernacular of the native Brazilian riparian architecture combined with the historic styles that followed the “discovery” of Brazil (focusing on colonialism and modernism) will create a new case study for the architecture of that region. An attempt to prevent that a new project changes the identity of the population into a simple and cultureless idea.

Homelessness is a well-known global issue. Within the existence and the realities of homelessness, there are added issues within the system itself. Specifically looking at Los Angeles, California, which contains the United States’ second-largest population of homeless or unhoused people, one can see the two sides of a consumer world. An easy assumption can be made that everyone has the right to basic needs. These needs are as simple as clean clothes, a warm shower or bath, access to food, and a place to sleep at night. While housing the unhoused is an important and large topic, my thesis will not take on housing the unhoused, but to provide a set of services to them in South Los Angeles, California.

The expectation is that a set of basic human needs shall be placed within ease for use. By having these needs readily available to the unhoused population in South Los Angeles, the intention is to create a healthier outlook on homeless services. By constructing a collection of hubs and creating connections between each, communities are able to be formed. Many communities create safe places for groups of people and better ideas of how to gather those needs are able to be formed.

The concept of these hubs or spaces is to create a network of basic needs for the unhoused population in South Los Angeles and to allow those necessities to be at the users’ disposal. My proposal will involve these basic human needs integrating with handheld devices that provide on-demand services and casting a net over a larger community. The ultimate goal is to allow room for interaction, provide a sense of security and freedom, and allow the users to constantly explore the area around them.