Tag: Class of 2021

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ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V Gallery: Life/Work Practice

Sh.tudio

Sh.tudio also known as shop + studio proposes a new form of work-life in architectural practice. Based on a typical suburban home, Sh.tudio critiques the conventional suburban house and its associated conventions as a kit of parts. This commentary forms itself into products or ideas implicating how to increase productivity in each room. These products and ideas are then sold and used in other homes blurring the function of an office, a home, store, and showroom. This blurring allows it to encapsulate multiple forms of living and working while increasing productivity and critiquing the shift of lifestyles needed in suburbia.

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

A Quantum Paradox in a Paradise of Form

Through the eyes of Dante as he travels “El Paradiso”, this project offers a conceptual understanding of space, registered by visualizing Form as it transitions between dimensions and states of determinacy. In these visual projections, Form exists in an interplay of the “Ideal” and “Real”, (or in quantum terms: responding to the “particle” or the “wave”) to propose how these two conditions coexist or subjugate one another as we descend dimensions and different states irrupt onto one another.

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

TAG | DESIGN | ACTIVATE

My analytical system will transform misused lots into social nodes through understanding existing communal spaces and assigning programmatic tags to address social voids. This tagging then influences which activities newly designed architectural infrastructure will promote.

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

Muscle Memory

What if practice was the performance?

An architectural critique to unseen processes, Muscle Memory elevates practice over performance by engaging the fundamental technique of Vaganova barrework’s elements to articulate muscle memory of the body curated through repetition, engagement, and observation. The promenade reflects in a sequential order, from plie to grand battement, the essential foundation from which all performance stems – which is often overlooked.

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ARCH 499: Exhibiting the Body of Architecture

Liminal L.A.

Placelessness as a measure of time.

This collection of photographs and short videos depicts liminal threshold conditions across Los Angeles County. Unlike liminal spaces within remote and natural environments such as an inland sea, where transitions overlap one another in an almost gradient-like existence, liminality in the urban context (at least spatially) appears legibily defined or marked by clear barriers: fencing, surveillance, infrastructural massing all mark entry and departure. Entering these liminal spaces in the city often means stepping into the fringed edges of its center: into no-where lands where few people anchor, oft layered with industrial movement. Oil derricks, shipping containers stacked and reorganized by fields of endless rigs and levies, cargo ships waiting to be ushered into the Port of L.A. – a sort of suspension of time in space. Pathways connecting the city’s components while remaining almost separate parallel universes.

At the limen – i.e. at the border – of symbolic boundaries.
www.liminallosangeles.com

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: Graphic Intervention

Airbnb D&S Space

Recent developments in virtual technologies increasingly points to the possibility of a 3D virtual future, the inhabitable virtual world might eventually become a collective place for humans to live, work and play. In the context of the immersive, inhabitable and versatile virtual reality, the role of the architect is ambiguous and our responsibilities remain unclear, what I’m trying to approach is to find a way to conceptualize and construct a combination of physical spaces and virtual spaces.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: Graphic Intervention

“Untitled (The Domestic Space)”

While we interact with and embody ourselves within architecture, there is still so much that can be learned through the perspectives of the user. However, we tend to focus on what trained architects have to say instead of hearing from the ones the architecture is for. Instead of looking past at the monotonous, breaking down the everyday opens more questions to be answered on what needs to be changed or challenged within design. Through this project, how can we reframe we view existing architecture through graphics and make architecture more accessible to the everyday?

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: Graphic Intervention

EHSAN

This project aims to investigate the precedents’ performance in terms of their functionality, lighting, air quality, and permanency. Moreover, using precedents from Islamic Architecture to reconnect with this heritage of innovation by using the vast repertoire of patterns and applying them to the design using rules that have been developed and refined over centuries. With these ideas in mind, I have designed a community center located in Pittsburgh, PA that is meant to revive and support the neighborhood of the Strip District.

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

Mend the Gap

Mend the Gap proposes a new form a street development where users can directly participate in the design and construction process of their neighborhood streets. The project approaches street design from the lens of creating usable public urban space: flexible and programmable streets are created rather than ones that function strictly as thoroughfare. Moreover, concepts about fragmenting single-family parcel lots and creating new alley networks are implemented to to start densifying Los Angeles’s low-rise landscape while encouraging less homogenously-zoned neighborhoods.

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

Collective Support

Collective good is the sum of individual goods, and also a balance between individual and collective.

But what’s problematic about many urban mass housing is that it has homogeneous and strict layouts, which does not allow easy change. People have to sacrifice their diverse tastes and lifestyles to accommodate to these strict space.

This project aims at providing people with more freedom and agency over their dwelling units. The word support comes from John Habraken and his idea of open building. Support is the basic structure of the building. And the idea is that architects should limit themselves to the design of support, and leaves the dwelling units for the inhabitants to create. This project takes it to a more collective direction, in which inhabitants need to not only construct their own units, but also need to contribute to the construction of collective space.

The introduction of several coefficients that regulate the unit price and an open framework allow residents to create their bottom-up and autonomous dwelling complex.