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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery - Composite Figures: Design Innovation Toward Resilient Housing Communities in Los Angeles

Dwelling on Water

By 2100, climate will be the world’s biggest problem. Most large cities in the world, like Los Angeles, will be exposed to the problem of sea-level rising, which forces people to rethink habitat and housing.

This project reinvents a new form of community-focused architecture that could both stand on land and float above water when sea level rises. It provides affordable housing, with public spaces and other amenities available for the local community. FRP material with some great characteristics can be utilized to build modular units have the possibility to realize a simpler, more efficient, and faster building construction mode. This form is self-iterative, can transform and adapt to new needs. A larger scale community that can accommodate more people can be formed through the combination of several modular units, making life on the water possible.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery - Composite Figures: Design Innovation Toward Resilient Housing Communities in Los Angeles

Circle Of Public Life

The goal of this project is to repurpose turbine blades to create a structure of modular units to address the landfilling problems of wind turbine technology, reduce the cost of turbine blade transportation, and create an affordable housing community in desert areas like Desert Hot Springs.

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

Dis-closing Indoorsness

Communities should revert to primal outdoor living while retaining thermal comfort and privacy through operable structures. Reducing enclosure changes how people live, work, and interact. Openings between buildings become hubs for community development, neighbor interaction, and outdoor living and working spaces.

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

Optimist Studios

Optimist Studios is a collective of architects, designers, artists, and engineers investigating lifework space and how they can be reimagined in the future. The collective lives together in a modular community made out of a Kit of Parts. This Kit of Parts was then developed as a collective project in order to allow other groups, families, collectives, and communities to live in these similar “communes”.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: Critical Drawings, No Pens

Self-growing Blocks

Since people’s need for their living space may change from time to time, and it could be inconvenient to reform their home or move away, they may need for a home that could be updated. If people can live in a block, which could change, move, and construct easily, they may have more chance to have their “perfect home”.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery - Composite Figures: Design Innovation Toward Resilient Housing Communities in Los Angeles

Transformation Strip Malls

Based on 3 different kinds of studies, this thesis project proposes the repurpose and transformation of the single story strip mall near LA Metro stops into communal transit oriented housing.

Developing community centered mixed-use projects on the inefficient and under-utilised commercial land can become a model for strip malls throughout Los Angeles.

The existing structure will become the commercial plinth, while housing for between 50-100 people is stacked on top made of lightweight and incredibly strong FRP material.

Togetherness and sharing are at the center of this design; while privacy can be found at various levels throughout the project as well. Providing a safe and healthy place for everyone to live.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: Innovation Through Mastery

Mobitecture: Architecture In Motion

Architecture is commonly designed with the aim of providing a fixed, ideal solution based upon the assumption of future situations being certain, invariable and at a particular moment in time. However, What happens if a building moves? Dynamic spatial constructions that can accommodate changing dynamics and become part of the change, providing different spatial changes and emotional experiences.

Movement is used as a tool that empowers and allows varying spatial characteristics to occur than a static version may permit. A morphing architecture provides users’ with new spatial experiences as well as improving and inspiring everyday lives. These dynamic and variable elements in the architecture transforms the perception and understanding of the architectural buildings from passive one into an active evolutive compositions.

In the terms of the perception, this creative realization of the architectural concepts enables users to experience architectural space in a more vibrant and more participatory fashion, transforming the classical and traditional perception of urban and architectural spaces

Along with the technological improvements in our age, it is now possible for the movement to become one of the basic components of the architectural space. Accordingly, architectural construction of movement changes both our architectural production practices and our understanding of architectural space.

I believe circulation and movement through building should not be a means to an end, but a dynamic experience holding and conveying meaning to be remembered. Also, I believe that buildings are not static; they live, breathe, wear just as humans do. For this reason, I will design architecture that responds to human phenomena, as well as its context and site conditions.

Therefore my thesis statement is utilize kinetic design strategies to improve the spatial and emotional experience, and facilitate the programmatic evolution of a space.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: Critical Drawings, No Pens

Venice Esplanade

Harnessing research in environmental psychology to respond to inadequate urban conditions, a new pedestrian bridge addresses mental health in a publicly accessible way, appealing to positive, unconscious responses through the employment of evidence-backed environmental factors, including biophilic elements and improved social and physical connectivity.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: PARTICLES

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The processes and spaces of food production, distribution and consumption has often remained distinct from one another, with direct implications on public and environmental health. This thesis aims to integrate and interconnect those processes in order to provide an embodied educational experience. By using a culinary institute as a main programmatic driver, the project would also use food, its production, preparation and consumption, as an educational device for both students as well as the general public.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: PARTICLES

Doomsday Abbey: A Clockwork Life

Circulation spaces have often remained separate and residual areas where building occupants use to move from one programmatic space to another.

Instead of assigning more or better circulation for different programs, This thesis considers circulation itself as programs.

This project put the main events of a monastery abbey on an exclusive vertical circulation system according to the schedule of their daily practice.

On a Livable Elevator, a monk can travel through all the programs without moving horizontally.