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

RTUs To ADUs

Improvements of typical LA commercial boulevards by investing in new collective housing: RTUs to ADUs.

The lack of adequate, convenient, safe, and attractive places for living drives the idea to build dwellings above the existing commercial strips along transit boulevards by exploring new FRP material properties to accommodate LA housing reality. The project is applicable for most of LA typical commercial streets, affordable by using new technology, suitable by offering an access to public transits and infrastructure and engaging by providing health environment and social equity.

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

Nomad

This project proposes a new type of nomadic housing typology that caters to people seeking a high level of flexibility. At an urban scale, the project consists of a superstructure, primarily made with FRP, that is built over transit stops throughout Los Angeles. Within the structure, housing units (or pods) dock above transit stops that are anchored by a community amenity space servicing the moving community above, and the fixed community below. At the unit scale, the units are compact, customizable, expandable. By having access to the rail line below the structure, the housing units travel throughout Los Angeles, offering residents access to neighborhoods convenient to their daily needs. The result is a new type of housing community that is untethered from a specific location.

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

Facade Opening Structure

In the limited façade openings, functions are consciously gathered together to achieve simple divisions and partition of the façade, and form strong architectural features and character.

The operation of the building façade can be very free and flexible. By using modular panels or components, the operability of the building façade can be improved.

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

On Culture and Architecture – From Kimono to Buildings

The project is theater, which has potentially the narrative is connected to the drama with a story line. There’s parallel in a way in which approach architecture and the ideas of the rituals or even the narrative that connect to one another. More specifically, the exterior with organized graphics and geometry participating it. When you go into the exhibit space, you actually see “architecture” that’s been display live either as kabuki or any kinds of organized drama as a narrative that’s displayed as stage. At the end, we figure out a way to parallel that with access building. In other words, so how you circulate something and then architecture becomes registration of that circulation.

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

Form the Joyful

“Pleasure is the goal of play” by Takefumi, who using brick and figurative graphic to guide the design.

While kids play Lego, the higher they get, more joyful comes, even the brick claps in a fragmented state, it also show its aesthetic.

We stack out our model with brick, we can change the form and shape of it. Then we imagine the Lego toy scale larger and larger gradually, until we can drill into it, until we can walk into it, or even larger.
I feel part of the joyful comes from this imagination, the possibility we can operate the shape, the potential we can interact with it, get physical Acceleration, Movement from it.
The project want to apply the playful feeling from ‘toys’, test what pleasure can be bring into our living environment by logical and rational geometry shape.

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

Re gen

Re gen is a proposal for a radical way to recycle local used items through a multi-scale material conversion and repurpose system. The Re gen Cooperative creates low-tech material transformation machines (cyborgs) that are publicly accessible. Re gen uses commonly found waste such as glass, cloth, paper, and plastic and converts them into reusable goods or transforms them into building materials. Re gen would significantly decrease waste, use of natural resources, cost of construction, carbon emissions, and most importantly: abolish our throw away culture.

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

Connect(ion)

CONNECT(ION) IS A MEMBER BASED CO-OPERATIVE WITH THE INTENTION OF ADDRESSING TWO VERY BIG ISSUES THAT SOCIETY FACES TODAY. THE FIRST OF THESE ISSUES IS CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE INCREASED USE OF NONRENEWABLE ENERGY THAT IS UNSUSTAINABLY POLLUTING THE ENVIRONMENT WE LIVE IN. THE SECOND ISSUE IS GENTRIFICATION, MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE DISPLACEMENT OF PEOPLE FROM THEIR COMMUNITIES BECAUSE OF THE RISING LOCAL COSTS OF LIVING. CONNECTION BRIDGES THESE TWO GLOBAL ISSUES WITH THE USE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES AND SUSTAINABLE METHODS OF PRODUCING ENERGY. THE GOAL IS TO GIVE THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS ENERGY INDEPENDENCE WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CREATE SUBSIDIES FOR LOWER INCOME MEMBERS SO THAT THEY ARE NOT DISPLACED FROM THEIR COMMUNITIES.

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

Cutting the Boundary

The thesis investigates the potential to use CUTTING as a tool to break boundaries and create new spatial conditions. Cutting through a building establishes connections between not only the interior and the exterior, but also the interiors. And through this action, new architectural forms are generated.

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imprint

This thesis delves into site as a palimpsest of collective narratives told both through the impact of the natural and built landscapes. Carving, imprinting, gouging, deteriorating, forming, intersecting; verbs of this nature depict-but are not limited to- actions taken on a site. Memories of these actions are stored within a site and weave a flourishing narrative of human relationship with ground. Looking at the infrastructural history of Birmingham, Alabama with regards to the railroad, steel industry, and hydroelectric dams; this thesis reimagines these spaces and structures with architectural purpose.

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Reimagine Tectonics as Space

The project pays attention to design a high-rise building as a mixture of public activity, commercial space, office and appartment, with elements extracted from Mies’ corner details. The site situates in the sublot of the Kowloon City Park, previously known as the Kowloon Walled City. Its intricate interior quality, does not only achieve the similar ambience of the architectural tectonics, also create the vibrant environment allowing higher chances of communication among people and context.