The digital and physical worlds exist in a lateral relationship, constantly translating and reshaping one another. Architectural interfaces must abandon their role as passive mediators and become active sites for…
Humankind’ s self-destruction approaches. The human architect must bring the nonhuman actors that will remain into their ethical regard. They will draw from past sacrificial architectures and humanity ’ s…
The implementation of vague spaces in architecture allows for further development of the edge conditions, allowing for new discoveries visually and experientially in a mundane environment. Boundaries constantly expand or…
My hometown – Parker, Colorado – sports a visual drabness that is particularly emblematic of American suburbia. Dominated by swaths of developer-made structures, the environment can feel lifeless and confining….
In a fictional isekai world, the absence of control towers leads to the destruction of pure nature. Without regulation, humans spread unchecked, causing serious urban sprawl. This worldbuilding, expressed allegorically,…
Architectural diagrams idealize buildings, yet our world is flawed. The Future Forensic Diagram emerges as the new Building Information Model (BIM), harnessing unconventional data-driven simulations that embrace imperfection, revealing architecture’s…
“Revoir” reimagines architecture as a tool for recovery, resilience, and revival. Emerging from post-disaster conditions, it proposes a regenerative system where modular housing and protective structures embody the ethos of…
This thesis proposes a diorama-inspired floating architecture, designed with a glacial-form block and an elevated platform, that responds to the ecological and spatial challenges of the melting Arctic. The architecture…
Architecture is a dynamic process shaped by continuous change rather than a static, finished product. Designing with planned incompleteness and flexibility enables buildings to evolve alongside the people who use…
Los Angeles’s flood control dams have long been built with no regard for social integration. The architect is positioned to transform these pieces of infrastructure into visually and socially engaging…
To foster engagement and cultural preservation, architecture must transform from a passive backdrop to an active trigger. Hyper-immersive environments influence the human psyche and ground users in an ultra-present understanding…
This thesis proposes the redefinition of mental asylums and rehabilitation facilities. With an approach not only towards the formal design but also the programmatic one, my thesis focuses on mimicking…
Within the sphere of home versus shelter for those who are unhoused or experiencing homelessness in Southern California, more housing is not the only simple solution to a wicked problem….
The Kafala system in Kuwait binds migrant workers’ legal status to their employers, creating conditions of dependency and exploitation. Reform efforts focused on integration often fail to address its deep…
Several years after the departure of hometown favorites, the Oakland A’s and the Oakland Raiders, the residents of Oakland have decided to take back the coliseum and revitalize it through…
A century in the future, the burgeoning spectacle of global society’s implosion culminates in a symptomatic death bloom: a celebration of life too late in the form of the 2125…
The Pen is Mightier reimagines the U.S.–Mexico border as more than a dividing line, it becomes a dynamic, inhabitable space. Grounded in the legal foundations of the U.S. 1862 map…
A Highrise of Parks reclaims the abandoned towers of Oceanwide Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles, transforming them into a vertical public park. Instead of building across the city,…
“The Children of the Earth and Sun” is a speculative, regenerative farming community that critiques contemporary sustainability efforts through the lens of ritual and devotion. Set in fire-scarred Paradise, CA,…
Architecture has long privileged the pedestrian, defining a normative body while excluding others. As cities face ecological and social transformation, this thesis asserts: the future is wheeled. Rooted in Donna…
A building is a combination of planned and unplanned actions; it emerges from both intention and improvisation. This thesis proposes a structure that embrac- es the unplanned and informal dimensions…
Architecture is choreography. In this project, eight dance environments are assigned to street dance styles and designed to alternate over time. These spaces introduce elements that disrupt norms: angled or…
In response to Hyderabad’s increasing reliance on glass and steel inpursuit of global aesthetics, this thesis proposes that the shape and materiality of Modernisation in Hyderabad are Boulders. By embracing…
Aguedal vient d’une racine berbère ‘gdl’ qui signifie garder, protéger, réserver.” Justinard, L. (May 1936). Les propos du Chleuhs: Aguedal, sagesse, et poésie [Words of the Chleuhs: Aguedal, wisdom, and…
As climate change intensifies, the construction industry continues to be a major contributor to environmental degradation through excessive resource extraction and pollution. This project seeks to challenge traditional methods of…
flux begins with the idea that architecture continues through the objects we live with. Personal items don’t just fill space; they shape it, imbue it with meaning, and transform it…
This thesis project explores how standard orthographic drawings, much like literature, communicate stories through visual and pictorial clues. By examining parallels between architectural representation and narrative techniques in literature, film,…
The world is constantly changing, and yet buildings remain static. As our cultural, social, and environmental landscapes shift, the spaces that we inhabit often stay underused, forgotten, or abandoned. Core…
Considering we live in an advanced age of modern technology, we are still drawn to ancient megalithic structures. Humanity maintains an unresolved relationship with these structures and a connection to…
In the Last Days of the City is about how resistance defines architecture — in creation and destruction. Cairo’s political upheavals are understood first, in relation to its volatile urban…
Los Angeles is a city shaped by spectacle—defined by its car-centric infrastructure and an urban language that thrives on instant attention and sensory overload. In a landscape built for speed…
Public bathrooms are not neutral utility—they are relics of social control. Gender-segregated restrooms are vestigial structures of a patriarchal past, encoding binary ideologies into architecture. This project reclaims the bathroom…
Two bodies field the impacts of the built environment’s destruction post-disaster: those who face damage to the structures they occupy, and the policies that govern their status after the event….
In a world that is perceptually becoming more immaterial, societies paradoxically rely on more material resources to facilitate the mirage of endless consumer goods. The fleeting nature of our experiences,…
Fieldwork transforms a decommissioned oil extraction site into a campus where architecture becomes an instrument of exposure and inquiry. Ordinary building types—the house, the gas station, the office complex—are manipulated…
This project leverages the neutralization of strip malls in order to optimize their expressive and social potential. It repositions the parking lot, typically seen as an accessory, as the central…
My design philosophy is deeply rooted in my community, cultural heritage, and Neo-futurism. The unification of architecture, hand signs and street art will celebrate valuable insights into architecture that are…
This project speculates on how the ordinary architecture of the warehouse, through its scalar drifting and automation is evolving into a new form of urbanism- one where logistics, data, and…
This project reimagines spaces for the dead as urban cultural zones, built from the layered footprints of demolished and existing buildings. Their intersections shape the columbarium, while fragments generate both…
Horror media explores the alterity of those unconventional spaces that inhabit the ordinary house. How can we redesign closets, attics, and spaces between walls to create new types of living…
Neglected sites of industrial ordinary often sit as reminders of the historic economic vulnerability of rural communities heavily dependent on material refinement. Beehive kilns are remnants of a past dependent…
This project speculates on how specific interventions, derived as antitheses to the hallmark traits of a traditional house, might radically engage the ordinary site of the domestic house, disrupting the…
This project reinterprets the abandoned New Haven Clock Company building by translating digital tropes, such as glitches, deep fry, photogrammetry, and collage, into architectural form. Informed by the building’s layered…
This thesis speculates that the city is not just a collection of buildings but a layered text where architecture, advertising, and media intersect, entangle, and mesh to redefine boundaries. By…
This project explores how forms of visual representation can be speculative and generate design; it investigates how applying abstraction in architecture, in this case, Victorian architecture in San Francisco, can…
This project explores the transformation of underutilized school fields in Los Angeles County, with a focus on Downey, into sites for neighborhood sports clubhouses. Yoli drew inspiration from her 2024…
At USC, nearly 10,000 commuter students, almost a fifth of the university population, navigate campus without access to true third spaces—places to pause, rest, eat, or connect between classes. These…
Modern mega-stadiums are built at great expense—often with a combination of public and private funds—yet they frequently yield modest economic returns and lie underutilized for much of the year. Within…
Urban Refuge I Echoes of Empathy explores how architecture can restore a sense of home for external/internal climate refugees through an urban, social, and developmental lens. As global displacement increases…
Growing up in East Los Angeles, I’ve seen firsthand how overlooked public spaces can be and how they can impact daily life, especially the bus stops in the area. Most…
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