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Between Skin and Bone: Constructing Air-Scape for Modernist Heritage
(2023-10-23)
At first glance, the curtain wall seems like the ultimate solution for facade construction. As driven by economic considerations, it is natural to compress the thickness of the facade to maximize the floor area. The thinness ...
The Borges Cloisters
(2023-10-23)
The 20th-century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is best known for his fantastical stories of labyrinths and libraries, but his early poetry evokes the sacredness of ordinary urban spaces in his native Buenos Aires: ...
Staying Put: Plans for Aging Suburbia
(2023-06-27)
Few aspects of the human experience are more universal than the experience of aging, but more people are reaching old age than ever. For the first time in history, people over the age of 65 outnumber those under 5. Between ...
Nonlinear Fabrication: A Data-Driven Framework for Evaluating and Calibrating the Toolpath Design of 3D Printing Cementitious Materials
(2023-10-25)
Clay, just like other natural, paste-like materials, offers a potential reduction in the embodied CO2 that the production of buildings using conventional materials emits, yet its large tolerances during printing remain an ...
Rereading Migration: Corridors of Circulation, Bordering, and Inhabitation
(2023-10-25)
Infrastructural corridors of circulation and connectivity form the backbone of the colonial project of modernity, facilitating its rise, expansion, and domination over the past centuries. Contrary to the spatial imaginaries ...
The Oculomotor Correlates of Exploratory Model Making: A Mixed-Methods Eye Tracking Study
(2023-11-14)
In this thesis, I take a post-cognitivist view of design and use eye-tracking to study the oculomotor behavior of architects during different exploratory model-making activities. My interest is to determine to what extent ...
A Polyphonic Archipelago along the Faulted California Coast
(2024-01-24)
White Point projects off a peninsula that was once part of the Channel Island Archipelago. Descending from hill to sea within the San Andreas Rift, its 140 acres hold seemingly irreconcilable landscapes and uses. Traces ...
Art for Kmart: A Very Long Opera House
(2024-01-24)
The production of an opera is as much an act of world building as an act of music. The operatic interior expands outward, carried by its audience and practitioners into a blended universe consisting of opera's constructed ...
Recess Reimagined: The Intergenerational Campus
(2024-01-24)
This thesis project tackles Los Angeles' severe housing crisis, evident in the Los
Angeles Housing Element, while also addressing the urban heat island effect, social
isolation, and a growing aging population. Elementary ...
Spatial Interfaces: An Architectural Recontextualization
(2024-01-24)
This thesis proposes a series of speculative spatial interactions leveraging the input modality of gestures, the medium of mixed reality, and paradigms from architectural design. It is situated at a time when the disciplinary ...