Jun 6

Jun 6 386 / Seda Petrosyan: Recognizable in Plan Not in Section

Submission #386 | Seda Petrosyan: Recognizable in Plan Not in Section — “Office building for a tech company in Playa Vista, Ca. This thesis attempts to convey spatial experiences through a plan by re-purposing (reconceptualizing, re-imagining) quintessential modernist examples of the twentieth century, that were designed with the free plan and their own, already known, volumetric characteristics. The attempt is to challenge the notion of a plan by revisiting ambiguity in architecture through a close reading of traditional representation.”

Jan 4

Jan 4 267_Elise Francis: Santuario alle Edicole Votive

Maria Flores

students

Submission #267 | Elise Francis: Santuario alle Edicole Votive — “Secret Genoa waits patiently to be discovered. Over an eight-month period I have endeavored to explore Genoa’s well-kept (and sometimes unkempt) treasures. My design methodology is an architectural form of narrative collage inspired by the writing of Italo Calvino and Bruno Schulz. The city is understood as a dense space of intertwined and overlapping stories that can be (re)written using alternative narratives that reveal essential qualities of the city without relying on what may be considered strictly factual.”

Dec 27

Dec 27 262_Claudio Triassi: Recycling Past Architectural Ideas and Forms

Maria Flores

students

Submission #262 | Claudio Triassi: Recycling Past Architectural Ideas and Forms — “My illustrations reflect the contemporary architectural drawing tendency to look for its emotional strength in past iconography. They use past architectural ideas and forms to catch their charm offering an anachronistic spatial and temporal dimension and questioning at the same time their validity nowadays. As a result of it, they are in ruins sometimes.”

Jul 7

Jul 7 204_Ellen Wong: Homonym Typology

Maria Flores

students

Submission #204 | Ellen Wong: Homonym Typology — "Within Homonym Typology, a suburban house is no longer an isolated entity, it engages with neighboring units to form a community. Each unit have common formation parts to spatial whole relationship. Each duplex is made up of two uniquely designed units which are fused together to create a set of relationships which the experience of duality of the unit is completed, the full function of a house is achieved through the connection."

Apr 7

Apr 7 138_Gustavo Takata & João Ribeiro: House in a Bridge

Maria Flores

students

Submission #138 | Gustavo Takata & João Ribeiro: House in a Bridge — "The concept arises from a restoring axis of the city-river relationship that, simultaneously with the pre-existing structure, creates the habitable space. After a process of unceasing exploration of the parallelism between spatial qualities and function, we enter into a moment of purification, through the search for the essence. Each space is born of the individual - place - function relationship, generating atmospheric auras that define the place itself. "

Jan 26

Jan 26 85_Yeshu Tan: Kindergarten

Maria Flores

students

Yeshu Tan: Kindergarten — The central concept of this project is the “performance” of kindergarten. I explored new spatial conditions in the sloping site where kids can walk from the inside classroom to the roof by stairs in order to appreciate the beautiful sea and the skyline of Manhattan.“One of the most fundamental issues a society faces is how to best educate it’s children.

Jan 24

Jan 24 82_Phawin Siripong: The Flux in Between

Maria Flores

students

Phawin Siripong: The Flux in Between — The Project is focusing on exploring ideas of solving the contradiction between the studio based study culture to existing faculty building (Faculty of Architecture Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand) spatial segregation.

Jan 3

Jan 3 61_Austin Madrigale: The Digital Misfit

Maria Flores

students

Austin Madrigale: The Digital Misfit — This studio deals with indexicality and translations from analog to digital and the study of a mid century modern home and a dress by fashion designer Issey Miyake. My project is about the effects of data translation and the use of the glitch as representation to create a programmatic commentary that engages in a new speculation on reality.

Dec 27

Dec 27 51_Ismael Segarra: Inverted Landmarks

Maria Flores

students

Ismael Segarra: Inverted Landmarks — Rehabilitating San Juan’s vacant structures through the re-shaping of the contextual formal language. The proposal consists of creating new landmarks within the abandoned structures of Old San Juan; giving them back to the tourist in the form of intimate public spaces.