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Double Jointed | Adv Studio VI Monograph
Just finding the
ADV Studio V | Pin-Up | Siting the MET
a brief intro on the site at large, the urban strategy, the realization of that strategy on the ...
ADV Studio IV Subtraction | Final
Urban strategy for the Rockaway
ADV Studio IV Subtraction | Mid-Review | Urban Strategy
Strategies of
ADV Studio IV Subtraction | Pin Up 02/16
The question isn’t “can the subaltern speak?” but “why can’t the
Philosophies of the City | Week 12 Visibility/Enclosure: Can the Subaltern Speak?
Techniques of the Ultrareal | Midterm
BLASÉ IN LA: The Freeway and its
Philosophies of the City | paper topic
“the video is the most important deliverable for the final” what? a fly-thru
reThinking BIM | Final
Scaling
Graphic Narratives III | Assignment IV
Breaking
Graphic Narratives III | Assignment III
You’ll never read this. And part of me doesn’t ever want you
Dear Friend
my dearest Helena…
shooting star, go where you must
Herzog & de Meuron it
The Leave & The Offer
“An Icarian fall. On the 110th floor, a poster, sphinx-like, addresses an enigmatic message ...
An Icarian Fall
Offset printing the cover straight onto chipboard is the way to
The Book
Print-ready pre Volume 1 now
Punctuology Pre Volume 1
I didn’t post anything for an entire semester. The truth is I wasn’t proud of what I ...
The Rise and Fall of Housing Studio
Second semester studio website is now
End of Year Show | Banxiety.com
For my final drawing, I have continued to examine how dual conditions manifest spatially as agents ...
ADR II Final
There’s this idea of inhaling the grit of the city and then displaying it and then inhabiting
Core Studio II Final Review
It’s a sectional timeline / genesis / mutation study of my project’s material, formal, ...
Core Studio II Grit Constellation Mutation: a sectional timeline
Photos to make collage
Core Studio II 3/4 Review Model
I was creating spatial composites out of existing objects — reassembling them to create ...
Core Studio II | Mid Review
Fuck resin. Seriously. $80 per jug. I get maybe two models out of each jug and I’m on my 7th ...
Casting Resin
This class is becoming more and more interesting. Morrison is a GREAT
ADR II | Week 4 Hybrid
Click—> BANK
Core Studio II | Pin up | BANK CITY
Punched in the
Dear Yoshiko
Going around in
Core II Studio | re[f]use/found pin up
Breakthrough #2: Create a new typography for a new
Core Studio II | 3x3x3 | Interruptions, Continuities
“Draw the most important section for understanding your building. Draw the least important ...
ADR II | Week 1 | The Cut
Breakthrough #1: Punctuations marks as continuities and interruptions between two
Core Studio II | 3x3x3 *trans
ADR Done. 15-page History paper, here we
ADR 1D Animation
Yesterday, it was a marathon. Today, it’s a
Brief III Final
I had this outsourced because the output shop queue was giving me
Brief III Final Model
It seems that no one understands my project but
Brief III Thermoponics Pin Up 11.21 Summary
The problem is I don’t know how to represent the larger ideas without showing a really ...
Brief III Thermoponics Pin Up 11.14
Easy. It just took a lot of time. I could have been more ambitious with this project but I ...
ADR 1C | Physical Model
From zero to everything in 4
Core Studio I Brief III Thermoponics Mid Review
“No more linear schemes,” she said. I proposed a second scheme that operates the same ...
Brief III Condensation Scheme 2
Breakthrough # 1: What if all the water used in the hydroponics farm was collected via condensation ...
Brief III Condensation Scheme 1
My heart is not in ADR. This class needs to
ADR Assignment 1B
Brief II Water Cell Final Review
Hard shell with small pores / elastic mesh with large pores. Layers of skin = water filter. In ...
Brief II Watercell Conceptual Model
“I don’t want to see color,” she
Brief II Water Cell Pinup
What if the sediments collected materialized as
Brief II Water Cell Scheme
I hadn’t slept on the plane. Wi-Fi on Virgin America makes all the difference! I was buzzing ...
My NYC Apartment
Nominee: Emerging Talent Award. Interesting event with everyone from Mayor Villaraigosa to Eric ...
LABC Architectural Awards 2011
Really vague email title. And then it was over. After 4 months of application preparation and then ...
“Thank You For Submitting Your Application”
The project I and two UCLA grad students worked on last summer at Roger Sherman Architecture + ...
Playa Rosa
Finally. I would say that I am pretty well-versed in writing essays but this one proved to be the ...
Columbia Statement of Intent | 8th and Final Draft
I finally finished this 143-page portfolio. I paid for 5 copies and got 4 extra because Blair ...
Grad School Portfolio
Studio IV Building and Landscape project was selected to be exhibited at the Otis/Lobby Entry newly ...
Featured in New Otis Lobby/Entry Exhibit
This year’s show is held in conjunction with the Dwell on Design Exhibition at the Los ...
2X8 VERGE
Emerging Talent Award nominee this year. I’ve never been to these things. It was fabulous ...
LABC Architectural Awards 2010
In addition to Landscape Extrusion, the class of 2010 Senior Show will feature our work in an ...
Senior Show Board
The beginning of the end. Our invite/blast for senior show. Picture of the actual installation to
Architecture/Landscape/Interiors 2010 BFA Exhibit
Midterm. Midterm. Midterm. I have not slept. I’ll write about this
Studio IV | Midterm
LOS ANGELES AS A METROPOLITAN REGION Urbanism at the Demands of the
History + Theory V | Final Paper
The whole world needs more RAM. I am not pleased with the renders. I had to half-ass them because I ...
Tech + Ec V | Final
This just ended. I was so pleased with my review. I recorded the entire thing in my iPhone! I ...
Studio VI | Final
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Studio VI | Final Model
Detail drawings of the tensegrity stair structure for Detail Development. I love my design but it ...
Tech + Ec V | Progress
Best review ever. One of the jurors kept saying she loved the building. It’s not even a ...
Studio VI | Midterm
This was an interesting day. We had no idea jurors were invited to the midterm review for our ...
Tech + Ec V | Midterm
Studio VI Precedent Studies | Patterns and Hybrids
Holy Donghia. It’s over. I am ready to die. Keep this away from me before I renounce my
Donghia
Revisiting the process of how I arrived at the helix. I did all this when i was designing back in ...
Process Model for Donghia | Helix Lofts
Landscape theory gets so absurd sometimes that it almost feels like we are in a class on theology ...
Landscape Theory Final Paper
We had an impromptu pre-final for studio and my boards did not reflect the level of progress I ...
Studio V Pre-Final | Helix Lofts
I was selected to represent Otis at the annual 2X8 Exhibit. Well, not I, but my project. ...
2X8 SHIFT
So, we studied strategies of addition and subtraction to yield an expansion of 30′ of an ...
Studio V Midterm | Helix Lofts
Precedent Study: Huysmann’s seminal novel, “Against the Grain” for Studio V: ...
Against the Grain
Pardon the blinding yellow. I don’t know what I was
Studio III Pre-Final | Exhibit Design
Studio III Midterm | Exhibit Design
The longest panorama ever. I walked along Santa Monica Boulevard from Fairfax to La Jolla and back, ...
Studio III Site Analysis
For
Studio III Final | The Cabinet
It is so easy to spray paint models in Los Angeles. You don’t even have to find a corner ...
Studio I Scale/Structure/Circulation | FOLDED
Art stores need more
Studio I Scale/Structure/Circulation INTERSECT
Assignment
Above and Beyond | Video Projects FA 2007