There’s this idea of inhaling the grit of the city and then displaying it and then inhabiting it. …
It’s a sectional timeline / genesis / mutation study of my project’s material, formal, and programmatic evolution. The current physical model exists somewhere in the middle (*Phase 6, which we are calling Appeal following Dissolve and Embody)
I think it’s …
Photos to make collage sections…
I was creating spatial composites out of existing objects — reassembling them to create hybrids of things that colonize each other — and injecting new meaning to them. A new identity, a new purpose… …
I do not get along with this class.…
Click—> BANK CITY…
Punched in the stomach.…
Going around in circles……
Breakthrough #2: Create a new typography for a new typology.…
“Draw the most important section for understanding your building. Draw the least important section for understanding your building. Inter-relate these through a plan drawing. …
Breakthrough #1: Punctuations marks as continuities and interruptions between two things…
ADR Done. 15-page History paper, here we go.…
Yesterday, it was a marathon. Today, it’s a sprint.…
I had this outsourced because the output shop queue was giving me anxiety.…
It seems that no one understands my project but me.…
The problem is I don’t know how to represent the larger ideas without showing a really confusing drawing. It seems that I am presenting only to myself and have forgotten there are people who have no idea what the hell …
Easy. It just took a lot of time. I could have been more ambitious with this project but I haven’t quite found my footing in this class.…
From zero to everything in 4 days.…
“No more linear schemes,” she said. I proposed a second scheme that operates the same way (condensation) and tried my best to do something non linear.…
Breakthrough # 1: What if all the water used in the hydroponics farm was collected via condensation that occurs between the cold and the warm programmatic elements?…
My heart is not in ADR. This class needs to go.…
Pleased.…
Hard shell with small pores / elastic mesh with large pores. Layers of skin = water filter. In between = sediments.…
“I don’t want to see color,” she said.…
What if the sediments collected materialized as wall?…
I hadn’t slept on the plane. Wi-Fi on Virgin America makes all the difference! I was buzzing with excitement. After hauling 3 pieces of luggage from JFK to the Columbia UAH leasing office, I made it to my new home.…
Nominee: Emerging Talent Award. Interesting event with everyone from Mayor Villaraigosa to Eric Moss speaking to scores of architects/designers sitting around tables eating (not so good) lunch. Dean Pollari entered my Studio IV project this year.…
Really vague email title. And then it was over. After 4 months of application preparation and then 3 months of waiting, strangling my anxiety pillow, this is a very climactic finish, all in a single email. …
The project I and two UCLA grad students worked on last summer at Roger Sherman Architecture + Urban Design. Playa Rosa was on view at the 2010 Venice Biennale.…
Finally. I would say that I am pretty well-versed in writing essays but this one proved to be the most arduous task. Writing about yourself in letter slash essay slash journal entry format in 500 words… was just hard.…