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Core Studio II Final Review
There’s this idea of inhaling the grit of the city and then displaying it and then inhabiting it. …
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Core Studio II Grit Constellation Mutation: a sectional timeline
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)
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Core Studio II 3/4 Review Model
Photos to make collage sections…
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Core Studio II | Mid Review
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… …
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ADR II | Week 4 Hybrid
I do not get along with this class.…
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Core Studio II | Pin up | BANK CITY
Click—> BANK CITY…
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Dear Yoshiko
Punched in the stomach.…
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Core II Studio | re[f]use/found pin up
Going around in circles……
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Core Studio II | 3x3x3 | Interruptions, Continuities
Breakthrough #2: Create a new typography for a new typology.…
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ADR II | Week 1 | The Cut
“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. …
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Core Studio II | 3x3x3 *trans
Breakthrough #1: Punctuations marks as continuities and interruptions between two things…
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ADR 1D Animation
ADR Done. 15-page History paper, here we go.…
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Brief III Final
Yesterday, it was a marathon. Today, it’s a sprint.…
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Brief III Final Model
I had this outsourced because the output shop queue was giving me anxiety.…
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Brief III Thermoponics Pin Up 11.21 Summary
It seems that no one understands my project but me.…
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Brief III Thermoponics Pin Up 11.14
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 …
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ADR 1C | Physical Model
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.…
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Core Studio I Brief III Thermoponics Mid Review
From zero to everything in 4 days.…
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Brief III Condensation Scheme 2
“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.…
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Brief III Condensation Scheme 1
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?…
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ADR Assignment 1B
My heart is not in ADR. This class needs to go.…
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Brief II Water Cell Final Review
Pleased.…
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Brief II Watercell Conceptual Model
Hard shell with small pores / elastic mesh with large pores. Layers of skin = water filter. In between = sediments.…
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Brief II Water Cell Pinup
“I don’t want to see color,” she said.…
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Brief II Water Cell Scheme
What if the sediments collected materialized as wall?…
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My NYC Apartment
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.…
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LABC Architectural Awards 2011
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.…
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“Thank You For Submitting Your Application”
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. …
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Playa Rosa
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.…
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Columbia Statement of Intent | 8th and Final Draft
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.…