From my love for Fashion, Film, & Architecture (but not in that order)
Advisor: Peter Testa
Technique: Cinema 4D
Upcycling changes everything. How we understand beginning and end. How we treat the process, and the finished result, if there even is one. Our factory is for upcycling, so we can’t model production the same. We have to look closer at the lifecycle, at the details, from every angle, at every size. What if we kept making this way? What if we took it all apart & never put it back together again?
Could all new fashion be made from not so new material?
Could upcycling be a new way to tell the story of clothes? Retell a narrative of production?
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Ways of understanding the production cycle were visualized entirely though techniques of camera and perspective. The Upcycling Factory is a sensory space programmed to take in produced clothes, re-make them, send them out, & receive them again. The process is infinite, sustainable ,and endlessly creative.
Film Production Urban Campus Advisor: Peter Testa Techniques: Resin Print, Cinema 4D
Los Angeles has been synonymous with lights, camera, and action for over a hundred years, but the filmmaking process has become separated from the experience of the city itself. Los Angeles is deeply integrated into cinematography, but its architecture isn’t. The camera has become a tool for perspective, presence, and production.
“I propose a shift”
“City of Views at every level is about unpacking & reintegrating production typology through techniques of sequence, perspective, and presence.”
Sixteen acres of soundstages & production spaces. Ground below & above.
“I purpose a shift”
Studio District now has a presence in the city, both during the day, and transformative at night. The reveal of the soundstages beneath their facades is light and perspective specific, changing through pedestrian sequence and elevation. The result, a cinematic effect of scale, and material. This is the City of Views.
The process of filming & visualizing depends entirely on controlling the audience’s view. Yet the infrastructure for it’s process takes on none of the same priorities. I purpose a shift. A turn *into* the realization of a filmmaking architecture, without compromising the spatial and contextual qualities, but rather re-integrating them into a new typology that can enhance the production spaces both inside & out, as well as the city that supports it. Architecture through Urban -scaled Cinematography
Micro-housing Apartment Building
Advisor: Ming Fung
Technique: Blender (Octane)
“I
purpose a shift”
The constriants of the micro-unit housing project led to a systematic, puzzle-like organization. The oversized scale phenomenon reinforces a diagrammatic, didactic reading. Concentric expressions were developed in reference to geometry along the exterior & interior courtyard as a way to establish a viewers connection to scale and organizational logic. Gradient colors, lexical patterns, and a seemingly homogeneous collection of distinctive elements.
This project sought to find a language for intelligent over-simplification, where the qualities of architectural reading are as visible and accessible to everyone. That requires elements to range in complexity, but not legibility, like a spatial tutorial.
Advisor: Dwayne Oyler
Technique: Blender (Octane)
This mixed use campus started from investigations into vertical spatial organizations, where connections between the ground & “sky” as conditions were explored through architectural objects. These forms of connection were expressed at an exaggerated scale to imply mechanical movements & constant dynamism. The Arts school campus interlocks with multiple public programs, including below-ground amphitheaters, rooftop restaurants , and auditoriums lifted into the sky. The mixed use proposal engages ideas of dynamism, through applications of formal moves to create moments for entrance, theater, and courtyards.
Advisors: Cristina Díaz-Moreno & Efrén Garcia-Grinda Technique: Blender (Octane)
“I purpose a shift”
A design approach initiated from a cultural sensitivity, and developed into a architectural language for public experiences. Early project explorations through ideas of visual access, illusionary principles, and public space engagement led to investigations of Moire as form of distortion, overlapping visual & physical phenomenon. By superimposing patterns, spatial and material readings can be manipulated to follow specific social environments. By expanding past just introducing architectural reading to the common community, these investigations looked into how the attention to spatial qualities can be redefined in unexpected unique ways, like a reward for a new architectural awareness.
As co-director for BLM Week of Action & creator/director for B(l)ackspace, I oversaw both virtual and in-person events with over a hundred in attendence. I designed and facilited stages, lighting, & graphics for all events, while also hosting invited guests to discuss critical topics and works.
Tectonics & Material
Advisors: Randy Jefferson & Maxi Spina
Advisors: Pavel Getov & Karenza Harris
