Student Work: Jonathan Warner & Christina Griggs
Instructors: Florencia Pita
AT: Alayna Davidson
Course Description
This studio will focus on ideas of ‘play’ as an entry into architectural language. We will develop a vocabulary of forms and materials that will unravel living spaces and landscapes embedded with color, texture and ornament.
The project for the studio will be the design of the Colburn School Campus Expansion, a multi-venue building with a concert hall, studio theater, and a cabaret-style space as well as classroom spaces, rehearsal and student housing. This program goes from the domestic scale of housing to the public sphere of music and theater venues. Because it is private and it is also exuberantly public, it is small and also large, it is the realm where the familiar and the extraordinary cohere.
The Victorian Mansion is returned to Bunker Hill and are ‘reused’ for a new life as PLAYhouse. Paint becomes building mass as well as decorative ornament blending analog mediums with digital ones.
2 week camp for high school students. Learned architectural skills while working with the basics of Rhino. The built a room in their house, made and manipulated a texture map in photoshop, and then made a garden and city for their room to inhabit.
The last photo is a 1 day workshop where the students built their story telling skills while learning how to create face filters for snapchat!
Student Work: Kumaran Parthiban and Justine Poulin
Instructors: Florencia Pita and Marcelyn Gow
TA: Alayna Davidson and Juan Carlos Villarreal
the work shown was done in a 5 week mini studio, focusing on photogrammetry and resin dipping methods.
Student Work: Srimoyee Sinha and Justine Poulin
Instructors: Florencia Pita
AT: Alayna Davidson
Course Description
This seminar will focus on ideas of ‘play’ as an entry into architectural language. We will develop a vocabulary of forms and materials that will unravel living spaces and landscapes embedded with color, texture, and ornament. For all that is odd and mundane, there is an architecture full of stuff, and aesthetic of familiarity and cuteness. In Sianne Ngai’s book ‘Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting’ she presents the notion of ‘cuteness’ as one of ‘mute poetics,’ where language detaches from experience and propels a ‘deverablizing effect,’ an aesthetic experience as an act of submission, as an access to the enchantment of form and material.
‘We have seen how cuteness cutifies the language of the aesthetic response it compels, a verbal mimesis underscoring the judging subject’s empathetic desire to reduce the distance between herself and the object.’ - Sianne Ngai
Project Overview
The design process will be done by a recursive feedback between analog mediums and digital ones. we will begin by creating fresh paint strokes that will be digitally reproduced by a sequence of steps. An array of softwares will drives this process, such as Maya, Zbrush, and Adobe Substance Painter. The last step will be to create a digitally painted room.
Student Work: Mateus Comparato and Mateo Morales
Instructors: Casey Rehm, Jennifer Chen, Karel Klein, Zeina Koreitem
TA: Alayna Davidson and Andres Gandara
Interface Architecture
This 2B studio focused on the relationship between a building’s interior program and it’s complex contextual constraints. Projects engaged excessively detailed surveys of their site using lidar scans, GIS, and crowd sourced content, as well as, defined methods of operation for interface between designer and data in order to create an E-Sports arena in DTLA. This studio questioned the ability of the designer to intelligently leverage data as information.
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Co-Taught with Natou Fall (@natou_fall)
A four day high school work shop, put on in collaboration with SCI-Arc and Jean Augustine Secondary School (JASS). The focus was to explore architectural thinking while teaching a multitude of present programs within the discourse. Students were posed with how to design for the presence of the image in today’s society, thinking of architectural popularity within platforms such as instagram. Starting the design process in a 2D-image fashion, students questioned how flatness might convert into a 3D space and become a “thicc.img"
student work: Nick MacIntyre, Gurjas Chalana, Denise Santiago
Student Work: Xin Liu and Yuting Zhu
Instructors: Florencia Pita
AT: Alayna Davidson
Course Description
This seminar will focus on ideas of ‘play’ as an entry into architectural language. We will develop a vocabulary of forms and materials that will unravel living spaces and landscapes embedded with color, texture, and ornament. For all that is odd and mundane, there is an architecture full of stuff, and aesthetic of familiarity and cuteness. In Sianne Ngai’s book ‘Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting’ she presents the notion of ‘cuteness’ as one of ‘mute poetics,’ where language detaches from experience and propels a ‘deverablizing effect,’ an aesthetic experience as an act of submission, as an access to the enchantment of form and material.
‘We have seen how cuteness cutifies the language of the aesthetic response it compels, a verbal mimesis underscoring the judging subject’s empathetic desire to reduce the distance between herself and the object.’ - Sianne Ngai
Project Overview
The design process will be done by a recursive feedback between analog mediums and digital ones. we will begin by creating fresh paint strokes that will be digitally reproduced by a sequence of steps. An array of softwares will drives this process, such as Maya, Zbrush, and Adobe Substance Painter. The last step will be to create a digitally painted room.
thicc.img
Co-Taught with Natou Fall (@natou_fall)
A four day high school work shop, put on in collaboration with SCI-Arc and Jean Augustine Secondary School (JASS). The focus was to explore architectural thinking while teaching a multitude of present programs within the discourse. Students were posed with how to design for the presence of the image in today’s society, thinking of architectural popularity within platforms such as instagram. Starting the design process in a 2D-image fashion, students questioned how flatness might convert into a 3D space and become a “thicc.img"
Student Work: Anik Hettiarachchi, Edwin Chiu
Student Work: Rish Saito and Haozhou Zeng
Instructors: Florencia Pita
AT: Alayna Davidson
Course Description
This seminar will focus on ideas of ‘play’ as an entry into architectural language. We will develop a vocabulary of forms and materials that will unravel living spaces and landscapes embedded with color, texture, and ornament. For all that is odd and mundane, there is an architecture full of stuff, and aesthetic of familiarity and cuteness. In Sianne Ngai’s book ‘Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting’ she presents the notion of ‘cuteness’ as one of ‘mute poetics,’ where language detaches from experience and propels a ‘deverablizing effect,’ an aesthetic experience as an act of submission, as an access to the enchantment of form and material.
‘We have seen how cuteness cutifies the language of the aesthetic response it compels, a verbal mimesis underscoring the judging subject’s empathetic desire to reduce the distance between herself and the object.’ - Sianne Ngai
Project Overview
The design process will be done by a recursive feedback between analog mediums and digital ones. we will begin by creating fresh paint strokes that will be digitally reproduced by a sequence of steps. An array of softwares will drives this process, such as Maya, Zbrush, and Adobe Substance Painter. The last step will be to create a digitally painted room.
thicc.img
Co-Taught with Natou Fall (@natou_fall)
A four day high school work shop, put on in collaboration with SCI-Arc and Jean Augustine Secondary School (JASS). The focus was to explore architectural thinking while teaching a multitude of present programs within the discourse. Students were posed with how to design for the presence of the image in today’s society, thinking of architectural popularity within platforms such as instagram. Starting the design process in a 2D-image fashion, students questioned how flatness might convert into a 3D space and become a “thicc.img"
Student work: Rianne Martin
Student Work: Cole Masuno and John Wang
Instructors: Casey Rehm, Jennifer Chen, Karel Klein, Zeina Koreitem
TA: Alayna Davidson and Andres Gandara
Interface Architecture
This 2B studio focused on the relationship between a building’s interior program and it’s complex contextual constraints. Projects engaged excessively detailed surveys of their site using lidar scans, GIS, and crowd sourced content, as well as, defined methods of operation for interface between designer and data in order to create an E-Sports arena in DTLA. This studio questioned the ability of the designer to intelligently leverage data as information.
Student Work: Gregory Kokkotis and Philip Hood
Instructors: Florencia Pita and Marcelyn Gow, Casey Rehm, Natasha Sandmeier and Angelica Lorenzi
TA: Alayna Davidson and Juan Carlos Villarreal
the work shown, shows each 5 week mini studio, focusing on topics chosen by each professor.
Student Work: Takashi Kikkawa and Lingjia Wang
Instructors: Florencia Pita
AT: Alayna Davidson
Course Description
This seminar will focus on ideas of ‘play’ as an entry into architectural language. We will develop a vocabulary of forms and materials that will unravel living spaces and landscapes embedded with color, texture, and ornament. For all that is odd and mundane, there is an architecture full of stuff, and aesthetic of familiarity and cuteness. In Sianne Ngai’s book ‘Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting’ she presents the notion of ‘cuteness’ as one of ‘mute poetics,’ where language detaches from experience and propels a ‘deverablizing effect,’ an aesthetic experience as an act of submission, as an access to the enchantment of form and material.
‘We have seen how cuteness cutifies the language of the aesthetic response it compels, a verbal mimesis underscoring the judging subject’s empathetic desire to reduce the distance between herself and the object.’ - Sianne Ngai
Project Overview
The design process will be done by a recursive feedback between analog mediums and digital ones. we will begin by creating fresh paint strokes that will be digitally reproduced by a sequence of steps. An array of softwares will drives this process, such as Maya, Zbrush, and Adobe Substance Painter. The last step will be to create a digitally painted room.
thicc.img
Co-Taught with Natou Fall (@natou_fall)
A four day high school work shop, put on in collaboration with SCI-Arc and Jean Augustine Secondary School (JASS). The focus was to explore architectural thinking while teaching a multitude of present programs within the discourse. Students were posed with how to design for the presence of the image in today’s society, thinking of architectural popularity within platforms such as instagram. Starting the design process in a 2D-image fashion, students questioned how flatness might convert into a 3D space and become a “thicc.img"
Student Work: Neha Joseph
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Co-Taught with Natou Fall (@natou_fall)
A four day high school work shop, put on in collaboration with SCI-Arc and Jean Augustine Secondary School (JASS). The focus was to explore architectural thinking while teaching a multitude of present programs within the discourse. Students were posed with how to design for the presence of the image in today’s society, thinking of architectural popularity within platforms such as instagram. Starting the design process in a 2D-image fashion, students questioned how flatness might convert into a 3D space and become a “thicc.img"
Student Work: Arash Khangura, Ajay Woolery
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Co-Taught with Natou Fall (@natou_fall)
A four day high school work shop, put on in collaboration with SCI-Arc and Jean Augustine Secondary School (JASS). The focus was to explore architectural thinking while teaching a multitude of present programs within the discourse. Students were posed with how to design for the presence of the image in today’s society, thinking of architectural popularity within platforms such as instagram. Starting the design process in a 2D-image fashion, students questioned how flatness might convert into a 3D space and become a “thicc.img"
Student Work: Jordan Hernandez, Rheanna Bowler
Student Work: Xinyu Sherry Cao and Zaiyang Tian
Instructors: Florencia Pita
AT: Alayna Davidson
Course Description
This seminar will focus on ideas of ‘play’ as an entry into architectural language. We will develop a vocabulary of forms and materials that will unravel living spaces and landscapes embedded with color, texture, and ornament. For all that is odd and mundane, there is an architecture full of stuff, and aesthetic of familiarity and cuteness. In Sianne Ngai’s book ‘Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting’ she presents the notion of ‘cuteness’ as one of ‘mute poetics,’ where language detaches from experience and propels a ‘deverablizing effect,’ an aesthetic experience as an act of submission, as an access to the enchantment of form and material.
‘We have seen how cuteness cutifies the language of the aesthetic response it compels, a verbal mimesis underscoring the judging subject’s empathetic desire to reduce the distance between herself and the object.’ - Sianne Ngai
Project Overview
The design process will be done by a recursive feedback between analog mediums and digital ones. we will begin by creating fresh paint strokes that will be digitally reproduced by a sequence of steps. An array of softwares will drives this process, such as Maya, Zbrush, and Adobe Substance Painter. The last step will be to create a digitally painted room.
thicc.img
Co-Taught with Natou Fall (@natou_fall)
A four day high school work shop, put on in collaboration with SCI-Arc and Jean Augustine Secondary School (JASS). The focus was to explore architectural thinking while teaching a multitude of present programs within the discourse. Students were posed with how to design for the presence of the image in today’s society, thinking of architectural popularity within platforms such as instagram. Starting the design process in a 2D-image fashion, students questioned how flatness might convert into a 3D space and become a “thicc.img"
Student Work: Sayan Chowdhury, Arkin Kathuria
Student Work: Zane Mechem
Instructors: Casey Rehm, Jennifer Chen, Karel Klein, Zeina Koreitem
TA: Alayna Davidson and Andres Gandara
Interface Architecture
This 2B studio focused on the relationship between a building’s interior program and it’s complex contextual constraints. Projects engaged excessively detailed surveys of their site using lidar scans, GIS, and crowd sourced content, as well as, defined methods of operation for interface between designer and data in order to create an E-Sports arena in DTLA. This studio questioned the ability of the designer to intelligently leverage data as information.
thicc.img
Co-Taught with Natou Fall (@natou_fall)
A four day high school work shop, put on in collaboration with SCI-Arc and Jean Augustine Secondary School (JASS). The focus was to explore architectural thinking while teaching a multitude of present programs within the discourse. Students were posed with how to design for the presence of the image in today’s society, thinking of architectural popularity within platforms such as instagram. Starting the design process in a 2D-image fashion, students questioned how flatness might convert into a 3D space and become a “thicc.img"
Student Work: Mehakpreet Bhutta
final review of SCI-Arc / Florencia Pita Spring 2020 Veritcal Studio
AT: Alayna Davidson
