skid row denim + apparel foundation
ADAPTIVE REUSE; SKID ROW DENIM & APPAREL; RETAIL, FACTORY, CLASSROOMS, GALLERY. THE BROADWAY TRADE CENTER. DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES USC; ARCH302B; STUDIO DANIELSON. SPRING 2023 and through work he is transformed.
envisioning a new fondation space that takes form of a brand’s core identity.
PRIVATE CHAPEL.
GREAT LAWN, USC VILLAGE, LOS ANGELES, CA. USC; ARCH402A; STUDIO AUGUSTIN. FALL 2023
envisioning a small space of introspection for students.
submit yourself to rythymfor rythym is the mother tongue of the universe.
short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLETCewZocA
Home Sweet HomeThe Basement Church
CHURCH, CONCERT VENUE, CAFE, ART GALLERY, GATHER SPACE, RECORDNING STUDIO. KOREATOWN, LOS ANGELES, CA. USC; ARCH402A; STUDIO AUGUSTIN. FALL 2023
envisioning a church that finds parallel between the collectives of spirituality and the home environment.
god can hear you there in your own home - can you believe it?
Basement (advocacy group) was an example of something that came out of a real need for [this] kind of space, for people who are really searching for a way to express themselves and to really find a place for themselves, not just in Chinatown, but in the world, around them, and it was possible in those days, to create those spaces.
Because I often think about the 60s and 70s, [they] were a time when people were really thinking very deeply about alternatives to exist.
Our schools today hearken back to a time when the living church was sequestered in upper rooms in homes, or in slightly larger plazas that encircled clusters of Christian homes. Sure, there were a few in wealthier areas that had dedicated rooms—archeologists have uncovered the 2nd-century mosaics across the Mediterranean region. But lost to archeology, I’m confident, are countless churches and schools that remained in humble abodes, out of range of the cultural elites. It’s time to regain this posture. There is a blessing in a well-architected school. But there’s a hidden blessing in many church basements.
short film :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNfW7fBQk_o
gilded industry
ARCHITECTURAL THESISCRITICAL ANALYSIS THROUGH PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY, CAPITALISM, CULTURAL HISTORY INGLEWOOD OIL FIELD, LOS ANGELES, CA. USC; ARCH502A; STUDIO PREDOCK. SPRING 2025
exploring architecture as a medium for expressing new theology - one that formalizes societal critique into a new mode of experiencing the world.
the nature of the folly overtuned; a mask becomes a revelation. 4
This project transforms a decommissioned oil field into a high school, where architecture mediates the tension between extraction, education, and everyday consumerism. Instead of erasing the site's industrial past, the design integrates remnants of oil infrastructure into a spatial narrative of critial follies based on the geometries of iconic structures of the city which the oil field serves.
Five core structures define the campus: the Auditorium (discourse), Chemistry Lab (duty), Pool (play), Gymnasium (collective), Locker Hallways (leisure), and Bell Tower (spirituality), each embedding industrial logic into learning spaces. Classrooms are dispered throughout the site white mark the positions of old pumpjacks, reconfigered with geothermal heat pumps.
The architecture does not disguise nor condemn capitalism but reframes it, creating space for a new, critical way of living and learning to take place, using form, material, and circulation to expose cycles of ambition, labor, and spectacle within the built environment.
