UNDERGRADUATE THESIS REVIEWS
B.Arch First Semester Thesis Presentations Fall 2020
Thesis Faculty: Philip Ra and Mini Chu
DEC 4
Friday 5:00-8:00pm PST
Ramona Gakuba
Steeped in Stigma
Exploring architecture as a developmental strategy to reframe mental health barriers in a community facing intergenerational trauma
Juke Jose
From Individualism to Kapwa
Liberating architecture from the Western culture of individualism through the appropriation of Filipino psychology of kapwa – shared identity
Kim Sran
Architectonic Indigeneity
Sheltering the indigenous women and abused women in a cultural and healing environment within the urban landscape of Winnipeg
DEC 6
Sunday 9:15am-12:15pm PST
Brett Greene
Love is More
Responding to the housing crisis in Nashville by providing shelter, dignity and sanctuary to those experiencing homelessness
Keaton Merhish
Vague Space
Re-imagining unwanted space to enhance human experience by re-instilling dignity and equality in the urban neighborhood
Daniel Lee
Reconstructing the Sacred
Framing political spaces as sacred territories in the age of economic governance
B.Arch Final Thesis Presentations Fall 2020
Thesis Faculty: Philip Ra and Mini Chu
DEC 6
Sunday 1:00pm- 6:00pm PST
Zed Malmoux
Public Congruency
Leveling the divide between neighborhood boundaries in the Tenderloin through an architecture that re-envisions public infrastructure in order to achieve a healthy communal environment
Ryan – Shuangrong Zhong
Heterotopia
Reconstructing the sense of belonging for the displaced and under-served by creating a heterogeneous urban environment through the transformation of obsolete spaces
Tracy – Yuanyuan Chen
Neuro – tecture
Creating mental wellness and protection in school for vulnerable children through the layering of spatial conditions, physical boundaries and visual connections to nature and light
Leo – Yang Xi
The Portal
Unveiling and re-imagining Xian’s lost artistic history in the Modern City
Zoe – Qiaoyu Zheng
Urban Living Room
Speculating on the experience of the public library as an extension of personal space by exploring degrees of privacy in an anxious urban context
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