2021 | Co-Author (myself and 2 other students) | SCI-Arc MArch
The project program was to design a Shelter as a contemporary dwelling for a back yard of a typical Los Angeles urban lot. The team further narrowed down the program by focusing on an ADU (Additional Dwelling Unit) structuure that could double as office, granny flat and/or rental unit. The ADU was to be built in the back yard of a single family home in Venice Beach.
This project explores the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) not as a neutral architectural object, but as a boundary system produced through the interaction of materials, regulations, economic constraints, and domestic labor. Developed through a real-world proposal in Venice, California, the work examines how brick construction, spatial organization, and planning interfaces negotiate permanence, density, and care within an existing residential ecology.
Rather than treating policy, material choice, and form as separate layers, the project approaches housing as an apparatus—in Karen Barad’s sense—through which social, legal, and material forces intra-act to produce specific spatial outcomes.
Research-through-design, combining:
The project deliberately operates within real constraints rather than speculative abstraction, treating compliance itself as a design material.