Ziggurhut


House in Yucatán, MX 2023


Tiny stepped pyramid: ziggurat and hut / City in the jungle / Casually landed / Folded-out wall = shower, fireplace / How to make a two-story house in a three-stepped form /  Same but different: two houses same scale, different size / Local buildinig methods: reused cmu finished with stucco / Comparision: doors v. windows / Stair as figure or stair as stair / Circulation off axis, interior stair is plan negotator / Three outdoor areas: pool, eating, car / Extended family = extended house / Giants among us


PROGRAM Family House
SIZE 1,600 sq.ft.
LOCATION San Crisanto, Mexico
REVIEW The Plan Magazine, Domus
DESIGN Dutra Brown, David Eskenazi, Joshua Coronado
CONSTRUCTION + ENGINEERING Constructum
PHOTOS Onnis Luque


  1. Street View
  2. The Same Form at Two Sizes
  3. Pyramid Projection
  4. Large House
  5. Small House
  6. Both Houses
  7. Ground Floor
  8. Second Floor
  9. Street View
  10. Aerial View
  11. Courtyard View
  12. Close Up
  13. Outdoor Shower
  14. Fireplace Figure, Stout
  15. Fireplace Figure, Heavy
  16. Section, Large House
  17. Section, Small House
  18. Section, Large House
  19. Section, Small House
  20. Model, Large House
  21. Model, Small House

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Inhale, Exhale, Sag, Flex


Bathhouse Proposal, 2020


Inhale, Exhale, Sag, Flex is a proposal for using city-owned lots in Los Angeles to develop flexible, temporary, easily fabricated public bathhouses. The public bathhouse exists as an urban utility that produces an aura of collective imagination. Its primary function is to clean and relax bodies that are worked out in the city, but it’s remembered as a space where foreign bodies care for themselves in a manner that is both personal and collective. Like the bodies within, the bathhouses’ architecture is continuously sanitized and maintained.

The proposal is composed of two buildings, the steam house and pool house, separated by a stair. The steam house, flex, is enclosed by an expanding quilt of water bladders that fill up as steam evaporates and bodies exhale. The pool house, sag, is supported by a frame structure wrapped by building paper. The paper is periodically removed and dried once it becomes wet and soggy from absorbing pool splashes and shower steam. Both buildings are interior landscapes of privacy curtains, pipes, building paper, a folded aluminum structural system, water, steam, plunges, and bodies, where both architecture and people unrobe and collectively self-care.



EXHIBITION Architectural League Prize
AWARD Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design: Unbuilt Public Building
DESIGN David Eskenazi, Julie Riley



  1. Elevation, Flex and Sag
  2. Section, Flex and Sag
  3. Sag, Window
  4. Flex, Window
  5. Sag, Roof
  6. Flex, Roof
  7. Ground Plan
  8. Level Two Plan
  9. Infrastructure
  10. Infrastructure
  11. Steam View
  12. Bleachers View
  13. Beach View
  14. Shower View
  15. Section, Flex: Steam Room, Hot Water Bladder, Restrooms.
  16. Section, Sag: Cold Water Bladder, Pool, Showers, Steam Rooms.
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Paper House


Atwater Village, Los Angeles, 2021



A small one bedroom house in the backlot of an LA neighborhood. Recycled paper material assemblies are used for affordable construction. The house is made of fold-up panels, prefrabricated conduit and frame systems, and paper coating for glass sunshading. The two story house includes a bedroom loft, a hide-away kitchen, a laundry accessed by other buildings on site, and a closet and bathroom within a slideable screen.



STATUS Unbuilt
TYPE 600 sq.ft. House
LOCATION Los Angeles, CA
DESIGN Ian Wong, Matt Hunt



  1. Oblique Elevation
  2. Lower Entrance
  3. Upper Entrance
  4. Backyard
  5. Mirror
  6. Outlet
  7. Window
  8. Table
  9. Stair
  10. Television
  11. Alley
  12. Model Parts
  13. Ground 
  14. Second Floor
  15. Roof
  16. Four Part Fold Up, Model
  17. Four Part Fold Up, Simulation
  18. Hat Model
  19. Leg Model
  20. Askew Study
  21. Wireframe

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Relief Kiosk


Proposal, 2021



Mixed-physics authenticity / Leaning accumulation / Flexible heat-formed vinyl / Rigid forms / Hammered metal / Corrugated metal / Bent polished steel pipe / Printed image / Real and imaged / Information window cut-outs



SIZE 200 sq.ft.
TYPE Outdoor Information Kiosk
STATUS Unbuilt



  1. Elevation
  2. Elevation
  3. Top View
  4. Geometric Bending and Material Stiffening
  5. Geometric Bending and Material Stiffening
  6. Geometric Bending and Material Stiffening
  7. Close-Up
  8. Close-Up
  9. Kraft Paper Study
  10. Newsprint Study
  11. By Size, By Model

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A House-Bath Appearing Twice, Crudely


SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2023



Stories about doubles abound: the doppelgänger, the simulacrum, the reflection cast from water’s surface, or Eve herself. Give the narrative a slight nudge and suddenly it’s not merely a copy but an argumentative binary. In architectural terms, we compare the beautiful against the ordinary, art and craft, new and familiar, responsibility and indulgence. Where would we be without the filtering parables of right and wrong?

A House-Bath Appearing Twice, Crudely is a show about being on both sides of the problem. It’s a vulnerable position, really, to be both right and wrong. Everyone can see our weaknesses and our aspirations are laid bare.

In the gallery appear two side-by-side instances of a model constructed twice. One is a familiar frame and panel assembly with graphic coding, while the other is built like a taped-together paper model. Signs of architectural crudeness - leaks, stains, gaps, slumps, even yellowing and taping - proliferate indiscriminately. Alone, they’re craft-like and uncared for. Together, consistently deployed, each instance of crudeness is buffed into a vulnerable sketch of likeness, if not strength. We may disagree whether the model’s double appearance suggests strong opposites or near copies, but it’s trivial anyway. A double appearance reminds us that we don’t inhabit singular identities. We can be more than one thing at once.



REVIEWS Brooklyn Rail, Architect’s Newspaper
VIDEO SCI-Arc Channel
PHOTOS Brian Guido, Charles White, Rory Hamovit
CONVERSATION Under the Tent
DESIGN + FABRICATION Maria Kuraeva, Morgan Knowles Sobotka, Kaita Saito, Julie Riley, Eric Tsurumaki, Ian Wong, and many SCI-Arc Students


  1. Installation View, Tape Model
  2. Close Up, Frame and Panel
  3. Close Up, Tape Model
  4. Interior, Frame and Panel
  5. Installaton View
  6. Close Up, Tape Model
  7. Detail, Frame and Panel
  8. Detail, Joint
  9. Detail, Opening
  10. Detail, Hose
  11. Detail, Mister
  12. Elevation
  13. Section, Frame and Panel
  14. Water Bag Assembly
  15. Mopping
  16. Carry Model
  17. Underside
  18. Plan, Tape Model
  19. Unfold, Panels
  20. Assembly, Strapping
  21. Assembly, Pipes
  22. Assembly, Water Bags
  23. Detail at Top Corners
  24. Detail at Midpoints
  25. Detail at Bottom Corners
  26. Elevation
  27. Elevation


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    Slump Model


    Woodbury University Wedge Gallery, 2019



    This installation presents a large model at the scale of 1:2. The model is made with modeling techniques and structural logics more commonly found at a smaller scale size, and as such the model’s form collapses and deforms.

    The model connect two identical facades of the small and large buidlings of a villa currently under construction in the Yucatán. This new form is fit into the plan of Woodbury University’s Wedge Gallery. Under consideration are tape tectonics, a new architectural resistance, and a revisitation of paper architecture after the digital turn.



    VIDEO SCI-Arc Channel
    LOCATION Woodbury University
    DESIGN Jixun Wen, Julie Riley
    INSTALLATION Dutra Brown, Jixun Wen, Julie Riley, Tamara Birghoffer
    PHOTOS Marten Elder



    1. Installation View
    2. Installation View, Detail
    3. Installation View, Interior Small
    4. Installation View, Interior Large
    5. Installation View, Detail
    6. Installation View, Detail
    7. Installation View, Detail
    8. Geometry, Slumped
    9. Paper Model, 1:25
    10. Paper Model, 1:10
    11. Paper Model, 1:2
    12. Plan
    13. Corner Elevation
    14. Post-Installation Model

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    Training Wheels


    Banvard Gallery, Columbus, OH 2015



    Big things often seem more serious than small things. Big things are more weighty, more in the way, more noticeable, more aggravating. They just seem more real. Small things, on the other hand, are easily brushed aside and forgotten, as though they were memories of something that never happened. This installation aspires to make something big seem as insignificant as something small.

    An installation of architecture presents itself as something big. It wants to be taken seriously—like a building, a serious big thing. But installations are limited by their size and their clear separation from building: they can only desire to be big and serious. In this installation, we made that desire manifest in the tension between the many large wheels and their model-like materiality.

    The wheels are made of cardboard, cheap yet strong. Cardboard makes good models, but not very good buildings. The physicality of the cardboard emphasizes the qualities of an overscaled model in the larger-than-a-person objects. Furthermore, the wheels are staged like large drawings, sharing a consistent scale in geometry, notation, material, and concept.

    Although big things usually suggest stability, these wheels can roll into almost any configuration. They are lightweight and available for rearrangement at any time. The suggestion of mutability put forth by an assemblage of wheels is just that—a suggestion—since the gallery is only slightly larger than the collection. Additionally, the geometry of the wheels is off—kinks in the circles, askew centers of gravity—constraining them to rocking rather than rolling. Instead of implying a sense of infinite movement, these wheels suggest only a slight disruption from a stable location.



    EXHIBITIONS
    Inscriptions Harvard GSD 2018
    The Drawing Show Yale SoA 2018
    The Drawing Show A+D Museum 2016
    One Night Stand 2015
    FUNDING Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture LeFevre Emerging Practioner Fellowship
    TEAM Alex Mann, Amanda Pierce, and many OSU Students



    1. Elevation
    2. Installation View
    3. Installation View
    4. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    5. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    6. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    7. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    8. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    9. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    10. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    11. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    12. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    13. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    14. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    15. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    16. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    17. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    18. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    19. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    20. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    21. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    22. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    23. Wheel Elevation, Same Size
    24. Installation View
    25. Installation View
    26. Installation View
    27. Installation View
    28. Elevation
    29. All Wheels, Same Scale
    30. M Wheel, Construction @ 1:100
    31. XS Wheel, Construction @ 1:25
    32. S Wheel, Construction @ 1:50
    33. L Wheel, Construction @ 1:150
    34. XL Wheel, Construction @ 1:200
    35. Assembly Drawing
    36. Assembly Drawing
    37. Assembly Drawing
    38. Assembly Drawing
    39. Assembly Drawing
    40. Undressed Wheel
    41. Circle Collection
    42. Sequencing
    43. Human Army
    44. Screenshot
    45. Model
    46. Mock Up
    47. In Situ
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      Poor Pleats


      2024



      Material forms for structured pliability. Not quite a garment. Some buttons. Ongoing.



      TEAM Constantin Gardey



      1. Pleat 01
      2. Material Handling
      3. Pleat 03
      4. Material Image
      5. Material Image
      6. Material Image
      7. Material Image
      8. Close Up
      9. Close Up
      10. Close Up
      11. Close Up


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      Two Scrolls


      2019



      In today’s digital work space, objects easily swivel from size to size. They can be enlarged or reduced without consequence, enabling architects to playfully assemble forms from a palette of references, big and small, that are then deployable as buildings, furniture, paperweights, and even cities. Their flexibility permits architects to momentarily ignore the particularities of materials, structure, and social organization. For some, this has led to the use of enlarged or miniaturized references, while others have imagined architectural compositions that operate at sizes between building massing and material detail. As a creative vector, the digital object is a shape-shifter, endlessly eluding expectations of being pinned down to a specific size or material form... Continue Reading



      WRITING Tired... And Behaving Poorly, Model Behavior Catalog
      EXHIBITIONS Model Behavior, Log Supplement
      DESIGN AND FABRICATION Julie Riley, Jixun Wen



      1. Large Model
      2. Small Model
      3. Large Model, Interior
      4. Small Model, Interior
      5. Simulation, Large
      6. Simulation, Small
      7. Simulation, Large
      8. Simulation, Small
      9. Tape Model, Large
      10. Tape Model, Small
      11. Unroll, Small
      12. Paper Model, Large
      13. Paper Model, Small
      14. An Adjustable Form in Similar Gravities, Large
      15. An Adjustable Form in Similar Gravities, Small
      16. An Adjustable Form at Two Sizes
      17. Large Model, Detail
      18. Unroll, Large


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      Shape Stamp Stack


      2013



      Materializing notation / stamping space / brick and wood and concrete / stacking readings of scale



      1. Stamp, XS
      2. Stamp, XL
      3. Close Up, Bar
      4. Close Up, Line
      5. Close Up, Noise
      6. Close Up, Grid
      7. Anno, XS
      8. Anno, S
      9. Anno, M
      10. Anno, L
      11. Stamp, XS
      12. Stamp, S
      13. Stamp, M
      14. Stamp, L
      15. Stack Architecture
      16. Stamp, S
      17. Stamp, M
      18. Stamp, L

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