Super Samario
An augmented reality experience somewhere in Los Angeles.
Augmented Reality with Professor Ron Frankel in partnership with Samora Deng​
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While taking a stroll in Westside Los Angeles, Samora takes on a fun-filled adventure he stumbled upon in a sunny Venice Beach parking lot. This course challenged us to incorporate augmented reality software into our usual architecture discourse. Inspired by Super Mario Bros., the video was created using Maya, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. Filming, music and sound effects were also completed as a partner effort. This is Super Samario!
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Super Samario
An augmented reality experience somewhere in Los Angeles.
Augmented Reality with Professor Ron Frankel in partnership with Samora Deng​
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While taking a stroll in Westside Los Angeles, Samora takes on a fun-filled adventure he stumbled upon in a sunny Venice Beach parking lot. This course challenged us to incorporate augmented reality software into our usual architecture discourse. Inspired by Super Mario Bros., the video was created using Maya, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. Filming, music and sound effects were also completed as a partner effort. This is Super Samario!
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Super Samario
An augmented reality experience somewhere in Los Angeles.
Augmented Reality with Professor Ron Frankel in partnership with Samora Deng​
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While taking a stroll in Westside Los Angeles, Samora takes on a fun-filled adventure he stumbled upon in a sunny Venice Beach parking lot. This course challenged us to incorporate augmented reality software into our usual architecture discourse. Inspired by Super Mario Bros., the video was created using Maya, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. Filming, music and sound effects were also completed as a partner effort. This is Super Samario!
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Vertical Forest
An air-filtering sanctuary for the people of Beijing.
Advanced Topics Studio with Professor Ben Refuerzo
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Vertical Forest
An air-filtering sanctuary for the people of Beijing.
Advanced Topics Studio with Professor Ben Refuerzo
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Product Designer in Los Angeles
Rethinking a new ‘drive-thru market’ experience.
Final Research Studio with Professor Greg Lynn
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Fortress of Goods​​​






Design Concept
New forms of mobility are being developed currently for both people and things. From autonomous container ships and trucks, to autonomous buses and cars, to autonomous aerial and land drones, logistics and transportation is being reformulated rapidly.
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These new forms of intelligent motion are impacting urban, suburban and rural infrastructure. However, little thought is being applied to how buildings are impacted; in particular, the interior circulation and building envelope. It is the premise of this research studio that light-weight intelligent electric mobility should enter architecture and provoke a similar transformation that the elevator and escalator provoked a century ago. We are rethinking the ‘market’ on a site here in Los Angeles adjacent to the historic Farmer’s Market on Fairfax Avenue.​​​​​
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Throughout the fall quarter, the existing typologies of fulfillment were used as precedent analysis. As a studio, we mainly researched and observed how different robots move and what value they bring to society. My partner and I focused on logistics robots which ranged from conveyor-type machines found in USPS and Amazon fulfillment centers to autonomous delivery robots too. The typologies of fulfillment research was then incorporated in the following segment of the research studio. Located on Fairfax Avenue and 3rd Street across the historic Farmer’s Market, a concept for circulation of both people and autonomous vehicles began and the idea of a new kind of ‘market’ for the future emerged.
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The idea of a tubular fortress of goods that is also a one stop drive-thru market for all Amazon products is a new approach to design which can successfully activate this particular shopping district of Los Angeles. There are separate points of entry for bicycles, cars, and delivery trucks, and the pedestrian zone is located on the North facing directly toward the Farmer’s Market. The autonomous vehicles will be designated a specific tube to pick up their purchase. The delivery trucks ship and receive from giant tubes on the East side of the market. Pedestrians can also pick up their goods through smaller tubes on the North side.
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One special feature that connects this design to the rest of Fairfax Avenue are the two main elevator and bridge tubes which allow the consumer in one moment to experience becoming one of the packages travelling through a tube in order to arrive at the core of the market--THE POP-UP SHOP! Inspired by the Supreme Store culture of selling one-of-a-kind products with consumers waiting in a line that wraps around the block, a single visitor at a time can (experience shopping like a celebrity and) pick up their limited edition product within the market core.
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As this design aims to incorporate a small-scale fulfillment center within a city as a new type of market, it embraces the shopping culture which exists and is unique to this area of Los Angeles.​​​​