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
Lines + Surfaces
Analyzing the vaults of the Laon Cathedral in France to create new forms
Introduction Design Studio with Professor Steven Christensen
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In addressing the problem of proportion and geometry of the shafts in one and a half bays of Laon Cathedral, the twisting of the existing diagonal ribs, as well as a kink at the springing point of the tas-de-charge, illustrates two value systems that are incompatible. By using Greg Lynn’s Alessi Flatware and Teapot/Tea cup set as a source of inspiration, a series of iterations have been produced resulting in completely new surfaces in both plan and elevation. I generated a ‘family of forms’ exhibiting biomorphic qualities that relate to the original vault-- each one varying in surface qualities.
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Contrary to the Gothic style in which webs play a secondary structural and ornamental role to the ribs, here the surfaces become primary, their exuberantly billowing and puckered geometries becoming inherently ornamental to the extent that ribs become superfluous. While this form retains a familiar link to the original vault, its supple surface geometries transcend the qualities of the precedent, extending the Gothic’s obsession with perceptual lightness along a new, contemporary vector.
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The fluidity of the surfaces resulting from the 30-deg. shift most exemplifies the biomorphic qualities of the “family of forms” designed by Greg Lynn in the Alessi Flatware. The 30-deg ree vault form is similar in a way that a simple change in a curve is able to yield ornament-like qualities upon surface.​