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WSOA In-Flux

WSOA In-Flux

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WSOA In-Flux is a publishing platform for student work launched by Woodbury School of Architecture in 2020.




Woodbury School of Architecture is distinguished by its multiple locations at the heart of the Southern California creative industries: Los Angeles, Hollywood and San Diego. Together, these sites form a critical infrastructure for architectural investigations.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs prepare students to effect positive change in the built environment, to tackle theoretical debates, and to take on architecture and interior design as critical practices. We educate our students as entrepreneurs, citizen architects, and cultural builders equally committed to professional practice, theoretical discourse, social equity and to formal and technological inquiry.

Our faculty are architects, designers, academics and policy makers practicing in Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana. This internationally recognized and award-winning group works closely with students to teach the skills required to push the limits of practice.



Mission

Good design is a human right. Woodbury School of Architecture produces graduates who affirm the power of design to improve the built environment and the lives of others by addressing the pressing issues of our time. We transform our students into ethical, articulate and innovative design professionals prepared to lead in a world of accelerating technological change.


Vision

The future belongs to Woodbury. Woodbury School of Architecture creates an environment that empowers our students to impact the future of the profession through meaningful built work. We imagine a world in which there are no disciplinary rights or wrongs, where diverse and sometimes contradictory values collide to generate new ideas, design innovation, unexpected practices, and the means to expand the influence of our discipline.


Woodbury School of Architecture offers a welcoming environment for students to develop their own unique design voice.  We approach the design disciplines multi-dimensionally, teaching a range of pedagogies and design methodologies. Our students leave Woodbury with the confidence to engage in local and global discourse.

Through engaged faculty-student interaction, we transform our students into innovative professionals with a commitment to the power of good design. Our students and faculty share a commitment to sustainable practices, community outreach and civic engagement.

Our School of Architecture is among the first 14 accredited architectural programs to be accepted for participation in the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) initiative. Successful students will have the opportunity to have an architectural license upon graduation.

We believe that our school is a role model for the direction in which the profession is heading – improving gender parity and ethnic diversity among its members, and reaffirming the importance of ethical conduct and social responsibility. Ours is a welcoming community for every race and orientation, and we resist acts of intolerance in favor of thoughtfulness, generosity and kindness. The economic, ethnic, and academic backgrounds of our students reflect Southern California itself. We are determined to provide a place for open debate, the respectful airing of differences, and for rich forms of expression and imagination.


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Mobile SHELTERING VEHICLES + Recombinant TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ︎ Studio 8


ARCH 402
Spring 2021 ︎
San Diego

Instructors
Hector M Perez




Work by B.Arch Student: Marwa Saeed


HOMELESSNESS: Project 1- Individual sheltering vehicle: Many Homeless Individuals move around the city carrying with them all their belongings in some sort of cart. This project is meant to explore the design potential of these SHELTERING VEHICLES Project 2- RECOMBINANT Transitional Housing+: this project focuses on the Design and Reorganization of the typical Transitional Housing and Services Complex on a triangular urban lot at the dynamic intersection of a Trolley station, Historical Homeless services and Barrio Logan Neighborhood







Work by B.Arch students Katharine  Vela







Work by B.Arch students Kimheng Te


Most of us take for granted our ability to afford and fortune to live in the comforts of our homes while many less fortunate people on the fringes of society (often by unjust reasons beyond their control) are left outside to suffer the inclemency and dangers of the street. The Homeless population in San Diego has increased over the last decade and despite the many well-meaning efforts and programs to provide shelter and services to this segment of society, these efforts have always been insufficient and have left a large percentage of this marginalized people to fend for themselves in the streets. Compounded by the most recent challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, a more pressing and urgent need has emerged to provide them with shelter, health services, substance abuse treatment, legal consultation, job training, financial assistance and ultimately transitional housing to secure reintegration. The crude reality is that the problems and challenges facing these members of our society are many and very complex.

This Studio explored alternative design solutions to resolve the many shortcomings of current housing and services for the homeless population. This studio topic is a provocation and invitation to use our collective talents in search for more creative solutions for current homeless shelters as well as alternative self-sufficient nomadic vehicles to be used by individuals that refuse to be indoors. Existing homeless shelter programs, services and mobile alternatives are fertile ground for reconceptualization of building and infrastructure and the production of this studio serves to both recognize and honor the needs of this marginalized segment of society while we attempt to contribute solutions to their complex needs.






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Work by B.Arch Anashe Mirzakhanian



Catalog Description


This Topic Studio explores and tests architectural design as it relates to one or more issues relevant to contemporary architectural discourse.