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ARCHITECTURE
Project type: Multi-purpose
Nominated: CED 2025 Design Excellence Award
Featured: TRACE Issue 5
Date: Fall 2025
Area: 8,000 sq ft / Location: South side of Bauer Wurster Hall
Course: ARCH 100A / Studio: Adam Miller
Concealment is an 8000 square foot detached addition to Bauer Wurster Hall on the south side. Programmatically, this project features a four-story structure containing enfilades of a public lobby, auditorium, office core, and pin-up space. The central design concept explores how a simple rectangular envelope conceals a complex interior through multi-heighted spaces and arcs.
Project type: Municipal service and public gallery
Date: Spring 2026
Area: 43,400 sq ft / Location: 2801 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703
Course: ARCH 100B / Studio: Kei Takanami
Triple Emphasis is an 43,400 square foot two-story municipal service and gallery center located across from a bustling super market and surrounding residences. The program includes public galleries, a cafe, lobby, three services, offices, and classrooms. Using a hierarchical interpretation of the program, the project aims to emphasize the most vital spaces through two distinct volumetric massing.
Project type: Auditorium addition
Date: Fall 2025
Area: 4,000 sq ft / Location: Courtyard of Bauer Wurster Hall
Course: ARCH 100A / Studio: Adam Miller
U Annex features a 4,000 square foot attached addition to the courtyard of Bauer Wurster Hall. For the program, the building is a combination of a lobby on the first floor with an open air ceiling that intersects into an auditorium above. The goal of this project is to create a spatial journey that smoothly transitions between two rooms stacked onto each other through the formalistic qualities of a "U".
Project type: Adapted housing & art school
Winner: CED 2025 Bakewell, Brown & Weihe Prize
Date: Spring 2025
Area: 12,000 sq ft / Location: 1403 Carleton St, Berkeley, CA 94702
Course: ARCH 11B / Studio: Rudabeh Pakravan / TA: Mike Ren
Gridvolution is a 12,000 square foot adaptive reuse of an existing multi-housing residence in Berkeley, California into an art school combined with residential spaces. The structure consists of student housing, gallery spaces, studios, classrooms, and a cafe. This project aims to use a trapezoidal grid to unify the new adaptation of the site through a common circulation direction and form.
