Undergrad Thesis, SCI-Arc, 2023-2024
This thesis, False Volume, is a critique of the current landscape of housing, and an exploration of how to make use of the lack of spatial generosity, transforming it into a bigger space than it really is. The thesis investigates tried and true methodologies used by architects and non-architects to make the space feel bigger, from looking at Charles Moore, Hiromi Fujii, to the Vietnamese tube house (a common housing typology of where I am from).At the same time, the thesis investigates the power of storage in a domestic environment, how it not only provides a better quality living, but also can control the layout of the interior. Storage, working in tandem with false volume, is an agent dividing the space, piercing through the interior and exterior vertically, forcing the circulation to be around it.Physical model of my Undergrad Thesis 2024