URAP

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Project Description: Cooling centers typically utilize existing buildings to provide air-conditioned spaces, offering citizens immediate relief from high temperatures. Yet, as an emerging architectural typology, many of these centers lack design direction. They are conceived as emergency buildings often without essential amenities like food, natural daylighting, fresh air, or...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Project Description: This project addresses the challenges posed by extreme weather conditions and growing energy instability by exploring experimental approaches to managing interior environments. The research proposes architectural strategies that allow for multiplicity of indoor climates and environmental management. To bridge academic exploration with real-world applications, the project culminates...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Project Description: From Wood to Tree is an open air pavilion that explores environmental methodologies for returning lumber to the forest by examining the qualities of deadwood and degradation as a possibility for design. Much has been said about the making of wood, and yet one of its most prescient...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth is a courtyard installation that stages mass and fiber as shared infrastructures for collective comfort in the Los Angeles summer. Building on the recent exhibition Collective Comfort: Airing on Possibilities, the project adapts non-mechanical cooling strategies from desert contexts into Craft Contemporary’s courtyard in Los...