URAP

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

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

This research project investigates weaving as both a structural and environmental strategy for architecture. Students will develop and construct a series of physical models that combine lightweight wood structures with woven surfaces. These models will be used as experimental prototypes to study how variations in weaving pattern, density, geometry, and...

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

This research project explores how a single interior can produce multiple thermal environments through architectural form, material, and passive environmental strategies. Organized as a loft containing distinct climatic zones, the project investigates how differences in temperature, air movement, solar exposure, thermal mass, and enclosure might allow occupants to move between...

Liz Galvez - Professor, Architecture

Status: Full- no new appr needed     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...