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Totems and a totem

PrizeHonorable Mention in Architectural Design / Social Housing
University/SchoolSouthern California Institute of Architecture
Lead ArchitectWenhao Huang
Project Videohttps://youtu.be/xbAhK27UxOQ

Responding to the new wave of incubating housing crisis in the light of exponential growth of population brought by the metro, as well as recent developments in Chinatown, Los Angeles - this project speculates what architecture is capable of achieving through a hybrid of typologies. The stacking feature, and anthropoid postures and interactions are embedded within, attempting to solve the lack of public interactions in the nowadays fast-paced society. The identity, as twin tower and totems, calls attention upon once historically abandoned Chinatown, and relates to Downtown LA and beyond.