Slip-cast porcelain, ink
Projections, vinyl flooring
Custom clay
Slip-cast porcelain, ink
Custom clay and glaze, moss
Wood, thread, print on foamcore, projection
Wood
Bachelor of Architecture
Minor in Ceramics
Columbia University
Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design
e-flux
New York
2025
GSAPP EOYS
Columbia University
New York
2025
GSAPP AAD EOSS
Columbia University
New York
2024
Whispers from the Corner of My Eye
Venice Biennale
Italy
2024
USC XPO
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
2024
Design Award
2024
SOM Foundation Robert L. Wesley Award
2023
Anthony Marnell II Scholarship
2023
Corgan Diversity Scholarship
2022
Sauer Scholarship
2021
by Christina Chkarboul And Jenna Peterson
2022
‘Lauren Jian Wins SOM Foundation 2023 Robert L. Welsey Award’, USC Architecture News.
2024
Last Updated 24.10.31
Instructor: Patrick Tighe
Sun Studios, AKA SunSTU, is a co-op featuring affordable housing south of Downtown Los Angeles. Climate analyses on the sun path, shading, and heat gain reinforced the necessity of mitigating the heat island effect, accomplished through several strategies. SunSTU includes a green courtyard, climate responsive facade, and an elevated green terrace in order to reduce the heat island effect in the city.
A key sustainable feature includes the shading device, which enables protection from solar gain throughout the structure at various scales. The responsive design enables the device to expand and contract as necessary to allow light to pass through. Residents within the studio are able to adjust their individual shading devices, enabling them to have autonomy over their spaces.
Instructor: A.L. Hu
Anchoring Chelsea is a network of care,
where we reinvest in the existing community
and welcome new ones. The proposal improves existing residences and provides additional amenities and resources for long-term communities to continue to thrive. Through strengthening bonds, interdependence,
and community organizing, Fulton Elliot Chelsea can maintain its long term culture and sense of place. Anchoring Chelsea improves existing residences and provides the resources for long-term communities to continue to thrive.
Instructor: M. Alejandra Lillo
The Oakwood Community Center
starts with a conversation.
Engaging with the current staff
revealed potential programs for
youth and students. A study on the
surrounding streets shows a common
building typology - the A-frame.
Various techniques, including offset
glazing, balconies, and slit windows
are used on neighboring houses to
blend the interior to exterior spaces.
The proposed design has a public
courtyard as the main entrance, which
leads to a semi-private cour tyard that
encloses an outdoor swimming pool.
The programming is supported by an
A-frame CLT column structure on a
25’x25’ structural grid, with 5’ deep
long span beams over the indoor pool.
The pool and community center serve
as an anchor in a largely residential
community.
Instructor: Marina Otero and Dan Miller
The Pacific island of Tuvalu is the world’s least visited country, with its highest point 15 feet above sea level. It risks losing statehood once sea levels rise above its
land mass. In 2024, the Pacific island of Tuvalu proposed shifting their island towards a Digitized Nation. Tuvalu faces a growing threat of sea level rise consequential from western production, leading to questioning the international law of sovereignty without land mass. DATABLIND proposes a counternarrative of unsinking. It uses bathymetric data, multimedia scripting, and spatial exploration to visualize Tuvalu’s mapped and unmapped territories. DATABLIND preserves unmapped narratives, countering Tuvalu’s digital systemic connections with local knowledge, memories, and perspectives. This visualization maps the systems embedded beyond the surface of Tuvalu, including an exaggerated sea bed, sea level, and air space that’s above. It highlights this space as one territory, challenging the existing precarity of losing sovereignty after sea level rise.
Instructor: Wendy W. Fok
This thesis explores Los Angeles as a food desert, and how food vendors provide an informal resource that impacts the street at a human scale and transportation at an urban scale. Street vendors become an agent for urban renewal to create equitable pedestrian friendly third spaces. This enables pedestrians to take back the street as a public, communal space.
This project engaged with Los Angeles Unified School District at their Annual Arts Festival.
The Arts Fest pulls in over 12,000 students, and my team and I executed two workshops
and a 6-hour design activity. We encouraged students and youth artists to become design
advocates, so they become the agent of change in their neighborhood. Students used the
catalogue to indicate resources they wanted in their community, and designed neighborhoods
with integrated resources. Students were able to take ownership of their lived spaces,
marking up their street and designing an ideal neighborhood.
Co-founder
New York, 2024
A+A collaborated with the Octavia Project, an organization for female and non-binary students, and Greene Garden, a member-run
community garden in Brooklyn. A+A engaged with Octavia Project students in design equity workshops, guiding the reactivation of a stagefront in Greene Garden.