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• Architecture
• Thesis: Boyle Community Center
• Thesis: Social Infrastructure
• Competition: Dingbat 2.0
• Pro Practice: REVIT
• Topic Studio: AFH
• Study Abroad: Field Sketches
• Housing Studio: 30 Unit

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• Branding: Andrew Ammentorp
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THESIS: Boyle Heights Community Center

This thesis project seeks to investigate the nature of “social infrastructure,” the places and institutions in a community that foster and maintain networks of personal relationships. The first half of the studio focused on analysis of the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles, and this second half focused on the design of a new piece of “infrastructure.” The project consists of a varied collection of program – Metro Station, Fresh Grocery, Day Care, Tutoring Center, and Immigrant Aid Non-Profit – arrayed around an interior Junction Courtyard and capped by a roof park. The intention is that by serving the widest swath of user types, and encouraging spontaneous interaction, the project will act as a node in the physical social network of the community. In addition to the park, public capsule spaces serve a park-poor populace, and the project thus acts as a neighborhood mixing chamber.