Kassandra Nicole Ulloa
My love for architecture came from my dad. A dream of his own he couldn't pursue, but he pushed and supported me from the moment he shared his love for architecture with me. I remember starting this journey and being fascinated with the architecture of happiness. How a space can change someone's life completely with architecture making a distinctive contribution. I wanted to do just that, help people through the design of space not only focusing on the physical, but also the psychological. I am most grateful for the studios that pushed me to think conceptually, pushed me beyond the boundaries of existence and asked the deeper questions of how we could change the world and better the future through our designs. I don’t know what my future beholds, but I know one thing for sure and that is that I will design to help people. Architecture has a huge influence on our identity and the quality of our surroundings mold us to be who we are. LinkedIn, Email, Instagram.
Rejecting the Corridor
The studio's objective was to embrace and redefine a different way of living that we are embracing today especially since this studio was happening at the peak of this pandemic and we ourselves were redefining the use of our own personal space due to being in a lockdown. As I struggled to find a comfortable situation between work/live I based my project on the demographic of young single artists in Newark that could collaborate and use their living situation as their work and live space, making it affordable for them to pursue their passion. My project eliminated the corridor and was organized around these units that would have the apartment on top of each artist's individual studio. My housing typology was based on the idea of sharing and being influenced by one another, for all studios were collaborative spaces as well as completely visible to the rest of the complex to constantly inspire through their own creativity.
