Daniel Choi

Architecture / Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

School of Architecture

Vita Nexus: Architecture as Infrastructural Socio-Ecology

This thesis envisions architecture as an open system—one that operates within the logics of watershed ecologies, cultural memory, and collective resilience. Through the daylighting of buried creeks and the integration of flood mitigation, habitat regeneration, and rainwater reuse, the proposal transforms urban infrastructure into a socio-ecological commons. Anchored by the Carmen Flores Recreation Center, the design blurs disciplinary boundaries between building and landscape, infrastructure and ritual. By reclaiming flows—of water, people, and meaning—it offers a speculative yet actionable framework for a resilient, place-based urbanism rooted in adaptation, dialectical reciprocity and care.

Faculty Diego Romero Evans

Awards B.Arch Thesis Award

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