Talia Rose Studio

Renovation of two existing properties.

Project Role: Designer

Location: Estes Park, CO

Completed: 2023

Design Team: Cayley Lambur (Principal), Stephanie Luk (Director), Marissa Ritchen (Director), Brooke Oliver (Designer), Kamila Silva (Designer), Tori Sander (Designer) and Maya Newlin (Designer).

Construction: HR Construction

Landscape Design: Studio Campo

Full renovation of a classic ski cabin in Lake Tahoe.

This project aims to maximize integration with the surrounding landscape by obscuring the lines between indoor and outdoor. This ambition is fueled by the clients deep respect for natural beauty and the desire to feel more connected to it through the medium of architecture.

Phase: Conceptual Design

Year: 2020

Area: 3000 sf

Completed at UCLA School of Arts and Architecture

under the direction of Neil Denari

The structural basis of electronic, or minimal, music begins with a cell which is looped continuously, hypnotizing the listener into a state that transcends time. The objective of this studio was to use minimal music as a basis for the geometric organization of a performance pavilion and to achieve such hypnotic state. This project uses a simple 9’ x 9’ cube unit, that is offset from its origin point twice and then repeated, and repeated. The cubes are rendered entirely in glass, building on the work of Larry Bell and Robert Irwin, with particular interest in glass, light, and perception. Once inside, at the perimeter of the field, the glass enclosure absorbs its surroundings, and refracts back a distorted image, distancing the viewer from the reality beyond the panes. As the sun goes down, the interior takes on a life of its own. The combination of repetitive structure, reflective material, and artifical light allows the space to self-amplify beyond the architecture itself. Despite the transparent nature of the material, this projects expresses more ambiguity than clarity, obscuring the difference between what is physically real and what is an illusion.

Completed in 2019 at UCLA School of Arts and Architecture

in partnership with Nichole Tortorici, Yiran Chen, Xiangkun Hu

under the supervision of Heather Roberge

Entropic City is an urban proposal that responds to rising sea levels by reconceptualizing the relationship between city and ground. Miami Beach is the site of exploration due to low-lying and vulnerability. The urban strategy rejects a static ground and instead embraces a fluid and reactive landscape. As infrastructural systems are exposed and elevated, the ground is allowed a new freedom of responsiveness. Amid this new paradigm of a constantly shifting ground, new typologies appear and shape urban life.

Entropic City is an urban proposal that will embrace living with water by surrendering its dependency on fixed land. The ground is composed of sand, a formless material, that will shape and be shaped by the city. The ground will become a fluid part of the cityscape--able to respond to forces of climate and time. Just as Miami has historically maintained sandy ground, Entropic City will embrace a culture of perpetual maintenance. Amid a new paradigm of a constant shifting ground, urban life will take new forms.

Entropic City aims to challenge the assumption that the city, and architecture, are merely physical products to be consumed for a finite period of time, and rather continuous systems of relational forces and flows. Entropic City lays down the framework for collections of neighborhoods to operate as a city. Transportation, infrastructure, adn ideology are shared, but within each circle unique micro-ecologies will develop.

Completed in 2018 at UCLA School of Arts and Architecture

under the direction of Wonne Ickx

Delicious Pizza is local pizza shop and community gathering space located in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. The requirements were to add housing, offices, and an event space around and on top of the existing establishment. This project explores the relationship between the extravagant and the banal as a tribute to the architectural vernacular of Los Angeles. A nine-square grid of golden yellow arches serves as a canopy and symbolic boundary for the complex. This grand aesthetic expression is juxtoposed with plain stucco boxes that peak in and out of the steel structure. Buildings are rotated 45 degress in order to navigate around columns resulting in activated leftover spaces that begin to interiorize the exterior. A second ground emerges as the rooftops of buildings are made inhabitable.The stucco walls serve as a blank canvas for shadow patterns as light filters through the over-arching structure. The combination of two systems produces a space that is more concerned with adjacent relationships than object identity. Ultimatley this project strives to explore the potential of an engaged architectural object.

Suki is a product designed capture rainwater, store emergency supply, provide a home garden, while simultaneously celebrating the performative and aesthetic beauty of water.

Completed in 2019 at UCLA School of Arts and Architecture in partnership with Chris Doerr, Yiran Chen, Jenny Zhou, Xihan Lyu, and Xinwen Zhang.

Responsibilities included design development, prototyping, and fabrication.

Photos courtesy of MADWORKSHOP. Credit: Buddy Bleckley

Completed in 2018 at UCLA School of Arts and Architecture

under the direction of Georgina Huljich

This project is sited just outside of the historical city Carcassonne in Southern France. In this area, there is a strong architectural vernacular present that continues to reference the past. The material of choice throughout the region is overwhelmingly stone as a means of historical preservation. However, often what is called a stone building is actually stone veneer further widening the gap between material construction and material perception.This project uses stone to question the relationship between construction methods and material expression. Stone is typically expressed as a heavy, permanent building method, but what if stone structures were impossibly light and mobile? Southern France is widely known for its wine production. This project proposes a winery collective--a response to the traditional organizational structure. Here multiple vinters will inhabit the land at once. Each would have their own wine-making cellar, while sharing larger production facilities. The site plan reflects a collectivity and scalability. Wine-making facilities that are located underground remain a permanent part of the landscape while above-ground structures can be customized.