Cole Kazuo Masuno


Cole Kazuo Masuno is a Los Angeles based designer who has received his Bachelors of Architecture (B.Arch) from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

He is currently working at LOHA, and has co-taught as a teaching assistant for various design studios, visual and applied studies seminars at SCI-Arc. Prior to working at LOHA, Cole worked at award winning offices such as Eric Owen Moss Architects, and FreelandBuck.

Cole is a principal/co-founder of Alterity Studio.

Things Worth Looking At — What Constitutes A Project...︎


Index


2023
AO Air
Jewelry

2023
AO Table
Furniture

Sculpture




Archive
2022
Engaging Excess
Landscape

2021
The Zipper
Building

2021
Multiples
Building

2020
Accumulating Difference
Building

2019
Ubiquitous Difference
Building

2018
Representation As Reality
Building

2021
AI Assemblies
Building

2022
Non-Exhaustive List 
Book Design

2021
Re: Rendering Beaux Arts
Book Design


2020
Gaps & Frays
Image

2021
Image Objects
Image

2021
Image Artifacts
Image

2022
Draw The Line
Drawing



Mark

Cole Kazuo Masuno


Cole Kazuo Masuno is a Los Angeles based designer who has received his Bachelors of Architecture (B.Arch) from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

He is currently working at LOHA, and has co-taught as a teaching assistant for various design studios, visual and applied studies seminars at SCI-Arc. Prior to working at LOHA, Cole worked at award winning offices such as Eric Owen Moss Architects, and FreelandBuck.

Cole is a principal/co-founder of Alterity Studio.

Things Worth Looking At — What Constitutes A Project...︎

Index


2023
AO Air
Jewelry

2023
AO Table
Furniture

Sculpture



Archive
2022
Engaging Excess
Landscape

2021
The Zipper
Building

2021
Multiples
Building

2020
Accumulating Difference
Building

2019
Ubiquitous Difference
Building

2018
Representation As Reality
Building


2021
Re: Rendering Beaux Arts
Book Design

2022
Artificial Mineralization
Animation

2020
Gaps & Frays
Image

2021
Image Objects
Image


2020
Draw The Line
Drawing



Mark

model photograph

REPRESENTATION AS REALITY 

Translations from Drawing to Building

Los Angeles, California
Type: Amazon Fulfillment Center
Instructor: David Freeland


The architectural discipline has relied upon the fundamentals of architectural projection as a tool to describe form and space.   An interest in drawings with image-like-qualities motivated an exploration for how graphic notation might reveal material conditions.   This project builds upon an understanding of conventions in order to speculate new mediums and hybrid models of representation.   Starting from an image of a building, the ghosted mass is retranslated into something physical, existing as both reality and representation.



building elevation drawings 

A series of drawings were produced that consider spatial relationships relative to the format of the page.  When translated from drawing to physical model,  format and drawing conflate tocreate spatial illusions that collapse and inflate depth.Vectors and pixels develop thickness, and begin to describe surface while slipping between thresholds of flatness and illusionary depth. The efficacy of the drawing obfuscates space, creating an indeterminate reading where points conflate as mass.


building elevation drawings



building elevation drawings



model photograph