Let’s play a choose your own adventure game of architecture - ‘Remaking Santa Monica’ What happens to a neighborhood when we design a building? architecture design is an intricated process that involves many factors, and we tend to investigate each of them separately. In this studio we study micro urban narratives through understanding design as a whole.

We start from an existing urban block and design the future of it through new construction, gentrification, and market driven development. Depending on the decisions taken for each lot the whole bloc gets redesigned. Learning from the game industry the use the branching narrative logic as a tool for world building similarly to Super studio’s Twelve cautionary tales, we invited the audience to play an interactive game and design the future of a Santa Monica block.

This studio use game engines to craft an interactive narrative for a mixed use block in Santa Monica, each design leans to a new design of the block. We design these variations and augment them using augmented reality on physical models. We simultaneously develop an interactive game where we can see the multiple scenarios play out.