About Elyse Bouchard | Architecture & Computational Design, architectural image 1

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I am pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Southern California with a minor in Entrepreneurship. My work is grounded in conceptual inquiry and a multidisciplinary approach spanning architecture, computation, visual communication, urbanism, and design research. I treat design as a method of investigation: a way to construct new relationships among form, behavior, material, ecology, and technology rather than simply resolve a predetermined program.

My current interests center on parametric and computational design. I am developing AeroField, a Grasshopper plugin for field-based spatial exploration, while also developing an AI-assisted Grasshopper plugin that investigates more intuitive ways of working with complex parametric systems. These projects reflect a broader interest in tools that expand how architects generate, test, and communicate ideas.

I am particularly interested in how architectural training can operate beyond the conventional boundaries of building design. My goal is to apply architecture’s capacity for systems thinking, synthesis, and speculative inquiry to the development of original design methodologies and technologies across scales and disciplines. I approach each project as an opportunity to question default assumptions and produce work that is rigorous, experimental, and genuinely new.

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