
Crenshaw Kiosks
A deployable “plaza in a box” channeling community joy and identity.
Summer 2021 RIOS Intern Collaboration Project
Collaborators: Chris Lacsina, Jinghan Zhou


The streetscape should be a place of refuge and a provider of resources, expressing and fostering community identity and culture.



Daytime deployment of modules.
Nighttime: closed modules for security.
Deployable Shade/Light
This furniture prototype was a follow-up to the original projects, combining the research of other intern groups into a mutable shade canopy which can be deployed for shade or light in indoor or outdoor settings.
Collaborators: Mac MacVaugh, Lauren Hanson, Zak Meghrouni-Brown, Marco Lam, Chris Lacsina