Henry Chu Portfolio
henrychu.studio
Designer based in Los Angeles.
My work explores how systems, circulation, and infrastructure can shape architecture at multiple scales, from buildings to urban environments. Across professional practice and academic research, I am interested in the relationship between form, performance, and public experience.
Professional Projects

Selected Work2020 – 2024

Project Key — NDA Compliance Context To respect client confidentiality and firm NDAs, specific geographic locations, client names, and identifying formal project titles have been replaced with alphanumeric typological codes (e.g., UD-01, HC-01).
NEOM The Line
01

UD-01

Morphosis Architects
Food Basket Trade Center
02

UD-02

Morphosis Architects
ERI-01
03

UD-03

Morphosis Architects
Kedren Psych Hospital
04

HC-01

SWA Architects
HC-02 hero
05

HC-02

SWA Architects
Academic Projects

Selected Work2018 – 2021

About

My academic work at Cal Poly Pomona and SCI-Arc — where I studied under Thom Mayne and was awarded the NOMA Scholarship, NOMA Student of the Year, and AIAS Student of the Year and Chair awards — explored buildings and settlements whose spatial logic derives entirely from infrastructure systems: a data center where the network is made walkable; a proto-city for 250,000 organized around water reclamation rather than imposed on top of it; a performing arts center generated through computational permutation of Mayne's combinatory methodology. At Morphosis, I brought this approach to city-scale infrastructure and large-scale institutional campuses — leading computational massing studies in Grasshopper, coordinating teams of over 50, and presenting directly to client leadership. At SWA Architects, I applied the same rigor to behavioral health facilities, navigating OSHPD/HCAI compliance while managing clinical planning, interiors, and consultant coordination through construction documentation. I currently teach Advanced Architecture Technologies at Citrus College, where I continue to bridge computational design, digital fabrication, and architectural practice.

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