Camilla Radoyce

Billiards Cosmologies

Architecture is a story we tell ourselves.

Thinking through systems, my work uses relentlessness, humor, and the materials at hand to find creation within constraints and new forms within enduring structures. Following intuition and affective as well as cognitive intelligence, my work is both sculptural and human-focused. Here, things carry traces of their making and are continuously remade through use.

The spaces and objects I create are for interaction, participation, and finding meaning—not to resolve complexity, but to sit with it long enough to understand a little more about how it operates.

My thesis project began by thinking about California wildfires after the Palisades Fire came close to destroying my family home. Trying to intervene at that scale became overwhelming, and the nightmares I was having pushed me to find spaces of community and joy… so I started a pool league.

Wanting to explore how architecture can foster conviviality, I decided to build a pool table—one that could fit inside my Honda Civic. Responding to available materials and tools, and working collaboratively, the project does not aim to answer questions, but to frame moments for conversation and critical thought. 

As an architect and designer, my work aims to reframe values around resources and how we come together. Intervening at large scales can seem impossible without coordination and mutual participation. My thesis aims to investigate co-creation and making with what’s at hand at the human scale—in this case, the pool table. Now let's play.

What new stories can we tell?

Carrier Bag
Found ethernet cables, polyester yarn

Remembering is slippery. Made to carry a photo album, this carrier bag explores how memories fade and disintegrate, often attaching themselves to more durable forms like photographs and stories.

Chainlink Reflected Ceiling Plan
Digital drawing

While designing a pavilion through weaving techniques from cultures around the world, I became curious what an indigenous weaving method might look like on a site that exists only as a Rhino .3dm file. The result is this reflected ceiling plan, where chainlink fencing is pinched into fins that simultaneously produce enclosure and structure.

Getting to the Core of It
Digital drawing, scanned dust

This drawing extracts the circulation core of a building and introduces swept dust as an architectural hatch. By using debris to mark selective surfaces while leaving expected poche conditions unresolved, the drawing confuses distinctions between solid, void, structure, and occupation, treating accumulated matter as both residue and representation.

Dust Section
Swept dust, hair, debris on canvas

Architectural section drawings often use solid poche fills to represent material thickness, flattening the histories embedded within buildings into abstraction. Dust Section replaces conventional hatching with debris swept from a staircase, using accumulated dust, hair, and fragments to reveal traces of habitation, labor, and time embedded within the site.

Digital Quilt
Found trash made into a digital drawing

Made from discarded fragments collected around the studio, Digital Quilt treats debris as a contemporary scrap fabric. Layering ornamental motifs, construction remnants, and misfit geometries, the quilt reframes the excess of architectural production as a material for recombination and repair.

Scale Study
Paint, plaster, wood, paper

This process study from my thesis explores scale as a tool for humor, disorientation, and critique. A giant piece of pool cue chalk paired with a miniature cue transforms familiar billiards objects into awkward counterparts, frustrating expectations of use and questioning the fixed frameworks through which objects are understood.

Pillow Pal
Found fabric, batting

Inspired by a crossover between Pillow Pets and industrial shipping pallets, Pillow Pal transforms a ubiquitous object associated with labor, weight, and circulation into something soft, supportive, and affectionate. By quilting and stuffing the pallet form, the project reframes infrastructure as an object of comfort and collective care.

Honda Civic with Gazebo
Digital drawing

This drawing documents my Honda Civic loaded with salvaged gazebo parts collected from Craigslist. Treating the car as both transport and architectural container, the drawing frames improvisation, constraint, and scavenging as serious spatial practices, elevating a mundane condition into architectural consideration.