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The Interior Design Annual 2020 The Interior Design Annual book has become a traditional publication by the department to showcase and celebrate its graduating classes of BFA and MFA students. Each year our thesis students delve deep into areas of interest, questioning the bounds of the interior, contributing to our understanding of the spaces we occupy. They experiment with technologies to further the creation and visualization of their design investigations while locating their work within a larger global socio-political context. Pratt Institute’s Interior Design curriculum integrates preparation for the profession with design thinking that expands what is understood as the discipline of Interior Design—ideas, issues, histories, and cultures—each informing the other with ever expanding and elucidating results. Our graduates have always enriched this city and cities all over the world with their contributions to design. At this singular moment in time, amidst a global pandemic and a refocusing of attention on human rights and racial equality, we introduce a class of graduates who will be active participants in reimagining and designing a world that celebrates new ways of occupying the public realm and providing equal access to all people in our global community. These pages introduce the reader to our newest graduates with projects that most resonated with them as they reflect on their time with us at Pratt Institute. David C. C. Foley Acting Chair Department of Interior Design
Special thanks to: President Frances Bronet; Provost Kirk Pillow; Anita Cooney, Dean of the School of Design; Tania Branquinho, Assistant Chair, Interior Design; the Faculty of Interior Design; and Associate Professor Annie Coggan-Crawford, Book Coordinator par excellence for her steadfast attention and focus acquiring the images and editing the texts. Thank you all! 2
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Ashika Amarnath Carla Baca Xinyun Chen Ziyi Cui Ning Deng Tianlan Deng Yanyan Dong Ying Duan Yijun Gao Shreya Gera Fangtu Gong Jiaqi Gu Xihan Gu Yukuan He Junghyun Hong Claire Howard Aislinn Jefferies Shilpa Kalaichelvan Chenchen Kang Xiaowen Kang Ting Chu King Charlotte Kirsten Jiawei Kong Su Hyun Lee Dongni Li Tong Li Xuehan Li Yongyang Li Bernita Ling
Erin Loffler Shan Lu Yingfu Lu Shibani Raney Laurie Sadove Zev Schwartz Jiwon Shin Cristina Sidoli Rachel Aviva Stein Chulun Sun Priyanka Unadkat Tara Vellara Weijie Wang Yuhan Wang Ya Wen Aoqian Wu Yue Wu Han Xiao Xinyu Xie Yan Xu Yumeng Yang Marissa Yau Lo Fangjie Yuan Manlin Zhang Penghui Zhang Qingan Zhang Xuan Zhang Fanjin Zhao
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Carla Baca
Ashika Amarnath Exterior Environments with Interior Conditions As part of participatory budgeting in the Sunset Park district, a group of residents had asked for inhabitable weather shelters within the neighborhood so that they can fully make use of the park even in inclement conditions. The design was inspired by reclaimed skate parks and was designed using recyclable wooden pallets. It encourages the community to come together to make and build this pavilion as their own using everyday materials and in modules! 6
The Monolith What would happen if architecture made living more demanding? What if architecture was an extension of nature itself? The monolith as a spatial and tectonic device allows primitive poetry in a mundane program; a place where the passing of time slows down, acting as a barometer of civilization, disconnecting while predicting a retreat to the primitive‌ with a look to the future. 7
Ziyi Cui
Xinyun Chen Immersive Layers Located in SoHo in Manhattan, this service center aims to create a large-scale intervention that exposes the activities of a private organization to enhance public empathy. With nearby supportive education, job facilities, and various users, it can help runaway and aging youth with better communication, opportunity, and help them engage with the community.
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Negotiating the Phantasmagoria of Consumption “I Shop Therefore I Am�: Negotiating the Phantasmagoria of Consumption is a thesis based on a desire to critique the waste and superabundance of capitalist consumer culture. This mixed-use marketplace challenges the sociocultural condition resulting from hyper-consumerism and hypothesizes that designed acts of negotiation can instigate ideological transformations.
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Tianlan Deng
Ning Deng Conversation Library Journals and letters are related to specific time. This project seeks to create a conversation between methods of recording time. All the reading materials in the library are curated according to the timeline, from oral form to written form to digital age.
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Floating River Floating River is a courtyard intervention of Battery Weed (Fort). Embracing the coastal location and tectonic feature of the fort, this project recreates moments where the freshwater meets the salt water—the conical rain collector generates freshwater that drops into the seawater. The project aims to raise awareness of seawater intrusion.
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Ying Duan
Yanyan Dong D SHOPPING “GALLERY� A retail store located in an artistic neighborhood in Barcelona was designed for a clothing brand featuring the spatial experience of a gallery. The long ramp attracts and directs customers to the display area, along with clothes that hang like artworks encountered as one walks alongside them. Emphasizing materials and lighting to develop spatial details and moods, customers are invited to slow down and appreciate the beauty of handcrafted merchandise. 12
Cradle This project investigates alternative spaces for human rejuvenation. These images express the creation of imaginative and powerfully shaped spaces by employing five atmosphere-building methods, investigating interior-based notions of: interlocking, spatial rhythms, immersive ambiguity, modularity, and a series of human sensations.
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Shreya Gera
Yijun Gao Curiosity, Exploration, Discovery – A Children’s Library How can a place inspire and support the desire for knowledge in children? This library is based on the three characteristics for acquiring knowledge: curiosity, exploration, and discovery. These attributes stimulate children’s learning interest and help people transfer knowledge from generation to generation.
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Humanizing Spaces of Intimidation The thesis aims to explore the ways in which haptic and tactile spatial techniques can humanize the aggressive spatial environment of police precincts through materials, quality of light, and soft geometry. The proposal reimagines the precinct’s relationship with the community, fostering social connection through activation of indoor-outdoor threshold conditions through programmatic play. 15
Jiaqi Gu
Fangtu Gong Hide and Seek This project is a curative secondary school designed specifically for the student with mental illnesses. The phenomenal spaces where light and shadow interact with people’s activities create moments of discovery.
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Passages between Cultures A renovation of a pre-existing marketplace within the African-American community of Harlem. The intention is to create an immersive shopping experience that brings awareness to the cultural origin of the products. Tribal patterns are used as a sign to indicate the origins of the products. The layout reflects a sense of community, reminiscent of the cultural heritage.
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Yukuan He
Xihan Gu Fragments of History History is defined as a series of past events, and architecture is a representation of the past. However, buildings are fragile and the embedded history can disappear. This thesis investigates how to challenge people’s perception of place and the boundaries between past and present. It will illustrate what one sees and how one respects and recalls the historical past.
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The Rotation Pavilion A series of spatial rotations set within a semicircular structure encourages restful habitation, thus generating interior conditions within an exterior environment. The major purpose was to design a shelter for the community members in Sunset Park, NYC, so that they are able to visit their park even during inclement weather.
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Claire Howard
Terry Junghyun Hong (In)visible Platform The thesis explores a synergetic interior system and remarks on unspoken social inequalities by introducing veiled parasitic habitable volumes into a theatre. It examines if this egalitarian spatial system could maximize occupancy and vitalize underutilized space as a coexisting community stage.
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The Alternate Exterior By re-envisioning boundaries as an active participant and catalyst in promoting exchanges between programs and environments, design can encourage people to interact. This thesis investigates materiality, thresholds, and light quality as a thread for creating connections and the strategic deconstruction of the surfaces as devices for enhancing and supporting social relationships.
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Shilpa Kalaichelvan
Aislinn Jefferies Interior | Exterior : Sunset Park Rain Pavilion In response to interviews with the local community, the concept for the Sunset Park Rain Pavilion was developed to meet residents’ demand to make full use of their park, rain or shine. A canopy of rain-collecting cisterns funnels water through a system of piping that simultaneously acts as furniture and community garden irrigation.
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Communion through Interdynamic Thresholds Relationships between communal and intimate spaces have been investigated to promote a collaborative atmosphere. The Gallery House, a co-living space for multiple families, accommodates variations with visual and gradual threshold transitions to layer connections within the building. Blurring the boundaries while providing an insertion of a central core enhances social situations and increases in-person exchanges. 23
Xiaowen Kang
Chenchen Kang Elements of Narrative / Space of Translation The thesis tests the translational relationship between literature and architecture. The narrative of Dante’s Divine Comedy, the program of a cemetery, and the site of an abandoned power plant are intertwined with one another to create a space that resides between the boundaries of life and death, self and others, body and spirit, time and existence.
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The Metropolitan Art Foundation Library The Metropolitan Art Foundation Library draws inspiration from a multi-purpose studio. The library, as the core of the space, connects other programs, such as art studio, gallery, workshop, lecture hall, through the circulation system. The floor openings allow all the functional programs to “converse” with the whole building.
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Charlotte Kirsten
Tingchu King Permeable Oasis This thesis proposes the insertion of a secondary program in an existing underused space to create a didactic symbiotic relationship. The design insertion speculates that by introducing a new contrasting design language, an environment of curiosity and learning can emerge. The project introduces a new agricultural environment into an existing urban educational facility.
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Sensory Recovery This thesis aims to reframe the notion of the addiction treatment facility by prioritizing sensory and atmospheric experiences that focus on reducing stress and encouraging positivity, self-reflection, interaction, and introspection. Spatially, the project puts forward opportunities for visual connection that give agency to the resident while establishing trust between residents and employees. 27
Su Hyun Lee
Jiawei Kong Ambiguous the Boundary This project is a collaboration with residents of the Sunset Park district. It aims to explore the interior in different ways by examining the potential between the inside and outside. The layer structure is introduced to fulfill the concept of different levels of space.
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The Living Ramp: Interiority as a pedagogical tool for the visually impaired This project reimagines the interior of a school for the blind as an instrument to foster independent living skills in its students. Elements of the surrounding streetscape become strategically recontextualized within the interior as opportunities for learning and engagement.
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Tong Li
Dongni Li Halfway House The social reintegration of formerly incarcerated non-violent criminals can be facilitated and accelerated in a halfway house. In this project, all thresholds and boundaries between the private and public realm and all modes of social behaviors have been reimagined to promote and foster individuality as well as community identity.
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Circle Gallery The Circle Gallery explores a spatial hierarchy transition. From each circle, people can explore the space and artworks from different angles. Circles are the frame to capture different views, and each circle represents one framed view.
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Yongyang Li
Xuehan Li Collapsible Revolution This project is an interior design proposal for The Noguchi Museum Annex and Community Center. The conceptual driver for the project was derived from the notion of collapsibility studied through one of Noguchi’s works—AKARI Light VB13-T. The collapsible structures proposed here bring flexibility and hierarchy to the space, allowing for a multiplicity of programmatic arrangements.
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This project seeks to break with the traditional box-like space that prevails. Using spheres and arcs to shape the interior brings about new emotions and dynamic conclusions.
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Erin Loffler
Bernita Zi Yau Ling The Space of Water Our physical bodies are composed of 60 percent water and our spatial bodies hold (and hide) complex plumbing systems. How can we resurface and reimagine water to connect our physical bodies with physical spaces? This thesis tests how water can be used as both a building material to shape our spaces and as a pedagogical tool to reshape our narrative of water use.
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Out of Site; Out of Mind My thesis, Out of Site; Out of Mind, focuses on the potential of design for mediation between the old and new by introducing a new layered threshold. By redefining and reinterpreting traces left behind in existing interior spaces with difficult pasts, a narrative can be transformed without ignoring history.
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Yingfu Lu
Shan Lu A group of ancient humans began to create shelter by imitating the structure of a tree. They wove branches to create a rough mesh within which they could insert leaves. The origin of weaving has an intrinsic relationship with the birth of architecture. This project postulates that architecture is a three-dimensional piece of textile.
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DaNei International Conference Center A Battery Weed structure in ruins on NYC’s Staten Island is redesigned to interweave new and adapted spaces for congregating and viewing within the existing masonry shell. Platforms connected by bridges expose interior and exterior spaces that use water surfaces and a play of light to bring nature closer.
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Laurie Sadove
Shibani Raney Designing Public Spaces as Interiority This project looks at public space within a larger urban context and explores whether it could be designed to fall within the realm of interiority. A series of sketches were drawn as a method to understand the quality of the space and the feeling within it. These sketches were in direct relation to the design elements that we perceive to be “public� in nature.
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The Human Service Station This thesis explores how interior design can be used to redefine the traditional notions of public and private space. Specifically, the Human Service Station tests how a program can be designed to provide additional private space within the public realm. This concept is a prototypical hospitality and retail environment that not only sells necessary items for daily life but also provides the space to use such purchases. 39
Jiwon Shin
Zev Schwartz For the Sake of Subversion: An Interrogation of the Normative Practices of Interior Design How can time be made spatial and how can this be used to create a narrative around a historical event? The passing of time and the information being conveyed guide the user through the space functioning as both indicators of direction and as partition.
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Duality Pavilion This duality box presents a transition between a mundane space and a sacred space. When people move through this pavilion, the box provides not just a physical walking path but also a path for spiritual care. The structure transforms from complicated to simple, from dark to bright.
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Rachel Aviva Stein
Cristina Sidoli String Waves The proposal aims to amplify a transition from digital to physical, conceptual to realistic, and their visual representation. The concept behind the image was the way in which strings move up and down at right angles in a horizontal motion as a wave that is soft and free flowing; it is moving and yielding to the changes of the wind and sea.
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Material Variation Constructed from hardwood variations of white ash, brown ash, white oak, and walnut, unstained and finished in a simple wax coating, this coffee table highlights the innate characteristics of materiality in its natural state. An aesthetic image is created through material direction by allowing differences in wood species, color, and grain to direct the design of this piece.
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Priyanka Unadkat
Chulun Sun Shaping the TIme The ultimate purpose of this proposal is to visualize and shape people’s perception of time by using sunlight as a medium, so that they can learn the preciousness of time. In this case, an existing building will be modified to emphasize the impact of sunlight and to reveal the mystery of time and seasons.
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A Head Full of Dreams Inspired by the rock band Coldplay, the design aims to make the space feel like an illusion. With the help of interactive elements, viewers are meant to feel as though they are in a dream, left in awe of what they might not understand.
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Yuhan Wang
Weijie Wang W20 Spiritual and Child Daycare Center This project is an adaptive reuse of an old parking garage in NYC. Light comes down through the building via three glass voids and serves as a space-making device. It provides a platform for time-harried families to take their children to this drop-in childcare.
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Cultural Tectonics: Hybridization of Crafts, Construction, and Communication This project explores how the integration of traditional building techniques with emerging technologies in building practice can allow designers to preserve a cultural narrative of making. This act of making creates a cultural connection between immigrants and the foreign city they inhabit through hybridizing old and new processes of production.
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Aoqian Wu
Ya Wen Invisible Bridge Interested in tangible and intangible elements and their metaphorical extensions, this thesis investigates how the perception of simultaneity between immateriality and materiality empowers a cognizance of interiority. An inclusive, anti-stigma institutional and therapeutic center for the blind is proposed with experimental materials for screens offering interpretations and interactions. 48
Urban Ecotopia: Vertical Cohabitation for Multiple Species Interior space can be appropriated for the mutual cohabitation by multiple species in the creation of a vertical urban ecosystem. Human beings and urban wildlife will become a part of a complex ecosystem and grow to rely on interaction with one another to reimagine a new form of urban cohabitation and create new interwoven urban lifestyles.
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Han Xiao
Xue Wu Cloud Garden To meet the needs of nearby residents for outdoor activities, this project intends to build a transformable modular ecosystem in Sunset Park through expansion and compression. Seating, shade, water, and vegetation comprise the interior/exterior inhabitable condition to be occupied by the surrounding community.
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This is a residential project located on a hillside that evokes the lifestyle of the occupants as well as the surrounding forest. These spaces will allow the occupants to live in harmony with nature through the placement of the plant atrium and top-tobottom circulation design. The entrance from the top floor makes living space merge with nature and achieves privacy at the same time.
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Yan Xu
Xinyu Xie Mixed-Family Residential The intention of this project is to transcend gender stereotypes. Softly rigid and rigidly soft, the differences and connections between the two families’ life spirits will be combined and contrasted in this living space.
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Keep the Balance A retreat facility in Battery Weed on Staten Island uses rubber diaphragms to visualize the measure of water. These rubber vessels create screens and furniture, bringing awareness to water for the occupants.
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Marissa Yau Lo
Yumeng Yang Encounter Illusions “People who wonder discover that this in itself is a wonder.” Inspired by the surreal spatial phenomena that appears in M.C. Escher’s paintings, this thesis is a reimagination of an existing space by removing conventional rules. The transfer between two-dimensional and three-dimensional creates a connection between illusion and reality as a way of rethinking an interior space.
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Mise en scène Inspired by the idea of mise en scène, the design of this office for a music firm intends to create a theatrical space that enhances the performance area—the stage—with the working area—the backstage. Curtains are the primary tool to reveal or hide spaces backstage, connecting different activities into a sequence of scenes that revolves around the performance area.
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Manlin Zhang
Fangjie Yuan Meeting Collage While numerous modern skyscrapers are standing up, cities tend to forget old architectures, when in fact they contain invaluable city memories. Instead of letting those buildings remain as ruins, bringing them back to modern life, and necessarily modifying them for future society, is the main purpose here. From there they become hidden treasure to be found in the city, rather than inert debris. 56
Cultural Switcher This project aims to explore the isolation of “outsiders� who cannot participate in the current culture due to language barriers. The spatial investigations in this project will illuminate foreign social customs by questioning and reinventing relationships between public and private realms in order to create collective memories and thereby stimulate a sense of identity.
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Qingan Zhang
Penghui Zhang A Botanic, Programmatic, Inflatable Cellular Distribution Exchange Interdisciplinary Learning Center – A Sustainable Complex This project examines a translation from the micro-organization of plants in terms of communication between cells to an interdisciplinary learning center in which the students with different academic expertise could collaborate. The inflatable structure, as the essential method, is introduced to fulfill the concept of growing and flexible spaces city, rather than inert debris. 58
Embody the Unspoken This thesis attempts to create a cultural institute specifically for Chinese Americans to “voice up.” The aspiration for this space is to promote better cross-cultural understanding by interweaving cultural context with different spatial boundary conditions. By integrating performance with exhibition, an avant-garde performance space is available for people to connect, communicate, and engage in history that is not one’s own. 59
Fanjin Zhao
Xuan Zhang “Fluctuation” Library This project investigates knowledge and the role of a library as a place of research and social exchange. With the development of technology, the way people gain and address information has changed. This project focuses on readers’ psychology to let them have a comfortable experience with different reading media.
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Zones This office design project is challenging the typical notion of volume as being defined by solid walls. The design explores the volumes in space and how two-dimensional planes can imply a volume without literally making one. This project uses color and patterns on the floor and walls to create defined zones.
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Lu Bai Shreya Bhuraria Shelby Bourke Nijat Bunyadov Emily Buttner Tak Ying Chan Jung Min Chang Vanwalee Chansue Xueting Chen Zhuoyun Chen Seoyeon Cho Jun Chul Choi Qianyin Du Alexandra Ellerkamp Su Ergeneli Bryan Farres Oriol Yuting Feng Shuqi Fu Gary Ge Ryan Gilrane Siqi Guo Khanh Linh Hoang Jingjing Huang Sha Xin Huang Sydney Jones Alice Kim Jieun Kim Aastha Kothari Eric Hyuk Lee Ji Min Jamie Lee Yebin Lee Yizhang Li
Bei Liu Wanlu Liu Taylor Long Celine Lui Erin Lutz Giai Han Luu Mallika Mehrotra Jinah Noh Chai Yeon Christine Park Soraya Peireira Maya Ponzi Caroline Santarelli Naishi Shah Niyati Shah Tina Shi Mahzad Soheili Lifel Wang Yijin Wang Guohao Wu Qinyi Wu Yiru Wu Moxuanzi Xu Yuting Xu Yilin Yan Ninghui Yang Seonghoon Yoo Junqi Lynn Zhang Ningxin Zhang Qiujun Zhang Shenyi Zhang Boshan Zhou Yizhun Zhou
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Shreya Bhuraria
Lu Bai To Contain, To Saunter This drawing is used to introduce different speeds of occupancy at the moment of entry. This thesis research focuses on self-recognition through the design of a center to celebrate Asian culture. The program uses space as a way to contain language through privileging the history of the site as a fire department and the surrounding neighborhood context where different languages intertwine to bring various cultures together as an aggregation. 64
Pilgrimage Quarterly This project depicts how fashion and culture correlate to each other through procession, prostration, and semiotics of fashion. The intersection between fashion and religion demonstrates the act of giving to the users. The pilgrimage leads us to a place to reflect on ourselves and where lightness and darkness are intertwined. It helps connect the various cultures of New York City with no preference towards any particular culture, only noticing how all the cultures relate to movement. 65
Nijat Bunyadov
Shelby Bourke Interdependence Understanding the interrelatedness of humans and their surroundings is necessary to understanding the interdependence of the world. An environmental education center is located on a pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a neighborhood greatly affected by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The intention is to teach younger generations about the importance of interdependence between a community and its environment while encouraging children to improve the efficiency of the systems within their community through a spatial interdependence. 66
Meandering Surfaces The new proposal for the International Center of Photography allows the experience of interior circulation to take the key role in shaping how the imagery communicates with the viewer. Meandering surfaces allow the viewers to move from various sections of the museum to their final destinations seamlessly.
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Tak Ying Chan
Emily Buttner Y el Ritmo Continúa! (And the Beat Goes On!) Y el Ritmo Continúa! is a proposed community roller skating, music, and dance center at the Bushwick Generator. The project addresses at-risk teenagers by creating a culturally dynamic and safe place that includes roller skating, dance studios/ classes, and after school music mentorship programs that cultivate existing interest in rap, beats, and music production.
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Symbiosis Urban consumption has typically been a one-way exploitation of the environment. This project proposes a new order—a future where the urban condition is countered with another living system, forming a mutual relationship between a collaborative system of living and working in symbiosis with nature.
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Vanwalee Chansue
Jung Min Chang Penicillium Sensorium Penicillium is a type of mold naturally occurring in foods, such as blue cheese. Molecular gastronomy is a food science that investigates the physical and chemical transformations of ingredients, such as mold, to create new food types. This project explores how the casual observer can experience such ingredients through their senses: sight, smell, and taste.
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Cleanery - Stainery Water ebbs and flows, stains follow. Embracing this inevitability is at the heart of Cleanery, a project that filters polluted water from New York’s Gowanus Canal. Along this walkable process, other cleaning activities take place: the cleaning of clothes, pets, and cars. Extracted filth is productively used to color other objects.
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Zhuoyun Chen
Xueting Chen Shower in Need This thesis addresses NYC’s homeless population’s lack of access to hygiene, a basic human right and need. Design can and should provide an opportunity for marginalized populations to participate in spaces that bring pleasure, healing, and improvement of health.
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Silhouette Theater In this space, all of the users will perceive the silhouettes of each other. An exchange between the performer’s role and the visitor’s role will occur at this moment. The Silhouette Theater will be located at 557 Broadway, which is situated in the bustling Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo and is able to accommodate an enormous number of people. Moreover, the main entrance of the theater is located on Mercer Street, which is not as famous as other facades on Broadway, but can represent the other side of the people who are misunderstood. 73
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Negotiable Relationship This project examines multiple subjective points of view in developing a vacant lot near Cooper Union Square. Three different users—the landlord, tenant, and neighborhood—will negotiate with each other to use this space. This project will examine this process.
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Qianyin Du This image illustrates key concepts from my thesis project, a dispensary-as-speakeasy. If people’s behavior is veiled or invisible, is it less real somehow? This program is both absent and present, both everyday and surreal—the spaces created to explore the subconscious of the city, in between realism and abstractionism.
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Temporal Eternity Six notable Danish chairs are raised above the sands of time on pedestals. Arranged chronologically, visitors experience the passage of time when confronted by sand pouring down on a large wooden block at the end of the exhibition. Mirrors are suspended above, refracting natural light down from above, while carrying fractures and images of the chairs above, raising them to the realm of eternal memory. 77
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Container Vacation House The project aims to explore the relationship between the interior and exterior, through dynamic visual and structural elements. While interchanging ceiling heights reveal the physical connection of the two floors as they sink into one another, large windows that open up to the semi-enclosed courtyard of a staircase provide visual continuation between them.
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Bat Expedition Integrating human and nonhuman organisms, bats specifically, this structure is designed as a platform where symbiotic relationships can emerge. Spaces articulated in this building each serve a different purpose, such as educational spaces, study labs, and a public green space.
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Shuqi Fu
Yuting Feng This hydroponic green market exists to introduce customers to the process of plant development and allows them to experience the visibility of this growth. As they circulate throughout the space, they will feel more connected and engaged with nature and community while they learn from the experience of purchasing freshly grown produce.
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Alligator Playroom Alligator Playroom cultivates the thrill of coexisting with alligators in humans. This project provides a water cellar with humidity and warmth for alligators. Situated on the top floor, the space is penetrated by sunlight during the day, and artificial light provides more abundant light for alligators. The spaces between are tense with hunger and fear.
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Ryan Gilrane
Gary Ge This drawing represents a stair that connects a bar and a restaurant. The visual connection is formed with a series of transparent planes; each plane provides a different level of opacity, marking progression between the two spaces. This creates a vivid visual threshold from a short journey on the staircase.
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Illumination This model is an exploration of how materiality and form interact with light and space. The clear acrylic dowels act as an armature around which the wood veneer curves and morphs. The material properties of these dowels allow for the manipulation of light by acting as a conduit. These light “channels� were ultimately adapted into the design of an office, addressing how to control the natural light levels throughout the entire space. 83
Hoang Nguyen Khanh Linh
Siqi Guo As one of the major subway stations in New York City, frequented by both commuters and tourists, the Rockefeller Center Station is a prime example of how a lack of efficient wayfinding disorients and confuses the user. This project addresses how the deployment of distinctive wayfinding techniques successfully affect navigation, including paths, views, signage, activities, and materials that reflect the ultimate destinations.
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Seeing the Unseen In photography, the act of cropping frames an image by removing from sight that which is unwanted to “convey an impression to others which it is in one’s interests to convey” (Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life). Similarly, immersive theater filters interactions between actors and viewers, generating a shift in identity presentation of the self in public.
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Sha Xin Huang
Jingjing Huang A place to bring an awareness to the spatial influence of media time is proposed. The experience extends from a physical to a virtual occupancy; this drawing studies how the space addresses the relationship of different speeds of time as defined by individual movements. The space is used as a datum of time for occupants as they experience and observe time through the sequence of redirecting views, exposing, and muting.
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Extending Perceptions Design is a tool that can be used to manipulate one’s perception of small spaces. Extending Perceptions challenges the occupant’s perception by exploring one’s ability to touch the view. The extension of space focuses on a controlled direction of view in an enclosed area that delivers a feeling of vastness, pinning out specific points in the landscape.
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Alice Kim
Sydney Jones The Yard The Yard aims to create a space for any and every displaced individual and employs preventative design techniques that react to reasons of displacement. This project engages users in a central outreach space, which allows them to aid those affected by disasters elsewhere, creating a cyclical system that is not only reactive to reasons of displacement but preventative too.
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Inspired by an umbrella’s repair strategy, this project translates the unpredictable movement of a broken umbrella’s structure to create a folded space of differentiated degrees of privacy. The stem of the umbrella corresponds to the site’s existing columns; multiple joints and skins branch out from there at multiple scales. Fabric layered on the walls represents the memory and variety of the objects.
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Aastha Ashish Kothari
Jieun Kim This project is a center in Brooklyn for the repair of objects, creating new value from what would conventionally be thrown away. The design was inspired by shellfish, which purify water and create pearls. The layering, porosity, and iridescence of abalone and oyster shells informed the project’s formal language and materiality.
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Alternating Opacities Sitting alongside many of New York City’s iconic buildings are privately owned public spaces. Critiquing this separation, this project weaves an accessible space through the floors of Lever House, thus blurring the boundary between the private and the public while opening the interior of this celebrated building.
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Ji Min Jamie Lee
Hyuk Eric Lee How can one navigate space with smell? How does smell trigger memory or create new experiences? This proposal creates spaces that explore smell, memory, and narrative movement through an installation of rooms and maze-like circulation that allows users to follow their nose.
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Dystopia Built to combat the exterior environment, this highly secured residence for the anthropologist considers what it means to be protected. The layering system looks towards future technological systems as a technique to combat a society riddled with infectious disease.
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Yizhang Li
Yebin Lee Firefly Breathing Space The Firefly Breathing Space, located at 155 Water Street, Brooklyn, is an ecosystem dwelling project that proposes a dual occupancy or coexistence with the Photinus pyralis firefly species. This space provides the firefly a breathing and breeding space, providing new environments for urban living that embrace a range of biological systems within an interior that produces separate yet complementary environmental qualities for both human and nonhuman. 94
Three-Container House This container-house project imagines a hypothetical container/prefab building company. The client, who is looking to manufacture a line of vacation/second homes made from containers and prefab additions in variable sizes, employs a design strategy of activating spaces that fall between, under, or extend from the shipping containers. The image depicts a two-bedroom, two-bath unit made of three 40' Ă— 8' Ă— 9.5' containers. 95
Wanlu Liu
Bei Liu Co-Living with Cacti This project considers how to insert human and nonhuman requirements into an existing context through a series of explorations to integrate or separate each system accordingly within the membrane of a “host” building’s ecology. It is a speculation on the ways in which our interior world can reflect the greater diversity of our ecosystems at large, in the creation of a multi-unit dwelling in which both human and nonhuman could coexist. 96
Pilgrimage of Conflict This project focuses on creating empathic spatial experiences through the investigation of parallel realities. Decisions determine the paths that we take, creating the existence of parallels and becoming the threads which connect people. The image portrays the “empathic” experience through dimming the sense of self. Parallel experience is achieved through visual access of other people’s perspectives, building perceptive relationships in the maze of conflict. 97
Celine Lui
Taylor Long This project focuses on activating spaces that have been disregarded and ignored by examining them in three different scales. The first scale emphasizes the empty space behind Bikuben Kollegiet. The second scale looks at the surrounding neighborhood and how this activation can grow to connect Bikuben to two other nearby Kollegiums. The third scale illuminates the relationship between the first and second scale, and how we can make this proposed plan of action a beneficial closed loop to the surrounding environment. 98
Reverberation As new residents begin to move into Gowanus, it is important to teach the community the idea of recycling and reusing in order to prevent the history of water contamination to be repeated. Using the terminology of reverberation, which emerged from the performance quality of the repaired artifacts, the goal is to encourage sustainability-related conversation through having occupants interact within the educational repair clinic program. 99
Han Luu
Erin Lutz Multigenerational Intersection This drawing represents the movement of three generations of users through a residence. Spaces are designed to intersect and overlap, encouraging both individual moments and combinations of family members to serendipitously and organically create relationships through the shared zones.
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Toxic Seduction Exploring the present toxic beauty of the Gowanus Canal landscape, this project uses a vitrification process that turns the “black mayonnaise� into glass. This material will enhance the reflection of the building in the water in the middle of the canal. The entire building will be lit up with drones and built by robotics that will clean up the water and sludge in the canal.
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Jinah Noh
Mallika Mehrotra Calm amongst the Chaos This work is inspired by the Schroder House, and looks at how architectural design can be chaotic but still have a system to the way that the chaos moves. The movement of the partitions in the Schroder House have a dialogue that can be further explored and changed for newer programs. The difference in opacities looks at how rooms have a way of weaving themselves together while keeping their own individual state. 102
Little Forest | The Benefits of Urban Farming Education Center The Urban Farming Education Center, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is an urban farming education center incorporating strategies of water catchment, strategic plant placement, and movement-generated ergonomic design to articulate a sustainable ecosystem. It responds to an interstitial exterior environment so as to generate an improved, mutually beneficial relationship between humans and nature. This project fuses hydroponic agriculture, culinary experimentation, education, and outreach (basically encompassing food, health, social, environmental, and economic benefits). 103
Maya Ponzi
Christine Chai Yeon Park Waiting Inside‌ The immersive action of waiting leads a person to experience their surroundings from a heightened state. People create space while spaces are created to gather, collect, share, and distribute memories and experiences. The awareness of furniture material, the mixture of natural light glistening through the windows, and the filtered artificial light define the space. This project reveals the experience of the user within the building waiting alone inside a cafe. 104
Visibility How can partitions, which typically separate people, also bring them together? The mesh facade of this airport restaurant gives passersby veiled views into the space, while providing physical separation. Diners’ bodies are wrapped and hugged by curved seating that allows for conversation with one’s fellow travelers seated nearby.
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Naishi Shah
Caroline Santarelli Reserved for Inclusion When people are excluded from design, it shapes their sense of belonging in the world. Reserved for Inclusion creates a mixed-use hotel and apartment building designed to be primarily accessed using wheelchairs. This new landscape critically reveals new spatial and social possibilities radicalized by the compassion of lived experiences.
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Paused Motion Mediating between water and land, the red line forms a design correlation between the exterior facade and interior space.
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Tina Shi
Niyati Shah Rebirth Culture is elucidated because customary ideologies and beliefs are often geographically sculpted. Culture structures an individual’s lifestyle and dwells in one’s spirituality. But what are the consequences when an individual is deracinated from one’s existing culture? The design of a refugee day camp for children and adults explores the adaptation of one culture from another and the interaction with others who have experienced displacement. 108
Circulating Stagger (Container Home) The stacking of the home is reversed with private rooms, such as bedrooms, washrooms, and laundry rooms, on the first floor next to the entrance, while the public spaces, such as the kitchen, living room, and terrace, are located on the second floor. The circulation is then also performed according to the layout forming an “S.” The concept of staggering emerges in smaller detailed components, such as windows, kitchen sinks, and counters. 109
Lifei Wang
Mahzad Soheili Spiritual Awakening On a spiritual journey that starts in an abandoned G train station, by means of sensation, “pilgrims� experience immaterial spaces that posit the possibility of a world beyond physical reality. Stacked blocks are moved like grains of rice as a meditation that opens to a library containing the multiplicity of belief systems, and so visitors transcend singularity.
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Culture Picnic Culture Picnic proposes bridging incommensurability between tourists and New York residents by creating a bus route with stops that also serve as restaurants. As the bus moves between different neighborhoods and using local stores as the kitchen, the project transforms both bus and stops into a dining space promoting cultural mingling.
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Guohao Wu
Yijin Wang Urban Living Room Urban Living Room transforms the plaza of the 60-story skyscraper at lower Manhattan’s 28 Liberty into a place for public resistance through behavioral “bad taste,” critiquing conventional rules of social behavior. Vertical thresholds between the plaza and space below allow neighborhood flows in ways that disobey posted rules.
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The fractal pattern is a system that was analyzed from the local architecture and weaving techniques in Kampala, Uganda. The shape and structure of these modules play with scale, variation of height, offsets, and aggregation. While using the positive and negative space within the pattern, this project starts as a large first floor communal area and then, as one travels upstairs, gradually becomes smaller, leading to individual dorms. The volumetric scaling is the inverse, with the dorms as the largest module and the entrance as the smallest module. 113
Yiru Wu
Qinyi Wu Linking Value Can interior design contribute to, cultivate, and convey the value of a building without retaining the existing program? This project explores the definition and expression of value and the relationship between site, program, and user. A historical site is deliberately chosen at 488 Broadway where the neighborhoods of Soho, Little Italy, and Chinatown intersect, celebrating a multicultural occupancy within Manhattan. 114
The Palace Is Yours? Positing virtual reality as a way to critique interiority, this project hacks Google Culture Institute’s project Versailles: The Palace Is Yours by creating a digital space that reveals the restricted interior. The formality and grandeur of Versailles symbolizes Google’s absolute power where visitors will find themselves trapped in the pixelated.
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Yuting Xu
Moxuanzi May Xu
A Story of Cubes A Museum of Doppelgangers A Shared Office for WeWorkers & Traditional White Collars
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Looking at, Looking Through Often, dreams are depicted as the middle ground between reality and fantasy. How can an interior space remove the perception and impression of real space while bridging one’s dream and reality through a heightened haptic experience? This project explores the potential for an intermediate place, a space located outside of work and home that allows people to explore and relax in their psychological landscape and evoke the idea of escapism. 116
Doppelgänger Club In order to develop a physical space that accommodates the multiple identifiers that enable a person to identify their doppelgänger(s), this thesis entails a museum of the doppelgänger that also doubles as a co-working space; it will allow two different types of visitors to interact with each other in a context that will enable them to recognize the qualities that lead to a doubling of selves. 117
Ninghui Yang
Yilin Yan Unmask This is a VR-based digital interior design critical project that explores the relationship between Google Cultural Institute and China. Breaking the great firewall of China, GCI can present Google as a benevolent neoliberal institution. However, the fact is this institution is still controlled under local power.
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A hotel is a blank sheet of canvas where one can establish a new identity by displaying oneself. At the center of this project is a surveillance center that is accessible to everyone, becoming a balcony for private rooms and a test of the power dynamic of the gaze. The space forces one to be an exhibitionist and voyeur, therefore critiquing the powerful domination of the gaze.
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Junqi Lynn Zhang
Seonghoon Yoo Distorted Sequence Distorted Sequence is a gallery that forms a series of planes connected to each other, creating a new path through the space. The folds guide the visitors through the exhibitions, unfolding them to the different scenes of the sequence. The language of the shapes change, responding to their functions.
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Remembrance of Evanescence The project focuses on creating a therapy and consultation center for people whose loved ones have passed away from illness. The program is distributed within the exploded axonometric of the site. The goal of the design is to help people alter their way of remembering the dead, transforming pain into calmness.
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Qiujun Zhang
Ningxin Zhang Getting Home The project Getting Home aims to showcase the relationship between the local senior residents and tourists under the process of “Disneyfication.” This “Disneyfication” phenomenon is occurring in many historic ancient towns. This project attempts to counter the demolition of a land’s identity by instead creating a cultural landscape that carries both nostalgia and exoticism, producing novelty for young and old tourists alike and a welcoming respite for elders living among them. 122
Déjà Vu Room Designing space that gives the unsettling feeling that one has been there before requires both temporariness and an approximated doubling. Scaffolding is therefore the construction medium and a temporary home to move into during the building renovation program. Heightening the sense of an echo are reflective materials and doubled furnishings.
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Boshan Zhou
Shenyi Zhang What is the role of water in space? How can water in space lead people and bring people closer to one another? Exploring the potential of water in space is the focus of this project. Different types of water create boundaries to form various conditions between dry and wet spaces. The aim is to create a spatial social interaction that could heal racial segregation.
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Centro de Rendimiento/Actuacion This project is a collaboration with Bushwick Generator, an organization dedicated to design as a means to solve cultural and societal issues. Bushwick’s majority population is Hispanic, and this project embraces knowledge of Hispanic culture as a means to end discrimination. The program is an interactive theater and film education center. This project uses performance as a messaging tool to cure social ills. 125
Yijun Zhou The Immersion Lounge Composed of folded and bent metal plates, this stair surrounds a cylindrical aquarium. Embedded in the hand rail are cove lights that add a subtle luminosity and mimic astral jellyfishes housed in the aquarium. The construction details reveal the hidden complexity required to achieve a delicate, minimal atmosphere.
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