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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.
The Interior Design Annual 2021
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—create a more complex and nuanced understanding of the interior. This academic year, with pandemic ongoing, and the imperative for social justice, it is important to recall that in all of its iterations, the interior provides rest, nurture, and sustenance. It is the place that gives us the support and encouragement to grow; the place that allows, accepts, values, and supports each of us as individuals and as contributing members of a community who work toward a goal of creating spaces, environments, and structures that are just, equitable, and accessible to all; that give agency to all. We are proud to introduce a class of graduates who will reimagine and design a future that celebrates new ways to occupy the public realm and provide equal access to all people in our global community. These pages introduce the reader to our newest graduates with an image and text drawn from their year-long thesis investigation.
David C. C. Foley Chair, 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, our heroic Book Coordinator for her steadfast attention and focus acquiring the images and editing the texts. Thank you all!
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This thesis is an exploration of spatial perception. It connects the tangible with the intangible by investigating the abstraction of physical spatial geometry through deconstruction and the introduction of a virtual spatial layer. The intention of this ap proach is to create an imagined and unfamiliar environment that heightens the engagement of the visitor in an inclusive spatial experience.
AlJehaniFaisalAmani
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Exterior The Imagined Spatial Perception
Reconsidering A New Urban Interior: A dynamic commercial streetscape
This project reconsiders the commercial street by exploding the storefront into multi-layered space between the interior and the exterior; enhancing the depth of the surface, the connection of in and out, store and store.
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CaiJiajia
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This thesis investigates theater as a heterotopia by offering a series of performance and audience spaces with overlapping conditions to the public. This exploration of everyday exchanges and interactions in the city can be taken from street to interi or spaces that mix the imaginary and real life of observers and performers.
Metaphormance: An Everyday Theater and Acting School
Eroding Boundaries
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The erosion of edges between the exterior and interior of an existing building will be explored as a device for reintroducing biodiversity in New York City. The interior environment connects city dwellers to nature and fosters a sense of empathy and awareness to local food production.
DentinoAlexis
GrecoEmily
Re–Material: The Rave Interior as a Condition for Transformation By adapting an industrial site to a club for dance and meditation, occupant and interior align to promote a program of trans formation from form to spirit for both body and building. Methods exploring material patina, scale, and permeability support polar conditions for expansiveness and groundedness, facilitating an atmosphere of transcendence.
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Considering censorship in China, this thesis develops a space camouflaged under consumption to challenge official narratives, recollect local voices, and push the limits of silence. The space reveals hidden narratives, legitimizes censored content with economic benefits, and publicizes grassroots expressions and local dialogues.
Crossing Boundaries - Reconstructing Narratives Under the Camouflage of Consumption
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GuoXinduo
HanLena
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Living together in a Domestic Public: The personalization of mass life – the commodified space as a place of social, individualized interaction This thesis explores a radical urban lifestyle which blurs the boundary between domestic and public space. A commodified public space is transformed into a space for the personalization of mass life, a place of social individualized interactions which transplants interpersonal intimacy into a public setting notions.
Urban Dwelling Re-Envisioned: An Investigation of the Impermanence of Boundaries
HoffmanNaomi
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This thesis will question the structure of domestic space in dense urban environments. It will present a new way of living, where the impermanence of architectural elements will be celebrated, introducing the ephemeral and removing preconceived notions of how boundaries define interior space, thus fostering healthier living environments.
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Walk into the spirits: Exploring the possibility that perception and cognition can be influenced by the form and content of interior space and the psycho-spatial relationship between the subject and object Consciousness, the world, and the human body are intricately intertwined and mutually engaged. In this thesis, the subjectiv ity of the body in space will be subject to experiments through a series of conditions involving cognition and psycho-spatial relationships.
HsiehTingYi
With different scales, functions, and degrees of transparency, interior spaces serve as containers to protect privacy, stimulat ing communication and participation, therefore responding to individual life and fostering interactions in a community.
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HuBingyu
Solitary Living and Social Interactions in Urban Community
HuMinYue
This thesis reimagines boundaries as instruments to activate connection and awareness between occupants within extreme states of isolation. It challenges the traditional understanding of a boundary as a spatial divider and examines how boundaries can serve as implicit and explicit connectors, forging interaction while simultaneously protecting people from disease spread.
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Keep in Touch - Multilayered Boundaries as Connective Interfaces in Extreme States of Isolation and Beyond
IIkdemirciSinan
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The appropriate use of materials in an inhospitable urban environment can forge a connection between the city and natural forces. When applied to interiors, light, air and water can help us rediscover our roots through multisensory experiences in the built environment.
KwonSoyeon
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Space of Time: Understanding Time as a Spatial Component
The passage of time in space makes the space kinetic. Considering how time can be marked can capture the moment of indef initely passing and unseizable time. This project explores the relationship between space and time.
The liminality between spaces: Living Bond
LeeMin
This thesis project aims to create a network of distribution nodes in Manhattan, and each spot provides neighborhood infor mation and different usages. When information about a place engages people’s life actively, it can create a stronger connec tion between people and the place.
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This thesis reimagines pre-consumer textile waste as a spatial tool for activation of vacant retail sites into spaces of habitation and learning. Designed as deployable prototypes, pop-up havens equip residents with the tools, knowledge, and context to transform waste into a haptic humanizing interior, one that evolves over time in a constant state of transformation.
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LeiMichelle
Wasted Traces/Wasted Spaces: Deploying Textile Waste to Activate Vacant Storefronts for Transitional Homeless Housing
This thesis explores the potential of textiles to activate the memory of an abandoned building while adapting its interior into a reimagined spatial fabric. Examined as a series of formal techniques, material assembly, tensile joints, and weaving will be deployed to foster connectivity between materials, people, time, and space as a tool of social sustainability.
Weaving connectivity: A Self-Sustaining Live/Work Community for Local Artisans
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LiXiaoke
Utopian Chinese Community Market: community bond for different user groups
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This thesis explores the fact that spatial layering can be a tool to activate and clarify complex interior activities and connect various user groups. The application of the layer typologies will be tested against an urban Chinese farmer’s market to form a community center.
LiYuxi
Change Upon Change: Staged Resilient Space in Natural Disaster
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LinMujia
This thesis explores responsive space which provides resilience for dual social and spatial vulnerabilities to achieve long-term stability in natural disasters. It proposes that the responsiveness could adapt to the external force and transform the negative destruction to the reconstruction of memory.
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This thesis explores how to translate the sensory substitution technique used in neuroprosthetics into spatial design strategies to achieve an inclusive design which transforms, extends and augments perceptual capacities.
Neuroprosthetic Interior: Sensory Substitution and Enhancements for a More Inclusive Workplace
LiuYating
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Outside-In and Inside-Out: In-Between Spaces as Social and Spatial Activators
This thesis explores how in-between spaces can be activated in order to foster collaboration and enable proximity, creating awareness about the culture of making, history and site as a means to combat gentrification and loss of place identity. Lo cated in the Garment District in New York, the fashion accelerator serves as an experimental platform to explore ethical and sustainable fashion design while keeping the traditional craft alive.
MandalayAnashwara
This design investigates the spatial concept of veiling as a way of revealing the unknown. By modulating the veil through a sequence of strategically orchestrated layered thresholds, the visitor uncovers what is hidden and engages with an open dia logue about death and the grieving process.
MaravichBrookeBriana
Lifting the Veil: Reframing Death in Society
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Go with the flow: Exploration of transforming water disasters
This thesis will investigate how interior spaces can adapt and perform as mediators to uncontrollable incidents like flooding or the rising of sea levels. It will argue that through the insertion of a deployable layer, existing programs can be sustained while introducing a new poetic experiential element.
PanYiran
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This thesis is a dual conceptual framework that explores the combination of illusion and reality to inspire mindfulness and lovingkindness. Using physical and virtual sites, a “stage” language is the narrative and metaphor for the performative healing space that creates a theatrical therapeutic experience.
La la la land of reality
Breathing rules: Built environment as a life force
This project looks at the opportunities when considering spaces programmatically fluid. Programmatic relationships and per formative possibilities are a way to address the idea of fluidy. Within a series of similar buildings and upon the existing building form, the negative spaces were expanded as the connection points for the community.
PeiYang
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The main intention of this design is to study how to transform the billboard into a spatial device, allowing people to engage with information through an interactive experience.
Multidimensional billboard: A building as an informational device
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QuYing
Natural, economic, political, or socially driven decay can render spaces semi- or permanently unrecognizable. These spaces that once held a strong sense of identity are left in ruins. This thesis calls upon the user to bear witness to the interior urban environment, ultimately strengthening place identity in the surrounding community.
RiordanElizabethClaire
Building Within Memory: Strengthening Place Identity in Deteriorating Environments
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This thesis seeks to reinterpret how one navigates, occupies and interacts within historical brownstones by internalizing the streetscape to create equitable spaces that promote communal life. The shared culture of the community is shaped by neigh borhood blocks that infiltrate the private spaces of derelict brownstones, creating a dynamic relationship between the exterior and interior.
RoddenHadley
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Internalized Streetscape: A Network of Independent Culture Centers
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Rosaly’s House: A therapeutic community for adolescents with cancer
This investigation into interior healing environments, through a psychosocial framework, provides new methods for adolescent cancer care. Living and treatment spaces are merged within six Brooklyn rowhouses. Immersive therapies based on the arts, color and sensory awareness foster individuality and empathy.
RwamakubaKaren
SchoolsGrayNella
Beneath the Surface: Tension as a Design Strategy to Provoke Awareness and Question Boundaries
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Beneath the Surface explores ways to create tension within layers of interior design to provoke awareness and empathy for an evasive issue; this project questions the separation of people from systems of production and waste as it enables apathy towards the concealed relationship of consumption and environmental degradation.
This thesis will address the notion of a noninstitutional living and learning facility for people with dementia. A community has been developed to investigate how to design spaces for therapies, and residential conditions can promote physiological and psychological healing by prioritizing tactile and memory-based stimuli.
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Drawers of memory: A living therapy facility for those with dementia
ShiKe
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By interrogating how digital technology potentially transforms the virtual world into a new reality, an unusual third space showcases how virtual possibilities and challenges will enhance social networking and productivity. Present-Future predictions about urban interactions, coworking and dialogue coexist with a fusion of generated installations in this thesis project.
The VR - Virtual Rabbithole: an urban “Third Space”
SongZichen
SongZiying
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Spatial camouflage: A Laboratory Rezoning Role Play and Exploring Behavioral Change for the Bullied, Bully and Witness
Inspired by the bullying experience, this prototypical thesis tests spatial strategies which curate zones that are psychologically safe from discrimination and violence. The intention of this proposal is to explore design to help adolescents gain self-aware ness and to navigate psychological stress in anticipated predator-prey situations.
SunTao
This project puts forward new ways to inhabit in-between space. By breaking down interior elements one by one, a layering of interior and exterior space emerges and reinvents traditional spatial constructs.
Inhabit layers of space
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Harvesting Water: Reimagining Environmental Waters as Constructive Materials in the Resilient Coastal Interior
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This thesis proposes a reimagination of water from a destructive environmental condition into a generative interior catalyst. Techniques of filtration, diversion, and cultivation are used to explore the possibilities of tidal, flood, and stormwater as tools for long-term, in-place resiliency in coastal communities facing an increasing risk of flooding.
Narrative Interior By rethinking the interior environment to facilitate the traditional food culture awareness through the method of storytelling, this thesis focuses on how interior design plays a role in cultural production. The main problem is determining whether the interior design could help facilitate a healthy food community. The method of storytelling will be used as a device to form the interior design.
TangJieqi
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TianYuyang
Uni-Dorm: adaptable interior living environments
This thesis is concerned with critiquing typical dormitory living by proposing a mixture of flexible and adaptive living conditions for art and design students to increase the creative process, induce unusual interactions and the sharing of ideas, and develop personal and collective identities.
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The Nest: Juvenile Reform Center
WangChaowei
The Nest is a didactic and prototypical full-time detention center designed for male adolescents who committed minor crimes. A critique of the current antiquated prison form in NYC produced an exploration of educational, healing, and therapeutic spa tial relationships and a rethinking of surveillance to reform negative behaviors and mental issues.
WangShuyu
This project explores the essential elements in defining a sense of place and the way to create a sense of safety. The collective house will be analysed to identify the characteristics of establishing a sense of community.Besides, the content of the concept that buildings are growing will be presented. As people are alive, buildings can also be seen as alive and they are growing from temporary buildings to permanent ones.
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Pools Under Pavement: Creating Intimate and Secure Environments for a Social Infrastructure of Personal Refuge
WarrenMichael
Through the creation of a secluded, transportive yet public environment, we can create an equitable space for leisure and escape as well as for community cohesion. This is the creation of a public bathhouse in the abandoned Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal, embracing the seclusion and mystery inherent to the site.
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This project is a prototype rental apartment with a special module system that accommodates the fluctuation of population and the flexibility of individual living. Various prefabricated systems have been proposed to accommodate the changing needs of the inhabitants. This system can be applied to most column grid structures and provides a new way of living.
XuWeiqi
This thesis discusses the spatial relationships in between the interior and exterior by exploring natural phenomena as thresh olds. This project program is a multi-use tea house. It aims to guide people through various activities related to the five senses to better integrate human activities with the law of nature.
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Between Inside and Out
XuYutong
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Hyperland: Activating movement, connection, and joy within static interior public space
This thesis explores how interior design can activate movement through disjunction and reconfiguration of existing space in order to sponsor physical engagement and emotional joyfulness. By manipulating programmatic adjacencies and narrative sequence within a POPS atrium, the reimagined interior motivates the activation of activities as well as emotional excitement within a remote learning environment.
YangBingxiao
This thesis aims to create a “respite hub,” a transformative rebirth for the temporary alleviation of poverty, by using local waste materials generated by the city.
Respite in the Unnatural Natural: An Inner-city Vacation in a Redefined Forest and Canyon
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ZhanRundan
Whale Ship: Storytelling of Interior Design
ZhaoFelicity
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By simplifying and reshuffling the order of events, a narrative turns a story into information that stimulates people’s imagina tion of a real world. This project puts forward an “expectant future,” a space that becomes a public language for information transmission and where storytelling can be a critical spatial act to provoke the imagination of occupants.
This thesis explores a celebration of the “state of being away,” as a valued form of communal dialogue and belonging. Strate gies of non-verbal communication are a means to explore isolation, integration, and unification in a new, communal environ ment for Chinese migrant workers.
“Form” of Present/Away Dialogue
ZhaoYushi
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House of Harmony
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ZhangHuangyu
This thesis explores a mutually shared harmonic environment for residents and tourists, using domesticated performance ritu als to create a prototypical system for cultural interaction and social harmony in UNESCO-designated creative cities of music.
ZhangQixin
Spatial Joinery: Creating Supportive Connection in Cohabitation
This thesis explores the role of public and private spaces in fostering a sense of belonging among indoor occupants and pro poses alternative models of spatial integration to generate new forms of resource accessibility and cohabitation.
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Intergenerational system: Interior design as a way to enhance empathy and promote equity
This thesis investigates how architectural space mediates between different uses and groups of people and identifies the boundaries of cross-generational groups so as to alleviate the problems of isolation and exclusion in society. Through explor ing the personal habits and social behavior of these disparate groups, a new interior model is proposed to promote this equity and eliminate the segregation between young and old.
ZhangYawen
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ZhengYun
This thesis proposes an interior environment which serves as a reward-learning framework for knowledge acquisition to stimu late curiosity in the elderly and cultivate in them a strong desire to explore knowledge by means of creating pathways, con necting the physical environment and inner pleasure.
Space of Curiosity: Provoking Epistemic Emotions in the Interior by Translating the Reward-Learning Framework Model into Form, Material, and Phenomenon
This thesis is an investigation of the introduction of a secondary space-defining system aimed to activate spontaneity and interaction in elderly apartment living with the intention of promoting mental health in rural areas.
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Juxtaposed: Spontaneous Elderly Apartment Living
ZhuangLi
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AmandaCongRiannaYennaZhongyuShirleyHonghaoCenChenChenChenChoiVDesaiDingStayton
Deviant Anatomy
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This project intervenes in an existing suburban development, disturbing patterns by reconfiguring familiar programs, spaces and elements. This creates an uncanny experience and a play between voyeurism and exhibitionism. The goal is a new network of opportunities to reveal and encourage aberrant behavior with this landscape of conformity.
AhnJiSun
Active Change: Flexible school community with interactive elements to benefit children
This project uses biophilia to design spaces for learning and play. The project uses shipping containers and canopies to expand the school’s facilities and incorporates outdoor spaces into its programming. The project aims to allow flexibility and tempo rary spaces to provide growth and adaptability for the future.
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Bridge for the Inbetweens Bridge for the Inbetweens proposes a childcare-centered housing complex for family members transitioning from prison in Los Angeles. This research explores the role trust plays in forming communities through social activities. A housing system that supports child care and flexible leasing specializes in economies of trust.
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AshelmanAdelle
Focusing on the change of power dynamics between older and younger students, this redesign offers spatial recalibrations for a school where bullying has been rampant. By experiencing the views of others, people can get a deeper understanding of each other and reduce the power dynamic to create an equal communication scene.
BaiYuyang
Anti-Bully Capsule
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The current pandemic has had a devastating effect on the restaurant industry, sparing only those that were quick to adapt their ventilation strategies, dining spaces and business models. This project explores how such strategies might be deployed to create a restaurant prototype to weather current and future crises.
Inhale: Creating a new restaurant program for safe dining
BonannoGiovannaMarisa
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Redefining the recently closed George Motchan Detention Center on Rikers Island, this program, an arts center, examines existing ideas about access in a place of imprisonment. A new Corten steel lining weaves through the space, providing a gallery that welcomes both remaining inmates and the public alike.
Un-Imprisoned: Making Art & Jails Accessible to New Audiences to Foster Reconnection
CanavanElizabethEmily
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CenHanxin
This project utilizes mosaic as a tactile material to address painting as a methodology to explore the potential of interior surfaces. The purpose of this space is to simply ask one question: How does a spatial experience change when the interior surfaces are given more complexity in terms of color and tonality?
Translation of Painting
Haptic Therapy Center: How do haptic interactions support therapeutic experiences?
ChenHonghao
Traditional materials are adapted to be used as a medium to pursue this investigation.
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The project investigates haptic interactions to support a therapeutic space. This mental wellness facility is a safe place in a community in which therapy carries a stigma. The public is introduced to a traditionally private building for extended families.
Living Cycle: Mourning and Healing as a Part of Life
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Exploring the concept of mourning, this project creates a journey for memorializing and healing together with others through rituals and the gathering of various cultures. As the thread tying these cultures together, the flower field becomes the attrac tion into the open, inclusive New York State Pavilion.
ChenShirley
The design of a nature-based public school will create a focus on the interaction between people and between people and nature to stimulate students’ interest in learning and improve their comprehensive abilities. This facility will provide children from low-income families with better educational resources and will foster children’s enthusiasm for learning.
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Customized Experience: Explore how interior design motivates students’ enthusiasm for learning
ChenZhongyu
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This project will serve as a subversion of the suburban, which has long supported the traditional nuclear family model. This co operative living space will help combat isolation by building spatial connections between neighbors, both within the apartment building and the neighborhood.
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Curating Urban Wormholes invites the exploration of the city through a new lens, by inserting cinematic experiences in side walk freight elevators that connect invisible, disparate moments in the cityscape. The elevators function as portals to parallel universes that provide a social and cultural exchange between program and user.
Curating Urban Wormholes: Cinematic Experiences in sidewalk freight elevators
DingCong
This project intends to solve the need for social interaction after the pandemic and explores how the perception of time is relative in space. A public space is designed for socializing in the historic plaza Dam Square. By distorting sequences around the structure, users will have a new experience in relation to the plaza as well as the people surrounding them.
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The Dance of City
A historic Cigar Factory will be transformed into temporary housing and a creative center for young adults who have become displaced due to aging out of foster care. Materiality and spatial configurations will influence procession through the interior, evoking memory, impression, and identity.
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Layering Memory: A historic space becomes a vessel for human growth and interaction
EastStaytonAmanda
FuJiawei
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School to Work, located in New York’s Penn Station, explores integrating high school students with autism into the future workforce by building a “safe and secure” learning environment through schedule and space. This proposal seeks to acknowl edge their gravitation toward routine and rigorous schedule by developing an accepting environment.
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Sense with Body: Art Therapy Center for ASD Children
FuQianrong
Autistic children suffer from difficulties with communication and sensory integration. This art therapy center will promote healing and help autistic children with imagining, groupworking, and motor skill stimulation. By focusing on the bodily interac tions of different senses, the design will promote brain skills and social ability.
An art-therapy-focused healing center located at Beijing for patinents to prevent and cure eating disorder by avoiding the patients being alone or having emotional roller coster, therefore eliminate the action of stress eating, guilty mood, or vomitting. Fence Structure provide semi-privacy with comfort and secure.
GaoJingzhe
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Back to the Origin
This thesis presents an art therapy-focused healing center located in Beijing for patients to prevent and cure eating disorders. Patients are able to avoid being alone and eliminate the potential to stress eat, feel guilty, or vomit. A fence structure provides semi-privacy with comfort and security.
Back to the Origin
75 City Factory (an unconventional factory that explores the new definition of “camouflage” and “heterotopia”) City Factory transforms the conventional mold of factories by bringing in immersive experience via tours of the factory. Through the project, more opportunities for local artisans will occur, residents and tourists will experience and understand the local crafts, and the city builds cultural identity and confidence.
GaoPuzhen
gation. The illusions of scale, distance, framing, and the distortion of size and depth—methods of manipulating space—create unexpected encounters, mixed perceptions of in/out, and psychological space for participants to self-reflect and retreat.
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The value of an object is associated with its price rather than its process and history. A pop-up store for the batik sarong, an everyday object worn by Malaysian women, is designed to revitalize the value of traditional batik by showcasing the process of its making, celebrating Malay culture.
HanifMohdUlfahtinNor
The Revival of Value
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Borrow: The Furniture Boundary COVID-19 has blurred the boundary between restaurant and park. The “Borrow” project enables local small restaurants to temporarily occupy Fort Greene Park. Adding grass bridges, tables and other features. The installations will propose new dining areas, service provided by food trucks containing temporary kitchens and restrooms that will benefit all park visitors.
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Voyeur the Everyday Voyeurism is often associated with the frowned-upon acts of spying, erotic deviance, and scandal. This thesis proposes instead that voyeurism can be a platform for mimetic learning, self-reflecting and furthermore, cultural interweaving. It also celebrates the art of life among people by translating it into a live show.
HouRuifei
The development of the built environment externalizes its physical and infrastructural debris, creating the condition of the non-place. Through human intervention, these sites are captured and enclosed to manufacture value. As a result, land is transformed from organic ecosystem to algorithmic representation; limiting human presence and generating a digital ghost.
Cap and Cover
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HryshkoMianoJosephEvan
Victims of domestic violence suffer from a lack of systematic support. This project aims to build a temporary shelter for phys ical recovery and allows victims to engage in workshops to heal through creating, regaining control over their environment and becoming empowered.
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HuYifan
Healing Through Hands: Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence
HuiXinxiao
Implicit Bias: An observing and being observed process to expose implicit bias Bias is generated by limits in perspective. A sequence of “Bird Blinds” combined with monitor systems will induce and subsequently critique people’s implicit bias. By comparing a one-sided view to the different facets of the same event, the program will challenge a person’s way of seeing.
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Sensory Velocity Borrowing existing materials that are inherent to the subway station, such as the 3x6 tiles, the project will manipulate the surfaces of the City Hall Station to become an interactive, acoustical field of sonic densities. This will help address the notion of speed through controlling the perception of visual and acoustical velocity.
The thesis proposes proper housing for LGBTQ homeless groups, integrated within a community center christened Queerbury. By controlling the level of exposure and privacy of the various elements of the mixed-use center, LGBTQ homeless populations will feel protected while more activist user groups will experience increased exposure to the community beyond.
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KimJunBenjamin
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Proxistance (Proximity + Distance) Is it possible to instill a sense of interiority/privacy by augmenting one’s perception using mercurial sensorial boundaries rather than monolithic ones? This open-air bathhouse in a Singapore park tests this question, using water transformation techniques (such as mist and water walls) to create a spectrum of interconnected zones and experiences.
LeeSeung
A Void: Rising Sea Level Scientific evidence has shown that sea levels are rising. Our reaction to this has been largely predicated on devising engineer ing solutions that keep water out. This project aims to re-frame our relationship with water to ask, how can we experience and, eventually, live with water as a dynamic and fluctuating condition? A subterranean void at the edge of the coastal city of Manhattan provides territory for exploring this condition by deploying slope and surface to register the tidal shifts of the Atlantic Ocean.
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LeeYeonJu
Flushed Away Flushed Away is an experimental emotional tour, an art installation devised to deal with stress, employing a “restroom” con cept in a renovated theater. By excreting negative memories and feelings, participants gain energy and improve their mindset.
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There is an invisible boundary between visual impairment and sight. This thesis creates a place where sighted people ex perience how those with visual impairments live, while developing navigable environments using other senses for the blind. Through this interior, interpersonal connections between the visually impaired and sighted create an inclusive society.
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LeungWaiChun
Singapore Dating Commune: Singapore Mixed-use Co-living Commune
Inspired by the Japanese reality show Terrace House, this scenario-based design addresses the low sub-replacement fertility problem of Asian countries, housing policy, social status, and the struggles of low-income groups living in the city. This project presents a public housing project that combines a low-rise dating commune for people who are aiming to stay in the city and build a family.
LiAixuan
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Reflection: What is your body to you?
This immersive installation addresses the presumed body ideal in current society through an interactive and intimate public gathering space. Each pathway leading to the center of the intersection are composed of different familiar sized mirrors, with cameras documenting the users’ interactions. The documentation is projected where users can observe and reflect on how what they perceive as “different” is what makes them uniquely them.
An Emancipated Spectator By exposing the passive experience as a spectator, we can ask who is separated from both the capacity to know and the power to act? My project aims to encourage the spectators as active interpreters. The site is a community auditorium space, which can be taken as a microcosm of the community. This project attempts to emancipate people in the community from a state of ignorance and passivity to observe, feel and interpret.
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My thesis explores libraries catered to young students by neutralizing the hardness and solidity of the existing condition in the context of severe academic escapism. Students nowadays are facing huge pressure of academic competition. They tend to escape from that pressure and achieve a space where relaxation is easily found.
LiZhijian
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A Connecting space NYC has a large homeless population. Most services provide foods and accommodations to them yet the issue of social isola tion has been seen as unimportant. My thesis attempts to raise awareness of this issue. I designed a prototype in bus station that helps build connection and reduce bias through art-based programs.
LingYuxing
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LiuJingyi
Reacting To Change
This is a training program that allows rectangular zones to move vertically and horizontally and to rotate. People are invited to perform activities such as climbing and anti-gravity yoga, responding to this moving system and increasing physical and mental resilience. This athletic training facility allows participants to move, climb, practice yoga and respond to a flexible interior. The space rotates horizontally and vertically in order to react to the participants’ kinetic endeavors.
The project interrogates the perceived boundaries between nature and the built environment using mixed reality. The test site is the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and the work will translate the visual therapeutic qualities of natural phenomena into digital projections, using techniques borrowed from fine art.
Digitized Nature Architecture
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LiuXiangge
Time inspires this space of reconciliation ecology—a sustainable, nature-inspired hotel—in New York City. The movement of natural light throughout the day informs materiality and program strategies to harmonize humans and nature in a very urban site. Hotels support temporary dwelling, but this hotel is sustainable throughout its entire life cycle.
LiuZhiying
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This Urban Café will question how to address waiting or a pause for pedestrians from Robson street. With this “Extension Of Sidewalk”, pedestrians will be allowed to engage and disengage from the fast paced street to a slow paced interior that uses subtle lighting techniques for spatial transitions.
LuQingqin
Urban Pause: Robson Oasis
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McCaulRoseAoife
Fragment / Reconcile My thesis addresses the complexity of living in Derry, Northern Ireland—a post-conflict, economically deprived community that struggles under the burden of the past. My proposal of a small business incubator and archive will allow a younger generation to determine their own future, while also reconciling their community’s past.
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McGrathKelli
Moments of Movement
By augmenting thresholds within a parking garage—adding screens, mirrors, enhanced lighting, scrim walls and monitors—bodi ly movement through this space will be registered as form-making material of Moments of Movement. Bodies, moving within and between the garage’s various zones, generate a network, re-articulating the relationships between environment and agen cy.
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Based on research, the stress passengers undergo in an airport is elevated in periods of waiting during delays when the presence of large lines appear. Is there an opportunity to repurpose these boundaries that create this stress into a sensory experience for enjoyment as a community?
McMastersElizabethCaitlin
Activation: Repurposing Boundaries Within Airports
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This project reacts to overexposure encountered in an “idyllic” suburban community. The interior expresses the exterior archi tectural elements, creating a series of thresholds that expose the users on multiple levels. The project uses design conditions, derived from different decades of suburban design, that will immerse users into a malformed reality.
MiksadLouisAnthony
This project aims to bring nature back into the heavily developed urban context of Seoul, South Korea. By employing biophilic elements, this “Urban Shell” will allow its users to connect with the natural, a strong urge humans in cities possess.
NaPeter
Within an Urban Shell
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This thesis looks to encourage the exposure of concealed voices in space by amplifying the relationship with breath in order to heal the body and mind. To test this idea, a Public Speaking Therapy Center at Faneuil Hall in Boston, MA is proposed, with the goal of creating a space that is more inclusive to all voices.
OnishiAmelia
Amplified
PantinVeronica
The embodiment of culture through affect and movement is experienced by creating urban interiors using sonic performances of Latino culture. Other cultures are infused into the “Latinness” of creating a community through music bonding by bringing the urban diasporas into a collective experience in pop-up trucks around New York City.
Urban Sonic Dimensions: A Latino Experience
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This project addresses how design can inspire the airport user by drawing their attention away from their scheduling and nav igational concerns so that they engage more directly with their immediate surroundings. The design must prompt a recalibra tion of the unconscious frameworks under which they are operating through the undermining of conceptual and perceptual expectations.
PeterfyDanielle
The Shift
According to the theory that performance exists in the everyday, stage fright occurs in domestic, banal settings. Customers in this retail furniture store become performers during their perusal of the staged vignettes. By subverting social thresholds and design standards, new social and physical relationships form, alleviating the stigma of stage fright.
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PicconeMargretAllison
Stage Fright
QiuSihan
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Framing
This thesis aims to shed light on the privatization of privately owned public space. The project imagines encouraging the public to enjoy the privately owned public space while avoiding privatization and making the invisible visible.
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My thesis explores how architectural boundaries affect and reflect cultural and social boundaries. Through redefining bound aries in a traditional Beijing courtyard house, the project transforms a family residence into a complex, rebuilding the relation ships between spaces, residents, and community through a multilayering of spaces and interactions.
Boundaries
RenYiSum
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RobinsonAudrey
Changing the Lens: Community Voices
This project explores using archives in the form of an installation to respond to and critique both landmarks and monuments that we see throughout the US. Through the design, this project will include modular learning spaces that integrate technology into space for an inclusive and accessible learning experience.
110 We learn culture at home This thesis focuses on the home as a central agent of change in response to the remittance between the salvadoran-american transnational identity. RodeznoBridget
Sensible Music
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My project addresses the space of joy beyond accessibility, for deaf and non-deaf people to enjoy bar culture equally and safely. The design creates various degrees of intimacy through manipulation of light and layering of material to transform the sounds and rhythms of music into visual and tactile phenomena.
ShuangHanyu
SuiJingkai
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Feeling the world without eyes How to provide visually impaired (VI) people with conveniences in public spaces enjoyed by the sighted? My project creates a rest area, information and communication kiosk for the Visually Impaired. and on this basis, provides contact and communica tion between people. By using directional sound and the touchable display on the project.
SunFanhao
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This project addresses how shared spaces could alter people’s lifestyles. The program is a co-living/co-working community for young people who have just graduated from college. Young people moving to a new city can benefit through a community within the shared spaces devoted to social activities.
Prospect Mansion
TaoXingjian
Located in 106 Ferris Street, Brooklyn, NY, my project focuses on creating a more efficient space for artists to live and work. The concept of time will be explored in the gallery, living space, and studio. Because of the different functions of these spaces, time flow will be the generator of the design.
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Belonging: Creation of Traces A sense of belonging can be developed through an accumulation of experiences. The process of making art creates an oppor tunity to record experiences through physical traces, which visually exposes a connection between the body and space. While the artistic processes revalue decaying structures, this shared experience also unites audiences.
TokmanDeniz
WangJing
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This kindergarten project aims to enable children to better develop their sensory learning through the experience of their sur roundings. Each program element highlights one of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste), while also encourag ing engagement of the body and mind.
WangZi
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Re-See The City
An estimated 1 in 33 NYC residents have left the city during the COVID-19 outbreak. This project looks at how city buses can rebuild our relationship with the city. Transformed double-decker buses run as units and run through emptying neighborhoods to re-invigorate local industry, functioning as commuter carriers and pop-up attractions.
Economic gains often come with destructive forces on local cultures and environments in a phenomenon known as “over tourism.” This project proposes a new tourism prototype that encourages a mutual cultural and knowledge exchange between tourist children and local left-behind children at a highly visited historical tourist destination.
WeiZesi
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WeissKelly
This is not our land This project inserts a botanical garden into the United States Capitol building. This installation is designed to promote aware ness of environmental degradation within the American landscape. This installation will serve as a contemplative space for visitors and sends direct and indirect messages to government officials to make more environmentally conscious decisions.
WoKuangyi
Descriptive memory Buildings with historical and cultural properties are gradually disappearing around us. My thesis design focuses on retaining the form of historic architecture while housing China’s “left-behind” children. This proposal will improve the children’s quality of life and enable local residents and tourists to live together within the culturally important structures.
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XieYifei
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This project explores how to de-stigmatize mental illnesses and encourage young adults with psychological disorders who experience social and self judgement. By providing a playful visual and spatial experience, the counseling center makes it pos sible for more anonymity.
A Pause My thesis addresses the issue of overexposure in large cities by proposing a momentary personal experience within the public sphere of Bryant Park. A series of pavilions will create moments of privacy by providing a space of “pause” within the context of heightened circulation and heightened exposure.
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YanXin
YangLeo
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As people continue to work from home, many outside factors contribute to the universal problem of needing a private work space. This collapsible modular office system addresses the problem of privacy by creating an affordable office space that can expand based on the user’s needs.
Live To Work: The solution to working from home
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Metamorphosis: “on” tea house
This project proposes redesigning a teahouse and adding an educational component to an ancient pagoda. The new Tea & Buddhism museum will recontextualize tea practices within the traditional culture by employing modern elements.
YuXinyu
My thesis aims to create an anti-social-media political theater. The eight model plays, which were eight shows engineered in China, are used as a theme. A public theater offers these operas as government propaganda, satellite activities of commerce use regular programs as camouflage to express subversive messages in critique of sanctioned ideas.
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ZhangNingqi
ZhangSijing
“Designer’s Home” explores how digitalization may help to build affordable and personalized residential space. Residents from “Designer’s Home” will be able to rent their personalized home online.
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Moving Module Due to the limited space most people in China have right now, there is a need to create spaces that combine functions. This thesis explores movable furnishings (employing digital means, the combination of apps and robotic technology, to do so) so as to layer a travel hotel with an office for freelancers.
ZhangTongtong
Hyper-Local Intervention
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ZhouLiangyu
This project will focus on how to de-emphasize people’s awareness of boundaries in my home city. The study aims to create a public community by examining the relationship between the private and the public. The study discusses how to contribute a part of the private space of FEW CAFE in order to share with the public, while ensuring the living space of the owner.
My thesis is a deployable modular emergency help center designed to address the disruption caused by natural and human disasters such as Covid-19. This system of modified shipping containers that expand and contract to accommodate various scales can be shipped globally to establish soup kitchens and food banks for local communities.
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Amalgamated Community: Uniting and Nourishing community through space transformation
ZhuQian
