Wensya Limasi Portfolio 2024 (Shortened)

WENSYA LIMASI

RESUME

Name and Contact:

Wensya Meliska Limasi

Email : wensyalimasi@gmail.com / wlimasi@uw.edu

Phone : (206)-530-8787

LinkedIn : Wensya Limasi

Professional and Volunteering Experience:

Present | Co-PR/Social Media Chair at AIAS and NOMAS UW

- Spearheaded video content creation for both organizations.

- Increased digital outreach by an average of 150% through 24 graphics and videos.

- Creatively promote club activities/events on social media and share resources to the general student body.

Present | Videographer at UW Department of Architecture

- Propose strategies to faculty to increase digital outreach.

- Directed, wrote, and edited an 18-min video for prospective students on Premiere Pro, while leading a cast of 11 student volunteers.

- Planning, filming, and producing short-form videos for various departmental events and activities.

2023 | Team Member of NOMA BGL Design Competition

- Designed on an allotted block to fit in affordable rental and for-sale housing, retail, community space, and business incubator for the historically marginalized Portland Albina community.

- Team entry placed top 10 out of 38 schools.

2022-23 | Creative Director at UW Blockchain Society

- Responsible for overviewing design-related affairs to maintain club branding.

- Utilized Canva as main collaborative platform with other officers.

2022 | Drafting Intern at PT. Usaha Makmur Bangun Mandiri

- Provided deliverables such as structural assembly drawings using AutoCAD and Rhino for 2 months at a construction company based in Makassar, Indonesia.

Education:

2021-24 | University of Washington Seattle

- B.A. in Architectural Design, minor in Business Administration.

- Activities/involvement:

NOMAS and AIAS

Student Advisory Council

International Student Affinity Group

UW Skate Club

UW Women’s Basketball Club

2019-21 | Shoreline Community College

- Associates in Arts, GPA: 3.73

- Graduated with honors.

Skills and Interests:

- Rhino

- Revit

- Enscape

- Adobe Suite

- Hand-sketching

- Sustainable strategies

- Affordable housing and community-focused projects

- Photography

- Videography (@wlimasi on Instagram)

WATERWORKS

Course : ARCH400 F23

Professor

:

Alicia Daniels Uhlig

Location : Bainbridge Island, WA

Waterworks is a giant rainwater harvester that houses a creative district incubator, aiming to push Bainbridge towards a more sustainable future. Providing service and educating residents about water reuse and stormwater management, we make use of the island’s existing asset, rainfall, and turns it into a resourceful asset.

Waterworks provide affordable retail and office spaces to support creatives and business to thrive on Bainbridge, and classroom/event space to further strengthen educational goals.

Roof and shade design is informed through sun path and altitude studies.

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FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Interior showing mass timber structure

Exterior showing material looking south-east

Winter sun (60°)

Summer sun (20°)

Cistern and parking entrance walking up Madrone Ln.

Aerial view of cistern looking south-east Atrium above retail entrance

Mass timber beams spanning affordable retail space

Stormwater management

SLIDING SHELF

Course : ARCH401 W24

Professors : Steve Withycombe

The Sliding Shelf was an iterative exploration done in the UW’s Furniture Studio. It addresses the problem of trying to fit items with different heights into shelf compartments that are too short. The project was guided with 3 design goals in mind to allow flexibility:

1. Flatpack 2. No hardware 3. Modular

This furniture piece feature sliding dovetail and radius joints carved on shelf edges with a router, which would fit into their respective slots on the vertical pieces carved with a CNC machine.

Fun fact: It can be used as a chair, supporting people weighing up to 161 lbs.

Detail shots and process that went into making the shelf unit.

REIMAGINE

Course : ARCH301 W23

Professors : Angela Yang and David Kagawa

Location : Georgetown, WA

Project Partner(s) : Jonny Bechtol

Taking inspiration from artist Do Ho Suh’s design philosophy, we reimagined an existing Shell gas station into a cultural center that highlights the neighborhood’s recent and pre-colonial history. It reimagines the space as a functional gathering and cultural space for the community.

The exhibition space serves to celebrate artist collectives that has recently surged in the neighborhood, cultivating its current community. The below-grade amphitheater functions as a space that gives a voice, its design inspired by the architectural language of the Duwamish longhouse.

To shed light on the site’s history itself, the Shell sign remains part of the site as a mark of what it once was.

Looking down from

Existing Shell gas station on site looking north-east.

Exhibition space

Section perpective looking north-east

scale model juxtaposed on site.

from exhibit skylight.

Aerial view looking at Rainier Beer sign. (Top) Exhibit entrance looking north, (Bottom) Amphitheater interior view looking east.

Amphitheater

SPOTLIGHTS

Course : ARCH302 SP23

Professors : Junichi Satoh, Matt Fujimoto, Elisa Renouard, Dan Stettler

Location : South Lake Union, Seattle

Spotlights proposes a series of urban pods, tasked to occupy leftover spaces, nooks and crannies, and undiscovered pockets of the city to create excitement!

Spotlights’ concept works around taking media that are usually enjoyed in large gatherings and fragmenting them to be enjoyed in smaller, more intimate groups. It fosters human interaction through creating a ground of mutual interest.

The proposal includes collaboration with local creative establishments such as:

Film spotlight Lake Union

Lake Union Park

Sound leaking from a film spotlight suspended in an alleyway

Music spotlight

Literature spotlight

Literature spotlight sitting on a rooftop

Music spotlight sitting in an Amazon plaza

INTERLOCKING

Course : ARCH301 W23

Professors : Angela Yang and David Kagawa

Location : Georgetown, WA

Interlocking is a living quarter that houses a skateboard artisan located within a proposed creative complex in Georgetown, Seattle. With a public skatepark on the ground floor, topped with a wood fabrication shop and residence above it, the artist not only enjoys the building for themselves but is also able to share it with the larger community!

It feautures a concrete half pipe that pierces through the building and towards the sky, functioning as a core structural member behind its bold architectural gesture that shapes the language of the building.

1/4” scale model of building, chipboard and wood

Wood shop

Viewing platform featuring skate-furniture

View into Wood Shop

Looking down the half pipe

Looking down from roof

Half pipe from viewing platform

Collective site plan

Collective 1/4” scale models with Michelle Vu, Sydney Miyasato, Ck He, Julia Dobles, Serrana Chilcote

Study models of “interlocking” floor plates and spaces

OBSERVATIONAL HAND-DRAWINGS

Selected charcoal drawings and live-pencil sketches around Seattle.

VIDEOGRAPHY

The power to immortalize.

Venturing into videography is an extension of my desire to remind myself that I have ‘lived’, not just ‘exist’. I began creating works for others because they too live life and have moments to capture, not just me.

All works are shot on an iPhone 12

(Left) Short video collection of UW Architecture related content. Edited on CapCut mobile.

(Right) Video promoting UW Architecture Edited in Premiere Pro.

Thank you!

(206)-530-8787

wensyalimasi@gmail.com/wlimasi@uw.edu

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@wlimasi on Instagram

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