Wensya Limasi Architecture Portfolio

WENSYA LIMASI

architecture portfolio

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Cottonwood Waterworks Sliding Shelf Reimagine Spotlights Interlocking

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COTTONWOOD

Course : ARCH402 SP24

Instructor : Rumi Takahashi

Location : Yesler Terrace, Seattle, WA

Cottonwood’s mission is to provide affordable housing units with a focus on low-income families and international students.

Massing

Typology

Final design

The unique typology of the complex is a result of responding to the challenges presented by the site such as the steep slope, soil strength, and a height limits. Cottonwood explored real solutions for affordability while maintaining high standards of sustainability and livability.

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Community kitchen Playground

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Section C-C showing floor plan and site boundary.

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Section A-A showing slope condition.

Perspective from S Washington St. looking towards community kitchen.

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Red aluminum walkways connecting units on the north wing.

8’ 32’ Lobby Parking 1 4 bed 2 bath ~ 1388.5 sf 2 bed 1 bath ~ 601 sf

(8x) 4 bedroom units. (21x) 3 bedroom units. (39x) 2 bedroom units.

68 total units. Housing 173-346 people.

8 Gym Basketball Mail room 3 bed 1.5 bath ~ 976 sf 3 bed 1.5 bath ~ 841 sf Section B-B

WATERWORKS

Course : ARCH400 F23

Instructor : Alicia Daniels Uhlig

Location : Bainbridge Island, WA

Waterworks is a giant rainwater harvester that houses a mixed-use 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.

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

Section A-A 10 Ground Level Site Plan 1. Retail ~ 2000 sf 2. Office ~ 1000 sf 3. Meeting Space ~ 230 sf 4. Classroom/Event ~ 1450 sf 5. Pickleball ~ 1500 sf 6. Deck ~ 1500 sf 7. Manager’s Office ~ 120 sf 8. Waterworks Office Lab ~ 1200 sf Program Summary

main circulation paths: cistern, main stairs, and elevator for inclusive access. A 3. 4. 5.

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Site context and sun path

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

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Interior showing mass timber structure. Exterior showing material looking southeast. 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.

Section looking west

Mass timber beams spanning affordable retail space. Stormwater management

SLIDING SHELF

Course : ARCH401 W24

Instructor : 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: The shelf can double as a chair capable of supporting weight up to 160 l.bs.

Detail and process shots.

14 Printed zine explaining the design process

inspired by IKEA manuals.

and intent,

REIMAGINE

Course : ARCH301 W23

Instructors : 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.

Exhibit interior and skylight looking northwest. Existing Shell gas station on site looking north-east.

Section perpective looking north-east

Exhibition space 1/4” scale model juxtaposed on site. Looking down from

from exhibit skylight.

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

SPOTLIGHTS

Course : ARCH302 SP23

Instructors : 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.

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Literature

Music spotlight

spotlight

Literature spotlight sitting on a rooftop. Music spotlight sitting in an Amazon plaza.

INTERLOCKING

Course : ARCH301 W23

Instructors : 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

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L3 | Artist’s Residence 20 Residence

L1 | Viewing Platform

Wood Shop

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Viewing platform featuring skate-furniture

View into Wood Shop. Looking down the half pipe. Looking down from roof. Half pipe from viewing platform.

Study

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Collective 1/4” scale models with Michelle Vu, Sydney Miyasato, Ck He, Julia Dobles, Serrana Chilcote. model of interlocking floor plates and spaces. Collective 1/16” site model.