Wensya Limasi Portfolio 2024

WENSYA LIMASI

architecture portfolio

TABLE OF CONTENTS 02. Table of Contents 04. Waterworks 08. Sliding Shelf 10. Reimagine 12. Spotlights 14. Interlocking 18. Observational Hand-Drawings

WATERWORKS

Course : ARCH400 F23

Professor

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

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Site context and sun path

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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

Section looking west

Mass timber beams spanning affordable retail space

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.

8 Printed zine explaining the design process and intent, inspired by IKEA manuals.

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

1/4”

Section perpective looking north-east scale model juxtaposed on site.

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

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 KEXP-FM, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle Public Library, Cornish College of the Arts, and the Northwest Film Forum.

Film spotlight Lake Union Lake Union Park Sound leaking from a film spotlight suspended in an alleyway

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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

L1 | Viewing Platform L2 | Wood Shop L3 | Artist’s Residence 14 Residence

A A Section A-A

Viewing platform featuring skate-furniture

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

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Collective site plan and 1/16” massing model with Michelle Vu, Sydney Miyasato, Ck He, Julia Dobles, Serrana Chilcote Collective 1/4” scale models with Michelle Vu, Sydney Miyasato, Ck He, Julia Dobles, Serrana Chilcote