Category: Fall 2022
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Ebb and Flow – Noguchi Showroom
This interior design project for the new Akari light showroom at the Noguchi museum proposes a sustainable cycle for an environmentally conscious retail future. Through selections of bio-materials, including mycelium panels, and the redesign of the use of space, we not only emphasize sustainable practice in the design process, but extend it to the retail…
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A Cultural Urban Instrument – Performative Scapes and Historical Setting: An Indigenous Dialogue
This thesis investigates the intervention of Performative Scapes into historical settings. It aims to initiate a poetic dialogue between the old-new, and the local-global, which imagines, transforms, and re-cultivates places of cultural significance. School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Kavya GargFaculty: Neena Freedman The thesis is structured around the exploration of the many different…
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Illuminated Shadow
For a showroom of layering structures, the amount of layering materials and the sustainability of material itself would be the first consideration. Also, lighting effect and transparency would be the key success to interior environments. In this project, theater scrim has been applied, achieving maximum of space effects with minimum material and econoomical expanse. The…
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The Abundant Void
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudents: Bing LiFaculty: Sheryl Kasak Most modular components are movable, which is the premise of this multifunctional space. With the features of lightweight and durability, hempcrete is used to make most of the modular components. The aim of this project was to design a flexible and multifunctional space for…
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Material Exchange – Cork and Brick
School of Design | Undergraduate Interior DesignStudents: John LeeFaculty: Alex Goldberg The image shows a perspective section view of the second floor of my plant shop. Both the workshop space and the utilization of sustainable materials are present here. The duality of Cork and Brick is present, where cork is used for partitioning and brick…
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Teaching Transformations – Wearable Interior Conditions Apparatus and Shared Street Intervention Design
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudents: Polina Shchukina As part of precedent research, the 2011 MoMA PS1 installation entitled “Holding Pattern” was analyzed. The project centered around the concepts of SHARING, ZERO WASTE, and facilitating COMMUNITY TIES, which were achieved through program and form. As part of precedent research, the 2011 MoMA PS1 installation…
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Sustainability of the Built Environment: Philosophy and Practice
School of Architecture | Graduate Architecture and Urban DesignStudent: Mehmet Kaan CaparFaculty: Sanford Kwinter, Gokhan Kodalak AI generated collage of “Built Ecology”, Midjourney, 2022 A study of an assembled “syllabus” for a hypothetical course named “Sustainability of the Built Environment: Philosophy and Practice”. This designed course seeks to provide a powerful engagement with environmental sustainability…
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Free to Talk!
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudents: Tianli Gu, Yanya MeiFaculty: Caleb Crawford This GIF is a computational fluid dynamics simulation visualization of our design strategy A. With the addition of reflective surfaces on the walls, the three main sound sources diffuse less throughout the rest of the space after multiple reflections. The acoustical environment…
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Stability in Time
School of Design | Interior DesignStudent: Makenna LuceyFaculty: Ji Young Kim The entrance of the Bonsai Store shows views of the repurposed copper-toned steel supporting the structure of deteriorating bio-plastic. Natural materials, sand, rocks, repurposed stone seating, and bonsai are placed strategically to create a zen-like layout directed by plastic dividers. An interior that allows…
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Moss House
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Keyi CheFaculty: Chelsea Limbird, William Watson An interior space occupied by moss, one of the most sustainable plants. Inspired by moss, a plant evolved from algae, a great indicator of pollution, and requires low maintenance, which makes it a great plant for creating a sustainable environment. In this…