Category: Pratt Earth Action Week
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Untangled
This project proposes an Integrated Wellness Center for patients with anxiety disorders. Anxiety causes irritation, puts excessive stress, and causes entanglement to patients both physically and mentally. To counter this condition, the Integrated Wellness Center is designed with a circulation flow that relieves stress through a gradual untangling process. Patients encounter various untangling experiences that…
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Tomato’s Home
Tomatoes are a favorite fruit in Africa but are also a waste problem. This is particularly true in, Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa with the highest percentage of tomato waste. This waste can be greatly reduced by using interior design strategies in the post-harvest stage. School of Design | Graduate Interior Design Students:…
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Adaptive Reuse: 1800s Barn | Contemporary Marketplace
Located in a town where historic colonial homes about contemporary tech offices, an underutilized barn in the center of town offers a unique opportunity for the collaboration of old meets new in the town of Westford, MA. Through circular design strategies, a proposal for a bi-weekly market for local rotating vendors suggests a merging of…
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Little Green World
The project is about a children’s library in Copenhagen, Denmark. You can enjoy the beauty of the huge green space. The design was inspired by a painting of a girl sitting on a grass book. The design aims to create a warm space that provides the same atmosphere for children to read and stay. Based…
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Hydroterra Lamp
The lamp can open and close, similar to a book. When the lamp is absorbing sunlight, it opens for the solar panel layer to absorb sunlight. Biomimicry examples include the transparent butterfly wing, artificial leaf, hornbeam leaf fold, and gecko hair. The materials chosen for this project are all sustainable. School of Design | Interior…
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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…