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2023 Selected Works Interiors & Furniture

I consider my curiosity and fascination with the world around me to be the driving force of my designs. Seeking to understand and meet unfulfilled needs encapsulates the way I approach each project.

I have forever been engrossed in the process of learning. The ever-curious pursuit of information and permeating dissatisfaction with “good enough” or “has-been-done” drives my desire to learn and create. Design’s ability to engage every facet of human experience and create tactile, intimately personal experiences and pieces fascinates me.

To me, design is language: endlessly iterative, need-meeting, human centric, beautycreating, communicative, and at times frustrating. It’s a tool to meet needs and a building block to arrange into works of art.

Call me many things: curious, driven, passionate, constantly learning– but never afraid to take risks. I love the process of pushing the envelope: at times failing, but never wasting an opportunity to try something new. Here’s some of my work.

p. 04-19 interdisciplinary housing fall 5th year p. 20-33 workplace interiors fall 4th year p. 34-41 retail interiors spring 3rd year p. 42-51 live/work interiors fall 4th year p. 52-57 furniture design spring 4th year p. 58-65 p. 66-67 furniture design fall 5th year graphic design

Apprenticeshop Co-Housing

semester location project type size group members fall 5th year, interdisciplinary collaborative studio rockland, maine residential architecture, landscape, & interiors

4000 sf duc nguyen (architecture) & sabreena leach (landscape) software

The Apprenticeshop is a traditional wooden boatbuilding school on the coast of Maine. Time at the Apprenticeshop is a unique, phase-of-life experience that yields enormous personal growth for its participants. Though a tight-knit community, the Apprentices lack a shared living space, often struggling to find short-term housing during their stay. The creation of co-housing addresses this vital need and aims to reflect the uniqueness of the Apprentices’s experience in Rockland, connecting them as users to the roots of their individual and collective experience as Apprentices.

Revit, Rhino 3D, Enscape, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Concept

Situated in the intertidal zone along an existing on-campus pier, the scheme is split into two buildings: one communal & one private.

Each elevation was designed to permit views to and from the building; the facade directed toward the open water is highly perforated, while the facades facing the shore are only open in communal areas.

The scheme aims to encourage reflection upon experience at the apprenticeshop while creating perceived distance between work and rest.

Next Beauty

semester location project type size awards fall 4th year manhattan, new york workplace interior

15,000 sf first place, gensler brinkmann scholarship finalist, steelcase next student design competition software

NEXT Beauty is a startup clean beauty company in the heart of Midtown Manhattan focused on transparency, honesty, and inclusivity in its beauty mission. Founded by a Korean immigrant who had difficulty finding skin products suitable for her skin tone and type, NEXT aspires to be inclusive and diverse, celebrating individuality and embracing all walks of life. NEXT embraces the future of workplace design through a hybrid workplace that fosters wellbeing and community while rooted in New York’s diverse melting pot culture.

Revit, Rhino 3D, Enscape, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Manhattan Schist spaces best suited for hypersensitive individuals focused, controlled, low-stimulation

Beneath Manhattan’s bustling metropolis lies a geologic history that’s intricately tied to New York’s growth as a city. Three layers of stone: Fordham Gneiss, Manhattan Schist, and Inwood Marble, are metamorphically bound together in intricate layers that tell the story of New York City’s past, present, and future. The conceptual driver Stratum peels back these layers and allows each individual consumer and employee of NEXT to integrate themselves into the overall ecosystem of products and spaces that NEXT offers, just as each individual stratum in a metamorphic rock is fully integrated into the whole. Ultimately, NEXT seeks to remain foundationally rooted in its core values as a company, maintaining a never-ceasing committment to inclusion & diversity.

Fordham Gneiss foundational spaces, able to flex and adapt flexible, personalizable, balanced

Meeting Space

Inwood Marble spaces best suited for hyposensitive individuals collaborative, playful, high-energy

Meeting Space

Considerations

Meeting space

Workspace

Social space

Resource & Support

Rejuvenate

Fable Publishing Collective

semester location project type size software spring 3rd year portland, oregon retail interiors & product

4450 sf

Fable Publishing Collective, located in downtown Portland, Oregon, aims to spark and inspire the joy of learning through reading. A hybrid book-binding workshop and bookstore, Fable creates an environment where community members immerse themselves in story. Fable seeks to spark the love of life-long learning and act as a community connection point where children and adults engage in learning at all stages of life.

Fourth World Textiles

semester location project type size fall 4th year flagstaff, arizona live/work interiors & furniture

1070 sf software

Designed as a response to IDEC’s Student Design Competition, Fourth World Textiles is a live-work dwelling constructed from an assembly of three shipping containers that reconciles its users’ relationship with work and life. Just as the Navajo people adapt and change to today’s world, the space adapts to the user’s needs and desires; likewise, as the natural world does not adapt to man and forces man to adapt to its presence and demands, the space demands compliance and adaptation from its users. This continual push and pull literalizes the synchronicity of man and earth with which the Navajo live so vividly in-tune.

Revit, Rhino 3D, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

The Navajo are a people who have experienced significant oppression and suffering at the hands of both the US government and Western settlers. Deeply thoughtful and story-telling, the Navajo instill personality and consciousness into every element of the natural world, from animals to rocks. The deep care with which the Navajo live in their surroundings translates to the significance of living a sustainable life and living in tune with nature. The concept Reconcile seeks to create a mediating point where life and work unite in harmony and past wounds can be healed– reconciling the natural and built world through passive design strategies and the choice of separation between physical environments to live and work while creating a space where a Navajo artist can engage with the larger community. Exposing the community to Navajo tradition aims to begin the relational healing process for this artist.

Chair d

semester location project type spring 4th year copenhagen, denmark flat-pack furniture design

Designed during a semester abroad in Copenhagen, Chair d is an entirely flat packing product that disassembles to fit in a 5cm thick box. Inspired by Denmark’s Viking roots and the interaction of fabric and wood inherent to ships, Chair d ultimately aims to be as graphic and expressive as the letter “d.” semester location project type awards

Delefall 5th year manhattan, kansas furniture design finalist, bienenstock furniture library competition

Today, much of the furniture the average consumer purchases is designed to be discarded, born for obsolesence.

Why is this so? And which pieces do we carry with us, rather than discarding? After all, you’d never discard a member of your own family; why do we treat our possessions with such insignificance?

Heavily inspired by recent studies abroad in Copenhagen and observation of the significance craft plays in modern-day Scandinavian furniture design, Dele seeks to connect emotionally with its user, becoming a personality-infused member of the family.

Dele wants to have a seat at the table, too.