portfolio kirsten wong
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furniture winter 2020
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urban food centre spring 2019
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la luna winter 2019
dream winter 2018
duality fall 2018
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furniture
A lounge chair design inspired by the Nintendo Switch. Designed to provide comfort for all modern day relaxation purposes. Reversible two-toned canvas for all occasions. Crafted with beech wood and nylon cordura canvas.
two-toned reversible canvas
canvas mapping process
red and blue canvas stitched back-to-back for reversible option
wood glue-up process
assembly
the lounging process
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la luna
A photographer’s studio inspired by the works of photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. The forces of moonlight are strongly represented in this design. Its softness, subtlety, and strength similar to that of the light quality emitted from Sugimoto’s “Theatres” series. Project was highly model-focused in order to bring focus towards photographic techniques utilised to capture the essence of the project.
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Featured in the University of Washington College of Built Environments’ End of Year Show 2019.
hybrid perspective
site model
concept models
perspectives
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east elevation
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urban food centre Inspired by the interdependency of the ecosystem, this design takes on an interlocking concept to create a multi-story building intended for vertical growing. The ground floor has also been dedicated towards being used as a market space to sell freshly grown vegetables and plants.
site plan
diorama
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Roof Floor Plan
Middle Floors Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
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duality
An intervention in Discovery Park, Seattle emphasising the sense of duality present within the site. The intervention serves as a place of refuge for visitors to the park. It begins with an open and elevated gathering space framed by wooden beams, reflecting that sense of exposure one would feel when standing at the top of the hill. The design then gradually transitions to a slightly more enlosed space that sits on the ground. Eventually, users would travel even deeper into the intervention, where individual spaces of rest exist semi-underground.
perspective
diagrams
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floor plan
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Dreams provide a disconnection from reality. Individuals venturing deeper into this design will be submerged in an increasingly distorting experience, providing this sense of disconnection from reality. Similar to the REM cycle experienced during our slumber, this gradual increase and decrease in disconnection from the real world also helps individuals to better cope transitioning away from or back into the outside world. This design sits disconnected from the rest of the site on its own shorter hill which separates it from the rest of the grander landscape by a ravine, reinforcing this idea of detachment. This design is thus the embodiment of the experience of dreaming itself.
exterior perspective
diagrams
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floor plan
THANK YOU kirsten wong +65 9027 9972 +1 (626) 679-0568 kirstenwongkaiqin@gmail.com