STEPHEN
YUNG
interiors
Creative thinker with an affinity for spatial design and a passion for uplifting and welcoming spaces for people and communities.
I am seeking an opportunity as a junior designer in a design
or research role.
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EXPERIENCE
July ‘22 - Aug ‘23
Junior Interior Designer
The New Design Project
Brooklyn, NY
2019 - 2020
Freelance Media Manager
Freelance Product Photography.
New York, NY
2014 - 2018
Digital Strategist and Media Asset Manager
MacGuffin Films
New York, NY
2010 - 2014
Route Setter | Instructor
Toronto Climbing Academy
Toronto, Canada
01
ELEVENTH
Co -Work Space | Williamsburg Brooklyn
The New Design Project
02
LEVELS CLIMBING
Rock Climbing Wall + Retail
Parsons School of Design - Studio 01
03
TOO BRASS TO HANDLE
Jazz Hotel
Parsons School of Design - Studio 03
04
THE GALLERY
Promenade and Gallery Art Gallery Space
Parsons School of Design - Principles of Interiors
CONTENTS
ELEVENTH | THE NEW WORK PROJECT 01 CO-WORK SPACE | WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
ELEVENTH, Williamsburg
WORK SPACE | ELEVATIONS
APERTURE
TRIM LOCATION
LOCATION | WINDOW AND DOORS
ELEVENTH, Williamsburg
STUDIO DESKS DESIGN
Three private studios sizes designed for teams of 3, 6 and 10 feature long floating work surfaces, overhead shelf storage and personal filing cabinets.
arrangement remains open to the overall space while offering sufficient privacy for extended collaborative sessions.
Plan
Elevation
LOUNGE TABLES
Custom table designed with a trio of silver creme laminate legs reflecting the curved shapes in the space.
Elevation
Plan
SECTION
ELEVENTH, Williamsburg
PLAN
CONFERENCE TABLE DESIGN
The conference room tables were designed to sit 8 team members. With a grey wooded tabletop and a champagne metallic finish on the base, the table was designed with two opposing L shaped legs. This creates a modern look while allowing and hiding cables from the surface-mount conference power and AV unit to the power outlet on the ground.
SECTION PLAN ELEVENTH, Williamsburg
RETAIL CONCEPT STORE | MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
Parsons School of Design - Studio LEVELS CLIMBING 02 LEVELS CLIMBING
Levels is a place to climb
LEVELS is a new retail concept that transforms the climbing gym into a spectacle and shopping experience.
At their very core, climbing gyms are a place for community.
They are a place for us to push each other past our comfort zones, a place to support one another, and sometimes just a place for us to gather and hangout.
It’s also a place of spectacle.
When a climber isn’t climbing, we are often sitting around, helping a friend solve a problem, or simply admiring the grace and strength that it takes to move one’s body from one hold to the next. LEVELS will bring that sense of community and that sense of spectacle into a space that is more inclusive for newcomers to the sport without compromising those values.
LEVELS CLIMBING
Chipboard STORY | INSPIRATION
VISUAL
SPACE PLANNING LOCATION
Topographie Topographie Topographie DISCOVERY
ACCESS
COMMUNITY
FLOOR PLAN PROGRAM
Climbing Wall
The 25” climbing wall is the centerpiece of the space used as a dynamic visual “eye-catcher” for passers-by. The climbing wall will be used to draw customers into LEVELS and gives a reason for customers to stick around and watch climbers in-action. In the basement, climbers can congregate aro und the base of the wall away from the shoppers, separating the “hang out” climbing space from the hustle and bustle above. Ultimately the wall will serve as a functional “mini-gym” but will also drive customers to shop as they experience “climbing” first hand.
Coffee Bar
The coffee bar services climbers and customers alike. Customers can escape the chaos of the mall with a coffee, can watch climbers scale up and down the wall, as they wait for a friend trying on new clothing and gear. They can stand around our counter style tables, sit on the benches, or bring their coffee into our drop style balcony seating around the perimeter of the wall. Climbers can step away from the wall itself and hangout in the coffee bar area or grab a co!ee on their way out.
Retail Space
Inspired by the spectacle before them, customers can shop from our assortment of technical climbing gear (shoes, harness, chalk bags, etc.) as well as from our “lifestyle” offerings (shirts, pants, jackets, hats, etc). Our retail offerings wil lbe presented and merchandized in a way that appeals to the full spectrum of climbers, but with a focus on lifestyle.
FIRST FLOOR LOWER LEVEL
LEVELS CLIMBING
LEVELS CLIMBING
LEVELS CLIMBING
03 TOO BRASS TO HANDLE JAZZ HOTEL | HARLEM, NEW YORK
Parsons School of Design - Studio TOO BRASS TO HANDLE
For this project, we explored the design of hotels in New York City by studying the phenomenon of a “staycation” in order to redesign their interiors for a three story hotel.
This project looks at changes in the hospitality industry through the lens of materiality to analyze and describe underobserved relations between the way hotels in New York are designed to emerging trends in alternative, apparently more sustainable, forms of vacations such as “staycations.”
To explore this, we began development by researching architectural elements in hotels and their capacity to inform the larger design of interiors. I selected the door handle because it’s the first element guests encounter when entering a hotel and I focused particularly on those made of brass once I noticed that the majority of hotels in New York, particularly luxury hotels, feature brass handles at their entrance.
VISUAL STORY
TOO BRASS TO HANDLE
Mural of Dizzy Gillespie
Shapes of soundproof rooms
Alberto Garutti
‘Egg’
SPACE PLANNING
CONCEPT Floor1 Floor2 Floor3
The site is in Harlem at the crossroads at Frederick Douglas and 135th street. This is a site currently undergoing heavy gentrification and locating a staycation hotel might create some conflicts especially connected to the mentality of extraction, not only visible to extraction of material but through urban development that extracts values from land.
While the overuse of certain materials that come with negative externalities of production like brass, in luxury hotels which are prime destinations in staycations, New York is rooted in a mentality of extraction that, at diverse scales, impacts the society and the environment.
This project challenges the mentality of extraction in hospitality design and construction in two ways. The first is by constructing with reclaimed materials, specifically engaging with brass. The second is by providing a functional program rooted in Jazz that engages with the community of Harlem and contributes to its development and empowerment, in contrast to cultural erosion due to ongoing gentrification and displacement in the neighborhood.
TOO BRASS TO HANDLE
COMMUNITY
LOCATION AND
CIRCULATION
FLOOR
The first floor is a welcoming area for visitors and guests. Amenities include a restaurant with jazz performances, jazz store /coffee shop with three listening pods to listen to vinyl as well as a community serving production studio.
FLOOR 02 FLOOR 03
The second floor is welcomed by an exhibition space in the shape of a large brass tunnel. Inside is a gallery about the history of jazz in Harlem The tunnel leads towards a rotating exhibition space to rotating features of various artists. Opposite is a small jazz club inspired to capture the intimacy of smaller clubs around the New York. There are also four orthogonal sound-proof orthogonal pods for guests and visitors to practice and play instruments.
TOO BRASS TO HANDLE
The third floor is reserved to hotel rooms and guests of the hotel. This floor is designed with single and double rooms, billiards room, yoga and multipurpose space, work stations and a small theatre. 01
TOO BRASS TO HANDLE
SECTION
SECTION
CUT MODEL
CUT
TOO BRASS TO HANDLE
BRASS TUNNEL | Floor 2 FLOOR OPENING | Floors 1 and 2 HOTEL ROOMS HALLWAY | Floor 3 HOTEL ROOM | Floor 3 PRACTICE PODS | Floor 2
