INTERIOR & LIGHTING DESIGN
STATEMENT
In my exploration of interior design, I am rethinking our existing connection to the surroundings physically and mentally. Through the tools of light, form and material, I seek to endow space with a unique personality and the power to tell stories, shaping one’s sensory experience, memories, and thoughts in reverse.
Zijing
Chen
Email: zjc0802@gmail.com
Phone: 3322609405
CONTENT
LIGHTING DESIGN
02-07
08-09
10-13
Passage of Time
What is the Truth?
Beyond Layers
INTERIOR DESIGN
14-19
20-25
Entropy Decreasing
Embracing Imperfection
Architectural Lighting Design
Lighting Installation
Luminaire Design
Curated Retail
Stool Manufacturing
PASSAGE OF TIME
Architectural Lighting Design
Lighting Design Studio 1: Light, Vision & Rep, Fall 2024
Instructor: Glenn Shrum, Golsana Heshmati, Francesca Bastianini
Team Member: Emir Ikhsan, Pin-Hsuan Wang
The passage of time is inspired by the natural cycles of time, creating an immersive experience. This dynamic interplay of light reflects a continuous flow through subtle gradients, layers, and patterned lighting.
CUSTOM LUMINAIRE
This luminaire gracefully uplifts light from the floor, guiding a radiant glow from the wall to the ceiling. The intention is to layer the repetitive shadows, creating gradients to visualize the movement of time.
PSEUDO COLOR CALCULATIONS
ELEVATOR LOBBY
Target Eh: 50
Achieved Eh: 57
Target Ev: 30
Achieved Ev: 38
CORRIDORS
Target Eh: 50
Achieved Eh: 61
Target Ev: 30
Achieved Ev: 35
OPEN STUDY
Target Eh: 400
Achieved Eh: 517
Target Ev: 300
Achieved Ev: 327
PRE/POST DINNER
Target Eh: 100
Achieved Eh: 118
Target Ev: 50
Achieved Ev: 50
WORKSHOP
Target Eh: 1000
Achieved Eh: 1024
Target Ev: 500
Achieved Ev: 503
YOGA
Target Eh: 50
Archieved Eh: 108
Target Ev: 30
Achieved Ev: 48
CIRCULATION
FOUNDATION HALL
WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
Lighting Installation
Lighting Design Studio 1: Light, Vision & Rep, Fall 2024
Instructor: Glenn Shrum, Golsana Heshmati, Francesca Bastianini
When everything around me were flooded by blue as I put the blue gel in front of my flashlight, a phrase came up with me - looking at things through colored glasses. We are inevitable to perceive and interpret the world from our own perspectives, sometimes even leading to prejudices. In this project, I would like to explore the idea of whether what we see is really what the truth is by manipulating with shadows, reflections and colors of light. All these visual components encourage us to reflect on what exactly we are looking at.
BEYOND LAYERS
Luminaire Deisgn
Lighting Design Studio 1: Light, Vision & Rep, Fall 2024
Instructor: Glenn Shrum, Golsana Heshmati, Francesca Bastianini
This luminarie is designed for dining room, where people gather around, share and communicate. The layered diffused surfaces create ambient light with cozy atmosphere, lighting up the table top and faces around the table.
The combination of three different sizes and positions of circles on the cube surfaces provide dynamic expriences for people as moving around.It also create inversed lighting effects when the luminaire is on and off. Beyong layers, each glance a surprise.
Luminaire Plan
Luminaire Section A-A’
MATERIAL, PROPOTION & LAYERS EXPLORATION
Reversed lighting effects with luminaire on & off and different transmittance levels with layers enrich visual experiences.
AGI CALCULATION OUTPUT
The AGI calculation output matches what I was trying to design for. The table top and the vertical plane of faces around the table are lit up evenly.
ENTROPY DECREASING
Curated Retail, New York
Interior Design Studio 6Capstone Project, Spring 2023
Instructor: Adrienne Brown, Elizabeth Kuhn
In this capstone project, transience is defined as impulsive consumption leading to waste, and will be studied through marketing strategies that stimulate false needs. We are getting lost in various advertisements, promotions, and trends that strip our ability to make informed buying decisions. This problem will be addressed through the design of a curated retail space in New York City that crafts a slow experience, encouraging us to roam, discover, ponder, and make conscious decisions. In this space, we will keep asking ourselves
“Are we being deliberate with this decision?”
PRECEDENTS SITE ANALYSIS
Bookstore Exploring the Unknown
Bonobos Custermizing
SPACE OF SPIRIT
CONCEPT COLLAGE
Meditation
- Reflecting on the exhibition and making decisions based on our own situations
“Do I really need it?”
“ When will I use it?”
“How often will I use it?”
“If I don’t need it any more in the future, what would I do with it?”
“Why I would like to buy this one rather than other options?”
Exhibition
- Getting knowledge of comprehensive and objective information about the product, from sourcing material, manufacturing, transportation, and recycling
- Transparent information about what are we paying for.
- The hidden impact of our consumption that can’t be seen in time.
Lecture
- Weekly Forum
- Workshop, making custormized product
Plastic Zone
- Emphasizing the environmental impact of impulsive consumption
- Disposing plastic properly/ material experiment
Merchandising
- Display few products, order online
- A chance to drop off what we have picked up
- Returning the product we have bought and used but no longer need or want it
Space of Spirit
3 | Exhibition of the Product The Whole LIfe of a Linseed Phone Case
5 | Beyond the Window Reflection on the Exhibition
DETAIL DRAWINGS
Curved Bamboo - Support Sliding Linen
- Modular Connection
6 | Meditation Area Are we being deliberate with this decision? Movable Structure for Multiple Usages Linen - Display Board - Diffuse the Light - Lower Ceiling Height Lighting
EMBRACING IMPERFECTION
Stool Manufacturing, New York
Interior Design Studio 5, Fall 2022
Instructor: Cotter Christian
This project is a manufacturing space for Skilset, an art experimental production studio that reuses wasted wood to make new furniture. To echo the sustainability concept, the space would create an inclusive environment embracing the imperfections of waste material and working process.
Skilset is an art experimental production studio reusing reclaimed wood and tiles to make new furniture. To achieve sustainability, they embrace the imperfect material and endow new textures and colors to create a unique characteristic of each piece.
RECYCLED MATERIAL MATERIAL STUDY
Flooring on site
To echo the sustainability concept of this furniture company, the space would create an inclusive environment embracing the imperfections of waste material and working process.
PROGRAMMING
CONCEPT MODEL
1. Display
2. Seeing from Teaching Studio
Meeting Room
Section A-A’
Section B-B’
"Accept mistakes and imperfections. I've learned to embrace the ugly and embrace the mentality to not like being upset so quickly over something that I worked on and I'm probably gonna make something really cool or interesting."
4. Relaxation Area
Interview with the Founder of Skilset