Food Access and Culinary Hub for Providence
Adaptive Reuse
233 W Park St, Providence,02908 RI
This project transforms an underused warehouse into a welcoming community center. It combines a WIC center, affordable market, and teaching kitchen into one civic space. By bringing essential services and food education under one roof, the design fosters food security and community dignity
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An updated plan for a night market
Urban Public Space
Guqu Middle Rd, Furong District, China
This project revitalizes an aging night market in Changsha by optimizing circulation and reorganizing stall layouts. The design introduces new communal functions to transform a traditional commercial site into a resilient public space that celebrates the city's vibrant food culture
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Community Revitalization
Adaptive reuse
Broad Street, Providence, RI
This project consolidates fragmented sites including an abandoned horse stable and a disused parking lot into a productive urban farm. By integrating food production and education, the design revitalizes the block to improve local food access and renew everyday public life
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An Immersive Theatre Set in a WWII Air-Raid Shelter
Spatial Narrative
Adaptive reuse
Air-raid shelter, Chongqing, China
Set inside a WWII air raid shelter in Chongqing, Eclipsia reimagines the tunnel as a train like setting for Murder on the Orient Express. Inspired by the idea of an eclipse, the design links shifting light with the unfolding mystery. Through strategic transitions, the shelter becomes an active storyteller where space and narrative merge
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A Teen Center in a 1950s Factory Shell
Adaptive Reuse
424 Washington St, Providence, RI
A Teen Center Transformation Inserted into a former factory, Sunflower reshapes the ground floor into a series of steps, platforms, and niches. The design creates a "community living room" that functions as a lounge and classroom, providing a safe and warm environment for young people to meet, learn, and grow together
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A Cultural Pavilion of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism
Exhibition Space
Mt Yuelu, China
Set on Mt Yuelu, the pavilion arranges a sequence of rooms that reveal the shared spirit of the three teachings while preserving their individual character. Soft light and framed views guide visitors from everyday life into moments of reflection and meditation. Through gentle changes in height and spatial pacing, the project creates a quiet dialogue with the landscape and traditional Chinese culture
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ironic pure handmade device design
Wearable handmade device
This wearable handmade device satirizes the modern obsession with healthy eating. Inspired by the fervent health pursuits across different generations of my family, the design focuses on the physical process of consumption. The device consists of three specific parts that deconstruct the act of eating to expose the absurdity and tension behind contemporary diet culture
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Restoring Earth's Vital Resource
2345
Contribution:
Team Leader, Design development, Model build
This project explores the concept of water footprints and the vast hidden amounts of water used to manufacture everyday goods. It imagines a future where natural reserves are exhausted, forcing humans to build facilities to extract water from manufactured objects. The design exposes the absurdity of consumption through a cycle of depletion and repair
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A Parish Church for Moramanga
Moramanga, Madagascar
Contribution:
Concept, Design development, Digital model, Team Leader
Set in Moramanga, this timber church rises toward the sky with a sweeping roof and layered wooden screens. The design choreographs light and shadow to guide worshippers into a luminous nave. Built on a raised platform to withstand seasonal floods, the project serves as a resilient place of worship and a gathering space for the village
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Bird Observatory in Iceland
Djúpavogsflugvöllur, Iceland
The Elves’ Observatory This observatory is created by the hidden elves of the land rather than for humans. Here, the act of seeing is reversed as humans become borrowed eyes for the elves, entering a quiet dialogue with nature through the flight of birds. Inspired by the folklore that elves live within stones, the structure is shaped like a cut in the earth with stone surfaces that grow directly from the landscape
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