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Pattern House: This Must Be The Place

Kimono: Craft & Construction

Gather: The Not Neutral Gallery

Ri Japan | Fold

Bernhardt Design: Seating

Truss: Seating

Element: Table

Selected Work:

In 2009 I put my life on a diet of simplicity. I began to peel away

the things that were unessential, and what remained was a home

of utmost harmony and efficiency permeated by the elements of

my own history and identity. What I had created was a home rich

in emotional nourishment. The approach of Pattern House was to

take this personal experience of creating my own home and forge

it into a methodology for residential design.

The essence of the approach coalesced from three ideas about

home:

Deep roots. There’s no place like home. It’s where we live, work

and dream. It’s our sanctuary, our refuge, the repository of our his-

tory and hopes, and our cushion against the world.

Embedded history. Objects and keepsakes are often markers of

who we are and who we want to be. These collected memories

and experiences allow reflection on the past and elicit growth.

The Elements. By recognizing the interdependence of site, light and

earth and its effect on us both spiritually and emotionally, we can

utilize and lever these connections to shape spaces in a deeper

way.

Instead of creating a container to which people must adapt, Pattern

House is an attempt to design from the inside out and allow our

emotional weight to shape the spaces we occupy and imbue them

with a markedly new level of vitality. Through an in-depth examina-

tion of everyday patterns and habits, moments of heightened signif-

icance were captured and recorded to be reproduced in the design

of a new home. The beautiful in the everyday is what can make a

home vital. In the methodology of Pattern House, we have home

embedded in our mind, and our hearts embedded in our home.

Residential Design

Residential DesignInspiration & Exploration

Everyth ing I OwnA study on the re lat ionship between people and the objects used and/or d isp layed in the i r home, and a look at how ind iv idua ls create the i r ident i t ies through the i r surroundings.

Residential DesignInspiration & Exploration

Light and TimeEdgecl i f fe House, Si lver Lake, CA. Summer 2011A study of how natura l l ight and s i te or ientat ion can interact wi th arch i tecture to create moments of subl imi ty.

Residential DesignComputer Rendering

In the folds of a kimono is the layered story of Japan. Unravel-

ing the story of this traditional garment and its construction, we

are able to explore the meaning of its exquisite design and the

relationship it has to its diverse historical contexts. The craftsman-

ship and detail of the garments communicate and translate the

voice and culture of the Japanese people. Whether it was war, a

change in emperors or seasons, an influx of international trade, or

the heavy influence of the West, the Kimono creatively expresses

these changes through each design detail from its floral pattern

down to its hem.

KIMONO: culture and construction is an exhibition design project

examining the artistic contributions that, stitch by stitch, make up

the kimono and a study of the cultural events that have helped

shape its many variations.

The exhibition pavilion was designed as a ‘building within in a

building’ within the context of downtown Los Angeles. The site is

on the cusp between the Japanese Village and the Arts District.

The concept for this project was inspired by the simple folding and

sewing techniques used in kimono making. The form of the pavil-

ion itself was generated to follow the same proportions and layout

of the sewing pattern used to make a traditional kimono, folded

upon itself. With the use of subtle twists and folds, the structure

echoes the graceful flow of a kimono in movement. With a founda-

tion strong in metaphor and meaning, the exhibition can allow for

an experience that will echo the detail and refinement that is often

considered the Japanese way.

In deference to the subject matter, form explorations incorporated

various techniques of sewing. Stitching panels, exploring textiles

and pleating were all heavy influences in the final design. With

slight changes in the curves and folds, a system inspired by the

flow of Japanese gardens was used. A walk through the space

would allow only certain views to be seen from any specific place.

The archways perfectly frame the kimonos on display and the lay-

ering walkways encourage further explorations. From the entrance

of the space, a decompression begins with a change in cadence

as the stepping stones slow down the approach and the story

unfolds.

Temporary Exhibition

Temporary Exhibition Inspiration & Exploration

Temporary Exhibition Section & Plan

Temporary Exhibition Hand Sketches & Built Model

Temporary Exhibition Computer Renderings

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Fashion Design

A garment that is adaptable and can evolve with seasonal chang-

es for use throughout the course of an entire year achieves a

unique level of sustainability. Using environmentally responsible

materials, innovative fashion design sense, and full life cycle plan-

ning, the fashion concept represented by Fold resists the tradi-

tional mindset of fashion trends and their cycle of consumption

and disposal.

Featuring multiple levels of protection, Fold is an outergarment

designed with a wide range of conditions in mind. Its lightweight

cotton construction is at face value better suited for warmer con-

ditions, but as the weather cools or becomes wet, the collar can

release into a protective water resistant layer and a hood is avail-

able through the expansion of the rear element.

In collaboration with Kam Leang, Yumi Miki & Ayano Tanaka.

Garment Sample Fashion Design

Gather takes the artist as client and envisions a new venue for an

artist as a built environment, creating a spatial and graphic iden-

tity infused with the artist’s vision. The challenge was to interpret

and even redefine the client’s identity via architecture, interiors,

materials, lighting, furniture, display, and graphics, and to craft a

form language that echoes and magnifies the artist’s intentions.

The artist chosen for the project was Do Ho Suh, a Korean born

artist known for his beautifully crafted and awe-inspiring instal-

lation work that is threaded with issues of personal versus pub-

lic space, the balance between individual and collective identity

and the intricate web of our coexistence. The façade, being the

juncture between personal and public, individual and collective

community, was the appropriate place in this project to explore

these threads. It reaches out giving shelter to the public sphere

and flowingly peels back to reveal itself, echoing the artist’s use

of fabric in his work; public and private spaces blur in the public

bench and elements that cross over and open into these bound-

aries, exploring in an architectural mode the coexistence of our

individual and collective identities.

Retail Space

Retail Space Inspiration

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Section & Plan Retail Space

Computer Rendering & Hand Sketches Retail Space

Built Model Retail Space

Contract Furniture

Debuting September 2011 as part of Bernhardt Design’s contract

furniture line, Apel is a family of ottomans born out of a desire to

support and maximize the organic and spontaneous interactions

between people. Stylistically versatile, highly customizable, and

adaptable to a multitude of commercial and residential environ-

ments, Apel’s modular and multi-directional nature encourages

a broad range of human interactions in various contexts all in a

relaxed, contemporary form.

Contract FurnitureDesign in Production

TRUSS

Furniture

Its numerous delicate structural members executed in lush

walnut, Truss is inspired by the beauty of structure in the most

simplified form. The lines and construction of the chair echo the

support systems used in bridge design and the elaborate detail

of the underside of these structures. Celebrating both beauty

of form and beauty of function, Truss mobilizes the aesthetic

beauty of these massive engineered structures into the poetic

support of a single body.

FurnitureInspiration

FurnitureIdeation

FurnitureIdeation

FurnitureBuilt Prototype

Furniture

Being in one’s natural habitat or sphere of activity, in the place

where one feels comfortable. This is being in one’s element. Ele-

ment is designed with the simple yet precious idea of display-

ing a piece of oneself: the way in which we curate our coffee

tables with things that we love or that represent who we are. This

table creates a fitting place for this simple yet beautiful gesture

to unfold.

FurnitureBuilt Prototype

Thank you for your time.

Contract Furniture

Debuting September 2011 as part of Bernhardt Design’s contract

furniture line, Apel is a family of ottomans born out of a desire to

support and maximize the organic and spontaneous interactions

between people. Stylistically versatile, highly customizable, and

adaptable to a multitude of commercial and residential environ-

ments, Apel’s modular and multi-directional nature encourages

an broad range of human interactions in various contexts all in a

relaxed, contemporary form.

Contract FurnitureConcept & Ideation

Contract FurnitureConcept & Ideation