Spring 2020 Capstone Student Projects-1

Coping with stress is not an easy thing to do. In order to cope and deal with it, I would turn to gaming most of the time. However, gaming alone was not sufficient, I would turn to food, socializing, learning, and working. This Capstone Project creates an environment where people de-stress by themselves or together. Gamigu is a gaming center that had been manifested like a guild for people with common interest in gaming and to introduce and welcome others to the world of gaming to have fun, socialize, learn, work and de-stress. Using centrality as spatial order through repetition, volumetric scale, and regular-irregular forms to promote wholesome communal experiences. Located in the heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, to encourage varying degrees of socializing; there is a common area, café, working, learning and viewing areas, a VR room as well as computer and console spaces

Brian Wongsodihardjo

Expressed through the inner exposure of structure, intersection of lines, and the shifting of time, these qualifiers create an integrated environment that celebrates spatial diversity. Located in Bellevue, this learning center for professionals and students offers programs that build talent to leverage emerging technologies while addressing local and global challenges. This space will promote comfortable workspaces and residential living to create a sense of community and encourage collaboration. The neutral materials palette is simple and balanced to create seamless transitions between work and living.

Christine Joo Eun Hwang

I have always had a difficult relationship with food and body image, appreciating the artistic opportunity it presented, while also working through a deep-rooted fear of the affects it had on my self-worth.
I wanted to create a humanizing and inspiring nutritional wellness center, using my treatment experiences to compose a space for people to confront their issues in a positive and transformative way
though gestures of support, to empower positive growth, and inspire personal rise. Practices of “exposure therapy”, and “opposite action”, were the two tools used to inform my spatial concept of: “Transformative space through Exposure” to empower healthy risks, while finding support to continue to heal. Research has taught me that we can change how we think, not how we feel. With various spaces that encourage interaction and introspection such as housing, therapy rooms, food options, retail, creative, and educational spaces; my space takes that a step further in that if we can change the way we think in direct response to the space, we can also shift our emotional experience towards a more effective healing path. The historical site also ties into my journey with food. The Century Agency Building was the building that made me realize my interests in interior design. This realization empowered me to take positive steps towards discovering myself as an interior designer, allowing me to transform my perception on not only food, but also myself. Finding a space for me, this project provides a connection to the community to reinforce exposure therapy within a supportive external group, and in turn allows for the community to a reciprocated participation.
Colleen Lyell

Creating a space to celebrate and support the LatinX experience, this museum explores a “fragmented explosion” of forms using collisions of geometry to encourage social participation and interaction in interior spaces. Located in the heart of downtown Seattle, in the former Cinerama building, the space provides the ability to break barriers and stigmas associated with immigration and human rights and allows visitors to thrive in their environment while maximizing human interactions and productivity. Using the design qualifiers of manipulation of positive and negative spaces, atmosphere, and elevation; this museum contains exhibition and educational spaces, retail, and a memorial. Through the stories of immigration and human rights in the LatinX community, there are different ways to generate emotions and to create influence within the spatial experience.

Helena Cantu