Learning to Give and to Receive
Site: City Hall Park, NY, USA
Visual Representation: 24” x 32”
Physical Model: 23” x 23” x 7”
Co-creator: Napat Leephanuwong (Beam)
Instructor: Oscar Caballero
Collaborative Project
This project asks what we can return to the land within the density of City Hall Park. Beneath its surface of control lies a quieter order of exchange and renewal. The work restores reciprocity between human and earth through spatial experience, where presence itself becomes a gesture of care. The existing fountain transforms into a shared space of gathering, and light steel structures rise as gestures of rest. Gratitude here is not sentiment but shared practice, where giving and receiving coexist through awareness and presence.
Collaborative project
The set design centers on Jon, the protagonist, and his escalating anxiety about achieving success as a musical composer in 1990s New York City. Departing from the original production, the design incorporates boxes as a symbolic element, representing the characters' perpetual readiness and fragility in their pursuit of success. These boxes, continuously packed and unpacked, reflect the transient nature of their aspirations, dynamically interacting with the characters' movements. Positioned against Times Square-inspired cityscape, the design captures ambition's relentless drive and tension within an ever-changing urban environment.
Independent Project
A room breathes like a bus. Still walls remember motion. Four gestures hold the memory of a commute: a body leans, a seat waits, a projection flickers like passing trees.
There is no engine, only breath. No schedule, only pause.The floor carries the weight of shared silence. The corners hold the quiet choreography of strangers navigating space. This is not a bus, but it becomes one through repetition, suggestion, and the memory of movement.
Space is not given. It is shaped, felt, and performed.
WON HWANG
is a New York based architectural designer and artist working across architecture, objects, and performance. Her practice explores how perception, care, and memory shape the way we inhabit space, translating sensory and emotional experience into architectural language. Moving fluidly between built form and ephemeral encounter, she investigates how atmosphere, narrative, and material gesture can choreograph collective experience. With a background in production design, exhibition storytelling, and spatial strategy, Won approaches design as both analysis and performance, where structure and emotion meet to construct new forms of spatial dialogue.
Master of Architecture (M.Arch)
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Furniture Design
Concentration in Theory and History of Art and Design
CV and resume available upon request.
Object 001_Self portrait ( 37"x 29" x 22" )
Object 002_Pull (12”x 12x 25”)
Object 003_Push (13” x 28”x 10”)
Object 004_Hold (18”x 32”x 5”)
Metal, Natural Leather, Plywood
All to Whisper Your Presence examines the silent language of creases, tracing movements and memories within a transient diaspora. These marks, etched by connection, transform the subject from noun to verb, preserving the quiet echoes of the past and potential futures. Objects like Self Portrait, Pull, Push, and Hold embody this choreography of presence, where creases carry the weight of time, memory, and human connection.
Poplar wood, Metallic spray paint, Threaded metal, Glazed with epoxy
5" x 30"x 15"
Push pin- count 1 in silver is a piece that investigates how the scale of an object can pursue reimagination of bodily interaction with ordinary objects: push pin. Reflecting on the observation from students’ uses of pushpin in the studio space, this work recreates the means of “pinning” by taking the objects into different spatial contexts.
Maple Venner, Cotton Chords, Dowels
12” x 15” x 30"
In the quiet realm of hair, where strands intertwine and stories unfold, there exists a voyage of growth, an ethereal sailing through the in-between. It is within these hidden fibers that whispers are carried, whispers that speak of self-discovery and transformation. Hair growth is a manifestation of the self expanding and evolving. Each tiny sprout that emerges from the scalp carries with it a message.
Cement, foam, metal beads, wire, glass
14" x 49" x 14"
Dear Dandelion, explores resilience through the metaphor of a weed often overlooked. Drawing from botanical research and diasporic narratives, the sculptural lamp casts a warm light beneath a concrete shell, echoing the hidden strength of roots that thrive under pressure. Beadwork weaves across the surface like migratory paths, tracing connections between natural adaptation and human endurance. Merging research with material tension, the work becomes a quiet tribute to persistence, illuminating what survives within constraint.