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.