Xiaotong (Amy) He, BFA’25 The Other Place: An Amusement Park for Temporary Escape and Identity Release Moving through layered arcades and spaces articulated by shifting light and shadow, visitors embark on an immersive journey of temporary escape and the unbinding of identity. Castle Williams - a historic structure bearing witness to the passage of time - is re-imagined as an otherworldly amusement park that embodies themes of freedom and healing. Within this transformed environment, the relationship between self and world is gently reconstituted, offering visitors a renewed sense of orientation, agency, and possibility. Thesis advisor: Rachel Paupeck @xiaohe_amy #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Yirou Hong, MFA’25 Porous Living -A new typology of co-living This thesis investigates a co-living model driven by porous boundaries, focusing on the integration of privacy gradients and spatial flexibility. By experimenting with threshold strategies and adaptive spatial configurations, it aims to propose a co-living prototype within a historic industrial context, fostering a dynamic balance between privacy and flexibility in design. Thesis advisor: Ji Young Kim #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Sophia Jui Hsuan Chen, MFA’25 Where We Belong Connection is a fundamental human need, shaping how we engage with materials, communities, and nature. This thesis sees interior design as a catalyst to restore connection through making, movement, and immersion - redefining material use, fostering interaction, and rekindling our bond with nature through active, sustainable experience. Thesis advisor: Stefanie Werner #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Alya Gazzarine, BFA’25 Emergent Voices, An Archive Of Lost Memories This project preserves the displaced memories of marginalized communities by transforming public space into a living archive. It reclaims urban structures as vessels of collective memory, positioning the columns of the High Line as symbolic carriers of both physical and emotional weight. Through the embedding of hidden histories into the spatial and experiential fabric of the site, the project challenges narratives of erasure and reasserts the presence of communities often rendered invisible within the urban landscape. Thesis advisor: Rachel Paupeck #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Shiyang Zhu, BFA’25 Flow-In Harbor This project transforms a parking structure into an urban living room where objects and identities connect. For NYC's transient residents, losing possessions means losing belonging. Unlike typical flea markets, this space curates objects through their stories, creating intersections of personal meaning and spaces of recognition and connection - a place to belong. Thesis advisor: Melissa Cicetti #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

TengLin (Stanley) Shih, BFA’25 Nomadic New York is a ten-day hiking journey where changing routes lead to parks. Redesigned park bathrooms meet hikers’ needs. A modular walking stick unlocks spaces, making movement a sensory dialogue between the nomadic body and the city, offering escape from routine through exploration. Thesis advisor: Alexander Schweder @shih.stanley #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Thanya Weadick, BFA’25 The Shadow Box Residency This thesis explores a women’s artist residency as an oasis within the city, a safe haven that is hidden in plain sight. The artists create shadow boxes of the time spent there, which serve as living narratives. This storytelling method highlights hidden spaces, manifesting the residency as a place for memory, protection, and artistic expression. Thesis advisor: Sarah Lippmann #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Junwen Chen, BFA’25 BREATHSCAPE - A complex for Carbon Sequestration and Respiratory Health This project creates a breathable, restorative environment by integrating algae and black soldier flies into architecture to purify air and sequester carbon. It offers a healing space for vulnerable users, where they move through cascading algae pools and layered spaces, experiencing air purification as a visible, immersive part of daily life, while the system improves regional air quality through a living, regenerative cycle. Thesis advisor: John Nafziger #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Molly Wasserman, BFA’25 Third Hand Kitchen On average, Gen Z eats alone six days a week. Third Hand Kitchen re-imagines everyday cooking and dining as a shared experience, helping young adults make food a more sustainable, social, and affordable part of their lives. THK, located in New York’s Lower East Side, offers cooking groups and classes, as well as shared spaces to cook solo or with friends, all fueled by a local food rescue system. Thesis advisor: John Nafziger #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod