“Transport” was commissioned by the Architectural League of New York for their annual Beaux Arts Ball event. Given the theme of transportation and the site of the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal, Leong Leong in collaboration with Jiminie Ha created a landscape of mutant cargo and shifting hues of color. The existing terminal, designed by architect Cas Gilbert in 1918, was transformed from a monumental industrial space into a series of atmospheric enclaves. Three separate environments created an episodic experience around eating, drinking, and dancing. Milk-crates shrink wrapped into ambiguous shapes clustered to form areas for gathering and socializing while a cloud of 400 UV lights illuminated the dance floor.

Text and images © Leong Leong Architecture.
September 2011

The concept store, designed in collaboration with fashion designer Siki Im, seeks to radically transform the existing space and breakdown the traditional norms of retail and exchange. The structure, which is the former sales trailer for the HL23 building designed by Neil Denari, is filled end to end with large ramp-form that creates an unexpected gathering space with undefined programmatic possibilities. Soy-based spray foam used to cover the interior and exterior of the structure creating a supple surface for inhabitation on which visitors are required to remove their shoes. Small niches and ledges are carved into the foam to create areas for display and seating. The clothes are embedded beneath the ramp on either end, encouraging visitors to explore the extents of the space and experience the clothes in very intimate environments.


Text and images © Leong Leong Architecture.
November 2010

How can the typical street fair tent be reconsidered to offer new ways to inhabit the city? The tent is a building typology defined by an economy of material, weight, and flexibility. Working with a minimal budget we propose a modular tent system that is simultaneously generic and specific to accommodate a variety of programs and events. Comprised of two elements - a structural base and an inflatable gold mylar membrane - the tent can be assembled and adjusted by a single individual. The convex shape of the inflated pillow naturally sheds rain. The tents can be multiplied and clustered in order to occupy almost any site. When multiplied tents can be organized to create larger, more communal spaces.
After each event, the tent can be deflated and quickly disassembled and can be stored compactly.

This project was done in collaboration with SBP Engineers, CASE, Jiminie Ha, Keeghan McHargue

Text and images © Leong Leong Architecture.
February 2011

Our proposal for the Audi Urban Future: Project New York exhibition on the future of urban mobility, on based on Standard Architecture's previous proposal for a metropolis reclaimed by nature, imagines a city with new and unpredictable relationships with nature. While mobility is an essential part of contemporary life for human beings, it is also a basic necessity for maintaining bio-diverse ecologies in urban settings like Manhattan. As weather patterns become increasingly unpredictable and environmental conditions more dire, increasing biodiversity will maximize the resilience of the city while minimizing disaster risk and aid recovery efforts. In order to capitalize on biodiversity, Manhattan will have to relinquish a certain degree of control. By introducing a new zoning and organizational system that mobilizes ecologies and animal species, the city will benefit from a nature that is not artificial, controlled, or well-behaved. This new development will offer a resilient form of growth for the future of the city by prioritizing the mobility of ecologies as much as human beings.


Text and images © Leong Leong Architecture.
May 2011

This Is Not A Book Cave was an installation by studio400, an undergraduate thesis studio at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, that attempted to challenge perceptions of the mundane while also creating an atmosphere for reading our thesis books. Using donated, recycled cardboard tubes, the studio wanted to dematerialize the tubes by layering them within the space of the gallery and exploit the effects they created with the visual field and how it is read. Using predetermined tube lengths that varied from two inches to four feet, modules of tubes were preconfigured and eventually grouped with other modules to create the installation’s form, which became a play on surfaces and volumes. Thinner tube surfaces became screens that captured light from projections and thicker volumes created enclosed spaces with undulating walls that became seats to sit and read the books that were on display.


Images © Vince Cimo and David Lee
January 2010

Undergraduate thesis work studying scent as a means for spatial construction.

More text and imagery here.

June 2010

Hyper-Ventilate attempts to dislodge the aromas from familiar objects and embed them in an anonymous surface. Wind and heat alter the intensity of scent within space, revealing scent’s exchange with contextual conditions by creating temporary boundaries. The surface is constructed from laser-cut friction fit felt modules of two varying opacities and the connected pieces form three dimensional pockets within the curtain to conceal the various scents.

TIMELAPSE

October 2009

Pelage is a wool-felt scarf adapted from the modules used to create Hyper-Ventilate. Please contact me if you have any inquiries about pricing or purchasing.


July 2010

Interlocking felt tapestries designed for A.R.T.


November 2010

Signage for Ball-Nogues' Tablecloth installation at UCLA.

Images © Ball-Nogues Studio.
March 2010

Paper, concrete, lycra, photoshop.

December 2007