Molly(Yaqi) Zhang
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Interior designer with a strong aesthetic sensibility and a passion for crafting meaningful spatial narratives. Highly organized and efficient, I create human centered environments across healthcare, workplace, hospitality, and residential projects, with a focus on user experience and design clarity.
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SELECTED WORK
The New Museum
This project explores a new museum prototype on a trapezoidal site in New York City (45 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201). Starting from massing studies, I developed a series of design iterations to test how volume, circulation, and program can reshape the museum experience.
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Chongqing Forest
Chongqing Forest is an urban cable car station concept set in Chongqing’s high rise mountain city. Located on a buffer floor within a 56-story tower in the CBD, the project transforms a mid level transfer zone into a “sky garden” for commuters and tourists.
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Soft Thresholds
An on-site hospital interior project for Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital, NYC. Inspired by the building’s curved porthole window motif, the design develops restorative staff break and decompression spaces to support healthcare workers under high intensity schedules.
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Summit Garden Retreat
Summit Garden Retreat
is a mountain farmstay that combines a B&B, an immersive planting experience, and a farm to table restaurant on Dongping Mountain. Guests can stay overnight, participate in natural cultivation, and enjoy signature dishes made with ingredients grown on-site.
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Behind the Scenes
This design is intended for a temporary exhibition installation in Aga Khan Museum museum, inspired by the concept of a shelter. It features a movable modular structure and curved display panels made of flexible materials. Visitors can engage with the exhibition by pulling curtains and repositioning the panels, creating an interactive experience.
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Nature Symphony
This design aims to create a space where people can interact with nature by expanding RISD's Nature Lab, allowing visitors to experience animal specimens and natural environments from different perspectives. The space features platforms of varying heights and circular glass vessels, forming an ideal exhibition route that combines small animals with plant and animal specimens, making it both an educational and entertaining exhibition space.
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Pankhurst House
Pankhurst House is an interactive exhibition renovation for the Pankhurst Centre in Manchester, UK—home of a key figure in the women’s suffrage movement. Grounded in site research on a place saved, rebuilt, and operated by women, the project translates the story of women’s awakening into a two level spatial narrative.
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Inspired Fish
Inspired Fish is a design-build cooking installation developed beneath the Twin Fish Island Bridge.
The project focuses on structural logic and construction documentation, including site plans, sections, elevations, and detailed timber joinery drawings. It demonstrates my ability to translate conceptual ideas into precise, fabrication-ready construction sets.
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Internship
Selected work from my internship at Gensler, where I contributed to workplace, healthcare, higher education, and mixed-use projects through modeling, rendering, material selection, and space planning.
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Other Works
This section captures my personal explorations in architecture, reflecting facets of my personality, interests, and passions. It is an evolving collection that continues to grow.
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