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Hi, I’m Du Nghiem (b. 2003, Hanoi). I’m a Master of Architecture candidate at Rice University. 
I graduated from Yale College in May 2025 with a B.A. in Architecture and Psychology, earning distinction in both majors.

I love desire paths, hammock naps, palm reading, sending postcards, and the cold feel of concrete. I am interested in memory preservation, mapping and counter-mapping.

I hope to design with curiosity, courage, and care.


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A - ARCHITECTURE

5-1. Rotary Houses
4-2. Threaded Ground
4-1. Mobile Textile Hub
3-3. River’s Edge 
3-2. Intimate Immensity
2-3. Play/ Ground
2-2. Sheer Folly
2-1. Kit of Parts
1-3. And/ Or


B - OTHER MEDIUM

3-2. Thresholds
3-1. Dominant Void
2-1. Illustrations
1-1. Sketches


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A3-2. INTIMATE IMMENSITY

Academic Project
Fall 2024, Yale College
Instructors: Adam Hopfner & Talitha Liu

Site/ sectional plans

Experiential Vignettes

“Sight says too many things at one time. Being does not see itself. Perhaps it listens to itself.”
- Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. 

Standing in the middle of the Stony Creek Quarry in Branford, Connecticut, I felt swallowed by the echoes and vibrations of the active site. Thinking of sound as a spatial event unfolding overtime, I hope to create a contemplative dwelling that cultivates a series of acoustic experiences. 

FORM

The space is carved out of stone and nestled into the grand, vertical granite blocks. I took inspiration from satellite dishes, handheld sound magnifiers, and ultrasound images to generate the soft, amorphous internal form, contrasting with the perfect geometry of the shell and the rugged landscape. The tunneling effect embodies how sounds rise and fall, resonate back and forth in all directions.


SEQUENCE

Ripples of sound extract and carve out pockets of space, a constantly evolving sequence of compression and release. The dwelling simultaneously recedes into the quarry and reaches out to the boundless water, oscillating between a hiding spot of utmost quietness and a dynamic, open echo chamber. As sounds take over, one is enveloped with a sense of intimate immensity.

Concrete-cast sectional models