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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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B3-2. THRESHOLDS
Interactive Installation

A Collaboration with Darwin Do (Technical Contributor)
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) Studio Fellowship, 2024–2025


All activation modes/ Single-duo activation


Shades/ Lines/ Volumes

Inspired by Rudolf Laban’s kinesphere - the invisible sphere defined by one’s reach - this installation challenges rigid perceptions of personal space, encouraging participants to co-create and reshape spatial relationships through movement.

A maze-like structure of sheer fabric screens creates a translucent, shifting environment. These screens obscure direct visibility between participants, allowing only their shadows to emerge. Bodies stir the air, making the fabrics ripple, stretch, drift. Motion activates dynamic visual projections - some requiring two participants on opposite sides of a screen, while others function independently. The evolving graphics trace a progression of architectural elements - points, lines, surfaces, and volumes. 

A series of projectors connected to Raspberry Pis display the projections on the fabric. Ultrasonic distance sensors connectd to ESP32s are placed on the ground to detect motion from participants. Motion data is sent to the Pis over UDP via the OSC protocol.



Installation setup at CCAM's Leeds Studio
Photos by Chen Xiangyun and Maggie Schnyer