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Changing Ties

Installation Design / INT-602 / Brooklyn, New York / Spring 2024

Changing Ties reimagines New York City dining sheds as fresh-air pantries: neighborhood spaces where seasonal produce, food-centered programming, and public life can share the same adaptable structure. Knotted cotton-line containers suspend from the existing shed frame, storing different types of produce while turning an infrastructure of temporary dining into a visible system of exchange.

Developed as group studio work for Osteria Brooklyn, the project moved between drawings, a half-scale model, full-scale fabrication, and an in-situ installation. The container system was designed, produced, and installed by Shih Hsuan (Alvin) Lo with four members of the production team.

Full-scale Changing Ties knotted container model

Changing Ties concept and project introduction

Current dining shed and Changing Ties use comparison with plan drawings

Half-scale and full-scale Changing Ties physical models

Changing Ties knotted produce container development

Changing Ties in-situ installation with section and elevation drawings