Yiwen Zhang / Sandy

Interactive Designer, Creative Maker
Sandy is an interactive designer with a background in Industial Design. She is passionate about designing things that combine usability and aesthetics. She enjoys prototyping and believes in craftsmanship.
Sandy is an interactive designer with a background in Industial Design. She is passionate about designing things that combine usability and aesthetics. She enjoys prototyping and believes in craftsmanship.
Thesis Faculty
John SharpLoretta WolozinJesse HardingErnesto KlarAaron HillEthan Silverman

Cloud 9

Project Website

Cloud 9 is an interactive hanging chair that provides a private, immersive and multi-sensorial space for audiences to revive from challenges in life.

The metropolitan environment can be overwhelming with hectic lifestyle and endless stress – sometimes we just need a pause to take a break from life.

Cloud 9 integrates interactive light and sound, to create a visual, audial, and tactile therapeutic experience for the audience, who could gain tranquil mentality and relax the soul in peace – like being in a cloud.

The form of Cloud 9 is inspired by the cocoon of the Urodidae Moth, representing the motif of a caterpillar, who must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly, and signifying the hope that the audience can revive like a butterfly after taking a good break in Cloud 9.

The interior of Cloud 9 is soft, with soft, bouncy cloud-shaped cushion on the bottom and the back, for the audience’s comfortable physical experience as well as the mental relaxation.

soft and stretchy hand-crocheted “cocoon”
silky smooth furry cushion

Special thanks to Jiyeon Choi (G) as the project model.