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Daun Jung is an interior designer and spatial mediator based in London. Her work, spanning imagery, sculpture, and interior spaces, embodies her expansive vision of defining space. She poses practical and mediatory questions arising from the gap captured in the process of transforming non-material data into material space. 

Having completed the RCA interior design program in 2023, she continues her journey as an interior designer at 'Brinkworth Design,' a London-based retail design agency.


2023 RCA Website Link:
https://2023.rca.ac.uk/students/daun-jung

Aura Hotel Amenity (2023)
  • Partnership with Charleston Trust
 These Aura Hotel Amenity series are the result of reproducting fragments hunted from the Charleston Farm House. These digital fragments, which deviate from their original context in terms of use, size and material, possess and intriguing incompleteness and freedom.


Type: Hospitality
  • Category: Academic Thesis Project
  • Resource: Paintings by René Magritte
  • Project Lead Tutor: Gem Barton

RGB 0/0/255 Apple (2023)This intuitive concept video visualizes the fragmentation process that occurs when material objects are transferred to digital space. Digitized apples are free from stereotypes about size, material, and context. The Aura Series Project actively accepts and celebrates the errors, distortions, and autonomy of these copies. Now there are no apples here that are hard and red and can be held in one hand.

We can't be sure of anything about this apple.


  • Type: Concept Video (.gif)
  • Category: Academic Thesis Project
  • Time: 00:00:06
  • Project Lead Tutor: Gem Barton


Aura Hotel (2023)
  • Partnership with Charleston Trust
Aura Hotel is a thesis project for the Interior Design program at the Royal College of Art in 2023. This project explores speculative scenarios of new types of spaces and human beings, based on the spatial legacy of Charleston House in East Sussex.

The hotel is situated in 2033, a future society dominated by replication technologies such as 3D scanning and 3D printing. The hotel is founded on the hypothesis that the spatial legacy of Charleston House can be reappropriated through numerous digital replica fragments.

Bizarre spatial elements, such as pillow columns and fallen doors on the floor, visualize how these replicated fragments acquire identities in terms of use, size, and material as they undergo re-editing in the digital space, detached from their original context. Aura Hotel exemplifies the formation of peculiar and surreal spaces by inserting the digital fragments into new material contexts.


  • Type: Hospitality
  • Category: Academic Thesis Project
  • Location: Lewes Priory, Cockshut Rd, Lewes
  • Project Lead Tutor: Gem Barton


Green Portal (2022)The colour 'green' possesses an inherent weakness to distortion in the digital realm. The 'Green Portal' project ingeniously crafts a 'Portal' that skillfully bridges the divide between digital and physical spaces by harnessing the dual essence of green. This captivating green portal is fashioned using the playful illusion of a '2D' rectangle seamlessly integrated into a '3D' environment.  


  • Type: Installation
  • Category: Academic Thesis Project
  • Medium: Green Tape, Green Paper
  • Size:1800*2200 (mm)
  • Project Lead Tutor: Luke Jones


Green Portal Garment (2022)These two prototypes are an extension of previous Green Portal work and involve the exploration of portable or wearable structures. This exploration defines this thin garment or membrane that surrounds the body as a minimal spatial structure.


  • Type: Prototyping
  • Category: Academic Project
  • Prototype(1) Size: 1000*900 (mm) 
  • Prototype(2) Size: 1700*650*650 (mm)
Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/768202100


Memorial Dining (2019)
      Located on Korea's Jeju Island, once an exile for independence activists when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule, the project aims to honor forgotten heroes through memorial spaces. Death has been isolated easily from our daily lives. This project looks back at the sacrificed death through the very basic life act of dining.

      This project was proposed for a contest to rebuild and revitalize historical sites on Jeju island. This will activate the abandoned exile of independence activist Lee Seunghoon.


      • Type: Retail Space
      • Category: Proposed Project 
      • Area: 286 (m²)
      • Location: 23, Jocheon 9-gil,  Jeju-do, Korea


      Crack (2022)The 'Crack' project was a collaboration with the Lowestoft community, involving the insertion of a pavilion symbolizing postcards into a historic local post office building.

      I focused on the chronological timeline created between the sender and the recipient, which distinguishes the postcard from modern simultaneous communication methods such as text or email. Since time is intangible, I used the motif of 'cracks' in the process of making it tangible.

      The old post office was a highly complex structure, and I delicately inserted three different forms of cracks along the sub-routes connecting the entrance of the building to the one located furthest back.


      • Type: Pavilion 
      • Category: Academic Project
      • Location: Former Lowestoft Post Office 
      • 51 London Road North, Lowestoft, Suffolk
      • Project Lead Tutor: Reiko Yamazaki

      Flatness Ontology
      Self-Referential Space (2022)      The word ‘flatness’ has been neglected in the huge spatial discourse of the past decade.

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      The expression ‘flatness’, which basically symbolizes a state of almost loss of depth, has been easily connected with some negative expressions such as ‘thinness’, ‘frivolity’, and ‘fragility’. However, this formative language needs to be transformed and re-established in the field of spatial science in today's image overload era, in which reality replaces reality and the boundary between the original and the copy vibrates rhythmically.


      Type: Academic Dissertation
      • Category: Publication
      • Size: 297*210(mm), 34 pages


      Steps to Old Future (2021)The project 'Steps to an Old Future' challenges the inherent optimism associated with the term 'Futuristic.' Often, the word 'futuristic' conjures images of progress and functionality, but it's essential to recognize that development and decline are intertwined aspects of existence. How long can it retain its intrinsic value? A staircase can transform into a monument, a symbol of bygone architectural styles, long after its original function has faded into history.


      • Type: Staircase Facade
      • Category: Academic Project 
      • Location: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Rd
      • Project Lead Tutor: Tania López Winkler


      Constellation (2023)
      This brochure summarizes Daun Jung's academic projects spanning 2021-2023 and captures the connections between them. This graphic, made up of multiple orbits, is visualized as one constellation.


      • Type: Individual Show Brochure
      • Catergory: Publication
      • Size: 297*420(mm), Three Folded