Annie
Cheng

SCENE / ATMOSPHERE / MOVEMENT

This is a scenic design for Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, exploring the contrast between everyday domestic life and the supernatural presence of ghosts. Design research drew on 1940s British domestic interiors, Art Deco and postwar utility furniture. The design willing to build an elegant, orderly living room whose broken objects, shifting light and spatial openness between reality and the supernatural. I reimagined the traditional enclosed living room as a more open, layered space with large windows and French doors so the ghost character Elvira, could move fluidly between interior and the outside garden.

GARDEN / SEASONS / DISCOVERY

The VR environment is a classical principle of Chinese garden design — that a garden should never be seen all at once, but discovered gradually as the visitor moves through it. This VR experience reimagines that idea for immersive media. It creates a traditional Chinese courtyard garden — pavilions, a covered corridor, a moon gate and so on. At the same time, the season shifts around them, from spring blossoms to summer shade, autumn color and winter snow. A observational storyline gives a gentle narrative thread. The project builds directly on my earlier Vectorworks landscape model, extending it from a static 3D render into a walkable, seasonally responsive real-time environment.