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OFFICE PINGA
Selected Works

 
OFFICE PINGA is a design agency co-founded by Diana Guo and Mingjia Chen that focuses on interior and landscape architecture. Design ethos centers around lighting, materiality, playfulness, and nature inspired spaces. 
Category
Built Project, Interior Design 

Gitwangak Affordable Housing 
Agency
Connect Landscape 
 
Completed
Current

Client
Gitwangak First Nation

Collaborators
Human Studio
Nomodic

The Gitwangak Housing Project is nestled in a spectacular mountain valley in a remote area of northern BC. Because apartment living does not support traditional food gathering preparation or storage, a community kitchen has been included for members and their extended families. Each home is also provided with a large deep freezer and pantry, to help with food security and to acknowledge the generosity of traditional food sharing practices.


Category
Built Project, Landscape Architecture

Royal BC Museum
Agency
Connect Landscape


Client
Royal BC Museum

Location
Territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking nations
Colwood, BC
The Royal BC Museum Site Program envisions transforming the museum grounds into a vibrant, accessible space for the public. Phase 1 focuses on preparing the site, including caring for native plants, preserving historical artifacts, and enhancing pedestrian access. Phase 2 introduces several key areas: a spacious Arrival Plaza for events, a scenic Coastal Bluff with stunning views, a peaceful Garry Oak Meadow with walking paths, and a Fern Grotto offering an immersive outdoor experience. The project aims to blend nature, culture, and community engagement.
Category
Landscape Architecture
Chester Johnson Park 
Agency
Connect Landscape
 
Awards
ATA Best Mid Sized Airport in North America
Completed 2022
Client YVR Airport Authority

Collaborators
Japanese Gardeners Society
Hall Constructors
North by Northwest

Chester Johnson Park provides an arrivals and gateway experience welcoming passengers and visitors to our Pacific Northwest. The landscape thematics are inspired by the estuary landscape which connects to YVR. Dynamic paving, passenger canopy and lighting create flow and movement representative of water, while the shoreline is anchored by stone, driftwood and plantings. In partnership, the Vancouver Japanese Gardener's Association has connected the Park and coastal theme with dramatic rock-work, dry stream, and plantings. Together, the composition provides place of respite while addressing passenger movement and access from the terminal and skytrain arrivals.
Category
Built Project, Landscape Architecture

Vancouver Airport Pier D Terminal Expansion 
Agency
Connect Landscape
 

Completed 2020 Spring

Client 
YVR Airport Authority

Collaborators
Kasian, GMA, TAM, Ken Heit Creative, McTavish Resource Management, PCL Constructors

Creation of a symbolic mythical island, tide pools, and forest experience inside the international wing welcomes passengers and provides a calming place of respite and iconic west coast experience. Visitors experience fluctuating high and low tide, rocky shoreline, and ability to walk on a boardwalk open to the sky and stand under feature installation of mature Hemlock forest.


Category
Built Project, Landscape Architecture

UCLA Lab School 
Agency
SBLA Studio
Location
Los Angeles, CA

Client
UCLA Facilities 

At Stephen Billings Landscape Architecture (SBLA), I played a lead role in the redesign of the UCLA Lab School landscape, originally designed by Richard Neutra. The vision was to enhance early childhood education through dynamic play areas, outdoor dining spaces, teaching gardens, and renewed access to Stone Canyon Creek. Central to the project was a commitment to inclusivity—ensuring full ADA accessibility and seamlessly integrating natural systems with educational spaces to inspire exploration, creativity, and community connection.
Category
Landscape Architecture
Common Ground
05–12–22
With Edith X, Hongjin Y, Ying Z. 

Location 
Bangkok, Thailand 


A stark tension exists between Bangkok’s global image as a modern, efficient economic hub and the fragmented realities at the neighborhood scale. As the city is viewed from global to local, the seamlessness of centralized infrastructure begins to unravel—giving way to dead ends and disconnected spaces. Yet, alongside this breakdown, a counter-narrative emerges: the resilience of informal mobility networks. With over 300,000 motorcycle taxis making 5–6 million trips daily, these decentralized systems fill the voids left by top-down planning. Mapping these flows reveals deep inequities embedded within elite infrastructural regimes—inequities that echo broader structural divides in Bangkok’s urban society.
Category
Urban Design

Longsdale Residential Housing 
Agency
Connect Landscape
 
Completed
Current

Client
North Vancouver 

Collaborators
Yamamoto Architecture The corner plaza at Lonsdale Avenue and East 17th Street draws inspiration from the natural materials of the area, designed to celebrate the distinctive character of the North Shore. The new design replaces the existing small seating area with a larger, open community plaza, crafted from high-quality materials that reflect the surrounding nature. Intimate pocket seating areas and a deck planter nestled among trees offer a peaceful retreat from the bustling street corner. Shaded by a grove of tree canopies, the plaza features sculptural basalt rock seating that evokes the boulder outcrops found throughout the North Shore landscape. Angled paver bands activate the corner with dynamic movement, encouraging social interaction and playful engagement.

Category
Built Project, Landscape Architecture
 Downtown Local Food Campus
Agency
MASS Design Group

Completed
Current

Client
Three Sisters Kitchen

Collaborators
Downtown Growers’ Market Three Sisters Kitchen and the Downtown Growers' Market in Albuquerque need to expand to better serve local food producers and consumers. The Downtown Local Food Campus will feature a market, local foods shop, and café focused on food access programs, training, and production space. Located in an underserved area, it aims to revitalize the neighborhood and support the regional food system. The design incorporates local agricultural practices, sustainable materials, and spaces for community engagement and collaboration.

Predesign & Planning, Schematic Design
Category
Landscape Architecture
15th & Marine Housing 
Agency
Connect Landscape
 
Completed

Client
Polygon 

Collaborators
Shift Architecture Arterra by Polygon Homes is a six-storey mixed-use development in North Vancouver’s Marine-Hamilton neighbourhood, offering 90 modern condominiums and 10,988 sq ft of ground-floor retail. Landscape architecture focused on community-focused amenities, including a landscaped terrace and lounge. 
Category
Built Project, Landscape Architecture
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