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DESIGN FOR FELINES Washington, DC

DESIGN COMMUNICATION II | SPRING 2016

During my freshman year in college, I

designed a cat shelter and led my team of
classmates in building it for the Washington

Humane Society’s “Design For Felines: Giving
Community Cats Shelter” Competition. The
venue was The Blind Whino. Our design

studio professor asked us to think creatively,
and challenged us to design a cat shelter for
cats, and not primarily for the appeal of their

human counterparts.

This Is Me!

A precedent for my design was the “Catissa 4 Storey
Cat House”, picture at left. I based the interior sleeping

space of my design off of the Catissa design, with their
permission. I chose this design as a precedent because

of how comfortable the cats in the product photo’s
looked, and thought DC cat’s could enjoy that comfort
as well.

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