FIRST YEAR
Semester 1 - Year 1
POLKECO
Client Brief
My cafe will be aimed at students. It will be a study space where students can immerse themselves in a natural environment. There will be a salad bar over lunchtime and a small set menu for those that don’t want to have salad. There will be various different work spaces for students to work in, there will be group work tables and individual booths for a max of 2 people and work rooms that you can book for an hour at a time. There will be plug sockets everywhere so that work can be flexible. I want students to feel like they have a space away from university to be able to work in. The space needs to be sustainable as increasingly more people are looking to have an environmentally friendly alternative.
This project was based on the floor plan of the Dancing Man Brewery, (the old Woolhouse in Southampton). We had free range about the type of restaurant/cafe that we wanted to design. I chose a study cafe where students can go to eat nutritionally and feel healthy in an environmentally friendly space. During this semester we had to make a to scale model of our space, create elevations, sections and floor plans using AutoCAD
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PLAN
This was my Final General Arrangement Plan which was done on AutoCAD. It demonstrates the private study spaces, the cafe counter, the staff room, the toilets, the group work spaces and the booth seating.
MATERIALS EXPLORATION
I have chosen to have a wooden floor, use white paint for the walls and the chairs. I would like to have acoustic panelling for the walls around the private study rooms. Due to the fact that it is a sustainable and eco cafe I would like to have a wall of plants on the back of the booths. As it is an existing Grade II listed building the exterior walls are already stone and can't be changed. The surface of the tables are wood and the countertop of the cafe is marble.
3D MODEL
For this module we had to create our own physical model in 3d to the scale of 1:50. I photographed my model and used Photoshop to alter the materials and colours in order to make it more realistic.
FINAL PRESENTATION BOARD
This was my completed A2 presentation board for my cafe which showed my final concept, my sectional cut and my rendered 3D model.
Semester 1 - Year 1
WARSASH HOUSE
CLIENT 1
A family of 4.
CLIENT BRIEF
You have instructed me to redesign a four bedroom house over 2 floors. You have asked for an office with a desk and TV. A family sized kitchen with surface space, a large kitchen table and with a pantry off the kitchen. You have asked for a gym-come-yoga room to be used by the family, with enough headspace for a treadmill and a place to store yoga equipment. You would like a large blackboard in a communal area within the house for family reminders. You want lots of plants all over the house. You have asked me to design a walk-in wardrobe for clothes and shoes. In the cloakroom you have asked for tennis racket hooks, space to store shoes and sports equipment.
This project saw us explore our hand-drawing skills for elevations/perspective drawings and floor plans. We used the floor plan of a new build in Warsash, Southampton which was two floors but had the opportunity to put in an extra floor in the loft. We chose two clients and ran them simultaneously with each other and then chose our favourite to develop into semester 2. My Client 1 was a young family of 4 and my Client 2 was an older man who has retired but spent most of his career in South America.
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PLAN
GROUND FLOOR
This was the general arrangement plan for the ground floor for my Client 1, family of 4. It has a large open plan kitchen dining room which leads out into the entrance hall. There is a living room, a downstairs bathroom, a boot room, a playroom and an office/gym.
WARSASH HOUSE
Semester 1 - Year 1
CLIENT 2
Retired Man
CLIENT BRIEF
You have asked for me to redesign a 3 storey house with 4 bedrooms. You would like animals to play a huge part in the decoration of rooms. You would like a cinema room with a large screen and a projector. You would like the house to be adaptable if in later years you are at some point less able. The bedrooms on the first floor will have one for you, and a spare guest room. There will also be a bunk bed room for future grandchildren. Due to your previous involvement in South America you would like to have fabrics and design features from that part of the world.
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PLAN
GROUND FLOOR
This was the general arrangement plan of the ground floor for Client 2. It has a large entrance hall with a downstairs bathroom off it. There is a large living room with multiple seating areas and a large kitchen dining room with a pantry and a utility room off it. There is also a cinema room and an office.
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GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PLAN
FIRST FLOOR
This was the hand drawn general arrangement plan of the first floor for Client 2. There is a master bedroom with an ensuite and a dressing room, a spare double bedroom with an ensuite and a bunk bed room with an ensuite bathroom, there is also a landing with a balcony.
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KITCHEN SECTION
This was hand drawn to scale sectional drawing of my Client 2 kitchen.
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FINAL CONCEPT
Storm of Life
Semester 1 - Year 1
BODYISM
This project involved redesigning a space in London for an existing company who does up-market gyms. We were given the choice of the different rooms/features that we chose to put into our gym while doing thorough research into the brand and the values that they want to uphold. We had to develop General Arrangement Plans, Lighting Plans and Furniture Plans on AutoCAD. We also had to do an elevation on AutoCAD and then render it on photoshop. One of the main elements to this project was learning how to Slip Test our flooring samples to make sure that we weren’t putting any customers at risk. We used a range of equipment provided for us by the university that determined the roughness of the floor, the tendency to leave a scratch and the weight that it can take of something dropping on the sample and not denting or smashing. This last one is particularly important in a gym as heavy weights are being dropped all the time and I needed to find the correct type of flooring to not leave marks or dents that would last longer than a few minutes. We then inputted our findings into the slip assessment tool on the HSE government website which then put our findings into a table and a bar graph. We also learnt about the importance of light distribution and learnt to count the light fittings using the Lumen Method. We also learnt about sound reverberation and tested the best surface against it.
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PLAN
This was the general arrangement plan for the gym including an elevation. There is a lobby, gym, yoga room, changing room, an outside seating area, a sauna and a cafe.
Semester 2 - Year 1
UKIYO
This project asked us to take an existing site on Shaftesbury Avenue and turn it into a restaurant. I chose to do a Japanese sushi restaurant with a strong suggestion towards plastic pollution in the sea. we had to chose a designer or a collaboration of designers that are supposedly opening the restaurant. I chose Iris Van Herpen and Jianhui Yan who is a recycled plastic jewellery designer, one of my main features is a twist on a Japanese blossom tree using the many colours of recycled plastic blossom from Jianhui, this would span over the ceiling of the restaurant and be covered in fairy lights. We had to produce two A3 presentation boards, visuals on Sketchup and general arrangement plans on AutoCAD, we also had to design our own logos and menus for the restaurant.
Jianhui Yan is a sustainable jewellery designer who is looking to collaborate with Dutch fashion designer Iris Van Herpen and together they want to open a Japanese sushi restaurant in Soho, London. The site aquired is on Shaftsbury Avenue and is a referbished building across 3 floors. My client has asked, as both of their morals are sustainability focused that the restaurant resources and materials are all sourced sustainably. My client has asked me to design a high end sushi restaurant. The name of the restaurant will be Ukiyo which means ‘floating world’ in Japanese. Target audience is young adults in creative industries and the clubs have become popular celebrity hangouts but there is lots of money about and so the restaurant will be expensive and high end. My client has asked for the aesthetic to be Japanese cherry blossom but with a twist. The materials all need to be organic and natural. The surrounding restuarants are from varied cultures such as Thai, Lebanese, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean and Brazillian. This really demonstrates the vast range of cultures within London and allowing tourists to experience different dining. The ground floor will have the seating area and the conveyor that will transport the food around the restaurant.
FINAL CONCEPT
Behind the Concept
The final concept that I chose has the title of “Disintegrating Beauty” and the image is of a woman in a red dress in a pile of rubbish and is leaning on a basket of rubbish. The woman is disintegrating into the rubbish but the dress remains untouched showing the impact of the fashion industry on the world and the environment. It shows that humans are only fleeting on the planet but the impact of them is not. People will eventually go back into the earth but the impact of fashion will outlive them.
PRESENTATION BOARDS
UKIYO
WARSASH HOUSE
Semester 2 - Year 1
This project was continuing the one from the semester before where we had to decide which of our designs we preferred the most, I went with the family of 4 and decided to develop it further. We had to do the final general arrangement plans in AutoCAD not just hand drawn, do a digital sample board and then brought the plan into Sketchup and build it up, then take rendered images and sections. One of the skills I had to tune was to learn how to create an isometric drawing on Sketchup and then we had to put them onto an A1 presentation board.
FINAL CONCEPT
The final concept for the family of 4 was called 'Peacock Feathers'.
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PLAN
This is the final General Arrangement Plan for the ground and the first floor done in AutoCAD. It also shows the sectional cut from the master bedroom.
RENDERED GROUND FLOOR PLAN
This is the rendered ground floor plan to scale brought into Sketchup. This is a visual taken from above looking down onto plan view.
RENDERED FIRST FLOOR PLAN
This is a rendered to scale first floor plan which has been brought into sketchup. This visual is from above at plan view.
MATERIALS BOARD
This was the materials board for the Family of 4s house. The peacock feather fabric is a real sample. In the house I have specified for it to be used for curtains and cushions on the beds and the sofa.
SKETCHUP VISUAL 1
This is my first Sketchup visual which is the view from the bed of the master bedroom. It shows the divider which divides the bedroom to the dressing room and the door to the ensuite, there is a tv at the end of the bed to allow them to watch tv in the evenings. As you can see I have used the peacock feathers as the floor length curtains covering the door to the balcony. The divider was my favourite part of the house and was the unique design feature.
SKETCHUP VISUAL 2
This is the Sketchup visual number 2, it is the view from the cooker to the stairs and the entrance hall. It has large lights which hand down over the entrance table from the first floor, it also shows the black board which was a requirement of the family to allow them to write important errands and notes to one another.
SKETCHUP VISUAL 3
This is the third visual from Sketchup. It is the view from the doorway of the living room, it shows the fireplace but also the floor length curtains made from the same peacock feather fabric to match the concept.
SKETCHUP VISUAL 4
This is the Sketchup visual 4, it shows the kitchen from the view of the dining room table.
SKETCHUP VISUAL 5
This is the Sketchup visual 5, which is the view from the landing standing outside of the daughters room. The blinds are a sage linen and the lights are the same ones that you can see in the visual 2.
SECTION CUT
This is a section cut from the left hand side of the house. It shows both floors of the house and from this picture you can see the master bedroom, the kitchen, the pantry/utility, the stairwell, the daughters room and the playroom.
ISOMETRIC DRAWING
