Mews

Brief:

You are asked to design a home-office for a mews dwelling in the city.

Your client is involved in the 'creative industries'. they will ocassionally be required to meet their clients in the office.

Consider...

   Delineation between work and home-life.

   Is there a clear separation, or do the two activities overlap?

   Concealment, the mews is naturally a hidden building type.

   Storage, both domestic and other.

   Privacy for clients.

Lower Floor

Upper Floor

Lower Floor Isometric

Upper Floor Isometric

Living Area

Kitchen (the fume extractor went missing : \, see lower floor isometric )

Dining Area/Work Area

Bedroom

Grand Piano

Wardrobe behind the bed

Light Project

Forgot what this project was about. I just remembered it had something to do with lights. This is an exhibition space in Glasgow.

Floor Plan

This is the split corridor with LED lights guiding the path. The idea came from emergency path lighting on aircrafts.

Larger cylinder shaped exhibition space with the artworks projected on the glass.

Smaller cylinder shaped exhibition space where children can crawl into and enjoy the projections. 

Juice Bar

Juice Bar

Plan

Entrance

 Counter

Seats near the bar window

Bar area with stools

Booth 

Booth (whole view)

I can't remember any of the comments. I just remember we presented it to Drew. I miss Drew :\

Several Hundred VOCs

Several Hundred VOCs* 

(Volatile Organic Compounds)

We were asked to design an antiquarian bookshop that caters for a niche market.

1. Entrance is near the lower right hand rectangle. First thing you see is the room for private consultation (slanted square room), then on its right is a small reception.
2. On the left side are lounge sofas for reading.
3. Further left is 3 computer stations for searching library catalogue.
4. Upper left hand corner is the conference table
5. Along the walls are the bookshelves
6. Lastly, the toilet with disabled access

Private consultation room

Reception

Seating area

Computer stations

(And yes those are Apple Mighty Mouse hanging from the ceiling)

Just because they are awesome

Bookshelves (closed)

Designed like how iTouch and iPhone works. Touchscreen browsing through books.

Bookshelves (opened)

Toilet with disabled access

Comments and responses:

1. Sofas are bulky: yes they are, bad choice of sofas

2. Why 3 computers?: Mmm didn't really think about it, but now that I have I think 1-2 would have done just fine.

3. Reception stuck in a corner: I guess slanting the consultation room kinda took away space for the reception : \ damn.

4. Conference table not enough lighting: need to add more lighting. Got it.

Skin, Ribbon, Envelope

Skin, Ribbon, Envelope


We had to take 3 photos of surfaces (ceiling, wall, floor) for part 1, then for part 2 use them to create a palette of materials for an interior space. I think. Kinda forgot it's been a long time. :\ 


From this collection specify the ceiling, wall and floor for a routine through the building supplied (somewhere in Woodside?) The route must start at the entrance and finish at the glazed area to the rear of the first floor.


Consider:
The beginning, middle and end of the journey.
Significant moments that occur along the way.
The effect of lighting, both natural and artificial.
Combinations, transitions and relative proportions.

Part I

Ceilings

Walls

Floors

Part II

Here's what I came up with:

I didn't actually get to use the last photo in the final design because it made my Vectorworks crash several times. So I used the flower ornaments as a design on the bottom of the stairs instead.

Here's the combinations:

Final work:

1. Wall: Combination of (ceiling1)+(ceiling2)+(floor1)
2. Ceiling: Combination of (floor2)+(floor3)
3. Stairs: wall1 (used the wooden planks as the tread and the plaster wall as the riser)
4. Flower ornament: wall 2
5. Landing walls: wall 3 

Notice I didn't mention ceiling3, well technically ceiling3 kinda looks like wall1 anyway so I just made wall1 into 2 different materials, wooden plank and plaster.