LIBRARY & ARCHIVES NT
LEVEL 2
PROJECT: Commercial refurbishment & fit-out
CLIENT: Higher Education Facility - Library & Archives NT
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OBJECTIVE
To create a hub that is dynamic to catch the engagement of Tafe students to enrol into the University of Canberra. There will be two areas that will be designed:
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CONCEPT DESIGN
CLIENT REPORT
To create a
DIPLOMA OF INTERIOR DESIGN: A BODY OF WORKS
DIPLOMA OF INTERIOR DESIGN: A BODY OF WORKS
CUSTOM FURNITURE ITEMS
CLIENT MIKE EGAN
During the first trimester of my interior design course, I was required to design and develop custom furniture for our client Mike. It needed to suit the décor and overall interior of the space. The two custom pieces were a bookshelf and rug.
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CUSTOM BOOKCASE
During Ideation and conceptualisation, I found myself exploring rectangular shapes, using this design process as a starting point for my concept design. I found many ideas were coming from more rectilinear shapes and styles. I wanted to see the connection between understanding negative and positive space within these sketches. These allowed me to develop my idea further.
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I started to use those abstract sketches to further Ideate my bookcase design. Exploring the early stages of bookcase development. I wanted to draw them as small thumbnails to get many possible ideas.
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I further developed this idea by drawing some perspective drawings to understand the bookcase and it would look roughly to scale and in real life. By rendering them I also was able to narrow the colour and material selections.
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FINAL BOOKCASE DESIGN
The final product is based on the client's requirements of varying heights as well as complying with the modern mid-century modern theme.
DIMENSIONS OF THE BOOKCASE
CUSTOM RUG
The main driving factor of the rug design was from Egan's interest in rare books. I wanted to explore further the concept of book spines; vintage books, art covers as well graphic design layouts of pages. Upon this research, I wanted to view and explore this notion in an abstract form. Once I started to view my inspiration images, I started to create patterns, dominance of line and focal points to see what would be best adapted into a rug.
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I found the patterns and linework in the abstraction phase useful and thus wanted to explore the idea with Copic pens that would allow me to add colour and to create a layered effect. I, however, found it hard to convey different textural elements of the rug, which was my original idea, adapting and creating whittled paper from old books.
FINAL RUG & DIMENSIONS
Upon the final design, general dimensions and material selection was required for the project.
