Presentation boards for The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada

For the Building Tech module at University, we had to find a museum or gallery , research it and make boards which we presented to the class. I chose the Royal Ontario Museum in Ontario, Canada designed by Daniel Libeskind. Here are mine.

 

 

 

 

D&AD Awards 2013. My entry for the Holiday Inn brief

See link to watch video on my Vimeo account
https://vimeo.com/63155039

Staircase research for final 2nd year project 'What If'.

For my final project of the year, my concept is 'what if Smeg made bread?' As Smeg is an Italian brand, I thought I could take it back to it's routes. The space we have to deal with is in Manchester's Northern Quarter. Quite a independent and bustling area of the city, a quirky, yet smart and fresh bakery would fit in perfectly.

We have to use at least two floors of the building, so a staircase (and lift) are needed. I would like mine to be glass and seamless, to fit in with some of Smeg's brand qualities of well built and sophistication.

Own photo

Wagamama's in York. I like how this staircase is supported by just one column, seen below. I also like how it is not flush against the wall, almost free standing. I want my staircase to not have any banisters, just glass panels, to add an air of sophistication and simplicity.

Own photo.

Own photo.

The above photo is from the Science Museum which I visited in London last week with my family. I like how the handrail on the wall seems to be floating, and the stainless steel is attractive. I also think the wooden grooving on the wall is interesting, it would definitely fit within the theme I plan to have in my bakery. 

Packhorse, Huddersfield renovation project. My Pop Up Avant Garde hair stall. Development.

Some boards from Arup lighting collabarative project - Sound Wave, Leeds

Place Making and Space Shaping

Design work and Photoshopped board work from my sketchbook.

Samples

 I looked at several wallpaper manufactures  for my Moroccan Themed restaurant - Shezan. Brit Walls have some really cool papers. The top one is very Chinese-esk (I didn't use any of these for design). My favorite is the branch paper design at the bottom.

Modern Moroccan restaurants - Sample board project

 I found these photos while researching for a sample board project, of which  I have chosen to design an Moroccan restaurant.. I love the simplicity of the design.

For my sample board, I want the colours to be clean, for example monochrome to me is very modern, sleek and sophisticated. If I add one or two colours to this it will look even better. These colours could picked up in the furnishings or lighting.

I originally thought that it would be difficult to create a modern Moroccan interior, but after looking at these into it and finding these photos, I realized that its quite easy. The second photo is how I would like my restaurant to appear. The colours are very calm and chilled as I would like mine to be, with warm lighting and a pool to add to the calmness. Obviously there will be no pool, but I could use rippled glass or one of that effect.

Design dialogues

 MOVEMENT/TIME to me is something that is fluid, and can change at anytime. 

There are 2 pages from my sketch book and my poster for this project.

Yorkshire Sculture Park

I've always been keen on photography, so I was excited when we were told we would take a trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for inspiration for our next. I have been a few times before with my family, and about 1 week before to see this same exhibition. Here are my personal favorite images from the day.

Movement and Time

Some photos of mine from models I made for the project 'Design Monologs - Movement and Time'.

FLUSH project

SHED HEAD project

Development for SHED HEAD

 For my Shed design, I chose to create more of a shelter than a shed, so I took a large bed sheet and put a fan underneath it, so that it created shapes - like so:

 The shapes created were very helpful with my development for this project, and I plan to do research like this again for future projects.