HOME 8-Eco Home Furnishings YIN ZHANG ID# 03053000 MFA Interior Architecture & Design Fall 2014
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Inspiration
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ANALYSIS
Beijing
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Client Profile
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End User
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Crate & Barrel
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CASES
Site Analysis
Sanlitun Village
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MUJI
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Rose Kennedy Greenway 34
DESIGN
Situations
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ABOUT
ABSTRACT
Project Overview
Design Concept
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Programming
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Proposed Plans
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New Arrivals Retail Showroom Classroom Student Gallery Organic CafĂŠ Outdoor Space
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Autobiography
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Resume
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Professional Goal
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DESIGN
Project Overview
Home 8 is a brand which combines eco home furnishings retail sales, education, and one-stop design services. In Beijing North fourth Ring Road, the Home 8 showroom is sited inside of the 15 years old, 10 level apartment complex’s commercial floors. This 40,000 sqft multi-functional retail store use Wu Xing concept to present whole project. This project was founded by Beijing North Star Company Inc. They corporate with some Chinese famous furniture and home furnishings brands to show and sell their eco products. Home 8 also collaborate with local higher education colleges, and designers to popularize sustainable lifestyle, and display young designers’ art works. Retail showroom, education center, design office, organic vegetarian café, and outdoor green space are Home 8 project’s main parts.
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DESIGN FOCUS SPACES
Social Situation
ABOUT
In the past twenty years, the development of the urbanization process in Beijing is significant. The fast speed evidences reflected in skyscrapers, cars, and complex express ways in Beijing. These high-speed miraculous developments not only enhance the GDP in Beijing, but also provoke some situations for this city. There are many city problems emerge from the city development, like a massive outsiders flock into the city leads to housing stress; a large sum of car ownership lead to traffic jams; a large amount of waste discharge and burning leads to land and air pollution. What’s more, during this large production and consumption age, many unscrupulous merchant manufacture low-quality and polluted products. They add toxic glue to adhesive furniture; add more chemical substances into paint or wall covering; add more volatile organic compounds into carpet or other fabrics. These low-quality products use a low price to attract customers, and their specifications overlooked the quality for themselves. Most customers do not realize that the toxic substances from low-quality products can harm for their health and pollute environment. As we know, people spend 80% time live inside of building, and they spend half time live in their homes. It’s important to create a safe and healthy indoor environment for every family. Home furniture and home products often contracted with people. Their quality directly affects people’s health. Customers are often concern about their life quality both from the food they eat and the products they use.
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The Opposite House
DESIGN ABOUT
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Inspiration
Famous architects Kengo Kuma designed The Opposite House. The green glass façade not only meant to invoke traditional Chinese screen, creating a clamming, forest-like shelter from the metro city, but also point out an eco-design master work. Hotel chose eco-friendly material to decorate all spaces. They use temperature sensor control system instead of air conditioner to change guest rooms’ temperature. Large atrium provides enough natural sunlight during the daytime. Small candles at the side of check-in table provide warm and welcome atmosphere during the night time. The Village, Building 1, 11 San Li Tun Lu (Sanlitun) Beijing, China (86) 010-6417-6688 www.theoppositehouse.com
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The artworks in this hotel are another ‘pop up’ hospitality experience. The way they display art works is a significantly transcend what we’ve typically seen. Guests often attracted by these design products when they check in, enjoy brunches, or go through the hallway. The hotel cooperates with local artists and hosting their artworks for three-month installation periods.
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FOCUS SPACES
Beijing City and County Area
ABOUT
Beijing
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Beijing Downtwon Area The Olympic Park Project’s Location
The Forbidden City
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Beijing Impression
TZ-(UTC+8) 16,801 Square km 6,487 Square Mile 20.15 Million People 16 Districts and 289 Towns
1900’s qing urban area
1970’s hútòng
2010’s CBD area
Second Largest City in China Over 3,000-Year-Old City History Main Nationality: 96% Han Chinese Population Density: World: 12th; China 4th 70 Establishments of Higher Education 73.2% for Tertiary Industry GDP 2013: 318,107 Billion US Dollar The Average Price of Apartments: Y54,111 per m2 (US$775 per sq. ft.)
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Beijing has established over 3,000 years and has remained the heart of north Chinese civilization. It has been the capital city for five Chinese feudal dynasty. Today, it has emerged as modern China’s administrative capital. When the new government began to embrace market-oriented economic reform in the 1970’s, the city was pushed to expand rapidly. Today, the six ring roads loop around the city center, and separating regions of the city by specialties, like flourishing shopping areas, financial districts, and other major centers.
About the living
Beijing has a temperate and continental monsoon climate, with four distinct seasons and big differences in temperature between day and night. coping with cold and windy winters, hot and humid summers, and dust or sand storms from the Mongolian steppe in spring.
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The large amount of outsiders immigrates to Beijing lead to cultivated land decrease, and the expanding of the urban landscape. In 1972, Beijing’s population was about 7.9 million people. By 2013 the population swelled to more than 30 million. From 2000, a large sum of higher raise residence was absorbed the surrounding areas and cumulating in a 100 million strong megacity. The Beijing real estate marketing started booming. By August 2013, the average price of apartments inside the Fourth Ring Road reached Y42,259 per m2 (US$634 per sq. ft.).
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Beijing Traffic
Beijing is an important transport hub in North China with five ring roads, nine expressways, eleven National Highways, nine conventional railways, and two high-speed railways converging on the city. The rapid growth of population leads to high vehicles growth. Over 4 million cars are running on the street every day. The annually added cars are more than 400,000. The Beijing governments continued to develop public transportation system, inadequate traffic policy, and enhance the outdoor parking fee.
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FOCUS SPACES ABOUT
Site Analysis
Residential Community
The Olympic Park
200 ft High way
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CHINA WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY Beijing Union University
North 4th Ring Road
Beijing University of Technology, Art and Design School
National Museum of Mordern Chinese Literature
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Bao Shang Bank Office Building
High level Apartments
Hu Bei Resturant
Shopping Mall Appartment Complex
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Building Analysis
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The building’s commercial area was empty after AGU 2012. The residents still use the residential apartments. The commercial area used to be Da Zhong Electronics retail. Da Zhong is an electronics chain, and it has 57 stores in Beijing. Beijing’s electronics market is intense competition. Da Zhong changed its marketing strategy, and it began to sell its products online. There were few people visited Da Zhong Electronics retail at 8th, 16 Courtyard, the North Fourth Ring. Customers are not satisfied with this store. They think that there are few kinds of products in this store, and they can’t find the products they
want. There has a big scale department store called Ito Yokado in the front of the street. The department store also sells electronics and other household products. An overpass connects Ito Yokado and this building. That’s why Da Zhong closed this store at 2012 summer.
Address: 8th, Jia 16th Courtyard, East road of the North Fourth Ring, Chaoyang district, Beijing, China. Building Type: multiple-function apartment (2 storeys commercial area, and 8 storeys residential apartment) Square Footage: 1 and 2 floor: 21,528 sf The whole building:252,782 sf Project footage: 2 commercial floors with total 43,056 sf Building Height: 32m, (105f) for the total 10 floors. Commercial floor height: 4m, (13f) Residential floor height:3m, (9.8f) Construction end: 2001-April-01 Current Owners: Beichenshiye real estate development co., LTD Property Management Company: Hua Hui property management co., LTD
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Existed Floor Plan
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Existed South Elevation
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FOCUS SPACES ABOUT
Client
Beijing North Star Company Limited
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Beijing North Star Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the investment, development, and construction of residential and commercial properties in the People’s Republic of China. It operates through Development Properties, Commercial Properties, and Investment Properties and Hotels segments. The company develops and sells middle and high-end residential, serviced apartments, and office buildings. It also owns and operates conference and shopping centers, hotels, department stores, office buildings, serviced apartment buildings, and convention and exhibition centers.
Mr. He Jiang-Chuan has been General Manager at Beijing North Star Co., Ltd. since February 2004. He served as Company Secretary at Beijing North Star Co., Ltd. since 1997 and as its Qualified Senior Economist. He joined Beijing North Star Co., Ltd. in November 1994 as Deputy General Manager. Mr. He has been the Chairman at Beijing North Star Co., Ltd. since April 2, 2007 and its Executive Director since 1997. He served as the Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Housing Reform Office and the Chief of the Municipal Housing Fund Management Centre. He has 19 years of experience in housing reform, real estate finance and property development and management. He is also the committee member of All China Youth Federation and a Standing Committee member of Beijing Youth Federation. Mr. He graduated from Beijing Economic University in 1988 with a master’s degree in economics and is qualified as a senior economist.
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FOCUS SPACES
End User
ABOUT
Target User 1: Middle class group live in Beijing Chinese middle-class incomes per household in 2012: $10,000-$60,000 a year. Most of the customers were born in the 60s and 70s, and live in Beijing. They accepted higher education, and open to the new design concepts. Many have a child, and the average age for their child is 9 to 25. These dates from Beijing demography. These kinds of families have substantial sufficient saving, and like to spend money to redecorate and furnish their homes. They want high-quality furnishings, and yet are aware of environmental and health issues. People living in Beijing like shopping with the whole family; especially when purchasing durable goods like furniture. They like to shop and make decisions together because they use durable goods together.
Target User 2: Young designers and design students This group comes to visit to learn sustainable design and concepts. They can work together with retailers to show their sustainable products at the gallery, or sell their products.
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Yanan lai was born in 1974. She is the design director of Domo Nature, which is her furniture brand. Yanan was graduated from the Central Academy of Art and Crafts with environmental and interior design background. In 1996, she began to teach interior design college program after she was graduated. She set up professional art design and exhibition design programs in her department. In 1997, she opened her interior design firm, which focus on hospitality design and public space design. In 2004, she corporate with Vincent Yu and opened their furniture brand when she was studying interior design in Paris. Yanan’s house is in a quiet rural place in Beijing. She separates her house with two functions. One is for daily life, and the other is for her design firm use. She likes clean, open and empty living space. However, she also likes to collect art crafts around the world. In her house, there are many beautiful products showed on the shelves. Yanan likes healthlife style. She likes design eco products for people use. She likes to take and use her towels, teeth brushes when she live in hotels.
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Edward Zhang was born in a small city called Langfang, which near Beijing. He spends his child life in that city. His parents are all accountant, and they hope he becomes an accountant like them. He studied Accounting in Beijing Technology and Business University in 1998. He take some acting courses at same time. Edward doesn’t like his accounting major. When he was in college, he was found by shooters and asked for shot some photos for magazines. He like this job, and he use his spare time worked for some periodical offices. At once time, he was asked to shoot some ads photos in West Africa. This experience changed his life. When he was walking on the desert land, he heard his true voice. He wants to be what he like to be. He likes art and performance. During his senior year, there was a selection show of stars from Shanghai TV. He joined this show, and became a professional actor after he finished this show. As a result, when Edward graduate, he became an actor rather than an accountant. He lived in Shanghai with couple years, and moved back to Beijing at 2008. He bought an apartment in Beijing north downtown area. He live with his parents and his dog. Edward likes animals. After he back from Africa, he often rescues stray animals during his spare time. He also does some charitable things in his free time. However, he don’t want people know this things. He donates the gifts from his fans to orphanage. He buy dog food or cat food, and send to the home for stray animals. Edward likes classical Chinese poetry. He also likes Rock music and blues. He believe Chineses Buddhism, and he often eat vegetarian food.
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Alex was born in Jan, 12, 1970, in Xian, Shanxi, and China. He was from a worker’s family. Like other 70’s generation in China, his childhood was clear and melodious. The life without computers and other electronic entertainments. People liked to watch movies, or drama at an opened outside stage. He liked to read picture-story books and play soccer with his friends. Alex was Graduate from Beijing Technology and Business University in 1993 with Advertising marketing major. He corporate with his friends and opened a small ads firm in Beijing. He made ads for restaurants, products, and real estate, etc. During these couple years, he recognized many clients from different areas. At that time, Chinese real estate market began to grow up. He decided to change his job, and worked for a large real estate developer company. In 1997, he promoted as a district leader in his company. He bought a house in Beijing Yayuncun district. During next years, he uses his money for investment. He cooperated with his friends and opened some restaurants in Beijing famous restaurant street, Gui street. At 2004, he quit the real estate job, and focus on his restaurant business. He followed the trend and changed his restaurants’ style. During the early 2000, his restaurants offer spicy Sichuan cuisine. At the 2008, his restaurants began to sell tea cuisine. Alex likes travel around the world with his family. They go for a travel during every break. Alex likes ride a bike. When he was a child, bike was a luxury transportation product at that time. Everyone wanted to have a black 28 bike. Although he has 2 cars for his family, he still likes a ride a bike during weekends with his family.
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ABOUT
Crate & Barrel
Crate & Barrel Stanford shopping mall store is a 2 floors home furnishings and housewares retail store. There is a stairway, and an elevator connects two floors. All the household products and housewares are displayed at the first floor. Customer can choose and purchase the products very soon. The second floor display home furniture and provide custom-design furniture services. People can choose the furniture finishes’ type and order them. Creat & Barrel offer furniture delivery services. Customers don’t need to pick up products by themselves. Crate & Barrel offers a variety of "upmarket" housewares, furniture, and related merchandise. These are displayed in the "vignette" style, where items are grouped together as they might appear in the home. The company was an innovator of this style, which has since become more widely used. The store chooses simple materials to design the whole space. Material use: polished concrete, ceramic tile, wood floor, wood ceiling penal, white paint.
Passenger flow: 400-500 people per weekend 200 people per weekday Location: 530 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel: 650.321.7800 Store hours: Mon-Fri: 10 am - 9 pmSaturday: 10 am - 7 pmSunday: 11 am - 6 pm
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ABOUT
Sanlitun Village
Sanlitun Village A commercial space brings nature and art into the metro city. The vibrant new open-plan district is the capital’s a lifestyle destination made up of shopping, dining, and entertainment areas. The zone takes its influence from the courtyards and alleyway’s of the Hu Tong neighborhood, mixing the past with a cosmopolitan present. Sanlitun Village is inspired by Beijing’s Hu Tong and Siheyuan courtyards cultures, and comprising a mix of modern irregular lines, textures and vibrant colors. It emphasis on the use of more natural materials, and in effect bring about a modern design distinct to the old history city. The goal of Sanlitun is to create a living, breathing community, a place where locals and visitors eager to come along and be entertained. There has much art and fashion display crossover projects located both indoor and outdoor. Most displays have interaction with people, which attract people come to the Village and try its artworks. At the north part of Village have many high-end flagship retail. I often take advantage around this area, and get full of inspiration from both architecture and interior design.
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MUJI
The MUJI Gae Aulenti store is located in a public space, which near Garibaldi station
in Milan, Italy. It is a 250 square meter with double space flagship store. The store design reflects MUJI’s brand philosophy. The key point for MUJI brand is that use simplistic display feature to show every product. This store chooses wood, grey bricks, metal and natural paint to present a simple and nature space. There is a 35 meter long corridor was hanging on the ceiling. The handrail on the corridor was designed with many different sized squared open mouths. These open mouths bring pass through feeling for the heavy structure. The large scale window brings enough natural sunlight into the indoor space. Designers: ROBERTO MURGIA ARCHITETTO ALIVERTI SAMSA ARCHITETTI Location: Gae Aulenti, Milan, italy Finish time:2013 Client:MUJI ITALIA SPA Design area:250m2 Design team:MIRIAM CESCO Structural engineering:TERZINI INGEGNERIA Lighting design:ROSSI BIANCHI LIGHTING DESIGN Photographer:GIOVANNA SILVA
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Rose Kennedy Greenway
The Rose Kennedy Greenway is a mile-long belt of parks and green spaces in proximity to Boston Harbor. The parks reflect the comfortable scale of the adjacent North End neighborhood. Along the eastern edge, a trellis “pergola” covers a long “front porch” that provides both a place for sitting and an overlook for the lawn and the historic architecture beyond. A shallow water “canal” runs the length with vertical water jets adding sparkle and movement. This fountain harkens back to a century ago when a canal connected the harbor to important industrial operations. The parks include ideal spots for storytelling programs in the summer, picnics or sunbathing on the grass, and enjoying lunch or a snack from one of the nearby North End or Haymarket establishments. Children love the canal where they can wet their feet or watch their flip flops swirl around. It’s a great place to relax at the end of the day, meet friends or watch passersby to your heart’s content. Plants displayed here evoke a formal feel of past European style gardens with boxwood hedges enclosing a colorful array of spring blooming daffodils and summer perennials. Favorite perennials found here are Russian sage, lavender, purple cone flower, iris, and daylilies. Several flowering trees and shrubs encircle the gardens.
Designers: Schlessinger, Smallridge LLC and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd.
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Design Concept
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oldest Chinese philosophies. Wu Xing can be easily understood as five abstract materials, which are earth, metal, water, wood, and fire, that are ever changing and moving forces of five sorts. Chinese people think Wu Xing is a coherence model, and it is a generic rule of nature reproduced at all levels of the universe. The Wu Xing circle matrix allows the five elements to have a harmonious and balanced status. This theory is similar to the modern sustainability concept. Xing in Wuxing theory means movement and ever changing. The rules of nature movements and changing are same for human beings. The deeper meaning of ‘Xing’ is that humans are an integral part of nature. There are a number of texts about Wu Xing thinking in old Chinese history. In the Shui Jing collection ‘society should follow the patterns of Earth and Heaven…People should live with nature, and they cannot break nature rule just for pleasure’, ‘human behavior can contribute to the harmonious operation of nature, or disrupt it and cause chaos and disorder. The moral patterns for humanity and those of the natural cosmos are all interconnected and correlated.’
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Concept implementation I use the superfacial meaning of Wu Xing concept to help me chose materials, color blending. I use every element as a sub idea to develop each focus space.
In the Wu Xing matrix meaning, each element does not exist in a space individually. It interactis with other elements. and live in the nature system. Foe mine each space design, I won’t create an individual ‘element’ space. I will create a small ‘eco-system’ for each space. I will use all five main material for each focus area.
‘Human is an integral part of nature’. There is a visual way to present this meaning is to use two closed pattern to show the connection between human and nature. One pattern is the concentric circles pattern of star in motion. The other is the human’s fingerprints. This repeating loop shape becomes the main pattern for my project. The loop becomes my key idea to design the project’s circulation.
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505 sq.ft.
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1,078 sq.ft.
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387 sq.ft.
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1,327 sq.ft.
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F1 Retail (Home Furnishings)
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F2 Furniture Showroom
11,250 sq.ft.
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Showroom Storage
1,068 sq.ft.
300 gross
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F1 Indoor Classroom
572 sq.ft.
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F1 Indoor Workshop
566 sq.ft.
100 gross
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F2 Organic Restaurant
888 sq.ft.
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F2 Restaurant Kitchen
429 sq.ft.
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808 sq.ft.
100 gross
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290 sq.ft.
300 gross
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F2 Employee Office
995 sq.ft.
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F1: 758 person
4 Male Toilet
4 Female Toilet
F2: 268 person
4 Male Toilet
4 Female Toilet
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Level 1 Spatial Plan
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RESTROOM 700 SF.
STORAGE 718 SF. UP
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STAIR STUDENTS’ GALLERY 2,750 SF.
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RETAIL (HOME FURNISHINGS) 12,093 SF.
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BACK OF HOUSE 505 SF.
STORAGE 387 SF.
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ECO HOME FURNITURE SHOWROOM 15,000 SF.
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New Arrivals
The new arrival space is access the east entrance. It’s a place to display all of the store’s brand new products. The wood element from the concept wu xing was the original idea to design this space. The design was inspired by light and shadow combination in a birch forest during the snow day. The design idea was to created ‘transparency’ between spaces.
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Retail Showroom
The idea to design this space was from fire element in Wu Xing concept. Inspired by bonfire, designer created a large rotate fire ball model to display kitchenware. Custom-designed round shape rug used to present spread out fire flame. The bonfire’s idea was continually to be showed on the ceiling. Several fire flames shaped holes let the inside LED light shot through the ceiling panel. Triangle idea was to be transformed to the cork walls, which to be used to separate each kitchen space.
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The lobby was designed with a minimalist view, which given the chance to introduce HOME 8 with a simple and direct way. Customer will discover a series of ‘rooms’ over the second floor.The idea to design the furniture showroom space was to create warm, cozy forest atmosphere.
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Classroom
The main idea for this indoor space is to use the ‘earth’ element to develop a marble cave environment. The blue grid carpet present water flows in the cave. The liner pattern wall paper and layers of ceiling panels create a whole cave experience. The transparent yellow chairs provide a float feeling like row on the water.
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Student Gallery
Located at the east part of the first floor, designer chose the concept ‘metal’ element, and developed this idea to a sense called seek gold in the mine. The textured vinyl floor, recycled wood boxes, brown painted concrete wall, and metal elements wall paper, all of these materials used to create a mine environment, and highlight artworks with red glass lighting fixtures. The artworks are represented as gold, the tram road used for the circulation, which guide people go deeper to seek more gold.
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Organic Café
Designer was seeking to deliver a ‘nature and organic elements’. The design was inspired by outdoor rainy day environment; the interior is highlighted by touches of blues, whites, and green.
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Outdoor Space
The goal of the landscape was to create a green outdoor space, provide and educate people some sustainable living methods, show a slow life style idea for urbanite. Learned from the Boston green belt case study, designer pick similar outdoor facility like pergola, shallow water and grass land to replace old parking space. Designer also expand showroom idea to the outdoor space. Some outdoor furnishings will be displayed below the pergolas. It gives people a strong single to show the function of the project.
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Autobiography
I was born and raised in a large city, Beijing, China. It is a developed, high-density city that combines history culture and modern creative together. When I was a child, my mom often took me to her work place and let me wander and read books. It was an art and design college library. From that time, I was attracted to these areas and interested in the process of design. I studied advertising during my college years, and was particularly interested in interaction advertisement because it combined mass media and interior design. Working on these projects, I felt like I was paying more attention to the details of life, and using my design to create a better life for people. After graduation, I spent a year working at different jobs, getting different work experiences, but slowly I realized what I really want to do is design. One of the jobs I got was working at a beautifully designed hotel. This hotel was designed by Kengo Kuma, who is a famous architect/ designer. Working there, I was inspired by his work, and decided to study interior design. I also knew that I wanted a broad, international approach to the field and learned I could get that in the Academy’s program.
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Address: 1274 43rd ave, san Francisco, CA 94122 Phone number: 415-975-1321 E-mail and website: yxxzhang@gmail.com Education background: Beijing Ri Tan high school (2003 Fall-2006 Summer) Capital University of economic and business Major: Advertising (2006 Fall-2010 Summer) Academy of Art University (2011 Fall-2014 Fall) Major: Interior Architecture and Design Working Experience: Xiao Song Ads agency (2008 summer, graphic design intern) Crossing China, CCTV 4 (2010-2011, documentary editor intern) The Opposite House (2011, Host) Kravet, San Francisco Design Center (2013-2014, design showroom intern) Sinolight Corporation, Interior department (2014 summer, interior design intern)
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Statement of professional goals
I am interested in hospitality design, public space design, and 3D movie scenes modeling design. I have some working experience about this design field. After graduation, I hope to work in the U.S. for a period, so I can absorb all kinds of design ideas and get deeper into the design process. After that, I will go back to Beijing, my hometown. There I hope to work in a large interior design company or teach design at the college level. In China, it is common that many designers both teach and design on their own or for other companies.
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