Kate Essex
PORTFOLIO JUNIOR DESIGNER
My key belief is that good design embodies the designers ethos without compromising on the needs of the client.
2023
Contents
OVERFLOW
A multi-use building, focused on the COVID-19’s effect on the education sector and how it could change the expression of informal education.
RETAIL STORIES
An exploration into a possible future for short term retail spaces and how the space of physical retail can be rethought for shoppers and staff alike.
REVITTING IDEAS
A residential and hospitality design concentrating on building skills in Revit design and documentation.
TRADING IDEAS
A trade show booth for Koskela’s new education range, that builds upon the branding and features of their products to create an innovative design.
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CUBED DETAILS
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BAR, AN IDEA
A look into lighting design that encouraged artificial and natural to be considered in how they layer and move a space from day to night.
BARCING UP THE RIGHT TREE
A playful expression of signage and wayfinding, documented in detail to achieve the final result.
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The creation of an accessible bathroom facility within the Cartier Williamson pod that considered sustainability and details in greater depth.OVERFLOW
Conceptualising the Future of Education Post-Covid
The aim of Overflow is to create an accessible space for informal learning outside of the home which, through the impacts of covid, has become the main space for many types of education. The space intends to allow a continuation of this change in behaviour towards self-directed learning for personal and professional benefit and create a new public space that can support it. A space that allows equitable access, to those who have been further marginalized by the impacts of covid, to help support the creation of a lifelong learning space that places Australia within the education economy and encourages an economy of knowledge sharing.
Void restaurant poses a stark contrast to the rest of the site, incorporating darker tones that encapsulate the audience and allow for a unique dining experience. The Void creates enclosed secure pods, that consume the viewer, contrasted against the exposed seating at the base of the oculus. All are surrounded by banquette seating that allows people to exist in the space without use as a restaurant, instead passively activating the floor as a community space that functions, ultimately for them.
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OVERFLOW A New Education State
The Overflow app is an expansion of the physical space of White Bay Power Station. It creates a community space for people to connect to the Overflow Community, locate debates within the space and access the space and it’s events digitally.
The app was designed as a way of providing accurate and updated
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Existing and Entry Spaces Activate Nourish
Proposed and Learning Spaces Engage Debate Echo Document Expand Digital Overlay
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The Inhabitation of Debate
Level 2 is a space intended to for lively interactions, debating with the space and each other in an effort to continue the environment of knowledge sharing and learning brought on by the impacts of COVID. It consists of bespoke elements supported by loose furniture that allows the space to adapt and move with those inhabiting it, to support learning and debate in a way that makes sense and is comfortable for them. Allowing people to adjust to this new public space for learning and begin to consider what interiors that host informal education can look and feel like.
OVERFLOW
How a Space can Debate with you
The detailing acts to better articulate the use, through communicating the audience’s ability to play with the space. It makes clear the separation of these spaces for debate from the existing floors and space of the Boiler House. This floor is not alive without people, they add the warmth, movement and function to the space through their inhabitation and engagement with it. Detailing of the internal mechanisms of the poles required layering various elements to ensure that the pole would remain as stable as possible while still functioning as an autonomous element within the floor.
Ai Id Xd Dn R Revi Ps A 02 31 METAL WIRE, RUNNING THROUGH WIRE SPOOLS AROUND TOP LIMITING MOVEMENT OF THE INTERIOR METAL RING CONTINUES FORM TO THE UPPER BALL, BASE OF FORM BEING SOLD GRAVITY AND REDUCE THE FALLING WHEN BEING MOVED INTERIOR METAL RING CONNECTED MOVEMENT TO ALLOW METAL SPOOL AT THE TOP EXTERIOR SUPPORT RING TO BALL AND ROD MOVEMENT SET OF 4 CASTOR WHEELS, TO LIMIT MOVEMENT FORWARD IN SAME GOLD BRASS AS UPPER UPPER BALL WHICH SPOILS INTERIOR METAL WIRE TO LIMIT MOVEMENT INTERIOR METAL RING, ENCASING METAL WIRE TO ALLOW ROTATION TO CONTROL MOVEMENT
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THROUGH BLACK INTERIOR RING TOP BALL UNTIL REACHING IT'S END, THE POLE CONTINUES FROM BASE OF THE CREATING STABILITY, LOWER SOLD TO LOWER THE CENTRE OF POTENTIAL OF THE POLES MOVED CONNECTED TO CASTOR WHEEL METAL WIRE TO ROTATE AND TO FORM THE STRUCTURE OF THE MOVEMENT SYSTEM CONNECTED BY INTERNAL RODS FORWARD AND BACKWARDS, CAPPED UPPER BALL AND METAL STRING METAL WIRE, RUNNING THROUGH BLACK INTERIOR RING WIRE SPOOLS AROUND TOP BALL UNTIL REACHING IT'S END, LIMITING MOVEMENT OF THE POLE INTERIOR METAL RING CONTINUES FROM BASE OF THE FORM TO THE UPPER BALL, CREATING STABILITY, LOWER BASE OF FORM BEING SOLD TO LOWER THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY AND REDUCE THE POTENTIAL OF THE POLES FALLING WHEN BEING MOVED INTERIOR METAL RING CONNECTED TO CASTOR WHEEL MOVEMENT TO ALLOW METAL WIRE TO ROTATE AND SPOOL AT THE TOP EXTERIOR SUPPORT RING TO FORM THE STRUCTURE OF THE BALL AND ROD MOVEMENT SYSTEM SET OF 4 CASTOR WHEELS, CONNECTED BY INTERNAL RODS TO LIMIT MOVEMENT FORWARD AND BACKWARDS, CAPPED IN SAME GOLD BRASS AS UPPER BALL AND METAL STRING CONTROL EXTERIOR STRUCTURE 02 31 03 31 04 31 INTERIOR METAL RING CONTINUES FROM BASE OF THE FORM TO THE UPPER BALL, CREATING STABILITY, LOWER BASE OF FORM BEING SOLD TO LOWER THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY AND REDUCE THE POTENTIAL OF THE POLES FALLING WHEN BEING MOVED INTERIOR METAL RING CONNECTED TO CASTOR WHEEL MOVEMENT TO ALLOW METAL WIRE TO ROTATE AND SPOOL AT THE TOP EXTERIOR SUPPORT RING TO FORM THE STRUCTURE OF THE BALL AND ROD MOVEMENT SYSTEM SET OF 4 CASTOR WHEELS, CONNECTED BY INTERNAL RODS TO LIMIT MOVEMENT FORWARD AND BACKWARDS, CAPPED IN SAME GOLD BRASS AS UPPER BALL AND METAL STRING UPPER BALL WHICH SPOILS INTERIOR METAL WIRE TO LIMIT MOVEMENT INTERIOR METAL RING, ENCASING METAL WIRE TO ALLOW ROTATION TO CONTROL MOVEMENT GREENCAST RECYCLED ACRYLIC EXTERIOR SHELL OF VARYING OPACITY AND FINISH CASTOR WHEELS AND SUPPORT STRUCTURE 02 29 POLE FORMS REPEATED THROUGHOUT LEVEL IN BASE LAYOUT VESTIS NEBULA ALUMINIUM AND GREENCAST ACRYLIC VOID FORM, CONTINUES UP THROUGH FLOORS, TO MEET EXISTING CEILING CUSTOM LIGHTING FEATURE, MADE FROM 2M AND 4M DIAMETER ACRYLIC RINGS LIT BY INTERIOR LED LIGHTS 01 31 01 30
The Changing Face of Retail
I intended to simplify the experience retail stores through creating a hybrid that integrates the physical and digital experience of shopping to change the face of the physical retail store. Creating a series of considered components that change how a retail store would function and how the components could be re-applied after use in a static location to consider how the fast nature of retail stores might be met through design.
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REVITTING IDEAS
Program Skill Development
The design for the wine bar and three residential units were for the purpose of having a project which could be built and documented so that revit could be learn. A documentation package including material schedules, technical drawings and perspectives was submitted for the final.
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REVITTING IDEAS Plan it out
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Considering the Audience and an Established Brand
The key branding of the booth is through Koskela’s logo as it relates to both the original brand and this new range. Through enlarging the ‘K’ it makes a statement and can draw attention. A key element of the learn range its ability to be maintained, which is highlighted through the 2D iterations of the products that simplify them to allow the basic form, construction and maintenance potential to be understood in an interactive and innovate way. Inspired by the sort of classroom learning which the range facilitates.
TRADING IDEAS
TRADING IDEAS
Considering the Audience and an Established Brand
The playful nature of the booth and the ‘toy-like’ activity of the products allows all audiences to interact and understand the key features being portrayed. This is important as the range has many key features but within a trade show you may not be able to get across all details of a range. So focusing the audience’s attention to one of significance, that also allows playful activity for other demographics, ensures that it grabs their attention and can resonate to encourage further inquiry.
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The Cartier Williamson pod was a space designed for other purposes in which we needed to design an accessible bathroom. It challenged us to consider accessibility sustainable materials and allowed us to learn the key features and ways in which bathrooms are constructed
Ai Id Xd Dn R Revi A Ps 2019 CUBED DETAIL Bathroom Detailing LEGEND: 135 15 20 44 150 138 58 38 30 15 15 76 75 125 29 50 190 32 50 6 40 strammit steel capping applied to all corners after corrugated height steel has been aplied to the framework Rondo wall track 492 0.70bmt with hem used to frame wall wall bearer to support offset tiles ceiling joist to support rondo direct fixing system Direct fixing clip 394, sourced from Rondo and connected to ceiling joist as support for this part of the concave furring channel Concave furring channel 129 sourced from Rondo. Bradford sarking installed horizontally as a continuous membrane fixing to all framing members with the anti-glare side facing Joins must be overlapped by 150mm to facilitate drainage. Rondo lipped steel stud 493, spaced 600 from centres with nogging support applied underneath window frame Fireclay clover tile 6 x 12 inch (WF02) with Ardex FS-DD alabaster colour sourced from Ardex Australia and applied roughly 3/16 inch gaps between tiles James Hardie Villaboard applied to plywood with chemical timber support bearer for fc sheeting anf then tile fixing Selleys wet area silicon green sourced from bunnings timbercrete pre-cast blocks 40mm thickness of varying dimensions (FL01) sourced from Timbercrete Australia Rondo wall track 492 0.70bmt with hem used to frame wall top and bottom and secured via mechanical connections framing Selleys wet area silicon in green sourced from bunnings to wall to floor junction 90 angle steel structure used for both major framework and floor pieces with plywood skin Ardex x68 tile adhesive sourced from Ardex Australia metal 90 angle channel to support tile laying Copper sheeting (CL01) sourced from Brass & Copper Pty Ltd timbercrete floor tiles in large various formats at 20mm thickness, sourced from Timbercrete Australia Wet-seal Enviro-coat IS 511 waterproofing sourced from Seal Australia Wet-seal Enviro-coat IS 511 waterproofing sourced from Australia, used to seal all villaboard surfaces copper sheeting curved along edge to create shadow gap supported by rondo system and plwood 8mm plywood sourced from ECOply, mechanically connected to bearers at builder discretion as support for the shadowgap created in copper sheeting
F O R T E N D E R PROJECT NAME: Project C LEGEND: DESCRIPTION: DATE: BY: A 35 32 51 153 110 47 41 30 76 16 corrugated 16mm wall pieces membrane by facing out. drainage. with one grout in applied in chemical adhesive dimensions wall pieces, to steel to see and minor privacy glass from Trend windows (WF04) in capral aluminium frame aluminium framed reveal from capral mitred tile edge timber structural bearer support to mount fc sheeting on flashing ECOply 2400 x 1200 x 15mm CD Structural Plywood substrate Selleys wet area silicon in green sourced from bunnings aluminium custom capral frame Rondo steel nogging track, as required for wall height and window frame support Issue for review 16.07.19 KE GENERAL NOTES: thickness, Wet Wet Seal Wet-seal Enviro-coat IS 511 waterproofing sourced from Wet Seal Australia applied right up to window reveal
Lighting Detail Through Documentation
Using my studio design for the same term as a basis, I adapted my intentions and scheme for the set layout we were provided. Focusing on layering lighting with more intention into the space and detailing it as a way to better learn how to create RCP’s and design with natural and artificial light in mind.
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Flos IC S2 pendant, brushed brass, mouth blown opal glass 2700K
Flos IC W2 wall lamp, brushed brass, mouth blownopal glass 2700K
Aksel 1 Light Pendant in Brass/Clear 2700K
Orion 2 Light Wall Bracket in Brass/Amber 2700K
Orion 14 Light Pendant in Brass/Amber 2700K
Aksel 4 Light Pendant in Brass/Clear 2700K
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900 Rondo joiner 272 used to connect Rondo top cross rail 125 Dulux wash and wear semi-gloss in Purple Wisdom sourced from Dulux and applied to door, frame and wall 01 15
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BARCING UP THE RIGHT TREE
A Project Completed
One of the first major projects that I assisted on was the Blacktown Animal Rehoming Facility (BARC). I was brought onto the project in the later documentation stage, assisting to increase information, location specific variations and develop additional signtypes for the project.
It allowed me to quickly adjust to the use of the autocad extension for illustrator and learn the format of documentation used within Urbanite.
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