Portfolio 2nd Year 1st Semester

PORTFOLIO BDES (HONS) Interior and Spatial Design Ruth Balaguer Schmidt - 40496767

contents design of living spaces 1. Circadian Rithms (p.4-13)

2. Shelter Scotland (p.14-21)

CAD: construction and detailing 3. The Art of Fashion (p.22-33)

3

CIRCADIAN LIVING UNITS This project consists in designing and modelling at 1:20 a modular plywood living unit suitable for entraining the circadian rhythms of the users. These living units aim to benefit night shift workers re-adapting to the day shift; travellers readjusting to UK time zones; and those with ultra-late circadian clocks (owls) looking to adjust to the earlier time-scales expected by society. Users would stay for between two and seven nights in the circadian living units, using a booking system similar to AirBnB.

Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Disruption (SCRD), most found in night shift workers and those with jet-lag, is linked to profound short and long-term health issues.

In short, ‘resetting’ the master clock using light exposure is of profound importance, and the project aims to create a series of environments which promote this ‘resetting’ and therefore the health and of your users.

The site is the portion of shore in front of the Spring Garden Care Home in Portobello Promenade in Edinburgh. This residential area is very quiet, close enough from cafés and parks and from the swimming centre.

Béres Architects - Cabin Moss Site Sketch ‘Entrance to the Building’

Gro

yn

e

Portobello Site

4.6m

10

67

D

m i ig

© Crown copyright and database rights 2022 Ordnance Survey (100025252). FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY.

0

Ruth Balaguer Schmidt Edinburgh Napier University

5

Scale S 1:5 Sc ca alle e 1:500 1: 50 00 0

10

15 15

20 20

25 25

30 30

35 3 5

40 40

45

p a Sand

50 m

Pro Pr ojjec ecttiio on n:: British Briittiissh Br h National Na Nattiio on na all Grid Gr Gr Projection: o 0 05 5 October Oct cto ob be err 2022 202 20 22 2 17:45 17::4 17 45 5

Portobello Promenade, Digimaps

Tamas Bujnovszky - Divisare (Dezeen Magazine)

Site Picture Front View

Site Picture Back View

4

5

Common Knowledge - Hemp-clad Tigin Tiny Homes (Dezeen Magazine)

concept 1: breaking the ‘flat’

For my first manipulation, I completely cut the middle piece of the box, turning a box into a 3 piece modular box.

This concept tries to break with the usual thought of flat roof/ box that comes to our minds when we think of a tiny house, inspired by the steps at the end of Portobello Beach.

For the second manipulation, I cut a section of two sides that turned out that worked really well as a balcony area.

For the third manipulation, I created a double fold-able section that looks like a window/ceiling window.

For the fourth manipulation, I cut a fold-able section that can work as a terrace shelter from the sunlight or as an entryway.

For the fifth and last manipulation, I cut a corner off of the smaller module so that I could fit the middle module inside it creating more corners and fun shapes in along the process.

1st Manipulation

2nd Manipulation

Promenade Steps at Joppa - The Green Room Architecture design idea #1

Concept Model

3rd Manipulation

4th Manipulation

5th Manipulation

6

Precedent from Pinterest

Architecture design idea #2

7

concept 2: curved architecture

final concept: site’s curves

This concept is a development from the previous concept, this one being more bold and out of the box with the use of curved walls.

This concept ties the curves from the architecture of my site with the curves of my design. A study of the site’s curves’ radius was carried through Digimaps.

Penda - Casa Do Dia (Projecto Magazine)

Architecture design development: round corners

Concept model: curved walls elevation

Site Studies Sketch

Site Close Up Picture

Site Studies Sketch

Cobram Library - Cohen Leigh Architect

Architecture idea #3: elevated room

Architecture design development: side elevation

Architecture design development: elevation

Concept model: curved walls plan

8

9

Basic Cabin Plan Final Model: Terrace + Barbacue Area

10

Final Model: Front Elevation

8

9 7

1

3

5

2

6

Final Model: Sauna/Bathroom External Entrance

Final Model: Sauna

10

1. ENTRANCE 2. BEDROOM 3. BATHROOM 4. TERRACE/BARBECUE 5. KITCHEN 6. WORK DESK/DINING TABLE 7. WARDROBE 8. SAUNA 9. ACCESS TO THE BATHROOM FROM THE BEACH 10. PADDLE BOARDS STORAGE

4

Luxury Cabin Plan 1:50

Familiar Cabin Plan 11

Long Section 1:20

12

Visualization of Model in Site

13

HOUSING FOR SHELTER SCOTLAND Ground Floor

This project is born from the idea of re-purposing empty buildings in Edinburgh by the hand of Shelter Scotland.

The building below, 95 McDonald road, Edinburgh, is a former power station that now is owned by Scottish Power.

Social and public areas including the kitchen with the biggest family flats marking the perimeter.

Back access to the dorms in the basement and side access to bike storage.

Annex on the left includes staff dorms, reception and consultation areas.

My design talks about connections being human, physical and visual. My design provides a safe place for people to recover and to rehabilitate into society forming connections with their neighbours. The shelter offers a community atmosphere where everyone helps and supports each other through rough times.

CONNECTIONS

95 McDonald road, Edinburgh. Picture by Lost Edinburgh, Facebook.

Concept Sketch: physical connections -stairs- and visual connections -floors overlapping-

Concept Montage: human connections

Basement Plan 1:200

Dorms located in the basement

Ground Floor Plan 1:200 14

15

First Floor

Second Floor

Rest of the family dorms are located in the First Floor, as well as the Education Centre. From this floor, parents are able to watch their kids playing in the Play Area (Ground Floor), as well as keep visual contact with the soul kitchen and rest of the communal spaces.

All the studios (smaller flats, either for couples or for individuals) are placed in the upper floor. It is the furthest away from communal spaces. A floor designed for more privacy but without losing the community factor.

In the annex building on the left, the other two staff dorms are located.

Second Floor Model Mock Up

Frist Floor Plan 1:200 16

Second Floor Render Sketch Up

Second Floor Plan 1:200

Second Floor Plan Render Sketch Up 17

SHORT SECTION 1. PLAY AREA 2. FAMILY UNITS 3BR 3. SOUL KITCHEN 4. LIBRARY 5. INTERNET SPACE 6. FAMILY UNITS 2BR 7. EDUCATION CENTRE 8. COUPLE UNITS 1BR / STUDIOS 9. BASEMENT 8

Model Photography - Bridge Connections

Model Photography - Light Experimentation

7

6

10

3

4 2 8

9

7 6

3

4

5

2

1 Long Section 1:200

LONG SECTION 1. BASEMENT 2. BACK ACCESS 3. SOUL KITCHEN 4. LIBRARY 5. FAMILY UNITS 3BR 6. SECURITY OFFICE 7. ELEVATOR 8. FAMILY UNITS 2BR 9. EDUCATION CENTRE 10. COUPLE UNITS 1BR / STUDIOS

5

1

9

Model Photography - Stairs Connections Short Section 1:100

18

19

Ground floor: window sunset lighting

The Fonterra Centre.

Auckland, New Zealand.

FIRM: Jasmax.

Sibling Bedroom by @vardehaugen_arkitekter (Pinterest).

City Park.

Tianjin, China.

Benoy.

El Roser Social Centre (Former Prison).

Reus, Spain.

Josep Ferrando Architecture.

Ground floor: common areas

Concept Sketch: Floors Overlapping.

Concept Sketch: Communal Spaces (First Floor).

Concept Sketch: Soul Kitchen Distribution.

Building lights and shadows at night En Lodge Exercise- Concept Modeling SketchUp Model

20

21

SHOWCASE DISPLAY DESIGN Waves of Memories

For this project I designed a showcase display to display a personal object that relates to fashion. A personal object is used with the purpose of winning more engagement and loyalty through personal story telling. I designed this display so that it would tell, through its design, the story behind my personal object: a necklace.

The display is located in the design corridor at Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus. This project was both individual and group, where me and my three classmates came up with a group concept and worked it out from the big picture design to the very small details of how our individual concepts relate to the other designs within our group and how our personal display is built/attached to the wall.

Our group concept is ‘Wave of memories’. As a group, all our objects have something in common: they all tell stories of memories from which we learned and which made us grew as persons, whether it was from travelling (Lucia), from a roller-coaster of a friendship (Ruth), from family traditions (Hristina) or from quality time with family (Wicktoria).

When we tried to picture in our heads how this memories shaped and how we could draw them to express what they make us feel, we always came up with wavy shapes which show a movement through time, a flashback, a journey, a learning process or the tracks of a roller-coaster.

Me and my best friend Sara created this necklace at the early stages of our friendship. I had changed schools when I first met her, and we didn’t get along very well. But after being given a group project together, we became best friends.

Our friendship has been always a roller-coaster. One of the biggest challenges we went through is when she had to move from Spain to London when we were only 14 years old, and we thought we would never see each other again.

Personal Object

Survey Sketch: Long Elevation

Site: B20 Studio Corridor, ENU Merchiston Campus

22

We’re still like sisters now a days, have seen each other at least once per year and have been there for each other through thick and thin. This necklace means a lot to me because even though it may seem like a DIY kid’s project, it reminds me that no matter how hard life gets, we will always have our beloved ones by our side.

Artelier - Vasso Fragkou

Frankly Amsterdam - Home

23

Paul Kampman - Prachtig

Hristina Kazakova’s Project

Group’s Front Elevation 1:50

Wicktoria Wadolowska’s Project

Lucia Hencsei’s Project

Group’s Plan 1:50 Ruth Balaguer Schmidt’s Project

Group’s Isonometric 1:20

24

25

Waves’ Propagation The concept comes from the idea of how the waves would propagate if my necklace was dropped into water. This is a metaphor, where the necklace represents the moment me and Sara became best friends and the expansion of the waves represents our journey of growth together.

Having experimented with the necklace and having sketched the expansion of it’s waves I realized that it looked quite similar to contour maps. I looked for different designs, especially for designs in a vertical shape and ended up finding the one below, which I used for my final design.

YQ Pang - Pinterest

Object Shaping a Contour Sketch

Contour Map by Free Vector Darel Carey - ART - Pinterest

Suspended Acoustic Ceiling

Contour Sketch

Individual Design Model Isometric 1:50 Individual Design Front Elevation 1:20

26

Individual Design Side Section 1:20

27

x2

20.5mm hole to allow smooth interconnections with 20mm rout.

Steel Plate Measurements

Mounting to Wall System

6mm holes for M6 screws Mounting to Wall System Model

-add materials and methods used Mounting to Wall System 3D Model: Welded Steel Rout to Steel Plate Connection

Mounting to Wall System 1:2 Detail

Exploded Isonometric 28

29

Acrilic Lid

6mm routered gap for the necklace to sit on

Dowling to go to first layer of Plywood Last piece composed by 2 layers. 3D Model The top layer acts as a ‘lid’ to cover and hide the hole and the rout that goes through it.º

The first layer is the one that attaches the piece to the whole design.

Top layer of Plywood to cover hole and create a floating ilusion.

Top Layer ‘Lid’ 1:1 30

Gap for Neacklace Detail Design Front Elevation

Gap for Neacklace Detail Design 1:1 31

Top Layer Detail 1:1 Final Card Model in Site

Final Card Model in Site 32

33