Portfolio | Islem Cherni

Portfolio | selected works Islem Cherni

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Liberia Pavilion

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Eco-friendly Cultural centre

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Shop & Play with Lego

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ARTWORKS

Academic project | Fall 2023

Academic project | Spring 2022

Academic project | Fall 2022

Personal

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Expo 2025 Osaka, Japan

Individual work

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ACADEMIC TERM

Fall 2023

PROFESSOR

Imen Memmi

TYPE

Exhibition

LOCATION

Osaka, Japan

Liberia Pavilion This project is a design proposal for the pavilion of the Republic of Liberia in Africa for the upcoming World Expo taking part in Osaka in 2025. The World Expo 2025 theme is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” with three zones that respectively embody the three subthemes: Saving Lives, Empowering Lives, and Connecting Lives.

This project aims to represent Liberia’s rich cultural heritage, economic potential, and natural resources.

Liberia is one of the African countries that suffered a lot from civil wars and epidemics. These affect the country’s growth and development despite how rich it is.

Liberia Pavilion is located in the Connecting Lives zone.

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Concept After the Liberian civil war, trauma has affected development as well as relationships in the community. Therefore, many initiatives were established to ensure healing, peace, and reconciliation.

The Peace Hut Alliance for Conflict Transformation is one of the initiatives that succeeded in building Plava Peace huts in violence-prone regions of Liberia.

This initiative aims to foster peace and rebuild broken relationships, providing former combatants with the opportunity to come home and integrate back into their community.

This system is based on confessing, apologising for the wrong committed, and seeking forgiveness from the victim.

Inspired by this system, I chose reconciliation as a concept for my project. Reconciliation occurs through an emotional journey in four distinct phases: conflict transformation, constructive selfconfrontation, connection with the surrounding nature and exploring new opportunities. In this Pavilion, the space users will experience all the phases through different exhibitions that serve the main goal of the Pavilion.

As a sign of reconciliation and forgiveness, I opted for the Handshake to create compositions that helped me in the design process.

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sign of reconciliation

floor plan level 1.

The program consists of 4 zones that represent the 4 phases of reconciliation, the transformation tunnel, the interactive art exhibition, the rain forest, and the mineral resources exhibition.

floor plan level 2.

1 Conflict transformation

THE TRANSFORMATION TUNNEL

this tunnel contains LED screens hung on the wall and the ceiling.

These screens showcase the confessions of the combatants and the survivors of the civil war.

3 Connection with the surrounding nature

floor plan level 0.

2 Constructive self-confrontation THE INTERACTIVE ART EXHIBITION

this exhibition contains holograms of traditional mask dancers and an interactive screen that shows the visitors their shadows as if they are dressed up like dancers.

4 Exploring new opportunities

RAINFOREST EXHIBITION

THE MINERAL RESOURCES EXHIBITION

the rainforest exhibition is an immersive experience that allows visitors to learn about tropical trees in Liberia, sustainable tourism and the forest of production.

the visitors will end their tour with this exhibition, learning about gold, diamond and iron ore, their cycle of production and their usage.

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The rainforest exhibition

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vegetal cone

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The mineral resources exhibition

The interactive art exhibition 10

Facade sketching

Facade technical drawing

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Individual work

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ACADEMIC TERM

Spring 2022

PROFESSOR

Imen Memmi

TYPE

Cultural

LOCATION

Tunis, Tunisia

Eco-friendly Cultural Centre The project aims to raise people’s awareness of the dangers of pollution in the Mediterranean Sea and its impact on our lives, and encourage them to move towards a greener lifestyle.

Various types of exhibitions are held in this cultural space; interactive, multi-sensory, and immersive in order to have the right psychological impact on space visitors.

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the concept of this project comes from the feeding strategies and techniques of the humpback whale

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1st Floor Layout

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1) Eco-fiendly Smart Exhibition

4) Immersive virtual exhibitions

2) Recycling Workshop

5) Storage

3) Store

6) Kitchen

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2nd Floor Layout

1) Restaurant

4) Storage

2) Administration

5) Preparation kitchen

3) WC

6) Employee rest area

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In this part, I tried to apply the concept’s design principles to some sketches to give an overall idea of the exhibition that works well with the 3D model.

The eco-friendly smart exhibition aims among visitors about the dangers o Mediterranean Sea. 18

s to raise awareness of pollution in the

This restaurant serves healthy, vegan, and eco-friendly food to sensitise people to the danger of micro-plastic in our food system.

In this space, visitors can participate in recycling workshops. The shape of the table allows users to work interactively and share their ideas.

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Individual work Bachelor’s final main project

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ACADEMIC TERM

Fall 2022

PROFESSOR

Yousr Guediche

TYPE

Retail

LOCATION

Ariana, Tunisia

Shop & Play with Lego The aim of this project is to design a store that satisfies children’s needs, especially hyperactive children who cannot resist touching stuff in stores.

When playing with construction toys such as Lego bricks, children can be as creative as they want. It is one of the games that fulfil their need, providing them with the most useful skills.

In this store, kids are allowed to touch whatever they want, this is a shopping and playing experience.

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The design process started with Lego Serious Play, so I brought my Lego bricks to the design studio. I immersed myself in the project and started making different models of coloured bricks to get inspiration from the shapes and volumes of my work. I tried to understand the logic of the concept more dynamically and practically. Then I moved on to zoning the space. I also used Lego blocks for this part. It helped me distinguish between the different zones of the store and the areas they occupy.

During the research phase, I collected information about the behaviour of children and their parents in commercial spaces by observing their shopping experience in malls and toy stores.

I chose the “Fly on the Wall” technique, so I spent hours analysing users’ behaviour. I’ve put together the ideas for this poster, including user behaviour and the solutions I came up with.

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Concept

Connect

CONSTRUCTIVE ASSEMBLY

Disconnect

Substraction

Result

The principle of Lego consists of assembling several interlocking pieces to build a toy and personalize it to infinity.

By connecting, disconnecting and substracting these shapes, I was able to define the principle of design that I will work with in this project.

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O V E R A L L

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L A Y O U T

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Playing areas : All over the store, there is several playing areas where kids can imagine, create, and interact with each other.

Builted Lego Sets’ exhibition : It helps the clients to take a look on the result of the product they’re willing to buy.

Reception : After picking their favorite sets the clients can make the order by scaning the Qr code on each product, and then pay and pick it from the reception.

Pick & Build : The main idea is that the clients can buy the amount of Lego they want, and maybe make their own sets.

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Builted Lego Sets’ exhibition

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Pick & build

To immerse the users in the Lego universe, I designed playing tables with various dimensions to fit ergonomically for all ages.

Also, using colours and shapes that remind the assembling of Lego bricks.

I tried to eliminate all boundaries between the different zones of the store so that the shopping and play experience would be more fluid and interactive.

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ARTWORKS

PORTRAIT SKETCHING

WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

AIR DRY CLAY MODELING

TOTE BAG SEWING AND PAINTING

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