Graduation projects MA Interior Architecture 2018

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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE (INSIDE) Exploring corrupted space, as we did this year at INSIDE, suggests that there can be any space that is not corrupted. One of the insights that resulted from our explorations through traveling to The Balkans, the Netherlands and Germany, inviting artists and architects to talk and the Studios and workshops we organised, was, that there is no such thing as uncorrupted space.

At least in public space, designed space does not necessarily function the way the initiators intended. Due to crisis and other unexpected changes in the use or users of the specific space, or the circumstances around it, or just changing habits and trends, spaces often lose their original integrity and get corrupted. Even places that seem to smoothly function as intended, like shopping malls or airport terminals, can only uphold that image through selecting and conditioning users and excluding the ones that do not fit the ideal picture. Well considered in most of the built environment elements of corruptness can be determined.

of ‘Soviet style’ housing areas in Lithuania. And from the social, cultural and environmental role of Aruban beach shacks to the challenge of repositioning the soon to be unemployed highway gas stations in the Netherlands.

We hope you will enjoy this wealth of proposals for spatial change that this year’s graduating students present and are especially grateful to all our tutors, advisors, lecturers and facilitators that supported its creation.

Hans Venhuizen Head of Department

At INSIDE we do not denounce this situation or initiate a Don Quichote battle against that.

At INSIDE we take this ‘dirty reality’ of the built environment as a point of departure for designing spatial change. The basic assumption is that especially in adapting the built environment to its real circumstances a society can show it’s unique strength and creativity. Spatial designers play a crucial role in developing that strength and in implementing it in the built environment.

This year INSIDE, the Master Interior Architecture proudly presents 12 graduating students.

Janneke Derksen - Farah Zamri - Shinyoung Kang - Cam Liu - Goda Verikaite - Yu-Chin Ku - Zara Bennett - Jo Basset - Jaja Puapoomcharoen - Jinaa Baek - Dylana Kim - Eva Gonzalez, all started their graduation projects from the ‘real world’ and its conditions. Their commitment resulted in a wide variety of projects reconsidering the built environment on many scales. From the intimacy of the Korean family home, where the immense pressure that rests on Korean young adults can be changed, to the unexpected utopian qualities

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GRADUATES Jinaa Baek

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Joe Basset

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Zara Bennett

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Janneke Derksen

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Eva Gonzรกlez de Yanes

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Shin Young Kang

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Eunhye Dylana Kim

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Yu-Chin Ku

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Yuan Chun Liu

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Pichaya Puapoomcharoen

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Goda Verikaitฤ

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Farah Zamri

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Jinaa Baek chez.jinaa@gmail.com South Korea Project STATEMENT FURNITURE “Create conversation pieces with balancing, playful, unforced characters around family daily activities to improve the family (with one child in high school) relationships in Korea.�

I propose conversation pieces, which can be placed in Korean Housing to improve healthy conversation amongst family members.

The design is based on the behavior/ attitude of parenting and it is developed with elements of furniture applying physical actions during conversation. There are three furniture(s) proposals: dining table for showing a different balance of hierarchy, sofa for drawing an intimacy without any force, and family bench for playful talk but no eye contact/ no pressure during the conversation.

Thesis ARCHITECTURE AS A TOOL FOR EMOTIONAL HEALTH My research has started from the stigma problem of being mentally ill in South Korea. It is especially

harsher for the youth in high school because they have difficulty to control their emotion with adolescences trials and hectic schedule of studying. My aim for this thesis is to open up the subject of youth mental health, and highlight its importance as a valuable social issue, and bring the attention of spatial qualities affecting it in the realm of architecture. The purpose of this study is to find the complementary idea of the psychological elements in both the aesthetic expression of architectural space and programme inside of the space in the sense of healing.

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Joe Basset bassetjoe@live.com Lebanon Project Community: An outcome of human necessity What if a community is founded around a water infrastructure that not only serves their physical needs, but also provides the context and reason for social interaction and cohesion? The project is based upon an existing water basin at Tempelhof, Berlin. By the time rain hits our cities, the water is polluted by our roads, cars, and other pollutants.

In collaboration with nature, people of this community work together to purify the water. Through cleaning a wasted resource, water transforms from necessity in the community into different forms of social spaces involving people in the process of natural filtration. Water is used, celebrated, and valued by the community in various forms that changes their lifestyles, routines, and rituals.

Thesis Community: An outcome of human necessity Human physical necessities and infrastructures have long been a major part of cities and communities.

Fountains, roman baths, communal

ovens and other examples all started with basic human needs (drinking, washing, bathing, cooking) and transformed into social spaces where people gathered everyday not only to serve their physical needs, but also socialize. The research then investigates the effect of engagement around infrastructures which creates a reason for interaction among people. The next chapters discuss the rituals around such spaces that create value and meaning to people. From history to current social problems, the thesis takes an overview on issues where design could play a role in bringing back lost experiences of togetherness.

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Zara Bennett zara_bennett@hotmail.co.nz New Zealand / The Netherlands Project Don’t Forget About Me: Reigniting the lives of long forgotten textiles of the home My project sets out to rediscover the lives of our often forgotten and largely neglected collections of textiles of home. The home is a place we all hold so dearly to us. Like a cocoon for the soul, we latch onto aspects of the home for comfort.

And delving further into the home,

the kitchen is a space at the heart.

A space for togetherness that creates a sense of community. By emphasising on reuse and exploring the personal connotations we have to textile, my aim is to use the idea of the kitchen as a space for discovering the meaning behind creating a soulful home.

If textile is the soul of the home, then what would it mean if the entire home was turned into textile?

Thesis Don’t Forget About Me More than just a dressing, textiles are the soul of the home. The home is a place we hold dearly to us. Like

a cocoon for the soul, we latch onto aspects of the home for comfort.

And it is here, within this reassurance and comfort that textiles hold, that I place my research. With a focus on reusing textiles, rather than sourcing new, I ask how something deemed broken, useless, or leftover can be added, once again, to the pile of keepers by discovering the meaning of value. I examine how through the art of collecting, a new layer of life is given to an object or space, preserving the history it already held.

It is from here that I delve into one last question; what will make us want what we already have?

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Janneke Derksen janneke_derksen@hotmail.com https://nopurposecollective.wixsite. com/justforourselves The Netherlands Project ‘Where to go from here?’

‘Where to go from here?’ is a 15 yearlong strategic design and research project that will explore the ‘verzorgingsplaats’ by using interventions as a way to provoke change. I appreciate these places in that they are democratic/inclusive, super personal and super anonymous at the same time,where time does not really

seem to exist. They are spaces we do not live in, but we occupy them for a set time and nearly only while we are ‘on the move’. The proposals take advantage of the possibilities generated by the development around the mobility sector, the qualities and the diversity of uses.

They range from small additions and alterations to interventions that prompt or force long-term strategic change.*(rest places, service and gas stations along the highway) Thesis Learning from the highway ‘Learning from the highway’ shows my personal journey on the highway.

It is not only a road but also includes

places that are directly connected to it and‚ even only exist because of it: ‘verzorgingsplaatsen’. They are democratic/inclusive, super personal and super anonymous. I have a keen fascination for these places, in dealing with mobility, with fuel, sales/retails and the related laws and regulations.

In combination with, I feel a deep need to speculate on the future for these places. Learning from the highway looks at how the highway system with ‘verzorgingsplaatsen’ developed in the Netherlands. How have they been used in the past and how are they used today? The visual language they have developed, the general protocol of gas stations, i.e. how to use them.

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Eva González de Yanes egdsgnr@gmail.com Venezuela Project Cunucu Shacks. Here, There, Everywhere By combining the iconic shape of the ‘cunucu’ house and the versatility of shacks, I propose a network of structures that marries culture and commerce. The programming is based on core values in response to key social issues found on my research. In addition to cultural loss, other values such as sustainability,

resilience, regenerative design, and community participation are applied. The network calls for an active participation of Aruban society in order for it to function as intended. I also encourage the flow of food, waste material, and energy produced within. The system is designed to adjust, adapt and change, almost creating in a way, an island-wide laboratory of sustainable practices.

Thesis Here, Not There: Sociocultural Impact of the Tourism Industry in Aruba For the last 70 years, tourism activities have taken over the economy,

making the small nation one of the most tourism dependent economies in the world. The infrastructure that supports such industry is focused in one area, and caters mostly to the American market. And while beneficial to Aruban society, it has also created an unintended consequence: cultural loss.

Aruban culture lies mostly in intangible aspects, such as their language, Papiamento, and traditions. Nevertheless, the ‘cunucu’ house stands as tangible trait from colonial times.

The structure serves as a base to create a new typology of shacks in response to the impact of the tourism industry in the island.

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Shin Young Kang shinyoung.kk@gmail.com South Korea Project An alternative mutual-religious space in Korea through ‘A Sacred-Spatial-Experience’ I propose an alternative mutualreligious space in Korea to raise an inter-faith dialogue through ‘A Sacred-Spatial-Experience’; which includes three layers (Symbolic Identifiers, Immersive Space, and Sensory Experience). This is to bring harmony from the three major religions (Protestant, Buddhist, and

Catholic) and, moreover, from any religious believers or even non-believers. Mainly I have achieved unity by a center altar (lighting fixture) and one the continuous floor and roof. According to where an individual puts him/herself, the religious believer (or non-believer) can follow their own belief and the ritual practice in one space. This mutualreligious space designs for everyone through the united spatial platform from specific religions Thesis A Sacred-Spatial-Experience Throug my research, I tried to analyse several aspects of spatialexperience by observing venues

of three dominant religions in Korea.

I used the typology methodology to define elements that enhance a spiritual experience and concluded by defining a sacred-spatial-experience in three layers: symbolic identifiers, immersive space, and sensory experience. It means that it would create ‘A Sacred-Spatial-Experience’ if the spatial experience has these elements in the framework.

It is hard to define spatial experi­ ences explicitly as each experience is unique for each person. At least as a communication tool, I hope it raises the spatial value of sacredexperience and provides harmonious spiritual experience among different believers.

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Eunhye Dylana Kim dylanakim@gmail.com South Korea Project House of the future : A balance of digital and analog Digitalisation continues to reshape realms of everyday life and alter our physical environments, including our homes. It is important to examine how we adapt our living spaces to these shifts. Eunhye Dylana Kim’s graduation project is to investigate the role our homes play in our lives in the future.

What are we gaining and losing due to the digitalisation?

She tested two very different houses of the future: a digital and an analog apartment. This mirrors her own interests in having both convenient and sensory lifestyles. What if the idealistic realms are combined so you can obtain a pleasure of sensory elements (analog) and digital convenience? Furthermore, she studied how to socialise and interact with people in domestic realm in the future.

Thesis Retrieving Lost Intimacy The technological developments that have most contributed to the rise of interconnectivity have at the same time bolstered a sense of alienation between people. Our

emotional interactions with other humans have been eroded as a direct result, and our appreciation for human interaction may also have suffered. Eunhye Dylana Kim investigated case studies that are designed to trigger people to interact and build more intimate relations within their built environments.

Her dual intention is to raise awareness and to design dwelling places that realistically suit present urban conditions, especially for single-person households, encouraging them to discover or rediscover the vital importance of face-to-face, genuine human interactions.

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Yu-Chin Ku south126@hotmail.com Taiwan Project Zhongxin Village “Zhongxin Village� is a project based on heritage preservation and the redevelopment of living conditions and opportunities within Taiwanese communities. The aim is to preserve the site of the former Zhongxin Marketplace and focus on revitalising its out-due, yet charming spatial

character, into a living typology that is necessary yet lacking within the context of the modern city.

It creates and provides a rare option of living standard within a society that promotes rapid urbanism where fancy high-rises and luxurious, well-polished apartments are saw to be the ideal way of living in modern times.

Thesis Preservation The draughty corridor led into a strange, dark space. The atmosphere was eccentric. Cold air

seeped through the gray concrete walls of the two story buildings that lured over us. Time had relentlessly eaten into the metal wave-shaped ceiling, giving holes and sunshine the chance to sneak in. What a miracle, I thought. How it sat so untouched in the center of a bustling city. A rush of curiosity flooded my mind of the life and stories that once took place here. Who were these people? What did they do? Where are they now? What will become of this place?

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Yuan Chun Liu gen.zales@gmail.com Taiwan Project Expansion – Rethinking the expansion phenomenon as the second layer of the city The project explores the “Expansion” phenomena in Taiwan, where people are used to built with a technique of a temporary structure, which usually last for a longer time. These informal structures are spread all over the city and host big parts of its activities, for instance markets, shops or even temples. This spontaneous way

of creating new spaces is deeply rooted in people’s mentality, culture and the city.

In my project I focus on re-imagining this phenomenon as an alternative solution for the house to adapt to the change of living pattern.

The direct way of to construct the extra space by the user themselves make the building as the reflection of the user.

Thesis 1001 Expansions of Taipei Taipei is a city full of informal selfbuild spaces. People are used to apply light materials to build light weight structures to expand their space. These kind of self-build

structures are mainly attached to existing houses for domestic purpose, and some of them occupy public space, such as pedestrian paths or streets in the form of markets. In my research I investigate around the idea of people starting building extra space for their living needs, as a reaction to the given architecture. Architects usually, in a representative way design or indicate how users should live according to their design. However the users take over as individuals and appropriate it with their own lifestyle and way of living.

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Pichaya Puapoomcharoen p.pichayaa@gmail.com http://ppichayaa.wix.com/mepichaya Thailand Project Experiencing the Transient Architects have a tendency to create a fixed thing. Space is built by substance which makes it seem static. In my mind, architecture always evolves every single time the environment hits its skin. So why not treat it as a living organism? In the modern age, we have the technology to cheat these natural changes with specially improved materials.

Of course, this solves material problems in some certain aspects, but on the other hand, it deprives the understanding of the nature of things from the inspector. The change by nature should better be appreciated rather than avoided as it is inescapable in every way. I want to propose an inhabitance which allows the user to see each transient moment that happens through the reality of time.

Thesis Live in the Moment – Discovering a conversation within your surrounding Such unpredictability can only be seen in nature which is also why I enjoy observing it very much,

uncontrollable and dynamic in its own rights. There is a particularly magical moment which nature influences a building and temporarily transforms its characteristics which I would refer to as a ‘dialogue’, signifying the conversation my surroundings and I are having. In this senses, I do not see architecture as a fixed image, it could change through time with a certain material. Therefore, this research paper would be examining the question of whether changing characteristics of materials can dictate or define a design. Finding new potential in material and use it as methodology to influence an interaction between people and place is my aim.

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Goda Verikaitė godaverikaite@yahoo.com https://nopurposecollective.wixsite. com/justforourselves Lithuania Project Recycling Utopia: in progress Imagine. Lithuania after x year.

Massive investments into biotechnologies lead the country to the new system with a mysterious name: ‘FALC’ (fully automated luxury communism).

If Constant and other utopians from 70’s were dreaming about society freed by automation – here it is.

The ludic society which can afford living in the spontaneous luxury.

What is luxury for you? Villa Savoy?

A single family house? A vagabond life disconnected from any particular place? Is time the ultimate luxury or should it be guaranteed as a basic income for everyone?

The project suggests a series of speculative scenarios how in future the socialist districts as structurally the most pure and adaptable areas can turn into the experimental playgrounds of ideas and theories.

Thesis How to Recycle Utopia The new system, utopia, ideology always replaces or recycles the previous one. None of them is perfect but every of them promises something new.

The research investigates the

phenomena of socialist mass housing in Lithuania as a physical outcome of the utopian promise to ‘provide every Soviet family with its own apartment’.

Lithuania experienced a big change from the socialist system to democracy and capitalism. However Soviet mass-housing neighbourhoods remained the same as they were built sixty years ago. What is the next step in the story of these prefab house-machines (as ‘Le Corbusier’ would call them)..?

The thesis questions and speculates how we see past utopias and ideas from today’s perspective and what we can take from them into the future.

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Farah Zamri faz-farah@windowslive.com Malaysia Project Rojak living – revitalizing the process of homemaking ‘Rojak’ a term described for the diversity of Malaysian people.

Caught between mass housing development and unique individual form of life, traditions, multi-cultural community, and a home that is no longer affordable. The aim of this project is to enhance the practice of homemaking by the local dwellers, in a more affordable manner and to

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introduce flexibility for the middleclass group in Malaysia. Rojak living community is a place where diversity is celebrated, moving away from a monotonous modern housing that was inadequate for the local from the start.

Thesis Home (In The) Making I begin my thesis research interest with the topic of housing, particularly in the context of Malaysia.

The current state of housing in Malaysia is undergoing a crisis of unaffordable housing, mainly affecting the middle-class group.

My research brought me to terrace housing developments, mainly

occupied by the middle-class.

Terrace houses in Malaysia are represented as a neutral shell by the housing developers, the houses are designed with the same form and space, and later modified by the occupant’s once they move in to meet their individual need and preference. Why is there a need to renovate a brand new house?

Is there an opportunity that includes the socio-cultural considerations of the locals within the housing schemes in Malaysia?

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