MA Interior Design Studio 2019
MA Interior Design Studio 2019 Published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by University of East London University Way Royal Docks London E16 2RD MA Interior Design programme leader: Anastasia Karandinou 2019 MA Interior Design Students: Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous Birce Gural Felicia Ivanciuc Parisa Oreizi Yuvraj Singh Panwar Ishita Pathak Sophie Savvidou Lasata Shrestha Esra Tekagac Garima Thakkar Sahar Youssef Fatima Zahra Hadj
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Displayz - Shared spaces Successful places should be considered those that allow for the unexpected to happen. One could argue that the design of public space encourages a specific range of activities to be performed, and possibly discourages others. At the same time, as Lefebvre would argue, successful places should be considered those that allow for the unexpected to happen. Displayz is an engaging hands-on workshop, which was designed to challenge the limits of everyday spaces in a creative, provocative way. It was a week-long ‘play’; the rules of which are to be bent/ twisted/ broken and displaced critically.
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By Esra Tekagac, Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous, Sophie Savvidou 6
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By Esra Tekagac, Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous, Sophie Savvidou 8
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By Birce Gural, Lasata Shrestha, Silvia Traiani 10
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By Ishita Pathak, Yuvraj Singh Panwar, Parisa Oreizi 12
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By Ishita Pathak, Yuvraj Singh Panwar, Parisa Oreizi 14
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By Felicia Ivanciuc, Sahar Youssef, Garima Thakkar 16
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Displayz
A small exhibition displaying the photos from the playful Displayz exercise. A pixelated display element made from metal pieces that are bent and attached to the wall to create a wave structure.
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Interactive Stage Set Design - Hackney Pirates The Hackney Pirates’ initiative is an after school learning programme and aims at helping children develop their imagination, reading and writing skills. This project was about transforming a conventional teaching room into a magical environment for children to take part in performative and interactive storytelling, reading and writing workshop. We designed and built the Stage Set for ‘Hackney Pirates’ interactive pop-up theatrical performance, which hosted the events organised by the Hackney Pirates on March 2019. The children attended an interactive theatre performance and took part in an immersive imaginary journey guided by the storyteller. The set was designed with a goal to excite their imagination and creativity; children then would evolve the story further, verbally and in writing. More than 200 children attended interactive performances held in the environment designed and built by the class and more performances are scheduled for the future.
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The Museum of the Future The Museum of London is moving from its current location to the site of the Smithfield market. We designed and proposed a new function for the old Engine House; a triangular brick building situated on the junction of Smithfield street and West Smithfield street, opposite the West Poultry avenue. This building was originally an engine house and was later turned into public lavatories. It was initially built in 1898 by Reeves and Styche. Museums and cultural organisations are increasingly concerned with the issue of social inclusion. In this context, we individually designed a new function and a new programme for this building, creating a dialogue between the museum and the city.
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Open Air Museum
The aim for this project was to connect the city of London and it’s surrounding area to the Museum of London, literally and metaphorically. I have proposed to create a pop-up museum that would be located in the abandoned Engine house next to the new location of the museum at Smithfield Market. While walking through the engine house I wanted people to be fully exposed to the elements while observing various museum artefacts that would be displayed within the three walls. Open walkways and no ceiling could create a unique museum experience.
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Confessions of the Future - Story-Drop-in Centre
Antiques are not profound because of the form or shape and their capital worth, but for the stories they behold. The various scenarios and circumstances they’ve been a part of and the outlook of different individuals they were owned by. The Museum of London is shifting to a new venue, where former Smithfield Market is situated. The Engine House in the area is the proposed site for our project. Museums hold all kinds of stories from the past, regardless of anything. This proposal tends to exaggerate the tradition of communicating local scenarios from the past and linking the residents of the city with the Museum. Every visitor in the world, receive stories as soon as they come out of the museum space. Therefore, I am proposing a story drop-in centre at the museum. Here, rather than gaining something, individuals can deliver stories of their own or the ones they have known, from the past. Unlikely a public story telling session, they will be pleased to drop there stories at a counter and a database of the same on a server will be uploaded online where people can hear anonymous stories about each other. The premises proposed will be able to service recording equipments, writing materials, digital aid if needed and so on. Confessions of the future, is not just a way to tell what an individual went through, but connect to the world and the city in a way that has not traditionally happened before. Creating a centre of culture that is rooted in the region.
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Fashion
Engine house becomes a fashion exhibition, workshop to work, a shop to sell clothes, a classes to learn. My concept is creation of a public path which crosses the building and extends outside to link Museum of London with the City, then I created another volume (that follows the shape of a path) above the building which looks like a floating volume and I tried to connect the two building together (overlapping concept).
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The New Studio Lab
The Museum of London in 2021 will have a new site place - the Smithfield Market. My proposal for Museum of London about the refurbishment of the Engine House is to take a part of the renovation artefacts lab and to be moved outside from the Museum of London. The project will be a Photography Studio and Renovation Artefacts Laboratory. The design is to keep the texture of the old red brick. At the first level will be added some concrete panels with triangular shape holes so that the daylight can come inside and at night the light will create a beautiful architectural light structure. The studio-lab will be opened to the public. Inside will be a glass box as the same shape as the building. On the ground floor will be the photography studio inside the glass box, where people can watch the process of photographing small artefacts and advertising them. On the first level will be the laboratory where the artefacts will be renovated. There will be a sitting area to watch the indulgent process of conservating the artefacts. For access and movement, I designed a stair from ground floor to first floor around the glass box. Also there will be an elevator from the underground till first floor. In the building there are natural and artificial light, and two entrances from East and West. The colour pallet of this project are the raw red brick of the existing building, the grey concrete panels, black timber floor outside of the glass and inside light grey timber floor, and other neutral colours for the rest of the building.
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Try-Angle - A Literary Hub
London is a world-leader in the literature and creativity. Creating a literary hub can help New Museum of London to contribute so as to ensure it stays that way by conducting literary workshops and providing performance space for students of the community. Ground floor of this building will be a stage for performances to perform poetry, story telling and similar activities along with the various workshops. The basement of this building is connected to the Museum through the sunken garden. This area is proposed to be a cafe with a information point for the visitors about this literature hub and its programs. The main idea for the extension of building started from a parasitic structure clinging on to the main body such that it creates additional volume to the building. Later during the design development, the idea of parasitic architecture was dropped to create an enclosed space in the form of a box within a box. The contemporary structure of angular roof with triangle windows on four sides is influenced by the angular outline of the mansard roof of Smithfield General Market. The inner box consists of the metal frame structure with insulating material in between the inner layer of wood cladding and outer layer of corten steel. This is done for the thermal and sound insulation. Corten steel used on the exterior of the extended structure resonates with the red brick of the engine house and its neighbours.
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Shared cooking area
The museum of London is shifting its current location to Smithfield market which consists of 4 buildings: Poultry Market, General Market, Engine House, Anexis building. We as an interior designers were given this opportunity to redesign the Engine house in such a way that it connects to the public in a poetic way. We started with doing site analysis of the Smithfield market , performed display activities and made various models to explore the concept and notion of space and then we have made different proposals , collages, mood boards and final plaster model.
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Shared Cooking Space with Kitchen Garden
Museum of London is moving from its current location to the site of the Smithfield market. The West Poultry Avenue will transform into the main entrance of the new museum. An old Engine House; a triangular brick building is standing derelict opposite to it, situated on the junction of Smithfield Street and West Smithfield street, opposite the West Poultry avenue. As our design project, we were expected to re-design that building and find it a new function. Hence, I proposed a shared cooking space along with a kitchen garden as the new function for the derelict Engine House. The concept for my design was to bring in the community together through that shared cooking space. The idea was to engage the people in every phase of the food chain i.e. to learn how to grow and then cultivate their own fruits and vegetables, to use the same in cooking their meals in the cooking space and also share the same with people using the shared cooking kitchen. The proposal of this new function of a shared cooking space for the derelict Engine house includes a free standing glass box which could create a dialogue between the existing brick walls. So that, there’s a link created between the outside and the inside. Also, the use of corten steel in my design was done so that it does justice to the color of existing red bricks. This function was chosen keeping in mind, the key activity of the Smithfield market which is all about food. The goal was to design a shared cooking space with a kitchen garden whereby a typically passive consumer would transform into an engaged & active participant. The key function of the space is to provide people with an area where they can cook their own food. The kitchen garden for people would help them grow & use fresh vegetables while cooking. The space aims to increase social interaction via exchange of conversations over food.
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Small Community Film House
Proposed new programme: A small community film house becomes the new threshold between the museum and the city. Main idea: - Engine House is a historical building that should be preserved. - The building can adopt a new function to be in use. - The new function links the museum with the community, by offering a small cosy place with multiple types of media displayed. - The house has a relaxing lounge area with a small bar. - The screening rooms have a luxurious style with a small number of sofas, recliners or love couches. The screens’ dimensions (3X4 - 4X5). The house can be used as: - A relaxing place for the locals, visitors to the museum and people who work around to spend their break time. - A private room for meetings or seminars. - A gathering club for individual filmmakers and video artists. Types of displayed media: - Short films (30-60 minutes) displayed during the day time. - Historical documentaries. - Private presentations. - Films or movies (the long or short one). The architectural proposed design: The main concept is to create a modern structure as a shell extending from the western side of the existing building climbing up to cover the roof. This new structure creates a new entrance for the house with a modern design of a perforated brass combined with glass bricks that are having the same ratio of the building bricks. The glass bricks allow the sun rays to leave a pixelated bright pattern inside the building at the day time. By the evening time, light extend from inside the house into the outside forming a beautiful inviting pattern. All the blind windows and doors of the existing building are replaced with framed transparent glass, to give a filming panoramic scene for the inside to the outside.
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The Yellow - Microbrewery Pub
I decided to use the Engine house to create a Microbrewery pub using the existing ground floor yet extending it down to the basement and creating and extension to the building which includes the lift, stairs, and toilet. My initial concept was to have the old vs. the new, keeping the exterior elements as it is, and completely changing the interior elements materials and colours. I chose a minimal design with white and gray colours yet decided to use long extending fabrics hanging from the ceiling in order to create a feel of flowing and honesty. I’ve gotten inspiration for the yellow fabric by experimenting with different plaster models and yellow ribbon. I believed that having this element on the ceiling would work with the honestly of the minimal material in the rest of the design of the interior.
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The Play Ground - an urban sound structure
‘Everybody belongs to the same stage’ The Play Ground is an urban sound structure located in Smithfield Market area. As an abandoned building, The Engine house seemed like there was something inside waiting to explode, emerge, and perform. Therefore, the shiny coloured and parasitic angled shape is used as a roof while keeping the exterior shell as it is to create a striking contrast. The new use of the building will be a music and performing hub where people can gather, share their experience, perform and record. The existing ground floor is used as a performing area while extending it down to the basement to host recording studios. Another extension is created as a mezzanine floor where people can follow performances also from the upper floor. All the visitors of the Play Ground will be named as ‘The Players’: inducing feelings of ‘being on the stage’, excitement, adrenaline and playfulness. One of the aims is to reconstruct the relationship between the audience and the performer. With this aim, instead of separating them as different levels, the performance hall is designed as one continuous level: ‘everybody belongs to the same stage’. Depending on the weather conditions, people can also gather in the outside performing area where people encounter, interoperate, participate and make music. Via sound pipes splitting out from the bricks, the building’s function has enhanced instead of being contained only inside and people can listen to the music which is produced in the recording studios or performing area from the outside. Another design decision is maintaining the faceted roof inside the structure as sound absorbing elements which are suspended from the ceiling, at the same time it also turns into sitting elements outside.
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A Promenade
As the Museum of London’s proposal for the move to the Smithfield Market takes shape, I explored how the museum can open up to the community through the design of a small gallery building located amongst the existing market buildings. The Engine House, which used to provide power for the Red House, is currently boarded up and has fallen into disrepair with missing bricks, blocked openings and vegetation growing from the roof. The new programme of the building will be a small contemporary art gallery that serves as a promenade though the Smithfield Market site. Historically galleries were circulation spaces of private buildings, this theme is implemented into the design to connect the different buildings of the market through circulation. This building aims to merge the interior and exterior spaces through a continuous corten steel structure that flows within the inside and outside of the building while connecting with other materials to form functional surfaces such as seating, tables, stairs and display elements. This also allows the currently sealed building to unblock and spill out to it’s context. The existing red brick facade is accompanied by a new pink hue concrete structure that sits within the existing shell. The vast roof space is brightened with a big triangular roof light and slit windows in between the concrete panels on the new facade. Sliding walls can be moved to control the natural daylight within the gallery space. A lower ground floor cafe with a sunken garden provides a green space to take a break and relax. The main interior and exterior materials are pink hue concrete panels, corten steel, marble, oak timber, terrazzo and fabric.
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Breathe
The Smithfield Market is soon to be the new home for the Museum of London and in my proposal; I intend to create a performance space in Engine House which is next to the Smithfield Market. This building used to supply energy of refrigerator of the market and currently is not in use. The ground floor of this building will be a stage for performing different kind of arts and the basement of the building will have a small bar for socializing and drinking along with restrooms. On the top of the building, with a modular metal frame structure, a roof garden is proposed as a place for gathering, socializing and small concerts. The roof garden will use oxygen-producing plants to further improve air quality in the middle of the city. I named this modular metal frame structure ‘BREATHE’ because of its structure and its materials. Light-permeable textile walls have a special coating which filters and neutralize the air. Also, the fabric is interchangeable and can be replaced with one that performs appropriately to different climates .All of this structure is designed to be detachable for the flexibility to be re-installed in another location.
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End of Year Exhibiton
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Special thanks to our guest tutors and external critics: Melissa Bennett (Museum of London), Dr Kat Martindale, Graham Thompson, Jude Williams (Hackney Pirates CEO), Lily Eastwood (Hackney Pirates), Dr Francesca Zanatta (UEL, Department of Early Childhood & Education), Gail May (UEL, Director of Civic Engagement; Civic Engagement/Volunteering/Noon Centre), Aisha Labefo-Audu (UEL, Civic Engagement/Volunteering/Noon Centre), Alfonso Senatore, Anna Minton, Reem Sharif, Dr Keith Winter, Carl Callaghan. Also special thanks to the following colleagues for their support with the Hackney Pirates live project: Anthony Mensah, Aaron Piper, from The Hackney Pirates, Joanne Molyneux, Natalie Freeman, from the UEL Civic Engagement team, Clare Qualmann, Liselle Terret, Gordon Kerr, Lavinia Mihoc, UEL. Additionally, special thanks David Spence (Director of Transformation), Alex Werner (the lead curator for the new museum), and Finbarr Whooley (Director of Content), from the Museum of London for their valuable time and conversations on initiating this collaborative project.
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