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I’m an interior design student who believes that there is beauty in everything, in the simplest and the ugliest of things. I consider everything as beautiful. My designs are inspired by wabi-sabi and of minimalist Scandinavian style. I’m all about using natural materials and colours for design and for decorations, It gives such a clean and minimal sense of style and feel.

Besides designing, I am an avid coffee enthusiast, I love coffee and can't start the day without it. Just like my motto, "Life begins after coffee".

Email: garciaalex700@gmail.com Phone Number: (852)93062079

Education: April ’15 - on going

Raffles International College bachelor of arts in interior design

June ’09 - March ’15

The Master’s Academy High School Graduate

Skills: AutoCad SketchUp ShaderLight 3DMax PhotoShop InDesign

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Architectural Drawing & Digital Interiors 2 Floor Plan Bridle Hotel 8

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Hotel Bedroom Working Space 10

14 Building Materials & Technology

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ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING AND DIGITAL INTERIORS

This subject explores the using of different computer softwares to generate and develop design solutions and styles.

- Hotel Design (3d Max) - Hotel Bedroom Design - Working Space

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FLOOR 2

PLAN

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BRIDLE HOTEL This hotel concept is inspired by the bridle joint, where it’s geometric shape and composition is applied to both structure such as walls, stairs and ceiling, as well as furniture like lounges, reception, display, centrepiece and etc.

Hotel style: Coastal Scandinavian Colour Scheme: Blue, Brown, White Use of Natural materials, glass and Leather.

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BRIDLE HOTEL ROOM 8

BEDROOM

SITTING AREA

Photo collages of different areas of the hotel bedroom adapting to a modern way of the style and concept of the hotel.

ENTRANCE

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WORKING SPACE 10

WORKING AREA

READING AREA

PLAY AREA

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WAITING AREA

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A set of collages showing views of each spaces of the office. It includes a reception, waiting area, play area, reading area, and working/ office area.

Office style: Urban Chic Scandinavian Colour Scheme: Neutrals + Pink, Brown Use of Natural materials, and Leather.

RECEPTION

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BUILDING MATERIALS AND This subject explores the different materials and technology applied in design, both contemporary and modern.

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TECHNOLOGY

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pieces of home This exhibition is inspired by the Italian living room and of Domus.

A living room is where life happens, and the concept for this exhibition is continuity, the use of lines. Mirrored tiles are also used to represent the Domus, Ancient living space for Romans.

Materials: Carpets, mirror tiles, plumen lighting.

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LAYOUT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction • Objectives

DESIGN

• Brand Background

• Product Raw Materials • Production & Manufacture • Packaging & Distribution • Consumption

Inspired by vitra’s campus building and sustainability, hence the colour

• Disposal & Reuse • 3 Pillars of Sustainability • Alternative Proposal • Product Life Cycle Diagram

OBJECTIVE This report aims to look through and research further a specific company’s product, from it’s raw materials, through its production, manufacture, it’s product life and lastly, it’s disposal. This analysis could also help the determine and solve the economic and environmental problem and impact that may rise.

RAW MATERIALS

In attaching the seat, backrest, and the base, shock mounts Vitra is a design company based in Birsfelden, Switzerland that is dedicated to improve the quality of residential and commercial spaces through the power of sustainable design. Under the company, there are other

are used, such as bonded rubber and metal connectors. Rubber is an artificial elastomer, an elastic polymer. Metal is and can be made up of different alloys linked together such as iron, steel, aluminium, copper, titanium and magnesium.

elements such as their Architecture Campus, the Vitra Design Museum designed by Le Corbusier, workshops,

Powder is also needed, since Vitra employs powder coating to finish its woof surfaces. Powder is a substance made up of different

publications, collections, and archives.

granules or particles.

Vitra looks at sustainability as a moral aspect The environmental connection is part of the product and its

Recycled papers and plastics are other materials that are re-

use.. Their design is focused not only on the style, but

used, in order to make their cardboards and plastic to put in

also the product’s durability and longevity in aesthetics,

products for shipping and distribution. The raw materials that paper

functionality, and quality.

is made up of are wood pulps or chips that are fed into papermaking machine or paper mill. Plastics are made up of chemicals or molecules linked together such as cellulose and polymer.

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RAW MATERIALS Plywood is essentially a wood sheet material made from other

In gluing ash wood

thin layers of wood veneers that are glued together. In particular, the

veneers together to make

specific plywood used in this product is made of the tropical wood

plywood, Urea-formaldehyde is

Ash. The company mainly acquires the wood from the trees planted

used, an chemical adhesive resin

in Germany. It is said that German forests do not need a

made of urea and formaldehyde.

sustainability certification since they are considered to be resource-

Urea, also known as carbamide, is

saving and has environmentally sustainable forest management.

an organic compound with the

Switzerland is known to be one of the 10 top most sustainable countries around the world, it’s because of their innovative policies and advanced environmental management practices that paved them into becoming one.

Thirty-one percent of the country is covered in forests and woodlands, and even

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chemical formula CO(NH2)2.

In the production of making plywood, a lot of energy and

Formaldehyde, also known as

water is used during the process. Vitra is always up to date in their

methanal, is another organic

building technology, since 2008 they have drawn all of their

compound made with the

electricity for the production sites in Weil am Rhein and Neuenburg

chemical compound CH2O.

from hydropower sources, which is the energy of falling or running water. Where in Vitra, they have a closed-water circulation system which then extracts groundwater reservoirs that form over millennia as the result of seeping rainwater. Solar power is also used by mounting Photovoltaic panels on the roofs of their production facilities. In this case, Vitra does use natural elements or resources in

jobs are related to timber resource. Switzerland has an abundance of wood, which their culture uses it in products such as for housing. Living around nature has a lot of benefits such as it is healthier and cleaner, it gives a nice

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environment, and even Swiss citizens are driven to recycling, which is why Switzerland is considered a sustainable country.

Vitra’s campus, are in fact, surrounded in natural surroundings as well, which provides everyone in Vitra an enriching and clean environment to work with. forty-one percent of the campus is undeveloped and remains green. In the area, over 100 cherry trees were planted with a grass and meadow consisting of wildflowers.

Economically, Vitra has proven that their environment and company

powering their production.

location is not a problem to any of their employees. Being surrounded and being based around nature and forestry is a positive aspect for employees and even visitors. Vitra production facilities, as said in previous section, also promotes using natural resources and energies during their manufacturing process such The Lounge Chair Wood (LCW), which is

as solar energy and water systems, which doesn’t affect or harm the people.

also part of the designers Charles and Ray Eames’ Plywood Group, is a lounge chair made of ash plywood, ash moulded with forms and styles similar to the designers’ famous Eames chair.

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Socially, Vitra also shows welfare for their employees as the general public.

To prove and show their appreciation for their employees, they have always implied facilities and programs such as company restaurants, visiting days for their children, free museum tours, fitness club memberships and even day cares. In fact,

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Vitra has hoisted a summer party back in 2012 for their employees and their family to gather and enjoy together. In terms of employing, the company also allows disabled people to work whenever it’s possible. Cultural Initiatives is the major and primary focus of public engagement of Vitra, and the Vitra Design Museum founded in 1989 proves that. The museum is an internationally recognised cultural institution dedicated to research and presentation of design and architecture, as well as holds exhibitions, workshops, and tours for everyone to join and visit. Vitra offers plenty of jobs and internships for people who are willing to share and contribute their design methods, they prove that each individual could help make this world a better place.

Environmentally, Vitra, since 1997, they have been certified with ISO to maintain and give importance in solving problems that would help reduce the negative environmental issues and the use of energy to produce and manufacture their products and projects. They also formed a sustainability team back in 1986, till then they would still discuss issues related to environmental protection.The use of natural resources and elements such as water and sunlight as their energy sources, and the use of recycled papers and plastics as their packaging for products are already two of the positive aspects the company continue to do so to help the environment. Recycling saves landfill space, it reduces carbon dioxide emissions, reduces litter, and it also helps conserve resources and energy. The use

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S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y

Assessment Number 1 Life Cycle Analysis

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of renewable energy requires less maintenance, it’ll never run out and does not produce much waste products, so it is sustainable

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