Design
2016 Winter
Collector
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Chao Te, LEE
06.Oct.2015 - 03.Feb.2016
Letter The goal I have been working towards since college formed from the experience of creation and interacting with people in daily life. If training in drama, the expression of the abstract things in one’s mind, can be used in everyday situations, then the effect of space on people will go beyond function and communicate with their emotions. Designers can offer people a better life by using mood and atmosphere to meet their needs, providing relief from the bustle of daily life and strength in difficult times. Furthermore, if designers extend the boundaries in terms of thinking about the environment, culture and society, spatial expression can give profound feelings to the recipient. These issues will linger in people’s minds and encourage them think about life in different ways. Through this dialogue, people can get in touch with themselves and interact with the environment. This is my big vision, the puzzle of my life, which involves deliberate choice and sometimes chance discovery.
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Studies
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Experiments
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Studies 8 Job 9 Social Life 9 Daily Routine 9 Story 10 Site Analysis 12 Elements 14 Elements-Pattern 16 Fashion Design 17 Manolo Blahnik 17 Re-shape 18 Frank Lloyd Wright 19 Core Concept
Job-fashion merchandisershoes As a fashion merchandiser she specializes in fabrics, textiles and natural dyes, especially skilled in choosing colors and materials with her unique vision. Due to the demand for work, at home, she needs an abundance of storage to keep samples, fabric swatches and reference books; also, a big work table for displaying the references is necessary for her in the needs to be prepared for her work. During most of her working hours, she often has to run from places to places in order to meet her clients and to work with different manufactories. On certain occasions, bringing different pairs of shoes with her is essential, and this is one of the reasons why she has a great collection of shoes.
Studies
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Social Life Family is always her priority when she is not working, but because of her job she has a very busy social life. Despite the fact that she needs her private space, sometimes she has to handle some situations she could not refuse. S-1 What she could do is to maintain the numbers of the visitors when having people around, and that is the moment she and her sisters can share their crazy times trying all kind of shoes, dresses in their fantasy world.
Daily Routine Busy day starts when leaving her bedroom. Usually she works from 8 to 8 during weekdays, and because of that she can only enter her kitchen at the weekends. For her, the time she spends on get dressed and be prepared for her work before leaving her flat is one of the most intense hours in a day. She often needs one and a half hours in average to get herself readied, from taking a shower, getting dressed and doing make up to the very last part, choosing her shoes of a day (S-1). Therefore, one of the most important part of this project is to take her daily routine into consideration, regarding her routine as part of the design circulation, which is how she gets the good vibes every day before she goes out. For the weekends, she enjoys spending her times with her husband; sometimes she invites her friend to her place for a little drink or to watch a film.
Story Through a conversation, she tries to describe her ideal home in her mind. It is a serene corner in a hustle-bustle city. For her, the essence of a home can be compared with the rhythm of her job. This is how this project becomes meaningful, her shoes collection locates at the place where she can easily notice whenever she goes out or gets home. It is the collection that deeply connected with her job and her life, which can also be defined as the light of her life. 11
British Museum
Givenchy
Jimmy Choo Chanel
Liberty
Terry De Havilland
Fenwick Prada Aquazzura
Coach Burlington Arcade
Saint Laurent
Site Analysis The building (P-1) of her flat locates at the quiet residential area in the city. It takes some distances to get to where she usually works and where she goes shopping, but in the streets of this area lie some unique shops (P-2,3,4), which are suitable for people who enjoy getting away from the big city during the holidays. In this project, observing and exploring the places where she usually goes to are the important facts to design a place of her own.
Studies
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64-66 Redchurch street
TOD's
Church's shoes
P-2
P-1
P-3 P-4
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P-5 P-6
P-7 P-8
S-15
Elements According to some high fashion shops and famous apartment stores I classify them into two groups. First (P-5~8), (S-15) is a series of display windows that emphasize with the presen-tations of materials and neat lines, representing the ideas of modern and luxury. The other group (P-9~11), (S-16) inherits the old-fashioned architectures style, which has the ornamental wooden elements, illuminating the style from different eras. In this project, the combination of material and colors are integrated with these two groups of elements, showing the sense of conflict that somehow magically embraces the other.
Studies
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P-9 P-10
P-11 S-16
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S-2
S-3
S-4
Studies
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Elements-Pattern Considering to find the balance of two elements (Neat and mild) is vital for this project. Imagine the relationship between these two patterns is as similar as a painting to its’ frame. Metal or glass materials neatly match with mild wooden frames, which present an interaction between sense of touch and vision (S-2~4). Next, to think about the form and size of the wooden frame is also important to blend the mildness into decoration. P-14
P-12 P-13
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Fashion Design A sketching script from a fashion designer is a great place to start with. Mimicking the lines from the sketch shows me how the fashion designer contemplates about its’ work. Imagine a person’s body as a status, the lines and the proportion of a body can be different because of how a costume is designed by showing completely different senses and textures.
Studies
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P-15
P-16 P-17
Manolo Blahnik
Re-shape
Delving into the structure of the shoes provides some interesting ideas for designing this project, especially from reading Manolo Blahnik’s shoes designs. He treats shoes and human’s feet as one part, gradually forming the meticulous structure of the shoes (P-15). He believes that “Wearing makes it complete”, which elucidates his entire concept. Shoes not only reconstruct the feet but also modify the angle of how their feet touch the ground and most importantly, how people walk.
The core concept of the project is gradually forming. What I’ve learn from this fashion designer’s point of view becomes how I shape the idea of the flat. What they working on already has its existing shape and the only thing designer does is to change and create again. The biggest question to this space is: “Can the space re-shape something or re-shaped by something?”
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P-18
Frank Wright
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Lloyd
One of the most important architects in the world is Frank Lloyd Wright. After studying some of his works, I find his “picturesque perspective” very interested, for example, The Robie House (P-19). When he was designing this building he take the spectator’s point of view into consideration, and he intentionally makes a few changes according to the form and the materials to attract spectator’s attention. I’m fascinated with the idea of leading spectator’s viewpoint; this has given me the purpose of “re-shape” for my project. To reconstruct from spectator’s point of view, on the other words, is to inject a strong images that space is arranged for being “viewed”.
Studies
S-5
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P-20
P-21
Core Concept
S-6
Developing core concept - To reconstruct and to be “viewed�.If attempting to arrange a space to be viewed, what would the relationship between the space and the spectator (S-5)? To reconsider the possibility of reconstruction, using glass as the material to build the space and to rebuild how the spectator sees the space. The spectators will unconsciously believe that what they see is equal to how they have occupied the space in their mind, and glass would be the material that separates the space between them (S-6). Therefore, to implement the concept I design a shoe instalation which is surrounded entirely by glass, a gigantic shoe machine separate the shoe room with other spaces, but in the meantime, the display of a collection of shoes can be viewed from different spaces, turning mechanically by the automatic machine (S-7). S-7
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Experiments 22 Viewpoints 24 Explore 27 Kitchen & Dressing Room 29 Studio & Dressing Room 31 Ergonomy 32 Bedroom 33 Entrance 35 Light 37 Magic Mirror
V-1 V-2
V-3
V-1
V-4
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V-3
View Points Combining these two fascinating concepts is how I develop the project, using glass as a broader line to separate the spaces. Also, the rearrangment of every corner is guied by the spectator’s viewpoint. In fact, making the change coincidentally develops a way to connect how shop windows displayed, and strengthens the idea of fashion.
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Explore In this stage, it is important to try all the possibilities of dividing the spaces and arrange the design circulation.
Experiments 26
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S-15 P-35 P-36
S-16
Dressing Room
Kitchen
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S-17
P-37
Kitchen & Dressing Room
S-9
The complete design concept is almost finished. Take the kitchen and the dress room for examples, whoever is cooking in the kitchen is usually standing back on to the spectator, developing such idea is to make the cook looks like a model in the display window (S-17) (P37). On the other hand, the center of this project is to consider the life style of people who live in the flat (S9), constructing a perfect place for someone who just gets dressed. After dressing up, he or she can be able to stand in the right place and show at the perfect moment (S-15, 16) (P-35, 36).
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S-10
Shoe Room
Dressing Room Stage Corner
Studio
Experiments 30
Studio & Dressing Room The corner between dressing room and shoe room is a space to emphasize the playfulness of the dressing circulation. It is a place just like a fashion runway to make whoever stands behind of it looking fabulous (S-10). On the other hand, considering the arrangement of the objects in the studio I develop a suspended book shelf, which make work table can be easily moved and rearranged. Also, the fabric swatches can be put in the right place (S-11, 12).
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S-12
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Experiments 32
Ergonomy This is the result of combining all the concepts to the spaces. After some rearrangements, the relationship between the shoe room and the dress room is, of all, the most important. The idea of fashion runway in the studio strengthens the process of displaying. In the everyday life my client’s husband usually spends a lot of time expecting and waiting her to get dressed, and now this process has become an interesting activity between the husband and the wife. The section is showing the relationship of people and the objects in the space.
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Bedroom To exchange the location of living room and bedroom I come up with a few ideas. Using the wall for projection in the living room as a decorative wall, which make the boundary of the space into private section and public section more clear (S-13).
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Entrance
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P-21 P-22 P-23 S-14
Entrance On the other hand, by experimenting a magic mirror, the effects on the model shows that using lighting as a way to control the reflection creates two different means, one is for her to exhibit her dress as background for her fashion runway (P-21) and the other side of it is the door in the corridor (P-23).
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Experiments 36
Light Attempt to create different effects for the space by materials, lights and natural lights.
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V-5
Entrance V-5, 6
V-7
Experiments 38
V-6
V-7
Magic Mirror Experimenting the effect of the light in the space. To simulate how the brightness differs both in the entrance and inside the flat.
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Materials 40 Light 41 Collage 42 Entrance 44 Studio & Shoe room 46 Public Area
Light The purpose of making this model is to simulate the effects of how light changes the spaces during a day.
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Collage
Entrance
Entrance V-8, 29
V-8 V-9
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V-9
V-29
M-1
M-1
M-2
M-3
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M-4
V-30 V-31
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M-5
M-6 M-7`
Studio & Shoe Room
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V-32
V-33 V-32, 34
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V-33
Public Area
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P-1~P-4 64-66 Red church street P-5~P-8 Harrods 87-135 Brompton Rd, London SW1X 7XL P-9 Burlington Arcade 51 Piccadilly, London W1J 0QJ P-10 Liberty London Regent St, Soho, London W1B 5AH P-11 Guivier J P & Co Ltd 99 Mortimer St, London W1W 7SX
M-4 Jüdisches Museum Berlin Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Germany M-8,9 Bode Museum Am Kupfergruben, 10117 Berlin, Germany The Figure in V-29 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/495958977690862293/ https://www.pinterest.com/martamccall/design-aestheticliving-rm/ The Figure in V-30 http://jennibabiie.tumblr.com/ The Figure in V-31 http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/03/ben-mckenzie-sayshe-didnt-attend-leighton-meester-adam-brodys-wedding/ http://coeurenfete.tumblr.com/
P-5,12 WMF Alte Potsdamer Str. 7, Potsdamer Platz Arkaden, 10785 Berlin, The Figure in V-32 Germany https://www.pinterest.com/pin/120752833728909514/ P-13 PINET 47-48 New Bond St, London W1S 1DJ P-14 Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL P-15~P-17 Manolo Blahnik Manolo Blahnik Drawings, Anna Wintour P-18,20 Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright : force of nature, Eric Peter Nash P-19 Frank Lloyd Wright http://www.mcnees.org/ Rick McNees P-21 Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House, p. 31. M-1,2,6,7 Neues Museum Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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