Interior Architecture and Design Portfolio Emma Lawrence
EMMA LAWRENCE
04/02/1990 Colchester, England
HIGHER EDUCATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
University Campus Suffolk Interior Architecture and Design
emma_lawrence1990@hotmail.co.uk 07708728111
2014 - Present | University Campus Suffolk BA HONS Degree Interior, Architecture and Design
SKILLS
2008 - 2009 | Colchester Institute Art and Design National Diploma
Abode Photoshop
2006 - 2008 | Colchester Sixth Form College A Levels Photography English Language Law
3D Studio Max
2015
| EeStairs International Competition
2014 - Present | Towergate Insurance Specialist Home Insurance Underwriter
Software Autodesk CAD
Adobe InDesign Sketch up
CONTENTS STUDENT WORK
Snoozebox
EeStairs
Soundscape
The Snoozebox The Snoozebox is a portable hotel room within the footprint of an ISO steel shipping container that will provide en-suite accommodation for work, rest and play. The Snoozebox enhances how small spaces can be transformed into comfortable and functional portable hotel rooms. The design brief is about flexibility, thinking about accommodation that works in a multitude of situations and locations. It can have one use during the day and convert to a place for sleeping at night. The concept of this design was for the function to be used as a NASA educational hub. With the benefit of being portable, if any astrological studies need to be conducted in a particular location for best visibility, NASA space programme are able to position the Snoozebox where required.
Snoozebox section collage
Snoozebox aerial plan college
Snoozebox plan collage
Snoozebox section collage
Snoozebox section collage
Snoozebox - Folding beds with inbuilt screens and keyboard rests for multiple functions and space.
Snoozebox Autocad render night and day
The EeStairs The project is about enhancing the function of the staircase in a corporate environment by designing your own staircase. Our design has to be more than a staircase and to make the vertical movement through a workspace a delight, not a necessity. We had to think outside the box. Not only in terms of function, but also in relation to shape, materials and construction techniques. The primary focus is the staircase and the added functionality. As is it to be presented in a corporate environment, it is expected that these will complement one another. Our design should be unique, innovative and refreshing. Technically feasible and should be beautifully presented by means of convincing images. This project is also an international competition, created to shine a light on the very best young designers in the world to celebrate the evolution of architecture, interior and product design. No longer is a staircase design simply about function, it has progressed into the creation of ground breaking designs. EeStairs Design competition invites entrants to trace the evolution of design by creating staircases that will help tell a story and orchestrate a wonderful journey between the spaces that they connect, or even separate.
Alyn Griffiths. (2014). Folded metal kiosks by Make/2014/02/05/folded-metal-kiosks-by-make-openlike-a-paper-fan/. last accessed 29/11/2015
Danny Rivera. (2014). Smd apartment by Arquitectura. : http://www.knstrct. com/interior-design-blog/2014/8/14/sdmapartment-in-mumbai. Last accessed 05/12/2015
My staircase design had many influences, including Kiosks by Make and SMD staircase by Arquitectura. Both designers were inspired by the use of origami to create forms for their work. I experimented with origami to create my form for the corporate staircase.
Structure of EeStairs; shell, frame, structure and stairs
Section, plan and 3d render of EeStairs
EeStairs render from Sketchup
Soundscape
Soundscape
The brief was to conceptualize, develop and purposefully design an architectural object-system that will act as a site-specific sound installation for one of the studios at Snape Maltings. The design had to make an intervention to the sound-scape of the interior at the same time facilitating a specific aesthetic that accommodates its function and usability as well as conceptual understand. Consideration was requited to negotiate viewers’ perception and flow, temporality, operation and technical facilitation of your sculpture, by experimenting using various media and techniques.
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Site mapping of Snape Maltings and the Dovecote
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Plans, sections and atmospheric sketch, inside the Dovecote building
Ackermann, Marion, Hans Werner Holzwarth, and Richard Cork. Rebecca Horn. OstfildernRuit: Hatje Cantz, 2005. Print.
Soundscape
http//www.ted.com/talks.aparna_rao_high_ tech_art_with_a_sense_of_humor
My staircase design had many influences, including Rebecca Horns, Spiriti De Madreperla (left) in Naples main square as it focuses on the history of the area and the nearby graveyard. Snape maltings gained significant for a place of burial. The overhanging neon rings gave me inspiration for my sound installation to be overhead. Penso’s Pygmies (right) inspired me to use electronics and incorporate human interaction with my sound installation. My sound installation would only activate when people are present in the room, but are silent. When the audience would make any noise, the installation would stop mid-way.
Soundscape
The installation would consist of unravelling chains - when silence fills the room, crashing into a large acrylic panel above head. When noise is made in the room, the chains stop unravelling and let the natural sway of the motion fill the room. When it is silent again the chains continue to unravel, one at a time. Render of design concept
Soundscape - (left) Dovecote section x3 chains in motion, Dovecote plan, Dovecote aerial plan, (right) exploded axonometric of Dovecote, detailing.
Thank you
Emma Lawrence emma_lawrence1990@hotmail.co.uk