Interior Architecture PortFolio

Interior Architecture Design Portfolio Jiaying Bai

Master of Design in Interior Studies Rhode Island School of Design Interior Architecture Department

401-556-7213

Jiaying Bai

Interior Designer/ Interior Architect/ Graphic Designer

Education

Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI Interior Architecture Department Master of Design in Interior Studies (Adaptive Reuse) (STEM: 3yrs OPT) 2016 - 2018

jbai01@alumni.risd.edu Jiaying Bai

Tongji University | Shanghai, China College of Design and Innovation Bachelor of Engineering (Graphic Design) 2012-2016

Skills

Software

Other Design Skill

Adobe Creative Suite (AI, Ps, Id, Ae), AutoCAD, Rhino, 3dsmax, Sketch up, Revit

Graphic Design

Architecture | Interior Architecture Schematic Design Graphic Diagram Construction Drawing Model Making 3D Modelling Rendering

Language English & Chinese

Experience

Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI Curator TA for RISD Convention Thesis Show (IntAR Department) + IntAR Department Show | Spring 2017 I worked as the team leader of the Curator TA Group. My work included exhibition design, construction, materials procurement, equipment and materials management, and other coordination work. Despite my linguistic problems at that time, I undertook as much work as I can and became a bond between suppliers, colleagues and mentors.

Continuation Studio |Hangzhou, China Intern of Architecture & Interior Design| Summer 2017 We designed and worked for 2 hotels, one restaurant and an office building. My job included data collection and research, diagram making, CAD drawings, construction drawings, production of the presentation file.

Sheji Interior Design Studio | Shanghai, China Intern of Interior & Graphic Design | Spring 2016 I worked for branding - made the whole brand guideline book and interior guidelines for the Sinopharm Care, China’s largest pharmaceutical company. I also did graphic design for a ramen restaurant.

Nanjing Raysee Exhibition Design Co.Ltd. | Nanjing, China Intern of Exhibition Design | Summer 2015 My job included 3D Modelling, Communication with partner companies, meeting minutes and collection.

Posture Correction Model | Human Factor | Fall 2017

Selected Works | 2015 - 2018

Environmental Diversity for Students Residence Life Spring 2018 | Adaptive Reuse Project | Master Thesis Break and Breathe Fall 2016 | Adaptive Reuse Project | Working Environment A Friend of Mine Spring 2017 | Exhibition Design & Adaptive Reuse Wanton House Museum Summer 2016 | Adaptive Reuse Project | Group Work Expo Milan 2015 in Tongji Spring 2015 | Exhibition Design | Real Project Schnur Chair Fall 2016| Structure Practice & Furniture Design

Environmental Diversity for Student Residentce Life Master Thesis Project | Adaptive Reuse of RISD Residence Hall 15 Westminster St, Providence, RI | Spring 2018

College students, especially art school students, are extremely sensitive and facing all kinds of psychological problems. According to Shauna Summers, director of RISD Counselling and Psychological Services, anxiety, stress and difficulties in handling human relationships are the three most serious and common mental health problems among students of the Rhode Island School of Design. By introducing diverse common areas, my thesis project focused on studying the impact of environmental diversity on students mental health, and how to incorporate this theory into the practice of architecture and interior design.

Background & Concept | Common Causes of College Students' Mental Health Problems & Solution Concept

Too restrict autonomy Lack of exercise, sleeping and other hobbies

Difficulty in finding other values in life than acadamy

Help Release Oneself

High expectation

Little communication

Loss of common topics and communication

Peer Surport Peer pressure

College Student

Comparation & imitation

Parents

Better Understanding

Peers

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Existing Diversity | Urban Context & Natural Environment

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Northwest Side (Low Rises & Plaza) Northeast Side (River, Low Rises, College Hill) Southwest Side (High Rises)

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Summer Wind Winter Wind Sun Path Sun Path of December 22th

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Occupancy Time Line

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12:00

16:00

20:00

24:00

Winter

Sun Path of June 22th

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Existing Monotony | Existing Visual Environment | Materials, Lighting Environment & Monotonous Inner-raw

Acoustic Ceiling

Acoustic Ceiling

Plastic Wall

Plastic Wall

Blackboard

Painted Wall

Low Carpet

Tile

Plastic Wall

Glass (Window)

Low Carpet

Natural Light | Window

Warm White| Mounted Round Light

Cold White| Recessed Rectangular Light

Cold White| Mounted Round Light

Cold White| Recessed Rectangular Light

Natural Light | Window

Warm White| Mounted Round Light

3rd Floor Original Plan

Inner-raw View

Shared Space

Natural Illumination Artificial Illumination

Existing Monotony | Existing Human Behaviour & Experience

Usually Less than 1 (Very Quiet) Usually Less than 2 (Quiet) Many People (Crouded & Loud) 3rd Floor

Vertical Circulation Seldom Used Stairs Horizontal Circulation Service Canteen & Library (Shared by the whole school)

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1st Floor

Public

Public (School)

Semi-Public

Semi-Private

Private

Possible short communication Time spent in this area

Walk through the long corridors

Pass by the shared areas

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From Monotony to Diversity | Diversity = Better Experience?

Proposed Experience Communal Kitchen Study Area Niche

Study in the library

Open View & Garden Open Stairs

Walk through the Gate Walk through the Hallway

Eat at Portfolio Cafe

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Take the Elevator

Fit into indivudual bedrooms

Private Kitchens

Original wall system

New Shared Area

Open Stairs and Balcony

Bring the nature

Original movement opportunities

Centre Garden

Natural Lighting

Bring the daylight, Geometry for sound insulation

Original Corridor

Make full use of original structures

Original Service Area

Extended Shared Area

Make contrast between public and private

Bay Windows towards Centre Garden

Enhance the inner-raw experience

Enrich the experience and choices

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Communal Kitchen A

Renovation & Diversity | Diverse Visual Environment Lighting Environment (Proposed)

Illumination Communal Kitchen A (West)

Communal Kitchen B (West)

Study Space

Niche Area

Elevator & Corridor

Communal Kitchen A (East)

Niche Area

Communal Kitchen B (East)

Niche Area

Corridor

Artificial

Daylight Study Space

Niche Area Corridor

Niche Area

Communal Kitchen A

Wooden Floor

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Green Carpet

Fabric

Fabric

Acoustic Soft Materials

Plaster Wall

Acoustic Ceiling

Green Wall

Plants

Centre Garden (On top of 2nd floor roof)

3rd Floor Plan after Renovation

Communal Kitchen B Open Stairs

Niche Area

Communal Kitchen A

Study Space

Communal Kitchen B

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Renovation & Diversity | Diverse Visual Environment

Inner-raw View

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Section

Winter Garden

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Renovation & Diversity | Diverse Aural & Thermal Environment

Study Space

Acoustic Soft Materials

White Noise (Music) Natural Sound White Noise (Water)

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Communal Kitchen B

Radiant Heat for Fireplace Effect Winter Garden as Buffer Zone

High Temporature (Radiant Heat) Warm Temporature (Indoor) Low Temporature (Outdoor)

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Break and Breath Creative Working Environment Design | Adaptive Reuse of RISD College Building 2 College St, Providence, RI | Fall 2016 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kGgzXp1ERc This project is intended to explore how environment can affect working process or make students more creative and engaged.

My design strategy focuses on providing a relaxing rest experience as a necessary part of the whole working process.

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Problems Solving| Existing Condition & Solutions

Corridor

Seldom Used Area

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If there was a space on the roof or outside near the room, where you could enjoy nature, How inclined would you be to work or stay there?

How do you define "privacy" when doing creative work?

1. A space with some strangers who don’t know you and don’t care about your work 2. Separation from others 3. A secure space with a few friends 4. A released space without judgments

1. Not at all

Significant Elements and Factors The degree of separation Human scale Load on the roof and on the floor Safety Problem

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Problems Solving| Existing Condition & Solutions

Separation Gate

Narrowing Down Private Experience

Working States

Sturcture Analysis & Model

Climbing Up

Sky View

Struggle

Release

Glass Fiber

Crash

Tension Polyurethane Foam

Tension Flow

Compression Improved Experience

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A Friend of Mine Exhibition Design |Client Based Adaptive Reuse Project The Chateau de Boisbuchet, 16500 Lessac, France | Spring 2017 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVU4zrLK_TM This project is intended to create a travelling exhibition system for Alexander and his collections.

My design strategy focuses on building up the communication between the audience and the objects through metaphor between the installation and five sections of human body.

The proposed exhibition system engages audience to treat the objects, in the same way as Alexander did, as living creatures.

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Curation| Collections, Existing Condition & Concept Development

Curation Inspiration

Sample of Collections

“When he bought a new piece, he told his biographer Ernest Jones, it was placed in the dinner table. ‘In front of him, as a companion, during the meal.’”

This description clearly indicates Alexander's attitude towards the object he owns: he considers them as his own friends, as individuals with stories and thoughts, rather than things with no lives.

The aim of this travelling exhibition is to let audience understand the story between Alexander and his collections and get envolved in this communication.

Site Existing Condition

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Ground Floor Plan

Other Exhibition on Site

Concept Inspiration

The Body Itself

Metaphors for the Absence of Body Metaphors for Five Segments of A Human Body

Inspired by René Magritte’s work, "the Eternally Obvious", in which he cut a nude portrait into five selfcontained sections, my design strategy is to use five objects of the same period as metaphors for the five segments of a human body, and let them to elaborate their stories in a vibrant way. Similar designs have also been observed in Kinetic Sculptures by Moholy Nagy and ‘The Triadic Ballet’ by Oskar Schlemmer, but in a much more obstruct and vivid way.

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Exhibition Experience| Exhibition Design and Details

Exhibition Scene in Round Gallery

Site Plan View

Rotating & Details

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Details Lighting Fixture

Rubber Rubber

Text Introduction

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Ware Objects Speaking about Their Story through the Receiver

Power

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Battery

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Acrow Prop for Height Adjusting

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Safety Ring

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Wanton House Museum Narrative Space Design |Adaptive Reuse of Historical House 17 Broadway, Newport, RI | Summer 2016 Team Members: Jiaying Bai, Nan Zou, Iris Kuo, Lila Pickus This Project is intended to turn a historical house into a museum that shows the narrative of the house owners and the historic memories of the city.

Our group focuses on turning this house museum into a start point of the historic tour of the entire city.

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Travelling Experience Expansion| Concept Development & Design Strategy

Site Map

Histarical Locations Related to Wanton

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A. Friends Meeting House B. Brick Market House C. Newport Harbour D. Redwood Library & Athenaeum Inspiration (Matta Clark's Work)

Wanton Specific Sites General Historical Sites Physical Cuts View Lines

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Physical Cuts with History Introductions

New Entrance Existing Structure Intervention New Tower & View Lines

Back Yard & New Entrance

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Expo Milan 2015 in Tongji Exhibition Design | Real Project in 2 Weeks 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China, 200092| Spring 2015 Team Members: Jiaying Bai, Shihao Dai, Qing Deng, Shu Wang Supervisor: Jing Liang The intention of this project is to promote ideas of the constructions of each country’s pavilion in Expo Milan 2015 to people in Shanghai.

Inspired by the theme of Expo Milan 2015 ( Feeding the planet, Energy for life) and the inspiration of the Italian Pavilian of Shanghai World Expo, we combine the concept of the wheat filed and the game stickers to make the interesting structure. We would like to create an exhibition experience like a tall wheat field and let visitors explore this adventure.

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Site Existing Condition

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Inspiration & Concept Development

Tongji University Museum

Inspiration 1| Wheat Field

Long Corridor Condition

Model Test

Inspiration 2| Italian Pavilian of EXPO

Basic Elements of the Structure

Real Exhibition Scene

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Schnur (String) Chair Furniture Design |Adaptive Reuse of Old Furniture Piece Fall 2016 Team Members: Jiaying Bai, Jeremy Wolin, Mariah Bennett, Tiberiu Alexandru This project is intended to use the given old furniture piece to create new chair structure with the least weight or new elements.

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Original Piece

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