MABEL KRAUS Interior architecture Selected works
Mabel Kraus mabel.kraus@gmail.com www.smallbounds.com Pijnacker, The Netherlands
Education 2014-2019
Bachelor in Design. Interior Architecture & Furniture Design. Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
2000-2006
Bachelor in Tourism & Hospitality. University of Misiones, Argentina.
Skills
Adobe Creative: InDesign - Illustrator - Photoshop - Premier Pro
3D Visualization: Sketchup - Vectorworks - Rhino - VR Enscape - Twin Motion
Traineeship
2020 Finch Buildings. Modular buildings made of sustainable TLC wood. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Volunteer 2019
Consiuos Design recicling plastic for making bricks. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Internship 2018
Krown Design sustainable products by Eric Klarenbeek & Jan Berbee Zaandam, The Netherlands.
Work experience 2014 Delicias Cuisine. Startup of Argentinian food for corporative meatings. Rotterdam The Netherlands. 2013 Liesbeth Bulk Design. Retail of custome glass panels with natural plants, Rotterdam The Netherlands. 2012 El Mejunje. Organization of social events and products design. Cordoba Argentina. 2011 Deco Planner / Gloriosa Events / Carrina Carrizo. Companies for social event planing and decoration. Cordoba Argentina. 2010 Hotel ACA. Sales for congreses and events. Cordoba Argentina. 2009 Ateneo Library. Cordoba Argentina. 2008 Concord Apart Hotel. Receptionist. Cordoba Argentina. 2007 Multivoice Callcenter. Customers service. Cordoba Argentina. 2006 Morada Hostel. Receptionist. Cordoba Argentina. 2000 Macro Banc. Customer service. Misiones, Argentina.
Exhibitions & Events 2019
Graduation Expo for Interior Architecture & Furniture Design KABK, The Hague
2018- 2019
Bauhaus 100 years, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, collaboration with KABK.
2017
FRAME KABK Pop-up Shop, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
2016
Building transition walls, Bijlbermajes, Amsterdam
2015
Exhibition Designing and Building Up, KABK Open Day
Languages Native Spanish - Fluent English - Basic Dutch
My personal mision Minimalism
Re-value
Re-use
Re-cycle
Biodegradable materials
Sustainable production
Index Modular micro-apartment.
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Airbnb in a greenhouse
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Pop - up store made of mycelium
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Renders for Finch Buildings
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Modular micro-apartment
Micro - apartments are adaptations of the architecture to the lack of space. However, many people still cannot adapt to such places. In my graduation project I explore vision in connection with architectural elements wich produce the sense of boundaries.
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Picture by Eric de Vries
How to conquer the uncomfortable?
Experiencing different material and light in an immersive environment of virtual reality helps to understand what is seen in the interior and manipulate such elements to minimize the visual feeling of enclosure.
The visual experience
Openings toward the outside are a fundamental aspect. Not only the facade opened partially to the exterior, but the windows with a filtered view, was a study to provoque a balanced experience inside of a small space.
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The size of every module is the same so they can be attached one with another. This measurement was a minimum to fit a human body and architectural elements as stairs to properly circulate.
When the front part of a module is totally open, the body feels rejected by the space. When it is totally closed it feels clausthrophobic.
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A partial view towards the outside space provokes
When the opened view is interrupted by
a sense of detachment from the space. Interior
vertical lines, the space expands in that
wall lines seem dynamic and makes the observer
direction, making the observer’s view to be
to look out. When the view is blocked the space
pushed up and down.
retains the observer inside, making the interior walls, feel more static, like a container.
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Horizontal lines in the outside view make the
The entire wall at left is open, this provokes the
space look wider. An extra opening at right
feeling of being pushed by the interior walls in
attract the observer to another direction.
that direction. The space feels smaller.
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One Module, a bathroom.
One apartment made of 4 modules.
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Each module was made taking into account the human scale. And every apartment with 4 basic functions: sleeping, cooking, bathing, and working.
The apartments can be stacked according to the space available, the shape of the parasitized space or building.
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Four apartments front views with different facades for different visual experiences.
Apartments in the top of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, as a place for students to live in.
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Airbnb in a greenhouse
A greenhouse from Noordwijkerhout, a place where tulips are the attraction. The goal in this studies assigment was to convert the interior of the greenhouse into a studio for people to stay during the spring. The process involved a design in which the activities inside would make people know more about the local area. The challenge was made for me and other students and as a team we converted the place into a studio-garden using old materials from tulip companies. Among the possibilities there were traditional wood crates -used as a tulip roots dryer in the past - which we used to create containers for a crop rotation system in the new studio. There were also old pipes, which I later converted in hanging pots for vegetables and local plants.
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picture by rachel borovska
picture by joyce edel
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picture by rachel borovska
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picture by joyce edel
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pop-up store made of mycelium
This was a pop-up store proposal for a french optical center. The concept was based on the identity of the brand, which is trend products. In order to expand this idea, trying out the glass was a developed idea, materialized as a simulation of folding screens, places to change personal aspect and feel free within a minimum sense of privacy.
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Actual brand Identity as starting point
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Diferenciation - Trend as part of the brand identity
Type of products Arrangement of products according to some parameter of diferenciation. This way is easier for people to find the product that best suits to their personal look.
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Privacy when choosing glasses. As we change our clothes we want to try new personalities.
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Metal frames sustain the mirrors
Hinges connect frames and columns
Plaster panels make the columns
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Materials: Mirror, Metal frames Mycelium panels
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Agricultural waste & mucelium
Growing mucelium
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Renders for finch buildings
During a traineeship in Amsterdam my work was to make some visuals. This company makes modular buildings using Cross Laminated Timber (TLC) wich is a material considered to be the sustainable version of concrete. The actual location with that has green areas and a water canal was a natural attractive backgraund to show the architectural elements.
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mabel.kraus@gmail.com www.smallbounds.com Pijnacker, The Netherlands