Interior and Spatial Design
/2017-2019
/PORTFOLIO
MUYANG TANG
Contents Work Experiance
I. Arthur Arbesser x YOOX
/ Milan Fashion Week Event / YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP / 2017
II. Ready For Departure
/ Milan Fashion Week Event / Fay-TOD'S GROUP / 2018
Academic Works
III-0. Site Context: 106 Commercial Street / Interior Design Matter(s) / Royal College of Art / 2018
III-1. "Refuges": the foyer of a Xmas museum
/ Interior Design Matter(s): Proximities / Royal College of Art / 2018
III-2. "Marionettes": a post-brexit pub / Interior Design Matter(s): Inhabitations / Royal College of Art / 2019
III-3. "Liquid Wheels": a psychedelic guitar boutique
I. Arthur Arbesser X YOOX / Milan Fashion Week Event / YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP / 2017 / Assistant Art Director
A project in complete natural light, invaded with color. Ground Control transformed the Visconti Pavilion for the presentation of the Arther Arbesser X Yoox capsule collection. The collection’s graphic was represented through the abstraction and temporary suspension of the space. An urban concept hollowed of all noise and confusion where the gestures of the models were repeated and the forms and colors were fixated. The collection’s patterns became video optics that were housed within weightless houses, suspended like the actions in time of people living in a metaphysical space, reread in a contemporary light in the compositions of Atanasio Soldati and Giorgio De Chirico. Structured as a long performance, the public was witness to a sequence of repetitive and paradoxical situations inspired by the plasticity of the hyper-realistic sculptures.
/Press Photos of the Event
II. Fay - Ready For Departure / Milan Fashion Week Event / Fay-TOD'S Group / 2018 / Assistant Art Director
The project stages the new Fay collection by Arthur Arbesser in an interactive and surreal production. The set is designed as a place of transit, a hybrid between a subway station, a town square and an airport in which time, emptied of noise and confusion, expands. The colours and patterns of the collection repeat in the set design so as to create a game of collocations immediately grasped by the spectator. The structure of the location recalls metaphysical compositions and contemporary art but with a visionary component true of amusement parks.Structured like a long performance, the audience witnesses a succession of paradoxical situations. The models’ repeated actions allow the audience to be part of the performance and document it using photos and film. T h e s p e c t a t o r s m a y, i n s o m e p o i n t s , a c t u a l l y e n t e r t h e s e t a n d i n t e r a c t . S h a p e s a n d colours, sounds and actions have the declared intention of engaging the audience through objects and architectures that use and amplify the key elements of the collection.
III-0. Site Context: 106 Commercial Street / Interior Design Matter(s) / Royal College of Art / 2019
This chapter is primarily concerned with developing an understanding of a site at 106 Commercial Street, London E1. The relationship of the existing elements to their context is of particular interest. This site will provide the context for the following three interior design projects which I created in the first year at Royal College of Art.
Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, London. There has been a market on the site for over 350 years. In 1991 it gave its name to New Spitalfields Market in Leyton, where fruit and vegetables are now traded.
Truman's Brewery was a large East London brewery and one of the largest brewers in the world at the end of the 19th century. The old brewery buildings have become home to an arts and events centre and various shops and bars
Commercial Street which is an arterial road in Tower Hamlets, east London that runs north to south from Shoreditch High Street to Whitechapel High Street through the East End district of Spitalfields. Spitalfields was historically one of the poorest, most overcrowded and most crime-ridden districts in London. Commercial Street, 1907
Commercial Street, 1972
/Site context
Commercial Street, 2018
Christ Church Spitalfields is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Situated on Commercial Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.Now it sometimes used for temporary events and performance.
106 Commercial Street is a former stable yard of the Old Truman Brewery and horse drawn taxis. The building is currently owned and operated by The Old Truman Brewery and forms part of their complex of former industrial buildings that are used for temporary events such as fashion shows, exhibitions and pop
administration office stable manufacture storage room
museum and exhibition halls
parking place for horses and carriages
19th
1960ďź?1980
Stable yard of the Old Truman Brewery
First floor for storage purposes Top floor for the manufacture of coat hangers
2006 Change of use from warehouse to museum and exhibition halls
private dining room workspace
cafe
workspace
warehouse retail
kitchen and dining space
warehouse
seating area
flexible space for dining
/Planning History
market retail
2013 Change of use from warehouse to retail Addition of roof covering to small yard area
2015 Change of use from retail and warehouse to office Form new openings at roof level for the creation of additional skylights
2016 Fine dining food market
/Plans and 1:100 Site Model
III-1. "Refuges": The foyer of a Xmas museum / Interior Design Matter(s): Proximities / Royal College of Art / 2018
Interior Design Matter(s): Proximities proximity, noun. The fact, condition, or position of being near or close by in space; nearness. This is a project about the entrance experience and foyer of a temporary pop up Christmas Museum, called ‘My story of the story of Christmas’, in the blank entrance and coutyard spaces of the building 106 Commercial Street.
the Penguins (lecture theatre)
the Santa's Grotto
the Igloo (reception)
/Concept Forming
/General Layout and Circulation The required functional areas take the form of four different refuges placed in different parts of the site, the audience travels between one after another in a linea way. They will experience three of these refuge: the Cave(threashold), the Igloo(reception) and the Penguin(lecture theatre), then they enter the museum. After visiting the museum, they go back to the courtyard and experience the most important refuge: the Santa's Grotto. In the end they will enter the small building, the museum shop is over there, after shopping they can exit from the back door.
the Cave (threashold)
/Concept: Christmas - the Refuge in Winter Christmas is in the coldest period of winter, when people suffer from the cold, the hunger, the darkness, the loneliness and the fears. While celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has an important function to gather people and to survive from winter. In this way, the Christmas is our warm and safe refuge in winter.
Metal Mesh Scaffolds
Safe Net
/Experience between the Refuges he passage between the Refuges, the atmosphere experienced by the audience is diametrically opposed. It is cold and uncomfortable compared to the warmth and safety of the shelter. The passage is consisted by 24 scaffold platforms, which has different height, and the surface of the platform is made of metal mesh. The semitranslucent material and height together deepen the uncomfortable atmosphere. There is no guardrail in the passage, so there is a safety net placed underneath it. This safety net is not only functional but also decorative.
/Exploded Axonometric
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/1:50 Model
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/Experience Simulation - 3D Renders
III-2. "Marionettes": a post-brexit pub
/ Interior Design Matter(s): Inhabitations / Royal College of Art / 2019
inhabit, verb. To live or dwell (in a place), as people or animals. To exist or be situated within; dwell in. This is project about designing a pub. A place which reacts to this strange moment in time, culturally and politically, a place which reflects a post Brexit future.The prime focus of this project is the consideration of the ways in which people inhabit buildings in order to undertake specific activities.
/Concept Development
Brexit is a Paradox all about Taking Control or Being Controlled
Marionette Symbolises the public's relationship during the decisionmaking process of Brexit
/Concept: “Marionette” The design of pub is inspired by the concept “marionette”, which symbolizes the public relationship during the decision-making process of the Brexit. The bar controls the whole three floors through the beer pipes installation, which connects the barrels under the bar on the top floor to the existing columns in other floors. Each column serves one type of beer, and divide customers into different groups, thus make customers become “marionettes” controlled by beer.
/Beer pipe system
/1:100 Sketch Model
/1:20 Fragment Model
/1:20 Fragment Model with Human Occupations
III-3. "Liquid Wheels": A psychedelic guitar boutique / Interior Design Matter(s): Identities / Royal College of Art / 2019
identity, noun. The characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is. The brief for the project asks me to create a musical instrument shop. The prime focus of this project is the consideration of the ways in which a designer can create an identity for a space that is appropriate for the proposed use and the site conditions.
/1:20 Fragment Model with Human Occupations
/Introduction of the "Numb Shelf" Three items related to the song "Comfortably Numb" are placed on the shelf. The first is a photo that can be rotatedin order to see the both side. The front and back of the photo shows the dramatic change between 24-year-old Syd Barrett and 45-year-old Syd Barrett, the founder of Pink floyd. The photo narrate that he became a fallen monster after he indulged drugs. The second is a notebook that documents the creation process of the wall album.
/Shelf Design Outcome
The third piece is the shelf itself, which is a shelf with a projection function that the audience can interact with it by turning or replacing the oil wheel placed above it. This allows the audience to get a unique projection on the ceiling.
/Shop Design Outcome
/Introduction of the Guitar Boutique This Guitar Boutique display and sale the guitar collection (both the original guitars and the reproductions) collected by the rock 'n' roll legend David Gilmour — guitarist, singer and songwriter of Pink Floyd. With 15 selected guitars, including his preferred Fender models of Broadcasters, Esquires, Telecasters and Stratocasters, the Boutique marks a rare opportunity for guitar aficionados, musicians and collectors to explore one of the world’s most comprehensive groupings of guitars that hooked generations.
The most special part of this guitar store is this Psychedelic Interactive area. In the center of the area, there is a shelf with a projection function. Customers can grab their favorite oil wheel from the inside of the shop window and then place it on the shelf to change the projection effect. The projection is cast on a piece of fabric above, and there is a fan under the fabric, which can make the cloth flutter gently, thus producing a moving projection effect.