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TIAN BAO ABOUT ME Interior Design 912-401-1188 Spencerbao07@gmail.com https://issuu.com/spencerbao
EDUCATION SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (SCAD) Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design
Graduated: Auguest, 2019 SICHUAN FINE ARTS INSTITUTE, CHINA Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design
Graduated: June, 2014
SKILLS AutoCAD SketchUp 3Ds Max Microsoft Office
TECHNICAL Autodesk Revit Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop
DESIGN Space planning Material selection Research and analysis Concept development Sketching and rendering Art installation Furniture and textile design Experiential design Customer service Detail Oriented LANGUAGE English Chinese
EXPERIENCE INTERIOR DESIGNER at Jian Gong Decoration & Design Co., Ltd. Chengdu, China (August 2014 to September 2015) • Communicated with client and collected information. • Analyzed the site and building condition and created concept development. • Drafted CAD documents: floor plans, elevations and reflected ceiling plans. • Completed 3D models with SketchUp, FFE selection. • Organized project report content and maked presentation file. • Collaborated across disciplines with architects, account teams and vendors. • Documented progress reports and punch lists on job sites. • Completed commercial and residential projects, specialised in sustainability.
INTERIOR INTERN at BKV Group A full-service architecture, engineering, interior design firm in Chicago, IL (June 2019 to August 2019) • Participated senior living projects. • Drafted Revit documents: floor plans, elevations. • Completed FF&E selection. • Organized and collected sales representative contact information.
INTERIOR DESIGN ASSISTANT at Fan Hua International Design Co. Architectural Firm in Chengdu, China (July 2014 to August 2014)
INTERIOR INTERN at Brother Decoration & Design Co., Ltd. Residential Design Firm in Chongqing, China (June 2013 to March 2014)
• Organized and collected wayfinding system design and interior decoration
• Completed residential projects. • Communicated with client and collected information. • Analyzed the site and building condition and created concept development. • Drafted CAD documents: floor plans, elevations and reflected ceiling plans. • Completed 3D models with SketchUp, rendering. • Collaborated across disciplines with architects, account teams and vendors.
design data source. • Drafted CAD documents: floor plans, elevations and reflected ceiling plans. • Completed 3D models with SketchUp, FFE selection. • Collaborated villa design project and clothing store design project.
STUDENT CO-ZONE M.F.A THESIS PROJECT: A THIRD PLACE FOR STUDENTS
SELF-HEALING THERAPY CENTER FOR EMOTIONAL INSECURITY
GULLAH GEECHEE ART HOUSE
CUBE ART GALLERY LIVE-WORK UNIT
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Designer Inspired, Creative Observing, Listening, Communicating Put yourself in other’s shoes Me
Interior design is the summary and embodiment of the life experience. Designers should put themselves in client’s shoes with the inspired and creative ideas and to understand what client want, in order to figure out what they need. Observing the details, listening to the requirements, communicating the ideas, those three steps make the design reflect the user's personal style preferences better. A good design space can increase people’s overall wellness and happiness which meets all the personal life habits.
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STUDENT CO-ZONE A THIRD PLACE FOR STUDENTS
Research Topic
Effect of Interior Spatial Attributes on College Students with Emotional Insecurity Research Problem
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Emotional Insecurity (EI) is a sense of having a low self-worth. These feelings of insecurity may lead to suspicions about the ability or anxiety of interpersonal relationships and may lead to the development of shame, pessimism , paranoia, and social withdrawal. EI is also a major component of some mental issues such as anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
Emotional Insecurity
Anxiety People with emotional insecurity always worry that they will be hurt when close to others. Feeling anxious in a strange environment.
Social fears Low self-confidence feeling Self-doubt, Over Thinking Over Sensitive Isolated
Level 3
Love/Belonging Level 2
Safety
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
The greater the insecurity, the more isolated the person will be. The greater the insecurity, the more isolated the person will be.
Other higher-order needs will not manifest if safety and love/belonging needs are not satisf ied, and this failure to advance will cause psychological and emotional dysfunction.
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Literature Review
Spatial Attributes affect people's emotions and behaviors.
• Feelings of crowding can lead to the fight or flight response, or stress.
• Too much space can cause tension and anxiety.
• Claustrophobia is the fear of being enclosed in a small space or room and unable to escape.
• A high versus low ceiling height may activate the concepts of freedom versus confinement.
Research Findings 53 Participants were college students
35 Participants were moderate to severe on the EI scale.
Emotional Insecurity Self-quiz
Visual Research+Content Analysis
Identify EI research population
EI population's preference for space scale
2 Participants with severe EI.
Interview
Space preference of college students with emotional insecurity
• Small Scale • Openings
• Visual Privacy • Sensory Change and Variability
DESIGN STRATEGY
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Small scale
Spaces are small or feel small.
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Visual Privacy
Visual privacy provided by using the furniture, partition wall or the arrangement of the seating to give people privacy and stops others from watching.
• Structure Structures can be used in the space to divide the large space into small pieces.
• Furniture Furniture arranges and distinguishes the large space into different functional areas and provides a small and private space for people.
• Material Different materials create an invisibl boundary between each space whic brings the feeling of small size space.
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Openings
The openings such as windows offer the views of nature and bring the natural light into the interior. • Floor Height Different floor heights divide the space vertically into small spaces and let people have different visual heights which create small space with the invisible boundary in one large space.
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Sensory Change and Variability
Spaces with rich furniture, texture, and pat terns to create a home feeling which makes EI people comfortable and relaxed .
DESIGN STRATEGY
USERS
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Neighborhoods Primary user
Public
Undergraduate Students Undergraduate students are willing to spend their time outside with friends for work, group discussions, conversations, social activities and so on. They need different types of seating for different purposes.
Private Creating a place where a student comes as an individual, and becomes part of a group. Each individual is separated to keep their privacy, but are also together to maintain the connection with others in public. The space becomes private, but also public and the public areas and private areas are mixed together in this project.
Secondary user Graduate Students Graduate students will spend their time working outside alone or with one or two friends. They need more private seating options and a quiet area to focus on work.
PROJECT BUILDING
Forsyth Park
LOCATION: One, W Park Ave, Savannah, GA.
Student Co-Zone 3rd Floor
2nd Floor
1st Floor NORTH ELEVATION
DESIGN APPLICATION Structure The larger opening space faces the coffee shop and is more open to other spaces. The space with the smaller entrance is more private and the spatial shape gives the feeling of inclusivity and intimacy.
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Diverse seating options are provided in this project, different sizes and functions are designed for different numbers of people. The openly shared seats are mixed with closed private seats.
Creating a semi-secret partition between the corridor and the functional area can help block direct eye contact between people.
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• College Students • EI Group
DESIGN APPLICATION
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The opening of the seating facing the different directions and the height of the bezel behind the seats is different, which provide visual privacy for people and the views of windows.
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3 The stairs face the window, forming a semi-closed aisle between the back of the stairs and the wall. When people pass through the aisle, they are not watched by the people on the stairs, providing privacy for the passing people.
• College Students • EI Group
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SELF-HEALING
THERAPY CENTER FOR EMOTIONAL INSECURITY
COURTYARD VIEW
ANALYSIS
LOCATION 36 Caobao Rd, Xuhui Qu, Shanghai Shi, China The area where the project is located will be designed by Playze studio as a commercial complex with functions such as shopping centers, entertainment and office buildings. This project will be located on the first floor (red area).
EXISTING BUILDING CONDITION
CONCEPT
EMOTIONAL INSECURITY
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Emotional Insecurity (EI)- Emotional insecurity is a sense of having a low self-worth. These insecurity feelings may lead to suspicions about the ability or anxiety of interpersonal relationships and may lead to the development of shame, pessimistic, paranoia, and social withdrawal. Emotional insecurity is also a major component of some mental disorders such as borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
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LINKING and BREATHING The concept of this project is about linking and breathing. Establishing connections between people’s inner world and the external material world, and the linking between human and the spirit world. Breathing in the natural world freely to gather energy and confidence in order to heal themselves and change their relationship with their condition by living in harmony with their pain and struggle rather than trying to fight it. There is also a link between each individual that attracts and influences each other. Sometimes when the link breaks, people lose themselves or even cannot breathe. The concept of this project is to fix and heal these broken links.
COMMUNICATION AREA
FLOOR PLAN
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7. 8. 9. SELF-HEALING AREA 1. Communication Area 2. Group Session 3. Courtyard
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TREATMENT AREA 4. Lobby 5. Counseling room 1 6. Counseling room 2 7. Mindfulness Room 8. Conference 9. Office
CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES
The EI population generally has social phobias, and the design concept of this space is to challenge themselves. These arched walls divide the space of different sizes to provide a communication place for the EI crowd. They can choose to stay alone in a single room or choose a space for two people to communicate. If they want to challenge themselves, they can choose to communicate with people in triple or quadruple rooms. The purpose is to let the EI crowd gain self-confidence in communicating with people.
REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
WOOD FLOORS
EPOXY FLOORS
Space uses indirect and soft lighting to create a calm and quiet atmosphere. The styling of the luminaire will be based on a circular shape to represent the design concept of linking.
COMMUNICATION AREA
FURNITURE SELECTION
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LOBBY+WAITING AREA
PERSPECTIVE
GROUP AREA
COUNSELING ROOM
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GULLAH GEECHEE ART HOUSE
BACKGROUND
GULLAH ARTS, CUSTOMS, AND TRADITIONS The Gullah Geechee people are the descendants of Central and West Africans who came from different ethnic and social groups. They were enslaved together on the isolated sea and barrier islands that span what is now designated as the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor – a stretch of the U.S. coastline that extends from Pender County, North Carolina to St. John’s County, Florida and for 30 miles inland. Gullah/Geechee people have a rich tradition of oral literature and history including legends, folktales, stories, and accounts of supernatural events such as spiritual attacks by hags and other evil entities (Hufford 1976; Ross 1980). Gullah/Geechee also articulated their oral history through songs. Some elements of Gullah/Geechee culture have been popularized through the creative arts in such works as George Gershwin’s folk opera Porgy and Bess (1934). Project Location : 38 Montgomery St, Savannah, GA 31401
CONCEPT
Overlaping Embedded Interlocking Connected
Quilts
Cast Nets
Multi-layer
Sweetgrass Basket Weaving
Contrast
Gullah Arts
The two concept words represent the complexity and intersection of the Gullah Geechee's history and culture. The overlapping and contrasting between the past and present. The inf luences and differences between traditional local culture and modern social culture. This two words describe Gullah Geechee's complex histore and their separation from mainstream society.
BACKGROUND
DESIGN GOALS Primary Users
Secondary Users Public Visitors
The Gullah
This project offers the opportunities for public visitors learn about the Gullah Geechee culture through the experience and engagement.
This project offers the opportunities for the Gullah who have the limited knowledge and lack of other skills to get a job to support their families, and also let them find their values in the society.
BEING ENGAGED
Exhibition Space
Look ! What is it ?
Experience Space
How to make it ?
Souvenir Shop
Got it !
CONCEPT MODEL
Perspective
Partion Wall
First Floor
Second Floor
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
LOBBY
GIFT SHOP
PERFORMING ROOM
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
HANDCRAFT EXPERIENCE ROOM
DESIGN DETAIL
Multi-layer
East Side
West Side
Exhibition Area + Handcraft Experience Room
East Side
West Side
Performing Room + Library LIBRARY
PERSPECTIVE
FIRST FLOOR EXHIBITION AREA
SECOND FLOOR HANDCRAFT EXPERIENCE ROOM
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CUBE ART GALLERY LIVE-WORK UNIT
CONCEPT
CONCEPT MODEL
The design concept of this gallery in upstate New York is inspired by simple geometric form: cube. Although this form is simple, there are numerous kinds of combinations: overlapping, embedded, interlocking and rotation angle. They are changeable, moveable and flexible. This concept corresponds to the design ideas of the gallery. Gallery, as a medium and a carrier for displaying and selling artwork requires a simple and flexible manner to accommodate various forms of artwork. Indoor lighting highlights the simple geometric shapes and strengthens the clean lines of space. The combinations of the cube form are amplified in the space. The different sizes of the removable square walls are overlapped together, and the whole wall with small moveable cubes and the three-dimensional illusion of the reception desk have increased interest, variability and freshness of the gallery. The proposed design will attract customers to the gallery and encourage them to visit again.
CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES
FIRST FLOOR
CUSTOM RECEPTION DESK Use different colors to make the plane visually threedimensional, Embodied the concept of cube.
SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
Cork flooring
PVC flooring
Bio-Glass
Zero-VOC paints
CUSTOM PULPIT
VIEW 1: EXHIBITION AREA
EXHIBITION AREA
SECOND FLOOR
ELEVATION
CUSTOM MOVEABLE WALL
Each square on the wall can be pulled out to fit a variety of forms of artwork. It is changeable, creative and interesting.
OFFICE EXTERIOR
MOVEABLE WALL
VIEW 2: EXHIBITION AREA
EXHIBITION AREA
THIRD FLOOR
LIVING ROOM
MASTER BEDROOM
FURNITURE SELECTION
SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
Cork Brick
Zero-VOC paints
FIRST FLOOR LIGHTING/ELECTRICAL PLAN
VIEW 3: STAIRS ZONE 1 ZONE 2 ZONE 3
ZONE 2-4 offer the option of using only every other light fixture for energy savings.
ZONE 4 ZONE 5 Emergency lighting is part of ZONE 4 and during power outage, 20% of entire general lighting is on auto-generator power.
Control panels( CP ) operate all zones.
CUSTOM LED 1
LECTURE AREA
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