MEMORIA

Puerto Rico Housing

As Catherine Pulsifer said, “Photos capture our memories in print, but our memories are always with us in our minds.” Memoria, is designed to bring families together and create new memories.

Located in Puerto Rico, where family is the everything, this design focuses on an open plan system where family is the heart of the structure. Keeping in mind the open-ness, the house is placed in a surrounding that makes it easier for the user to re-orient their lifestyle as well as accommodate their mood or life experience.

Software: Revit & Adobe Photoshop

Living Room

Kitchen

Bedroom

Series of interior design projects that explore a range of different topics. Undergoing a short online course of Interior Design from The Interior Design Institute in partnership with Le Mark School of Art, the projects depicted here are the assignments that was required after understanding each module.

This Coastal Life project here is about creating a mood board choosing one design style for one room from the ‘Types of Interior Design Styles’ chapter in this module. The moodboard should Include fabric swatches, colour samples, photos of rooms as inspiration and furniture styles to convey the overall look for the style.

Software: Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator

Software: Revit

The changes made to the existing floor plan, the modified floor plan presents the client with an open space that is much more spacious and elegant. The entire right section of the new floor plan incorporates the living, dining and the kitchen space all in one as to create unity and harmony in the space as well as characterize the clients idea of a family. The only main enclosed space is the home office as the space itself requires privacy and quiet. Overall, the new floor plan provides the client with a large open space with plenty of natural light that is elegant and sophisticated.

Existing Plan

The project aims to take a brief and redesign the interior of a house built in the 1950s. Above is what the existing floor plan looks like. Taking into consideration of the location of the current rooms and layout of the space the objective is to redesign and modernise it. The construction of the home is brick veneer with a timber frame, concrete stump foundation and tiled roof.

The client is female and married. She wants her new design to include;

• Open plan design to incorporate the dining, kitchen and living.

• Water closet (WC)

• Laundry room - a separate room, concealed behind a floor to ceiling cupboard or incorporated with another room

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• Study - a separate room, a computer station or incorporated with another room.

For this project the aim was to use to modern floor plan as shown previously and produce a full internal lighting and electrical design.

The lighting and electrical design is to be drawn onto an electrical plan also known as a reflected ceiling plan, and on the plan that will show all light fixtures, power outlets, switches, dimmers, wiring, smoke detectors, exhaust fans and any other electrical equipment that is hardwired that will need to be communicated to your electrician.

The existing house was built in the 1950s and features 2700mm high ceilings. A site analysis has been performed and found that the house will need to be completely rewired and updated to meet the demands of a modern family. Thus, the changed electrical and lighting plan provides the client with an elegant open space with soft lighting that is spread out in necessary spots of the house leaving most of the space with multiple window spaces allowing more natural light to flow in.

Software: Revit

This project aims to investigate different color samples for the modern floor plan. There are two colors samples that I have explored that would best suit the modern open plan design.

1. Monocromatic

2. Analogous