Innova Design Solutions
Innova design
www.innova-solutions.co.uk company Innova Design Solutions ltd. is a shopfitting company specialising in educational environments and solid surface fabrication. They provide a turnkey service: design, manufacture and installation for laboratories, food technology rooms, toilets, canteens, staff rooms, reception desks and other spaces. The company’s unique selling point is a design-led service.
Job description Designer Working as part of a small design team, my role involved design and drawing for many different projects, as well as developing the library of standard furniture and introducing other administrative reforms such as a new drawing numbering, filing and issuing system. Space planning of fitted furniture in rooms with tight spaces and inflexible programmatic requirements such as science labs, food technology rooms and toilets. Design of bespoke furniture such as reception desks, IT lab benching and AV pods. Adaptation of designs received from architects for fabrication. 3D modelling and visualisation of all designs using Sketchup and Kerkythea. Preparation of initial drawings for comment and fabrication drawings using AutoCAD. CNC programming using AutoCAD based software. Site surveys, client meetings and snagging.. period of employment November 2010 - present
Library at Padiham primary school Theme: ‘space’ Science laboratory at Altrincham College of Arts with Corian surfaces Manchester visitor centre, designed by BDP. Innova fabricated and installed the FF&E
Hapton Primary School, Lancashire
Hapton Methodist CE Primary School is a small school with combined classes. It is housed in an Edwardian school building that the client, Lancashire County Council, decided to thoroughly refurbish on a rolling programme throughout 2011. Innova Design Solutions was appointed interior designer and FF&E contractor. Working with our interior designer, I proposed themes for each of the spaces and co-ordinated the fitted furniture, third-party equipment and decoration for each room. These included four classrooms, three toilets, and a library/media suite with very dense programmatic requirements. The media suite had to accommodate IT provision, an interactive TV for teaching, a soundproofed broadcasting booth, a green screen and camera for making films, seating and a traditional library. The room’s theme was ‘space’ to suit its technological role. The room is dominated by a large red cylindrical booth forming the broadcasting suite. With visible panel joints, rivets and its porthole window it was intended to reference the rocket in Wallace and Gromit’s A Grand Day Out whilst also being neutral enough to be a submarine or treehouse. Other walls are lined with floor to ceiling units to maximise storage, with shelves at a low level where children can reach them. The rocket was designed to be prefabricated in sections, bolted together on site.
Food technology
‘Masterchef’ proposal for a food technology room at The Bankfield School, on the Wirral. Central islands rather than the more usual peninsulas make better use of the space, aid circulation and give a cleaner, more modern appearance. The school, intended to be demolished under the cancelled BSF programme, has an exposed steel structure. This is cleaned up and complemented by industrial lighting rafts made from cable trays.
Food technology room at Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School, Croydon.
Toilets
Proposed design in compact grade laminate at Southlands High School, designed with the guidelines published by the Department for Education and Skills and Walters and Cohen architects Manufacturing drawing for infant toilets at Hapton primary school Proposed design for The Bankfield School Toilets at Ashton Community Science College
Garforth lrc and the brewer kitchen
The LRC at Garforth school was a large area with a number of different programmes. I set up the job and drew up the initial scheme. The client at this private house had asked for a ‘shaker’ style kitchen, but was very unsure what she wanted. These visualisations were our first try and are deliberately accessible to non-designers.
reception desk at knowsley leisUre centre
The desk, designed by Broadway Malyan, had difficult compound angles in solid surface and was integrated with the building’s plastered and painted internal walls in a way that required careful consideration of the construction sequence and the roles of different trades.
All other walls completed and decorated by main contractor
This wall to completed square and left without plaster skim or decoration as far as window and door frames
I devised a sequence that allowed our MDF substrate to sit under the plaster skim and paint once the desk was installed.
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