BA Interior Design

BA (Hons) Interior Design

Dr Keith Winter Programme Leader

This year was a new start for a new BA (hons) Interior Design team. From the outset we were challenged to establish a strong identity in Year 1, 2 + 3 through process-led projects. Punctuated throughout the year with 3-week ‘Blast Briefs’ and 10-12 week ‘Main Briefs’, the goal was to grow a confident set of artistic designers, bold in their use of graphic representation. Blast Briefs were about generating fast content without procrastination through a catalyst of literary references, such as ‘Exercises in Style’ by Raymond Queneau (1947), ‘Library of Babel’ by Jose Luis Borges (1962) and ‘Species of Spaces’ by Georges Perec (1972). Main Briefs immediately followed these and looked at developing typical interior design projects through techniques of spatial analysis, collage, model-making, photo-transfers, drawings and artistic impressions. Some project locations were on campus, while in Year 02 + 03 they reached West London, Cheltenham and as far as Penzance.

In late November we had the opportunity to visit the 16th Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. This was a key moment for our entire BA student cohort to get close to innovative designs, notably experienced through 1:1 installations and stunning models of various scales. In February we held an event in the AVA Atrium called ‘Hyper Now or Slow Release’ that saw the launch of our Year 03 ‘Live Projects’, inviting four design offices to become the mentors for our student groups. FNFC Architects, LOM Architecture + Design, Edge Design Workshop and ScottWhitby Studio formed our talented industry professionals who presented their work and supplied a current live brief for the students to plug into. Students were tasked not only with satisfying a UEL submission requirement, but also with sharpening their design and graphic skills in accordance with the offices, which produced a dynamic and high-energy flurry of productivity towards the end of the year. Projects included a Neo-Baroque Crypt, co-working containers, a community centre and a co-living site.

In Term 02, Year 01 students developed ideas of their ‘Dream Bedroom’ through plan, section and axonometric, which eventually manifest into a 1:1 representation of a corner of their design. This exercise produced compelling installations and material applications. The construction of these large works gave our students confidence to use power tools in the workshops and learn how to build in the studio. The results culminated in lettuces mixed with pink plaster, gluegun tiles, dialectics of disgust vs satisfaction, fear of holes, feathers and petals and oil painted metals, AXO’s and ISO’s, floor-plans and psychos - we had it all in this brief. Year 02 had a unique take on ‘Co-Work’ in the fast-gentrifying area of London Fields in Hackney. In Arch 389 there are currently seven separate tenants selling vintage furniture and clothes. Year 02’s were tasked with re-ordering and mapping out proposals to bring coherence to a frantic and busy shop.

One of the hardest things to learn as a designer is how to get ideas onto paper. By pitching various forms of oppositions against each other, such as public and private uses, beautiful and ugly, dark and light drives, our students were able to map out their first concepts into a diagrammatic graphic language. This allowed individuals to extract meaningful knowledge from themselves, opening up everything in their lives to be available for content. I believe this has led to a strong and visible identity in our current Interior Design cohort, one that we as a tutorial team are very proud of.

Dr Keith Winter

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Interior Design

Sabina Andron, Joshua Beaty, Maliha Haque, Janet Insull, Claudia Palma, Keith Winter

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Students:

Y1: Demha Ahmed, Alghaliah MJ H B Alsiri, Lily Dadson, Inci Devecigiller, Bianca Franga, Amber French, Atanaska Hadzhiyska, Asma Ibrahim, Nahed Idris, Roisin King, Gizem Kose, Batul Lopez, Rachel Mcdowell, Melissa Mustafa, Wajeeha Nazir, Daniela Nunez Paco, Aleksandra Piate, Alison Richards, Mavish Rizvi, Dilara Sert, Nafisa Tailor, Elif Tintas, Sara Trevain, Dijle Ucrak, Diana Vysniauskaite, Man Wong. Y2: Crystal Stewart, Rosa Sheaves, Carolina Iacovenco, Jessica Pembroke, Joanne Dean, Delmarie Coates, Lian Nasseri, Alisa Insoi, Tannah Nansubuga, Onur Derin, Mohamed Hamidi Y3: Claudia Lazar, Nayden Hadzhiev, Christina Inoke, Carlos Torres, Zena Emanuel, Amber Ali, Sonia Islam, Gizem Sarilmaz, Helen Adefoiye, Alvin Tampon, Whitney Green, Kevser Intze, Elham Saneifard

Thanks:

Anya Gordon Clark, ZAP Architecture (Pol), Federico Nassetti, Jason Pritchard, CAKE Industries (David), LOM Architecture + Design, ScottWhitby Studio (Ming + Alex)

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id.1+2 Crypt Bar design and doors section, Nayden Hadzhiev id.3+4 Jubilee Pool model, Carlos Torres id.5 Co-Living Bar collage, Whitney Green id.6 Co-Living visual, Sonia Islam id.7 Plaster tests, Sara Trevain id.8a Dream Bedroom Axo, Sara Trevain id.9b Model experiment, Mavish Rizvi

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id.10 Year 03 Final Crits id.11 Year 01 construction team id.12 Exercises in Style, Roisin King id.13 Library of Babel graphic tests, Rosa Sheaves id.14 Hyper Now or Slow Release publication, Carolina Iacovenco id.15 Crypt Section, Amber Ali

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Existing Old Historical Baroque - Style Church 1:50

Contemporary treatment to Crypt, Proposal 1:50

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id.16 Workshop Containers Co-work Section, Claudia Lazar id.17 Workshop Containers Co-work Visual, Claudia Lazar id.18 1:1 Wall, Melissa Mustafa id.19 Photo Transfer, Wajeeha Nazir id.20 2-Point Perspective, Rachell McDowell id.21 Library of Babel model, Sonia Islam

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WORKSHOP CHELTENHAM

Claudia- Maria Lazar

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id.22 Research Book, Dilara Sert id.23 Collage, Melissa Mustafa id.24 HyperNow or Slow Release publication, Joanne Dean id.25 Co-Work, Arch 389 Visuals + Logo, Carolina Iacovenco id.26 Co-Work, Arch 389 collaged section, Rosa Sheaves id.27 Jubilee Pool, Plinth study, Carlos Torres id.28 Library of Babel Section, Crystal Stewart

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id.29 Collage, Nahed Idris id.30 1:1 Corner Wall, Mavish Rizvi + Nafisa Tailor id.31 Collage, Wajeeha Nazir id.32 Collage, Demha Ahmed id.33 Collage, Alex Man Wong id.34 1:1 Corner Wall, Lily Dadson + Dijle Ucrak id.35 Axonometric Dream Bedroom, Nahed Idris id.36 Co-Living Axonometric, Zena Emmanuel id.37 Post Year 03 crit party

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id.38 Model at Year 03 Crit, Sonia Islam id.39 Co-Work Plan, Melissa Mustafa id.40 Crypt Garden Entrance Visual, Christina Inoke id.41 Collage and Analysis, Dream Bedroom, Rachel McDowell id.42+44 Model of Jubilee Pool Gift Shop design, Gizem Sarilmaz id.43 Model of Jubilee Pool Office, Carlos Torres id.45 1:1 Light design for Crypt, Nayden Hadzhiev

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id.46 1:1 Wallpaper tests, Asma Ibrahim id.47 Changing the Square Model Visual, Elham Saneifard id.48 Co-Work Containers Plan, Elham Saneifard id.49 Crypt, TED talk visual, Nayden Hadzhiev

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