Portfolio
Xsiao, Po-Wen
Interior Design
P1
Residential
October
P9
Commercial
Leading&Passing
P15
Residential
Hole
P21
Photography
Project A
OCTOBER
Residential Apartment
The home comes from a piece.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION : I got the architectural base plan from my former job, then I turned it into my project. It's on top of floor(28th) in a apartment building. It is estimated roughly 372m2 areas due to merging with two houses.
REQUIREMENT : One major bedroom and three minion bedrooms, except LDK space, and a study room is demanded.
PLAN ANALYSIS : 1. The plan is long and symmetry, the original architectural base was designed for two independent houses which now they are merged into one. So the connection between two areas and distribution of functional space are quite important. 2. It's on the high floor of building, so light is able to shine directly into rooms without shelters.
Entrance
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DESIGN PROCESS:
Smooth Continous
October
Repeating
by Eric Whitacre Sentimental
Windband Music
Overlapping
I got the inspiration from a piece of music which belongs to windband song. And there are the feelings when I listen to the piece.
Methods of composing windband song The methods of making a windband song can generally be in two ways. One is composer creates a main rhythm , and no matter it is arranged for any instrument, it always has to be accompanied by other instruments as a minor rhythm. The other one, every single instrument has a own melody which is similar to others. They are interweaving in harmony, and overlapping to form a piece. Another feature of this manner, if I use the initial melody to rearrange, I am able to create a new and different song. The piece "October" is exactly the second way composed.
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The structure mainly is constructed with large quantity of slurs.
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Sheet of "October" Music , Time and Track
Time
Similar melodies and rhythms appear in different instructments.
Music
Track
I found and investigated the sheet of this piece. As one who stayed in windband, not hard for me to study the sheet. In form of shapes, the words "continuity","repeating", "overlapping" seem to compose the construction of this piece, and also represent the feeling of music. I kept the words for my latter concept of design. 3
Music always goes on with time. And it seems that there is an invisible line pushing and tackling music. I picked the straight line to represent the music and time interacting at next step. Furthermore, I called the line "track of music".
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If I divide unequally one line into parts, the other small ones separated and kept going like the original one but just changing in scales and numbers. The curved line happens in the same way, which is certainly the shape of slur.
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Turning the curved line into walking path, the separated parts are considered as walls which leading sequentially the moving. The gaps are like branches of the tree allowing other movings, so the windows and doors fulfill those parts. The main curved line is like a major track of walking, conducting and leading from spaces to other spaces. 4
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I drew the sketchs before ,and made my idea clealy.
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Public
Private Firstly, I divided the plane into public and private areas in each ends,and I located private area on the eastern side for sunshine in morning. I used curved line to impose and enhance music feeling and directionality in public are. Secondly, I distributed the rooms and added necessary flows. Especially I made furniture stand as one pattern of curved walls, trying to integrate solid-void space with continuity. Finally, I made a interior model to verify my concept.
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In each specsific area(living, dinning), I used positive ceiling to break out the linear space and flow.
White painting and wood veneer are major materials, which the former shows as a main theme of continuity and latter expresses the atmosphere of autumn.
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A:Living Room
Curved shape is the theme,so do the handle.
B
I chose epoxy floor on all public areas. It has feature of no seams, and it perfectly exhibits sentimental feeling due to it's semi-polished surface for reflecting subtle light.
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B:StudyRoom C:Dinning Room C
D:SittingRoom
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Project B
LEADING & PASSING
Commercial Restaurant
Go in and notice
PROJECT DESCRIPTION : It was originally a cosmetic clinic, and I turned it into a restaurant. The initial plan is with 3 floors, total area 244m2 (1F 44m2 ,2F 100m2, 3F 100m2)
REQUIREMENT :
3F
Restaurant with 3 floors, which sells dinners and wines.
PLAN ANALYSIS : The position of L-type stair occupied most of first floor in original plan, in addition, it divided the space into two roughly equal parts. The position that the stair located is less choices due to the distance of each two beams . 2F
Starting Point:
New
Old
Circular stair is one kind of choice to replace. It can exactly fit the plan with smallest scale, and the additional space could be increased on first floor. Besides, the stair itself is unique within space, and it gives an impact directly on people with ceiliing window on the first floor.
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Entrance
1F
DESIGN PROCESS: As putting in and fixing position of the circular stair, I see it an important object when people pass through and look at it. Like an tunnel in "Alice In Wonder Land", it offers an opportunity to change when stepping in. And also I want to enhance the feeling of consciousness that people look at each other. I was inspired of the function of the camera,and how it's lens working gave me idea. I mixed the way of mood board and camera lens, adding one scene with the other one already being. There were two meaning in this part. One is I mixed three diffrent ranges of things with each sort, and it eventually carried out style. The other one, it represented as layers that people have to pass through it.
Concept,Pattern In first layer, I collected these pictures so as to find beginning concept. They caused me feel like dreamy, staring and leading.
Material, Color It came from the last step when thinking staring, so I chose the camera. The other reason was I had to combine abstract thinking with something drfferent entity.
Style In last layer, with already finished subject, I added real interior form to clearly focus on the style. 10
Layers
Concept Construction
Titanium Steel Amber Mirror
Polished Steel
Materials
Black Glass&Mirror Shapes
I imagined the layers of ideas as filters, which existed between the objects in each end. The major materials chose were metal and glass, because I thought it can perfectly reflect and distort the light when passing through. The forms, what I aimed to work out was make the feeling "are able to see whole scenes at first sight, but they have to walking into so as to recognize where they are" and feel "watching and be watched".
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Two different lights are used to separate two areas, enhancing the sense of feeling.
white, light
yellow, dark
The shapes of the glass door come from the aperture of camera.
1F/44m2 12
Black Glass Black Mirror
L is the shape which forms second floor with walls, starting from stair and back to the initial point in final. It simultaneously seperate dinning and kitchen areas. 13
2F/100m2
I want to make the way of passing, and the feeling of passing to be concerned and conscious.
3F/100m2 14
Project C
HOLE
Residential Apartment
Living within a shelter Original Plan
PROJECT DESCRIPTION : It is a place(91m2) on fourth floor(total 23f) in a department which is owned by my friend, and I replaned and designed it as her future home.
REQUIREMENT :
1.To create a "closer" space 2.Modern style 3.Solve current problems
PROBLEM ANALYSIS: Air
Low beams height 216cm Beam Light Beam
Less sunlight (surrounding with high buildings) Entrance
Bad air circulation (with one opening in space) 15
Original wall (expanded balcony)
DESIGN PROCESS:
People often think of dark area in small space,and bright in large space. But they are opposite if size of window is the same. What if I improve light with small space? "Closer" seems to be small, short distance connecting to each other while modern concerns wide and broad space. What if space still connect LDK and simultaneously feel intimate ? Why not use of the height of beams with 240cm ?
2.35:1
16:9
3:4
I was inspired by a movie which has used three scale sizes of formats to repress different decades. It made me think about that different size of graphics are able to form a story(living) even with each single meaning and pattern. They respectively represent different times, so I thought they may work out if they are applied to use on different functions. 16
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I began from both plans and three-dimensional objects,and adjusted simultaneously in two paths. The former I found out proportion changed by the amount of overlapping area, it seemed the more areas, the heavier on connection with lives and interation. Finally, I made more complexity of different size of areas, more closer activities happening in one space. The latter cuboids decided the height of ceilings with fitting the height of beams. At last,it is like a hole within the house.
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Air
LIGHT PLAN: The darkest area from the left to the brightest one of the right, it perfectly suited needs of each function .
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Swivel TV
In each box, I made up a fixed point which displayed color in black for contrast to others. They stood on the middle of each plane of three boxes,enforcing the feeling of within boxes, and it is also more interesting in space. 19
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D
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B
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The space within boxes overlapped are multi-function serving other space and they connect LDK space together.
A: Living Room
D:Mater Bedroom
B: Dinning Room
E:Bedroom
C: Kitchen
F:Study Room
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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