Susy 杨一凡

Ba (Hons) Interior & Environment Design - 2020 Cohort

My Design Philosophy

My design inspiration is to design for life, exist for life, integrate design into human nature, and bring design into life. Reflect your love for life through space, and retain your purest longing for beauty in your heart.

Honours Project - Community Integration

Project Brief

Born with abundant emotions

  • Eliminate physical isolation, pay more attention to people's psychological barriers to the epidemic, and better adapt to post epidemic life.

  • Enable people in the community to better utilize the abundant resources nearby, making the community open, proactive, and full of vitality.

  • Bring some spiritual healing and assistance to people

  • Provide people with a better interactive experience and sense of participation through interactive spaces.

  • Strengthen greening, beautify the community environment, and bring a good environment and leisure area to the community.

Idea Generation & Design Process

Generation

Bond

Elements

Development

Generation

Bond

Elements

Development

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Generational understanding

A semi open leisure and healing space, divided into indoor and outdoor areas. The outdoor space blends with nature, and the entire design integrates plants with nature. Design theme: Born with abundant emotions.

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The concept of bond

Integrating design elements with location items, incorporating fluid, curved, green, natural, and embedded elements into the design, reflecting in form, spatial design, and theme.

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The extension of elements

Reduce indoor space layout and increase outdoor activity space. Integrating green, natural, and plant elements into outdoor spaces to create a better healing and relaxing atmosphere. Roads are not restricted, and people can interact well with natural plants.

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Design development 

The top is designed with an irregular hollow circle, interspersed with plants, trees, and green, highlighting the theme of breakthrough growth. Transforming complex internal structures into external landscapes by reinforcing and retaining load-bearing column structures, combining leisure spaces with plants to create a relaxing and healing effect.

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Final Design Scheme

Born with abundant emotions

The design inspiration comes from the plants and life growing in the gaps. Symbolic expression: In this dull and gloomy community, individuals need breakthrough growth. Design form is the path for breakthrough growth of plants and life. Space closely connects the environment with people's inner emotions, allowing people to enjoy emotional changes and beauty in the space, relieve stress and troubles, and provide a relaxing space. This space not only meets the leisure activity needs of different groups of people, but also provides sufficient green space and environment for the community.

Final Design Proposal

Image 1  Hollow, irregular, interspersed, breakthrough top design Image 2 Wall surfaces, load-bearing columns, and landscape design covered and wrapped with a large amount of plants. Create a green and natural healing effect.
Image 3 The external open landscape provides a rich area for people to chat, entertain, and rest, integrating with natural plants to achieve a comfortable, healing, and relaxing effect.

General Views

A semi open leisure and healing space, divided into indoor and outdoor areas, designed with the theme of Born with Abundant Emotions Integrating design elements with location items, incorporating fluid, curved, green, natural, and embedded elements into the design, reflecting in the form, spatial design, and theme, combining leisure space with plants to create a relaxing and healing effect.

Video Portfolio

A semi open leisure and healing activity space, designed with the theme of Born with Abundant Emotions, integrating nature and plants to create a relaxing and healing effect.

Context, Site analysis, Design Narratives and Concept

Get to know the thorough design development from the stages listed below.

Community Project - Participant’s Installation

Design Narrative

Students theme  To achieve sustainability and balance through green and nature, the design theme is refreshing breeze. The form of wind is beautiful, natural, and ever-changing; Clean colour; Comfortable and environmentally friendly materials; Symbolic of natural growth, elegance, and vitality, and it can dispel worries and unhappiness. Spheres are arranged in a curved, graceful, and curved manner, with different rows and columns of spheres arranged in different ways. Mixing them together gives people a sense of hierarchy and three-dimensionality. Just like fresh air blowing in, the objects affected by it symbolize a beautiful feeling, symbolically expressing the feeling of unhappiness and troubles being blown away by the fresh air. The irregular arrangement brings people different visual experiences, and novelty, and attracts the audience, making them willing to stop and interact with them.

The equipment frame is composed of cubes, which are sturdy and durable. The material is made of aluminum alloy and the appearance is sprayed in white. This material has good durability and hardness, and the combination of white and plant green gives people a fresh, unique, and comfortable natural feeling. The interaction with the sphere is also an important component of the device, with green plants hanging below each sphere, playing a beautiful role in relieving stress and improving people's emotions. Attract user attention and bring some greenery to the venue. Symbolizing a feeling of beauty and happiness.

Honours Project - Site Research and Representation

Part I: Research and Analysis

The location is located in the dormitory of the High Tech Zone Management Committee in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Detailed address: No. 162 Tianshan Street, High Tech Zone. The location of site is an abandoned garage, located approximately 200 meters opposite Building 6 in the community. There are sufficient parking spaces on the ground of the community, but there is no situation where parking spaces are full or difficult to park, so the garage with rolling shutters has never been used and has been abandoned. Now it is a house used by property management to store abandoned items.
The location consists of several independent small garages, adjacent to the university playground, covering an area of approximately 130-140 square meters with a building height of 3.6 meters. The location is adjacent to the university, where you can see the westernmost wall of the location.
The community was built in 1999, with relatively outdated equipment resources, older buildings, and a lower greening rate. The total number of buildings is 216 households, with a relatively high proportion of middle-aged and elderly population. There are shopping malls, hospitals, kindergartens, junior high schools, universities, etc. around the community. Developed transportation and convenient living.

Part II: Site Representation

Narrative: 

Site Object: Chalk handwriting, as one of the walls of the selected building is adjacent to the interior of the university playground, even though the chalk handwriting may appear slightly scribbled and dated, it can still be seen on the old wall, symbolizing the passing of youth and beauty.
The emotional transmission and value it bring me: When I first saw the chalk handwriting painted on the wall, it instantly brought me a deep emotional transmission and value. Bringing me profound childhood memories and nostalgic memories. Let me cherish and mourn the passage of time and all the fleeting things. Everything has a double-sided characteristic, and if there is beauty, there will be flaws.
Disperse and crush chalk of different colours to form debris on the ground, forming a random, mixed arrangement, dispersed, powdery, mechanical, embedded, granular, and coloured form. This arbitrary combination method is a unique artistic form of itinerary; The vibrant colours give people a positive and upward feeling, forming a collision of colours; Granular and powdered materials give people a unique visual experience. This casual combination method, unique colour collision, and granular material can be applied in post-design.
Chalk is mainly composed of calcium carbonate and limestone and can be widely used as building materials. Chalk happens to be a consumable and memory item, using the ingredients in chalk to design building materials. The colourful chalk brings different vitality and colours to the building.  

Honours Project

Theoretical Underpinning

Part I: Gen Z - Emphasize emotional management, transform thinking patterns, and focus on the richness of the spiritual world

'...The development of anything can have an impact on a person's inner self, and in severe cases, it can lead to collapse,".'

A persons inner self

Generation Z has abundant material resources and a high standard of living. Living in a greenhouse and a loving environment. The experiences, life experiences, and richness of Generation Z are often limited. When encountering small setbacks, one will feel that it is a huge challenge and difficulty. The development of anything can have an impact on a person's inner self, and in severe cases, it can lead to collapse, even not knowing how to escape, resulting in emotional fluctuations. In this situation, we may need to pay more attention to the richness of the spiritual world of Generation Z.
The collage uses a symbolic butterfly shape, cotton, details, flowers, cloth, snow pear paper and other decorative materials. Formally, symbolic expression is like a butterfly following a flower. It should pursue positive and beautiful things, and its inner world should have such significance. Using pressure-resistant tin foil to express half of the elastic wings highlights the meaning of internal elasticity. The light yellow flowers symbolize a warm, optimistic, upward, and bright spiritual pursuit. Say goodbye to mental exhaustion, view things with a bright perspective, and approach future life with a growth-oriented mindset. When our inner strength is strong enough, the spiritual level is rich enough, and our way of thinking changes, we will find that our view of the world will also change, and our Generation Z will be independent and resilient enough.  

Part II: Get rid of constraints and find your independent, confident, and free spirited self

'....Get rid of constraints and find your independent, confident, and free spirited self..'

Symbolic representation

Generation X was once a generation that dared to think and strive, with its own independent thinking and confident demeanor. However, after being baptized by society, they are forced to develop various negative emotions in middle age. This goes against my youthful self. How to break free from various internal constraints and regain the unique independence and elegance of Generation X is worth pondering. Collage with tin foil, burnt flowers, rice paper, ice cubes, and other decorative materials. In terms of design, symbolically using stacked flowers to express the oppression and restraint of Generation X, and from bottom to top, using burnt-out flowers to express a strong sense of contrast and breakthrough through the use of tough and well-compressed tin foil at the top.

Symbolic representation: Generation X should not be constrained or oppressed, but should have a good attitude and pursue breakthrough and upward progress, enhance internal motivation, obtain self-support, reshape the way of looking at life, break free from constraints, and find an independent, confident, and free self. 

Part III: Internal power influences generational behaviour

'.. they need to break free from constraints, find an independent, confident, and carefree self, and reshape their way of looking at life..'

Two lines that can “never” be intersect

Intrinsic energy determines people's behavioural choices. Inconsistent behaviour is caused by the internal energy of different generations. For Generation Z, what is more needed is to enhance the richness of the spiritual world and pay attention to the transformation of problem-solving thinking patterns. Generation X, due to their rich social life experiences and growth, enjoy accepting difficulties and challenges, and burying them in their inner world. Therefore, they need to break free from constraints, find an independent, confident, and carefree self, and reshape their way of looking at life. It is evident that inner strength plays an extremely important and decisive role in every aspect of our lives.
A collage is a mountain range formed by stacking decorative materials such as tin foil, clay, ice hockey balls, and clay. They are wrapped in compressed and tough tin foil and decorated with various colours. Symbolic expression: Different mountains have different heights and require overcoming different difficulties. Different generations face different difficulties and solutions, but the same thing is that the higher the mountain range, the more you can see the yellow dawn. Even if there is a difference in internal strength, as long as one solves with heart and climbs tenaciously, it will affect people's behaviour choices and find more suitable solutions.  

To Explore, Discover, & Regenerate