ACSA Faculty Design Award

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1 ACSA Faculty Design Award Honorable Mention: Submission Materials Chelsea Workspace ALVIN HUANG University of Southern California

2 DA ACSA FACULTY DESIGN AWARD CHELSEA WORKSPACE interior Fit-out for private home-office in chelsea, london, uk

3 CHELSEA WORKSPACE London, England Location: London, England Program: Interior fit-out for a home office Client: Private Status: Completed January 2012 Program Area: 7 sqm Photography: Peter Guenzel Fabrication: Cutting Edge UK This bespoke interior installation responds to the client s brief of a discrete yet sculptural design solution for a home office by conceptually draping a dynamic surface over an arrangement of the required home office elements including a work desk, storage units, printer, paper shredder etc. Set within a tiny 7sqm room in the client s flat, the design intent was to minimize the imposing presence of the boxy storage requirements by disguising them within a sinuous form that emerges from the walls of the room. As the owner desperately wanted to reduce the visual clutter of stuff within his work space, storage for books, filing cabinets, printer, shredder, electrical cabling, phone, internet, and lighting controls are all concealed within the volume. The space is organized around the lone window in the room, in order to provide the client with a pleasant view and ample natural daylighting. The glow of natural light from the window further serves to articulate the geometry of the installation through the play of light and shadow. The fluid geometric form is articulated as a series of alternating CNC milled birch plywood ribs which are pre-fabricated into modular units and spray finished with a clear lacquer. These units are hung on a series of z-clips bolted to the interior wall, and held in place by self-weight. Horizontal spacers, which stabilize the open ends of the plywood ribs, are arranged in a pixelized graphic pattern representing a world map, where the owner (a seasoned world traveller) can map out his travels. The project is the result of an intense collaboration between designer and fabricator. This dialogue was made possible through the exchange of 3D files not only as design deliverables, but as production and fabrication documents. The result merges the digital with the handcrafted to produce a stunning result. Design Objectives: Maximize space by minimizing visual clutter. Blur the boundary between furnishings and architecture. Conceal all storage and technical requirements. Capitalize on natural daylighting. Fabrication Objectives: Increase material efficiency by using 2D cuts to generate 3D form to avoid the added expense and waste of 3D formwork. Reduce wastage and material cost by nesting all profiles (75% material efficiency achieved). Decrease fabrication and assembly time by coordinating through source 3D Cad file to convey all detailing and complexity. Using 3d cad file to generate 2d Cad file of parts prior to CNC machining. Pre-fabricating modules to reduce on-site assembly time. Coding part identification into fabrication to optimize on-site assembly. Integrating rotating joints and hanging profiles to reduce hardware costs.

4 View from room entrance.

5 View facing desk.

6 Close-up of storage areas and spacer pattern.

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8 View of the wall-mounted console.

9 EXISTING PARTITION WALL INNER VERTICAL SPACERS HORIZONTAL Z CHANNELS CNC MILLED BIRCH PLYWOOD PROFILES SWING DOOR STORAGE DRAWERS OUTER HORIZONTAL SPACER W/ GRAPHIC PATTERN

10 HORIZONTAL Z CHANNELS (ANCHOR TO STRUCTURE AS REQ D) EXISTING PARTITION WALL SWING PIVOT HINGE DETAIL PRE-FABRICATED LAMINATED STORAGE CABINET DOOR PLYWOOD STORAGE SHELF (FIX AS REQ D) NOTCHED CUTOUTS FOR HORIZONTAL SPACER W/ GRAPHIC PATTERN (INSERT SPACERS AND GLUE AS REQ D) CNC MILLED BIRCH PLYWOOD PROFILES

11 2500mm 2500mm 2200mm 2200mm 1850mm 1850mm 1500mm 1370mm 1500mm 1370mm 1200mm 1200mm 1000mm 800mm 800mm 173mm 173mm 0 350mm 640mm 0 50mm 140mm 800mm 0.1 INTERIOR ELEVATION NORTH (MAIN DESK) 0.2 INTERIOR ELEVATION EAST (WORK DESK) 800mm 173mm 740mm 1700mm 0.3 INTERIOR ELEVATION SOUTH (CONSOLE)

12 basic program arrangement program elements blended to one another and the existing wall blended curves are lofted to create seamless surface surface is sectioned to create 3d form from 2d profiles 0.1 FORMAL EVOLUTION DIAGRAM world map graphic point sampling of map points converted to spacer spacers projected to geometry 0.2 GRAPHIC MAPPING DIAGRAM

13 Materials: Finish: Fabrication: 32 sheets of 2400mm x 1220mm x13mm birch plywood Clear lacquer (spray finish) Computer numeric controlled milling of 308 unique profiles Software: Rhino3D (modelling), Grasshopper (parametric modelling), RhinoNest (nesting) MILLING PROFILES