Ethnic Enrichment
This project called for a collaboration with other interior design students who live in different part of the world. More specifically, students living in Spain and Belgium. The requirement was to design an artifact, which glorified all these cultures in a unified, harmonious manner. The main takeaway from this project is that it taught me to try and understand how someone else’s design process is different from mine. Considering they come from a different background, they have different ways of doing things. This is something that I will most definitely encounter in the future as a designer, so it was a great opportunity to work with others and enhance our differences, rather than seeing it as a negative, to produce great work. The presented work includes what I have created with my hard-working group and fellow peers. The poster was designed by me, and the renders as well as the materiality/pattern explanations were developed by me as well.
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Detail
Ethnic Enrichment enlightens the beauty that derives when rich cultures come together as one. The patterns presented within the diamond shape are reflected onto the mirror on the interior of the artifact.
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Concept Render
Viewers are able to step inside and experience a 360 experience of the beauty behind unity, by combining the uniqueness
of three different patterns from a variety of different cultures
into one coherence.
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Materials and Patterns
The ceiling incorporates a pattern of the symbol for unity, which is reflected onto the floor of the artifact. Therefore, when viewers look down, they see this repeated symbol along with all three cultural patterns.
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North Elevation
The diamond rotates as a centerpiece for the patterns to reflect on each mirror.
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East Elevation
Mirrors are a symbol of beauty, when viewers see their reflection in the space, they see not only the beauty of combining these three cultures into one piece.
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Artifact Outside View
Their own background now also comes into play with the beauty of this artifact, which then makes it a true masterpiece.