Zixuan Gao

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Over refined materials for interiors generate a lot of waste, here, a focus on material efficiency and material appreciation will reduce the amount of waste produced within any given project. Raw and rough materials which have not been reduced by industrial over processing can be luxurious. A unit-module-system language develops; the units are individual pieces, the module is joining them together into a bigger part, and the system is how these big parts are used at architectural scale. Three flexible interior strategies move and adapt to any space. Abandon the way of treating conventional interior materials, re-evaluate and re-frame perceptions of value.

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Rather than those magnificent interior design, I’m more into small objects. I’m designing interior elements. I deposit my experience at the beginning of each project, then use intuition to start a project and push it forwards using logical and experimental tests.

Living in the world that is always reinforcing new methods and manufacturing for speed, huge quantities and over consumption, people forget to find the newness from normal life. There is always a reason to give some simple things more patience, simplifying the methods to create something new.

Question

How do we treat these conventional materials in interior design?The timber is used for floor, wall finish and furniture. Many wealthy people use fabulous stone in interior design to show their fortune. Fabric is normally used for curtain and soft furnishing. Let go of traditional thinking!
Material Palette of Site
Material Palette of Site — The material palette of site in Shoreham-by Sea, these materials were transported from long distance and were used in disastrous way.

Inspiration

Inspiration: The Process of Making Vest
Inspiration: The Process of Making Vest — This is the vest from Kepler London, by looking at the process of how they design this, I found it fascinating. Construction is resourceful, the designers divided fabric in stripes and stitched them together, minimizing the material wastes. This wild vest was sold for 700 pounds at Selfridges which challenged the perception of luxury and designers also expressed their insights into aesthetics.

Kindling Development

Kindling
Kindling — This is raw unprocessed timber from tree, it comes divided with no wastes and sold as kindling to start fire.
Kindling Unit
Kindling Unit
Kindling Module- System
Kindling Module- System — These small pieces are attached to build a section and repeated this section to make it bigger.
Unit-Module-System Poster
Unit-Module-System Poster — The unit-module-system strategy is found by rethinking the process. The units are the individual pieces, the module is joined together and a combination of unit pieces into a bigger part, and the system is how to use these big parts in the architecture system. That’s the unit-module-system structure going to apply in my entire project.
Module GIF
Module GIF

Medium: Kindling

Chalk Development

Chalk
Chalk
Chalk Gravity Experiment
Chalk Gravity Experiment — The shape was affected by changing the position of the stone.
Chalk Experiment
Chalk Experiment
Chalk
Chalk — The shape of the line changes depending on the position of the stone, while chalk leaves traces of their movement in space.

Medium: Chalk

Garden Waste Bags Development

Garden Waste Bags
Garden Waste Bags
The Process of Quilting
The Process of Quilting — By introducing the process of quilting, I combine them together to make it like a piece of fabric.
When a person wears very small clothes, the clothes are stretched open. When one wears very large clothes, the gravity of the clothes themselves in turn pulls them down. Try to imagine dressing space in these two different sizes- xs size and xl size and see what happens?

Site - Shoreham-by-Sea

Site Introduction
Site Introduction — People who lived in Shoreham built these boat house using waste materials, they are creative and resourceful.
Site Drawing
Site Drawing
Site AXO
Site AXO

In Collaboration with:

  • Site Drawing
    Site drawing in collaboration with Teresia Guest.

Visuals

Kindling Visual
Kindling Visual
Chalk Visual
Chalk Visual
Garden Waste Bags Visual
Garden Waste Bags Visual