Heriot Watt University Interior Design BA HONS
Welcome to our Interior Design page at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. The purpose of this page is to advertise events to fund for our Degree show.
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Giza, Egypt. Photo by James Cruz
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Exploding Dishes Chandelier...so cool! What do you think?
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Enchanting Clever Ideas ᴷᴬ
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Valley of the Lights, Italy ᴷᴬ
SBID International Design Awards
Timeless
European Classic aesthetic meets a soft and elegant French style whilst simultaneously embracing the grandeur of the Neo-Classical.
The ceilings, floors and walls interweave flowers, delicate lines and patterns of geometry, by using stones, woods, fabrics and paintings. A rightful place is found for every totem. White, grey and blue are used as the core colour palette, with accents of gold, light beige, and black adding splendour and luxury.
Project Credits: YZ Environment Design
Project Location: City,
Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh
The Masters Degree Show 2017 continues today with plenty to see. Gregg Lloren, Interdisciplinary Creative Practice - MSc by Research
“My project is about 360° video. In 180° format we are just viewers, we contribute meaning to films and photographs by watching them, but we are passive observers. Whatever we contribute to the meaning is in our mind as it’s already been made by the director or producer. But with 360° being immersive and virtual you go inside it, you are part of that environment.”
The Masters Degree Show 2017 runs until August 27th across various venues. For more information follow the link to our site.
https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/masters-degree-show-2017
Photo: Gareth Easton Photographer
BoConcept
Our Interior Designer, Andie Bain, sent us over this stunning customer's living room! This shows the huge difference a quick pop of colour can add to a room! boconcept.com
ARCHITECT magazine
An exhibition at Center for Architecture (AIANY) explores the unknown fate of Gregory Ain's 1950 installation for MoMA's garden: http://bit.ly/2uQNSXf
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Marketing Geniuses create amazing advertising campaigns!!!! 😱
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Breathtaking Closet Interior Ideas
Archiproducts
is the kind of useful tools that everyone from architects to artisans should have in his pocket!
It's a stainless steel ruler, designed to measure straight lines and curved surfaces by rolling from point to point. Support this campaign on Kickstarter: http://kck.st/2w2nucX
Douglas Strachan - Chartered Architect
Connecting to the garden and bringing light in are often key aspirations for clients looking to extend. In this case, the difference in height between the floor of the existing house and the garden below provides opportunities to bring light in above the extension. In these two initial design options, we are also testing some ideas for how the new materials should interact with the old to bring even more interest to the space.
Edinburgh Evening News
https://www.facebook.com/edinburgh.evening.news/posts/1554817164576853
BREAKING: This was the design most popular among our readers
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Creative
Autodesk Revit
Architects, have you moved your BIM collaboration to the cloud yet?
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Artistic Wooden Table Designs!
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Amazing!
Edinburgh Evening News
https://www.facebook.com/edinburgh.evening.news/posts/1517128525012384
BREAKING: A halls of residence building at Edinburgh Napier features the same cladding as Grenfell Tower.
Edinburgh Evening News
https://www.facebook.com/edinburgh.evening.news/posts/1510149259043644
Architectural Digest
The world's best airport is getting a majorly fun upgrade: http://archdg.co/0eyfaHZ (via Condé Nast Traveler)
The Architect's Newspaper
Speaking to The Architect's Newspaper, a London Fire Brigade Firefighter said that the structure's cladding "made it act like a chimney."
BoConcept
Sofa beds are perfect for when you want to live both smaller and smarter! You'll always have room for family, friends and unexpected guests!
Shop our sofa beds here: http://bit.ly/2ssTF6h
COVER Magazine
Existing divides between traditionally separate areas of study are currently being broken down by a wealth of collaborative projects. This is resulting in exciting new collections and developments in carpets and textiles from multi-disciplinary design studios who have ventured into experimenting with fibre as a material. Read more at
http://cover-magazine.com/news/design-studios-turn-to-textiles/
It's happening!!!
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Life before AutoCAD!
Douglas Strachan - Chartered Architect
Placing arts, culture and community at the centre of a town makes a positive statement, which can be articulated through well considered architectural interventions. Dumfries High Street is edged with shopfronts and accessed through Closes. The Open-Close concept activates these edges and encourages movement though the Closes to revitalise the Midsteeple Quarter and define it as a centre for the community.
In a nation of towns and within the context of a movement of community-led initiatives, the Midsteeple Quarter is an opportunity to re-define the town centre. As retail moves away from town centres across Scotland, the geographical centre of a town can be re-defined as the hub of community activity. As buildings are re-claimed for living and working in the town centre, the relationship between these buildings and the public space between them must also be re-defined. Successful re-population of the town centre is therefore about designing armatures to accommodate a new live-work dynamic and articulate a reciprocal relationship with the High Street.
Self-empowered communities such as Dumfries are leading the way in re-defining town-centres. A sense of shared responsibility and ownership in the community is very powerful, even more so when the ownership becomes literal. The same principle can be applied to a live-work dynamic to facilitate closer ties between them and link these uses within a building. Community resources such as makers’ spaces and social enterprises then become a natural extension of these uses and a more intuitive way to connect with the wider town.
Shopfronts form an edge through which the internal use of a building interfaces with what’s outside. The nature of this edge reflects the activity within and therefore the nature of its relationship with the street. Shopfronts are designed to engage by means of a display window, inviting people to enter the building as consumers. Without this relationship the shopfront is an inactive edge, and the space in front becomes more of a route than a true street. Reactivating this edge must therefore be to establish a new relationship, based on the community activities to be housed within the buildings.
Closes connect the High Street to the surrounding town. They are routes rather than streets, but crucially, they are pedestrian routes. Movement through these is therefore critical to the town centre being experienced on foot. Signalling of the Closes and encouraging people through them can therefore help to link the High Street to surrounding areas, such as the Whitesands.
The Open Close concept re-defines the relationship between buildings and street and encourages movement by fraying edges and making Closes open. The former shop-front edge would be made more permeable by carving into it, enabling the community to move more freely into the buildings. Elements of re-designed facades would also fold and turn out, reaching out and engaging with the street. Cutting the corners of closes would open them to the High street. The structure used to do so would reach out, signalling the close, and drawing the eye through it.
137-139 High Street could be the first of a series of buildings to accommodate the new live-work model. The former shop on the ground floor could be reimagined as a community resource, such a workshop or makers’ space. This open community-led approach could be communicated through a series of architectural interventions following the Open-Close concept.
Removing the corner of the ground floor adjacent to the Close would make the building permeable, drawing people into its ground floor footprint and encouraging movement within the Close. The structural element used to retain the façade above would signal the Close, drawing the eye down the former building line. This would be further “ghosted” by a ribbon of core-ten steel, folding around the former shop-front and down the Close to encourage more dynamic movement. Similarly, timber screens along the building-line would also fold up and out, reaching into the street.
The Midsteeple Quarter has the potential to give rebirth to the High Street as the heart of the Dumfires community, and be an exemplar for other towns. This starts with re-defining what happens in the buildings, and flows through the articulation of an active edge into a vibrant street scene. Movement through this and connection to the surrounding town defines the Open Close.
Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh
On the 1st and 2nd of June 2017 we welcomed business guests and the friends and family of our exhibiting students to ECA. Thanks to everyone who came along.
The Degree Show is NOW OPEN to the public. For opening hours, visit our Degree Show website: www.degreeshow.eca.ed.ac.uk.
All photos by Gareth Easton Photography.
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CONGRATULATIONS YOU DID IT!!! Degree show day🎉
DEGREE SHOW DAY!
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Amazing Prefabricated Green Houses!
We would like to welcome everyone to our final degree show which will be held in the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovations. There will be refreshments for all and it is free entry so no ticket is required. We look forward on showing off our hard work and celebrating our BA Hons degree project with you all!!
Please feel free to contact us with any queries you might have on transport, disabled access or anything regarding your visit!
Details below.
Margaret Ann 😊.
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Main admin: Margaret-Ann O'Hara
Extra admins: Corinne Wilson, Nora Younis, Mia Wood
Students: Mhairi Urquhart, Andrew Mac, Emma Lavery, Alana Milholm, Elizabeth Robertson, Aleisha Chalmers, Jonathan Paluku, Karina Hubka, Katie Wilson, Linoshka Fernandez, Roxanne Chua, Lucy Muir.