Interiors UAE 2010 – Student design competition

The organisers of Interiors UAE would like to invite interior design students to enter its student design competition. Entries will be judged by a high profile panel including representatives from Inchbald, APID and RPW. The winning students will be invited to display their entries at Interiors UAE. 

Interiors UAE is a unique trade exhibition gathering the world’s finest suppliers of interiors products in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, over three days from the 29-31 March 2010. Attending the exhibition will be interior design practices currently operating in the region, architects specifying products for their projects, retailers and high net worth individuals. The winning students displaying their entries at the exhibition will benefit from excellent exposure to those at the cutting edge of the interiors industry.

This year the exhibition celebrates and explores the link between high fashion and the design and decoration of interior spaces and to this end the theme for this year’s Interiors UAE is A HIGH FASHION INSPIRED INTERIOR.

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COMPETITION PARTNERS

Inchbald
The Inchbald has pioneered design education for fifty years with Henrietta Spencer Churchill, Nina Campbell, Stephen Ryan, Luciano Giubillei and Staffan Tollgard amongst its alumni. It is recognized as a centre of excellence in both professional and academic terms, teaching to Diploma, Post Graduate Diploma and Masters level in Architectural Interior Design and in Garden Design.
www.inchbald.co.uk

RPW
RPW is one of the worlds leading Interior Design practices consultants specialising in the luxury Hotel, Resort and Leisure market creating distinctive that enhance the value and status of our client’s properties.
www.rpwdesign.co.uk

APID
Interior design has never been appreciated as a business necessity, more than it is
today. To this end and due to the increasing demand for quality professional
interior design consultancy, APID has been formed by several of the leading interior
design consultancies in the U.A.E, in order to ensure clients understand the importance of interior design as opposed to decoration.  It cannot be stressed enough that APID considers education of students and graduate interior designers paramount in promoting professional interior design.
www.apid.ae

PRIZE
The winning designs will be displayed at Interiors UAE 2010, with one student awarded the opportunity to take up a work experience post within the world renowned interior design practice RPW in London.

AIMS
• To explore the concept of High Fashion as the starting point for a conceptual interior design
• To produce a scheme for a space concentrating on spatial planning, spatial sequence and proportion
• To explore the graphic potential of the scheme presenting ideas in a dramatic and communicative manner
• To practice approach and method of designing
• To consider design and proportion through exploration of two and three-dimensional methods using plans, elevation, sections and 3D visuals
• To practice planning, circulation and ergonomics

OBJECTIVES
To produce a scheme to exploit the following
• Spatial awareness and circulation
• Interpretation of plans, elevations and sections
• Design process
• Conceptual development
• Decorative skill
• Comprehension of the brief
• Research skills, written and visual
• Drawing, presentation and rendering skills

BRIEF
Your client is a resident of the residential building, for which a typical floor plan is provided, who wishes to convert this exciting space in Abu Dhabi to satisfy the four key elements of residential design as he/she sees it namely.

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Click here to download the elevation plan.

SLEEP – EAT – PLAY - BATHE

Your client is in his/her mid thirties and is a sophisticated, professional Abu Dhabi resident and could be seen as an archetype model for apartments of this nature.

Within the space provided you are to design four distinctive zones that connect and create a cohesive whole within the plan provided. Circulation is identified as being as important as the individual characters of each zone. The connection between the spaces in both design and decorative terms is paramount to its success. Whilst zones need to be clearly identifiable they can be defined as you see fit in terms of boundaries and comparative scale within the site. The hierarchy of their importance and how they fit together will be as a direct result of your personal interpretation of High Fashion as detailed in your brief and mood board. Your design should be a direct result of this analysis/interpretation.

Prepare a written and illustrated brief, 1000-1500 words, to explain your definition of the spaces and most importantly your concept and integration of the FASHION element into the project.
In support of the brief also prepare an overall mood board that identifies your fashion inspiration and the atmosphere you wish to create.

METHOD
You have been commissioned to provide a prototype solution of an apartment at penthouse level in this contemporary building.  Your client has asked you to provide comprehensive scheme to provide a space that encompasses the possibilities for SLEEP – EAT – PLAY – BATHE.

Primarily you have been asked to provide a space that will accommodate those activities within the apartment provided. You are to divide the space as you see fit in terms of accommodating the four functions. The judges are looking for a contemporary and innovative attitude to interior design using HIGH FASHION  as inspiration and reference.

Be imaginative.  Think of the process of design in terms of how you might view such a space for such an occupant, how you see it functioning and what would be the look and feel of the space with high fashion as your inspiration.

THE BUILDING
This building is a contemporary and cutting edge construction in a sort after area of the city. Your site is the top floor penthouse which is a double height space at 6metres high, circular in nature with a wrap around balcony for most of the space. Triple glazed, double height windows are broken at 3 metres high by a ring beam and sliding panel doors are situated at the deepest parts of the balcony. The balcony overlooks a view of the water. The glass is treated with an anti-glare finish which gives it a greyish tinge. You can create more entrances to the balcony if you wish.

The floor is reinforced concrete and for the purposes of this project would support another level – a mezzanine floor – if required. The elevator could extend to this new level but a stair would need to be provided to comply with fire regulations. Air conditioning and temperature control is taken care of  throughout the building and does not need to impact on the design. Service ducts, within the main staircase/elevator block provide water and plumbing, a WC must be within 6 linear metres of one of these ducts.

The pillars indicated on plan support the roof and cannot be removed but they can provide location points for steel supports for another level if needed.

You will be provided with a floor plan and an indicative elevation to a scale of 1:50 which should print out within an A2 standard sheet of paper.
 

SUBMISSION AND PRESENTATION
Entries are to be submitted digitally to kali.nicholson@ubm.com no later than Monday 22nd February 2010.

Designs and mood boards can be submitted as scans of hand drawn/created or as computer generated files.

• Floor plan of complete scheme at scale1:50
• Floor plans of each zone at scale 1:20
• One sectional elevation, east west, through the entire space
• One sectional elevation, north south, through the entire space
• Sample and illustration boards for each zone
• Perspectives and/or axonometric for each zone
• Overall mood board
• Your brief

All Drawings are to be colour rendered in a medium of your choice.

Work submitted without your name clearly written on ALL documents will not be considered.

JUDGING CRITERIA
Any work submitted without a name will not be entered into the competition. The judge’s decisions are final. All design submitted can be used / reproduced to promote the completion and event, designers will be credited. 

DESIGN ANALYSIS / DEVELOPMENT
• A consideration of the building and location
• An investigation into functional planning
• Response to context of the brief/client
• Emergence of design concept

DESIGN
• Successful spatial handling
• Effective decisions as a result of the analysis stage
• Design sympathetic/in context with brief
• Realisation of the concept
• Effective decoration

PRESENTATION
• Effective visual presentation of the scheme as a complete entity
• Visually exciting communication of a the scheme
• Evidence of a grasp of presentation methods

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