Degree Show 2023
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Interior Design

1. Exhibition – The exhibition space is for sharing ideas to receive feedback, enabling The Design Lab to adjust and improve design solutions. Collaboration makes it possible to quickly validate a design concept’s feasibility and desirability to a broader audience.

2. Workshop – The workshop is a flexible space for educational, research and creative activities. Pop Ups, hackathons, exhibitions and panel discussions. They are inviting residents to work with the Design Lab as a community.

3. Café – The café supports the research and education part of this facility. Space where ideas mingle, swap and create new forms. Thinking isn’t done by individuals; it is done by communities.

4. Archives – On the first floor, the archives work as a material library and store already-produced innovations. The ground floor archive is a shop where people can buy Lab-created Designs and, in this way, fund Acre Design Lab.

5. Office – The office is a private part of the building for employees to work, connected to the Lab workshop—an environment where people and ideas can meet.

6. Lab – The Lab workshop is where experts and creatives from multiple fields collaborate. They use special equipment, test, prototype and create new design processes.

Design Lab Facility

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Entrance Reception

The tower is the main entrance to the building, where people see and enjoy the full height of it. It is almost a time portal through the existing ruin into the new design and use of the building. At the same time, visitors get a peak at the Design Lab office. Walking further into the building, they are welcomed with unusual , futuristic materials and continue to uncover them throughout the interior.
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Design Lab Exhibition Space

The Exhibition space is an essential part of the facilities cycle. It spreads over the wing of the building with a view of the garden. It is connected with the greenery and pond reflection returning to the building, creating an organic atmosphere. The space itself works as a tool for connecting people with ongoing dilemmas of our living, but on the other hand, promotes positive progress in innovation and more sustainable options. The space educates and involves communities in their research projects as a useful tool for better and faster results. The exhibition space is also for communities or visitors to create markets to sell local or handmade products.
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Design Lab Café

The Design Lab Café is a place where people socialise, exchange ideas, try new things, and come into contact with new knowledge.
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Ground Floor Archive

The Design Lab archives stretch from the ground to the first floor. They are an essential storage system to archive already made prototypes in the Acre Lab. They are also used as a material archive or any tool archive. The ground floor archive can be accessed by public or collaboration visitors under staff supervision. Employees of the Acre Design Lab only use the first-floor archive.
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Void

The void leaves the building open, and the new insertion feels minimal. The first floor almost floats in the building, unlocking the ability to spy in different spaces. People can still enjoy the building to its roof and see the interior materials integrate. This collage points out the primary materials: blond stone, birch plywood and fabric, creating the atmosphere and identity of the building.
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Office Archive

The office archive is only available to employees and serves as storage. The archive faces the lift and stairs. The storage system is a wooden structures that can be adjusted to any storage box size or placement. The shape of the tower openings was inspired by the building’s window bays, a dominant architectural feature. I have translated this shape into detail of my design.
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Tower Detail Section

The Tower of the Acre Hosue is a void, but functions as a connecting point of public and private zones of the building. The Tower is entirely open, with three openings on the first floor. The dominant chandelier in the tower void represents the original use of the Acre House Villa building. The chandelier is made from shredded silver paper that imitates the traditional chandeliers usually located by the entrance to the building.
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Design Lab Office

The office is a flexible space with a kitchenette, meeting table and library. It is offering employees to change their layout freely. The kitchenette can be closed off with silver curtains if needed. The office space gives the impression of a floating floor inserted into the ruined structure, which offers to ability to peak in different spaces like the tower, exhibition space and workshop. The main dividing wall of the office is a part of the remaining ruin, which creates a contrast between the new and existing.
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Design Lab Workspace

The Lab/workshop’s main feature is the existing ruin fracture supported by a wooden scaffolding and a grid shelves from the other side. It creates tension between new and old a divides workspaces.
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