Interior Design School of Design

Yuki Furusawa

Yuki is a designer working to solve social problems. The final project at the Glasgow School of Art involves solving a problem in big cities: expensive rent for the young generation (university students and people who just started working after graduation).

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furusawa.oyuki@gmail.com
Y.Furusawa1@student.gsa.ac.uk
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Contents
Site
Structure
Ground Floor
Smart Bed
Loft Bed
Bathroom
Lighting
Rooftop Garden

Site

The building is located in the Glasgow city centre, which is very convenient for accessing universities and offices.

Site Map

Structure

The corridor has grating as tits floor in some parts to let them have a roll of void and let natural sunshine goes into the middle part, where won’t have it without voids.

Bird's Eye View (southwest)

Corridor

Ground Floor

The mailboxes also have another role: partitioning social space and private space behind them.

Mailboxes are ordered to let residents easier to know who lives in the below and above, avoiding the same colour gathering, the order of the mailboxes does not put the same floors together. The ordering is also making residents easier to find where there mailboxes are. The colour patterns are changing according to the number of rooms on each floor.

Smart Bed

Day Time

Night Time

Loft Bed

Day Time

Night Time

Rooftop Garden

Residents can do their work or chat with friends/visitors in this indoor rooftop garden.

The plants – herbs, spices, and lemons – are all usable for drinking and cooking.

Section (not to scale)