Andres Chen - SJSU Interior Design Portfolio

Shelf within a Shelf4-13

Walkway for Framing Views14-21

Coffee Road to San Francisco22-41

Dining by Yourself42-51

Sweet Motif Kiosk52-61

Extra Works62-63

Shelf within a Shelf12.08.2015

“Shelf within a shelf” is a redesigned space of an existing historical building into a bookstore with an additional residential space. The design offers an dramatic imagery of a bookshelf with parralleling lines and geometric shapes that forms the feature wall and theme.

Right: Feature Wall Viewed from EntrancePrimarily Revit with Photoshop/ Sketchup

Location: S 1st StreetDowntown, San Jose.

The intended exterior facade of the building is designed so that it is kept the historicalintegrity of the structure and the neighboring buildings.

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Top: Old Exterior Buildging FacadeRight: New Exterior Building Facade

Primary Sketchup with Photoshop

The exterior facade kept the historical aspect of the neighboring buildings.

Challenge: To create a design that was inspired by researching another architectural firm.

The approach to the bookstore design is tofollow the philosophy ofsimplicity by using repeatinggeometric shapes with a two tone color material pallet.

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(Top) Bookshelf Concept Sketch and Study Model(Right) Perspective View of Feature Wall

Primary Revit with Photoshop/ Sketchup

(Left) Ground Floor Plan; (Right) Second Floor Plan (Not to Scale)Revit with Adobe Illustrator

BookstoreA Social and Seating AreaB Coffee CounterC Feature WallD Multi-purpose StageE Individual SeatingF BookshelvesG OfficeH StorageI KitchenJ RestroomK Chalk BoardL Display

Residential SpaceA BedroomB Full BathroomC KitchenD Living RoomE Half BathroomF Washer/Dryer Unit

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(Top) Section Cut; (Bottom) Exterior Facade (Not to Scale)Revit with Adobe Illustrator

The overall material pallet of the bookstore and residential space is consist of birchwood and white acrylic to keep the simplistic philosophy. These minimalistic colors complement the geometric and linear shapes.

Right: Residential Interior Perspective

Bookstore Residential SpacePinewood Pinewood

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Gray Felt Baige Cloth

White Paint White Tiles

Walkway for Framing Views 10.15.2015

Consists of 11 planes and a continuous horizontal planes, Walkway for Framing Views creates experiences of motion through senses of body motion and visualization. As each occupant walk around and through the space, the bold lines and shapes unfolds the essence of motion.

(Right) Structure Perspective ViewPrimarily Sketchup with Photoshop/ Illustrator

Location: San Jose State University, North Entrance

The northern entrance of San Jose State University is one of the most populated areas of the campus with heavy daily foot traffic.

The Northern Entrance is a major route into the University as it consists of Faculty Parking lots, Accessible Parking Lot, ATM, and the I.S. building.

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Challenge: Design a walking space that each occupant could experience with their different senses. The structure must have eleven parrallel planes and a continuous horizontal plane.

Using the concept of motion in regards to the site, the design directly represents motion through the changes of angular and spacial forms of the structure.

(Right) Structure Perspective View, Elevation (Not to Scale)Primarily Sketchup with Photoshop

The continous horizontal plane guides the body throughout the space with emphasize of the relocation of the body and different perspective views.

(Top) Plan View (Not to Scale)Right: Different Angles of Interior Perspective

Primarily Sketchup with Photoshop

Coffee Road to San Francisco (Part 1)03.21.2016

From the coffee plant to the brewed beverage, coffee traveled world wide to the table of our desks. The tile design includes aspects of coffee trade routes and the research of local San Francisco to transform into an extravegant textile.

(Right) Structure Perspective ViewPrimarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop

From the coffee trade of the world to the local distribution of brewed coffee shops, the trade routes created a significant design into the tiles. The series of three tiles are represented as global, national, and local.

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(Top) Top View; (Right) Plan View (Not to Scale)Actual Tile Size: .3” H x 4” L x 4” W

Primarily MODO with Adobe Illustrator

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The series begin in the order of “A, B, C” to represent Global, National, Local respectively. Which ties into our core concept.

Filled with mountainous slopes and hills, the tiles are elevated similiarly to represent San Francisco.

I sketched the Coit Tower as a representation of different elevations inside San Francisco and drew inspirations for my tiles.

The tiles can be rearrange to one another in any rotation or order to represent the versatility and variety of coffee in San Francisco.

(Top) Tiles Diagram (Right) 3-D Printed ModelsPrimarily MODO with Adobe Illustrator

Coffee Road to San Francisco (Part 2)05.11.2016

The design was created using coffee transportation routes from raw material to the end product. As the research locates the locations of coffee beans origins and its travel routes, vectors were created from the map and then transformed into the design. The key design of the project follows three stages of where coffee bean travels: global, national, and local.

(Right) Structure Perspective ViewPrimarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop

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Location:680 Point Lobos Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121

Located just at the foot of Land’s End Trail, the hill-side and scenic element provides the best sense of San Francisco. The elevation surrounding the site flows into the interior of the building as the design also drew inspirations from the dramatic elevations of San Francisco.

(Right) Aerial Perspective Site ViewPrimarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop

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The global to local concept of the project reads through the space planning of the space.

From the top portion reads Global, representing the raw materials imported internationally. The food lab and storage is located here.

The middle symbolizes national, representing the processing of coffee beans. The kitchen and multipurpose stage is planned here.

At the entrance, it is labelled as “local” to represents the final product consumers recieve locally. Here locates the store, display shelves, and cafe.

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(Top) First Floor Plan (not to scale)AutoCAD

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GlobalCoffee beans are imported internationally as raw material. Thus the original motif is seen through the lab.

NationalThe shattering shelves are seemingly dissecting itself from its original form to symbolize the processing of coffee beans.

LocalThe new form shelf that derived from the original tiles represents the final product that coffee beans transformed into a beverage.

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The upper level views the areas happening below. It provides a hierarchy where the office and meeting room is upstairs while the customers are located at the bottom. Doing so provides an oppurtunity to further continue the motif into the conference room.

(Top) Second Floor Plan (not to scale)AutoCAD

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The design underneath the second floor provides a view of the research tile. Instead of it’s original size, it was extruded into a huge proportions to create the design.

(Left) Floor Reflective Ceiling Plan(not to scale) ; (Top) SectionIllustrator and Modo

(Left) Floor Reflective Ceiling Plan(not to scale) ; (Top) SectionIllustrator and Modo

The second floor ceilling design is created from the first floor’s design. It uses the shapes to copy and paste into a shattered geomtry. This creates the essence of desconstruction and construction which ties into our concept of global to local as it is a process.

Materials:Throughout the structure, the decision to celebrate white throughout the space brings the motif design to life. The motif was designed with dramatic peaks and angular forms which then would translate well through casts of light and shadows. Using white enables the design to be seen with a clean solid color.

The white is then complemented with areas of light gray leather, gray felt, and dark wood. This give a neutral sense of color with emphasis towards the design.

Dining Alone03.16.2016

The solution for awkward empty tables with one occupant is “Dining Alone.” With the organic shapes that contours the body structure in and around, the space promotes an aesthetic design that invites occupants to interact with the space.

(Right) Bird’s Eye View of the Structure in the Space

Primarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop

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At the start of this project, the goal was to explore and learn how MODO operates by creating forms. These forms will then be further evolve into the structure designed.

(Top) MODO Renderings of test Models(Right) Concept Sketches

Primarily MODO

Using the test form, seating and working areas began to form slowly through MODO.

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This project is located within the Student Union of San Jose State University. As the central hub of dining, the structure supports the concept of dining by yourself.

The concept of the structure is to create space for individual or pair of occupants. Many times, you see students dining inside the student union alone in a table that was meant for multiple occupants.

(Top) Before and After of Space (Right) Structure within the Space

Primarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

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(Top) Section Cut (Right) Space Diagram (Not to Scale)Primarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

The structure provides different occupying spaces along with dining and working areas.

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The structure consists of 3 double seating areas and 3 single seating areas with working surfaces making it versatile to occupants needs.

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(Top) Plan View (Right) Elevations (Not to Scale)Primarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

The three prong seating provides six occupying spaces with three working table areas. The organic form is clearly shown.

Sweet Motif Kiosk10.10.2016

A Peranakan-inspired kiosk located in the newly built Terminal 3 of Singapore’s Changi airport. This kiosk used elements of Peranakan culture a symbol and memberance of the female family members.

(Right) Perspective of Kiosk in AirportPrimarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop

The kiosk form is inspired by a cage structure. Nyonyas live a life to serve their husbands in constraint within their house. Symbolically, nyonyas are phoenixes trapped inside their husband’s cage, which is translated into this particular kiosk form.

(Top) Concept Sketches (Right) MODO Explorations

Using a bracket mechanism, the structure is easy to assemble and dissassemble with just a few screws. The plywood is all connected to one base. A, B, and C are the same construction, making the build easier to finish.

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(Left) Plan View (Top) Isometric View (Right) Assembly PartsPrimarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

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The shelfing system forms a creative way to shape into the motif as well as a playful alternative to shelfing. With the different forms, the shelf becomes versatile into switching appropriate shelfing when needed.

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Box Packages

Wooden Studs

(Left) Shelfing Area (Top) Transformation Shelves (Right) Assembly PartsPrimarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

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The feature display can be taken down or set up in case where it is needed. The shelfing have the same mechanism as the other to put the products. Additionally, it acts as a conviency for people who goes through the circulation.

(Top) Feature Display Shelves (Right) ElevationsPrimarily MODO enhanced in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

Art has surrounded my whole life from when I was a just four years old. I remember when I began with a pencil and paper then slowly evolved into a brush and a canvas. I experimented countless mediums and familiarized with countless art principles. Here are some of my notible works throughout my artistic career.

Other Works