Maud FullerInterior designer and decorator

Portfolio

How to explain this attraction for interior design and interior decoration ?

I have an artistic background, my mother is a painter who taught me how to use the colors and as a cabinetmaker my father brought me the love of the shapes and volumes. This need to express my sensibility and feelings, by giving it a shape, a picture, reveals itself with an interest in photography, which also became a passion. A technical way to convey the idea of beauty, the original, the rare, to shoot the unique and ephemeral moments. I also like to experiment with sculpture using a variety of materials, discovered when i was a child. This needs to build, to create with my hands, to give to my imagination a concrete, tangible form.And at the same time, a need to share with people, to exchange, to help, etc... Find a job that includes the artistic sense to human and its life. Indeed, interior design reflects my personality: it represents the art to balance and harmonize the man with its environment.

Interior Design is the art of living, it attracts me because you have to embellish, convince, delight the eye, it is spatial poetry. You have to give a soul to the space while preserving its functionality. When the rules are respected, it brings beauty and embrace life to the users. However, we need to face many constraints such as financial, technicality and regulations/standards that we have to respect. We need to play with volumes, light, mix the colors, the styles and materials to create various ambiances.

At the same time, each places are unique, we also need to listen, observe, question and understand the characteristics, needs, tastes and the expectations of the client to immerse ourselves in his universe and then translate the information into a project. Often, our home is our protected universe from exterior world. We want to feel safe inside, to spent good times. Our home usually expresses our identity, because we personalize the space in an aesthetic way to transform it into a unique place that suits its user.

Every project are unique, it brings to new reflections and challenges. Which in turns allows curiosity and raise awareness about our sur-rounding, infinite source of ideas that we can combine and mix together. Everyday everything around us brings inspiration and open the mind: graphic art, beaux-art, cinema, litterature, philosophy, technology, etc... It is a job link to the current time but also to history. Nowadays, everything is in constant evolution that put us in front of many challenges. I also think of the ecological concern which has a paramount importance if we want to protect our planet and its systems. So we are now developing sustainable designs that chose the more suitable technology and aesthetic solutions, in order to respect and preserve our environment.

I think, that we should look at every single project, even the more common and simplest one, with a vision as new as possible, some-times leave our comfort zone to try an adventure, go from the simple to the complex, from detail to global. I hope to always keep my curiosity, my demanding, my eye for details and precision, my observation and my imagination to push the limits without forgetting the reality and constraints.

West Elm - William Sonoma Inc.Design Specialist

As a design specialist for West Elm, my goals were to help clients to find a way of living style and decoration style where they can recognize themselves and live comfortably with their new interior design.

The two next pages are few of the mood boards that i have created for different clients. The difficulty was to create a unique environment for each client by following they envy and by always using West Elm furniture and decoration items. But I always could make my client satisfied with a different touch that will make the difference and feel him special.

University of Technology of Sydney (UTS)Bachelor of Interior and Spatial Design

Year 3, Semester 6

The site: The Glasshouse Bar, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)

For my final semester, my goals were to redesign the Glasshouse Bar of the UTS, to rearrange the surroundings (access, organization, amenities, lights, etc...) and to re-create a dynamic student life which is completely inactive at the moment.

The main word of my project was: CONNECTION. The idea was to re-con-nect the students but also the people not related to UTS by having an open and close area divided by different levels and activities but link to-gether with a unique architecture and theme. Firstly, my concept was to completely remove the glass roof of the bar and create a plaza instead, and then, connect all the plazas and areas with long and wide stairs where people can take their time to rest, read, chill with friends, have lunch, etc... People can now go through all the UTS common space easily and enjoy a proper common area.

The look and shape of the stairs I imagined bring a touch of contemporary to these old surrounding buildings. Nowadays, people are getting more in-terested in having green spaces and natural light in the city so I decided to keep all the old, big and beautiful trees that were already implanted, to add lawn parts on the stairs and let the natural light coming in the underground bar.

A 3D video has been upload to my LinkedIn where you can visualise the project in an other way.

Sections at1:200My project has been selected in the best ten pojects to present to the UTS architects, designers and builders teams.

Plans of the site showing different details at 1:200

Materials and Furniture

The Site: 899 George St, Sydney, NSW 2000

Year 3, Semester 5

This project has been made from an existing building located in the city of Sydney.After a site visit, to collect all the information I could (measurements, photos, etc...), I, then, had to draw the plans, sections and 3D computer model of the site in order to design the interior of the building.

Firstly, I have to invent the (crazy) life style of eight imaginary persons. Their characters and personalities, their qualities and defects, their routines, their addictions, their hobbies, their fears, their wishes, etc...

Then, from these invented stories, I had to imagine and design the way their appartment, office or workshop will look like. I drew detailed plans and sec-tions of each different spaces and I also had to make detailed 1:50 models of each rooms (photos below).

Finally, I made a 1:100 model of the whole building to show all the details of the outside and inside. Showing the different levels, the emplacement of the rooms that i have designed and present the specificities of this building.

Section of the building1:50

Plans of each levels1:100

Final model of the building at 1:100

Year 2, Semester 4

The site: The bar at the end of the wharf, Pier 4, Walsh Bay, Sydney, NSW 2000

The aim of this project was to create and design a bar/restaurant. The process started from a fiction theatre scenario that I had to interpret in my way in order to create and design a scene. I drew and modeled the theatre scene that I pictured and from this, i made the design of an imaginary restaurant but in an exist-ing building with its special location.

Detailed Hand Drawings of the 4x4 House (Tadao Ando)

Landscape Hand Drawings

I draw these sketches as image contents for an essay about land-scape achitecture.

Year 2, Semester 3

WATER

AIR

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The objectives of this semester were to create a meditation centre with two nat-ural elements. The elements that I chose are Water and Air, which are for me the most two important things we all need in life.

The meditation room that i have designed is made of glass. It is horizontally separated with the upper side filled up with water and in the lower side hot air is circulating. Columns of different sizes are installed in the room where thick glass balloons are going up and down in them. The aim of these balloons is that people can travel in them through two elements while meditating. The time of the travel may vary between 20-30 minutes and once finished, yogis can continue to med-itate in the hot room.

These two plans are drawn at 1:50 showing the whole meditation centre (on the left it is the ground level, on the right it is the first and second levels).

Sections and atmospheric view of the medication centre at 1:50

Tropical Architecture, P.C LacombeInterior design intern

Creation and design of engraved doors for a local villa in French Polynesia

Free Time passions

I really like all type of art and expression. So, during my free time, i like to evade my mind with clay sculpture, painting, drawing and protography.

These are few photographs that I have took with a digital camera and a film camera. Focusing on the light and shadow, working with the shut-ter speed, the depth of field and ISO.