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This concept of Topshop has been created to stand out as a new face of the flagship shop in Los Angeles. Inspiration for the Topshop design stemmed from the paper bag and all this folds linked me to origami, which translated from japanese means “Paper fold”.

The guiding features of this space are five words:

1.Inspirational= Building 2.Youthful = Customer3.Dynamic = Lighting4.Changable = Furniture5. Fashionable = Product

The design embraces not just furniture but exterior facade, lighting and signs. The shopping bags create interesting shapes that can be moulded to achieve an inviting space, which shows physical representation of chosen words.

The designed facade has two functions, window display andconnecting two levels. Mannequins shown on the staircase construction create the interacting and easy accessiable dispaly for people who walk upstairs/downstairs.

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Furniture Design: The concept of furniture was: Changeable. All the pieces has been design to be highly flexible to caught with the busy environment of the retail shop. Also, all the furniture are based on the idea of foldability of the shopping bag, full of interesting angles. Figure One: Stand with the rail has been design for hanging the cloths, and the bottom shelf are in different shape, colors and high, attached for displaying fold cloths. Asymmetric shapes display boxes are easily moveable which adding the dynamic to the interior. Figure two: The hexagon shapes table are idea for cloths/bags display. The are easily moveable and can create a furious display as can be attached and detach, use as a group display or singular. The heights of the stand, also allowed people to sit on them during for example trying the shoes. Figure three: Axonometric tables has been used in the Top men to display men accessories and cloths. Beautiful angle and unexpected shapes are fully match the idea of origami. They are eye catching for the visitors.

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Library:

The library of the Goethe-Institute serves as a resource for those interested in contemporary Germany. The room has been divided in two zones by loud and quite activities. The left side includes a group table and a children house where the quite space including reading and studying zone. In addition, design contains 4 computers for individual access to the internet for research purposes.

Reading Room:

The reading room of the Goethe Institute in Bookcase has been incorporate as “lighting feature” mounted to the ceiling which allows the room stay as an open space; easily adapted for different functions: events room, exhibition room, etc. Also, works as a good space saver/ book storage.

The Goethe Institute Glasgow is a organization which supports a broad spectrum of cultural events. It provides a German art scene and for intercultural exchanges.Institute offers language German language courses & exams, as well as workshops and seminars for teachers of German. All the purposes has been included in design The colors skim has been design based on the German national colors to highlight and represent the German culture. The signage has been design to guide around the space and help the transition of the space.

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Ground floor, Reading Room

Tenement Lamp The tenement Lamp has been designed as a representation of the typical Glaswegian building. The lamp has been create as a part of exhibition with the Singapore Institute to educate young people about the life in Scotland. The lamp has a cooperative bookshelf with a layout of the building. When the lamp is turned on the ceiling appears a layout of the flat which creates an atmosphere of magic, the book contains in the lamp has a few story of the building which I have cumulated over the time of project. Metal frame work has been designed and the wood part has been laser cut. The metal frame and the colour of wood represents metal work which is part of each tenement where the wood shows the colour of the limestone used in the facade.

The photo on the left shows the finishied product, where the photo on the bottom represents a book.

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Asymmetric Table, none to scale Asymmetric Table Asymmetric table has been design as the low coffee table. All the materials have been found around city of London and recycled. The materials for the wooden legs has been found in the river, dried out, sanded and shaped to the cubes. The top has been reused from the table found on in street, sanded and one edge has been cut to highlight the growth ring on the cube leg. The metal leg has been formed from the old piace, cut and welded to right shape to support the other two legs. All of the design has been created in the GoldFinger factory and displaied as a part of the exhibition .