INTERIOR

SPACES

2012

Meline Katchi

01 MEET KATCHI

I CAN BE A

‘HANDFUL’

I CAN BE A

‘HANDFUL’

Self Portrait

The wider angles created at the top near the middle finger represents a per-son who tends to look for those whose status rises above their own,& has great respect for them. If such a line is very straight and par-allel to the Head Line, then it shows strong emotional control.

The small angle created between your index and thumb reveals that you do not react, you analyze and respond. You don’t rush you thoroughly think before you take action.

The separated fingers resemble open-mindedness & “free spirit”. You are able to think “outside the box” and enjoy variety. You are constantly searching for op-portunities & are not ruled by con-ventional methods.

The joining of your head line & life line at the beginning indicate that a strong sense of mind rules over body.

Special mark-ings on this line indicate Specific events which oc-curred in your life. Youth, represents adult, old age.

VIKTOR & ROLF IS AN AMSTERDAM-BASED FASHION HOUSE. THE COMPANY wAS

FOUNDED IN 1993 BY DESIgNERS VIKTOR HORSTINg (BORN 1969, gELDROP) AND ROLF

SNOEREN (BORN 1969, DONgEN).

02 THE MEN BEHIND THE MASK

Spatially ANgLED

03

Haute CoutureIN THE FLESH

“wE CAN ISOLATE OURSELVES FROM THE wHOLE SCENE, wHICH IS RELAxINg. wE HAVE THE ROOM TO CREATE.”_ROLF

wHO

The Lovely CUT WE BELIEvE THAT CouTurE SHouLD BE A fIELD for ExPErIMENTATIoN.

04 V & R LOVE

‘Twist’ THE FAMILIAR our CLoTHES DESIgNS ArE HArD-EDgED BuT vEry SofT AT THE SAME

TIME — WE LIKE To TWIST THE fAMILIAr.

V & R LOVE04

Essentially, in its earliest incarnation, Viktor & Rolf the label made statements rather than clothes. Horst-ing and Snoeren indulged creative flights of fancy.

rECogNIZED symbols

05 V & R LOVE V & R

Experimentation and showmanshipCreating a interior which has similar ‘cutouts’ to make a intense visual impact

t well as reduce mass and volume.

Naturally ARTISTIC

ART IS VERY IMPORTANT. I TEND TO PRESENT MYSELF IN AN ART-RELATED CONTExT THAN IN A FASHION CONTExT.

06 V & R LOVE

MAN SANDAL

Tieared & ANgLED

Are these pages from your SKETCHBOOK..?

SOAR

Are these pages from your SKETCHBOOK..? Analog sketches in Prismacolor/ Sharpie marker

SOAR

08 BREATHE

Personal sketchbook notes and drawingsMany of these fine art/ fashion images become the inspiration for

My interior related sketches. The forms are so refreshing and unique every time.

“I thInk we have an ambIvalent

RelatIonshIp wIth thIs

element In fashIon. on the one hand, theRe’s somethIng Really hoRRIble about thIs

tensIon of havIng to do somethIng, but on the otheR hand theRe’s somethIng veRy

stImulatIng about It, knowIng that you have to go on, you have to cReate.

theRe was thIs ambItIon and convIctIon that we wanted

to woRk at the hIghest level possIble.”

Its ExPLoDEDThese unisex sandals are made from a

Simplified pattern which are perforated for breathability and texture

10 BREATHE

Did someone say NEwSPRINT ?These quick drawings with charcoal on newsprint are

Proportion and gestural studies incorporating artistic division rules.

SHOE DESIgNER NICHOLAS KIRKwOOD HAS CREATED CATwALK SHOES FOR DESIgNER INCLUDINg gHOST, JOHN ROCHA, ERDEM, RODARTE AND POLLINI AND wAS A FINALIST FOR THE IN-

Nicholas Kirkwood

Hand CRAFTED

11 TURN THE wHEEL

The WHEEL WE STEErWHEELS CAN BE MouNTED oN A DETACHABLE HuB A.K.A. A quICK

rELEASE HuB. THE STEErINg WHEEL CAN THEN BE rEMovED WITHouT THE uSE of TooLS, SIMPLy By PrESSINg A BuTToN..

12 TURN THE wHEEL

MANY OF THESE gESTURAL STUDIES BECOME A BASIS FOR MY FUTURE RENDERINgS AND INTERIOR CONCEPTS. ALLOwINg THE IMAgINATION TO FLOw.

FLOw

Its just some PAPERCrEATINg A PAPEr MoCK uP, WHICH WouLD THEN

DEfINE THE ENTIrE CoNCEPT of THE froNT CABIN of THE INTErIor

FLOw

raw LEATHERS

BY TAKINg USEFUL PRODUCTS AND ExCHANgINg THEM, wITHOUT REPROCESSINg, REUSE HELP SAVE TIME, MONEY, ENERgY, AND RESOURCES.

10 RAw HYDE

Trio SANDALrE PurPoSINg IS To uSE A TooL for uSE AS ANoTHEr TooL, uSuALLy

for A PurPoSE uNINTENDED By THE orIgINAL TooL-MAKEr.

SOFT

The softness of FOLDSTHIS PArTICuLAr DESIgN WAS CrEATED

rIgHT oN THE vEry fooT of THE MoDEL. TALK ABouT A PErfECT fIT.

SOFT

Selecting a unique color palette is essential when your hardware color is preselected. Here I chose to use gold toned hardware and exaggerate its Potential though these warm tones.

folded/ overlapping forms

Sheared / layered thin Forms create textureAnd elegant type of Volume

Victor & Rolf 2011

16 V & R LOVE

folded/ overlapping forms

Sheared / layered thin Forms create textureAnd elegant type of Volume

Everything is IN FLUxA CoNTINuED fLoW ; WHEN I AM MoST SuCCESSfuL My SCuLPTurES

HAvE THE LooK AND fEEL of fLoATINg forM

Folds of paper mimic V & R’s designs

17 FOLD OVER

Not a Perfectionist, AN ABSTRACTIONISTPErHAPS THIS IS WHy I grAvITATE To ALuMINuM AS My PrEfErrED MA-TErIAL, AND WHy froM CHILDHooD oN, I HAvE BEEN ESPECIALLy foND

of THE WorKS of MIro AND CALDEr

I understand the importance of finish-ing touches and small details, but these come secondary to the feeling, the work of art conveys to the viewer. I want it to be more than what meets the eye at first glance.

18 SOFT & LIgHT

FOLD

Transition with MEundulating concave and convex forms seemlessly

Blend into one another to create a harmonious flowing interior concept

FOLD

Center console wraps up and flows down into the rear cabin

HUE

What Exactly Is Color BLOCKINg ?Creating a uniform pattern, which can comfortably

form to the male and female foot

HUE

22 CHROMO COLOR

Be BRAVE It’s high time to embrace color blocking and show off your flamboyant side!

It’s all aboutTHE COLOR

PINK AND ORANgEPURPLE AND ORANgEYELLOw AND TURqUOISEDEEP RED AND BROwNCORAL, TAN AND RED

Center console wraps up and flows down into the rear cabin

Center console wraps up and flows down into the rear cabin

gauge which are touch screen & offer a sense of Augmented reality

The science of color is sometimes called chromatics, chromatography, colorim-etry, or simply color science. It includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materi-als, color theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that is, what we commonly refer to simply as light).

r.S. Berns, Principles of Color Technology, 3rd Ed., Wiley, New york (2001).

The field of color psychology Attempts to

Identify the ef-fects of color on human emotion

and Activity.

Le Interview

23 CHROMO COLOR

It’s CHROMOTHERAPY Colors have different associations in different countries and cultures.

24 CHROMO

“COLOR IS FOR ME THE PUREST FORM OF

ExPRESSION, THE PUREST

ABSTRACT REALITY. JIM HODgES”

What’s that HUE?

DIFFERENT COLORS HAVE BEENDEMONSTRATED TO HAVE EFFECTS ON COgNITION.

It’s CHROMOTHERAPY Colors have different associations in different countries and cultures.

25 CHROMO

It’s CHROMOTHERAPY Colors have different associations in different countries and cultures.

for the timid AT HEART

TONE THINgS DOwN wITH MONOCHRO-MATIC BLOCKS OF COLOR OR gO THE SAFE BLACK AND wHITE ROUTE. BLACK AND wHITE CAN BE JUST AS gRAPHIC AS BRIgHT COLOR COMBINATIONS.

NOS

Monochromatic COLOR BLOCKINgThis understated technique may be a great way to ease into the

Color blocking trend.

NOS

26 FOLDED

form SENSITIVE

STRUCTURAL COLORS ARE COLORS CAUSED BY INTERFER-ENCE EFFECTS RATHER THAN BY PIgMENTS. COLOR EFFECTS ARE PRODUCED wHEN A MATERIAL IS SCORED wITH FINE PARALLEL LINES, FORMED OF ONE OR MORE PARALLEL THIN LAYERS.

giovanna battaglia

INSTEAD OF CONTRASTINg COLORS THIS MICRO TREND IS ALL ABOUT STICKINg TO THE SAME COLOR FAMILY. REDS AND PINKS. BLACKS AND gREYS.

26 IM HERE

richard SwEENEY

BoLD AND TExTurED uSINg NATurAL ToNES

CODY

Introducing the KURVEN CHAIRThis chair was created by designer Cody Stonerock utilizing bent plywood, White oak

veneer, and leather

CODY

27 KURVEN TALKS

Experimental meets ELEgANTTHE SKIN IS SEWN oN EACH END INTo THE LooP.

THIS ALLoWS for EASy ASSEMBLy AND DISMANTLINg AS WELL AS SoME CHoICE MATErIAL SEATS.

Kurven Chair is made of bent plywood, white Oak veneer, and leather. It also features a fiberglass reinforcement. The leather seat can easily be attached or detached from the chair. It’s also backed with a canvas material to pre-vent stretching.

Cody Stonerock

feels likeyourLIVINg ROOM ?The Seats can be easily installed or released from the chair.

So so BOLD

THE LOOP BOUND BY PLACED THROUgH SLOTS IN THE wOOD AND ANCHORED wITH A DOwEL ROD.

28 KURVEN TALKS

Cool, BUT SURREALA PLAN for ArrANgINg ELEMENTS IN SuCH A WAy AS To BEST ACCoM-

PLISH A PArTICuLAr PurPoSE.

gABO

The artist, the sculptor NAUM gABOWas a prominent russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic

Art.

gABO

THE UPPER CREATED HERE IS HAND CUT FROM ONE PATTERN wHICH CAN BE STRETCHED OVER THE FOOT AND STRAPPED ON TO CREATE A VARYINg AESTHETIC.

So so MSACULINE

22 HAND MADE

1920

IN THE MANIFESTO gABO CRITICIzED CUB-ISM AND FUTURISM AS NOT BECOMINg FULLY ABSTRACT ARTS AND STATED THAT THE SPIRITUAL ExPERIENCE wAS THE ROOT OF ARTISTIC PRODUCTION.

gABo BEgAN To ExPErIMENT WITH KINETIC SCuLPTurE

29 gABO’S THEORY

A ‘Realistic Manifesto’

THE ESSENCE of gABo’S ArT WAS THE Ex-PLorATIoN of SPACE WHICH HE BELIEvED CouLD BE DoNE WITHouT HAv-INg To DEPICT MASS. HIS EAr-LIEST CoN-STruCTIoNS SuCH AS HEAD No.2 WErE for-MAL ExPErI-MENTS IN DE-PICTINg THE voLuME of A fIgurE WITH-ouT CArryINg ITS MASS.

“wHEN MASCULINE IS USED TO DESCRIBE MEN, IT CAN HAVE

DEgREES OF COMPARISON—MORE

MASCULINE, MOST MASCULINE. THE

OPPOSITE CAN BE ExPRESSED BY TERMS

SUCH AS UNMANLY. A TYPICAL NEAR-

SYNONYM OF MASCULINITY IS

VIRILITY.

Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd. ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

30 gABO’S THEORY

Alright, HE DID IT AgAIN HIS INfLuENCE WAS IMPorTANT To THE DEvELoPMENT of MoDErNISM

WITHIN ST IvES.

rich colorsONE PATTERN

MEN THROUgHOUT HISTORY HAVE gONE TO MEET ExACTINg CULTURALSTANDARDS OF wHAT IS CONSIDERED ATTRACTIVE.

31 gABO’S THEORY

Le Interview

AcuteAwARENESS

In his work, gabo used time and space as con-struction elements and in them solid matter un-folds and becomes beautifully surreal and other-worldly.

Naum gABO“THE rEAL STuff of gABo’S ArT IS NoT HIS PHySICAL MATErIALS, BuT

HIS PErCEPTIoN of SPACE, TIME AND MovEMENT. ‘

32 gABO’S THEORY

rythmic INTERIORIN fACT, THE ELEMENT of MovEMENT IN My INTErIor rESEMBLES

STroNg SCuLPTurAL SENTIMENTS of rHyTHM, MorE IMPLICIT AND DEEPEr THAN THE CHAoTIC PATTErNS of THE DrAWINg ITSELf.

So so UNI_SEx

U·NI·SEx_ OF, DESIgNED, OR SUITABLE FOR BOTH SExES; NOT DISTINgUISHINg BETwEEN MALE AND FEMALE; UNDIFFERENTIATED AS TO SEx:

28 ME AND YOU

LOOK

The shapes of MERETECreating a uniform shape, which can effortlessly

Hold structure organically.

LOOK

35 D’ MERETE

MereteRASMUSSEN

The Danish artist, Merete Rasmussen who predominate-ly works with one-off sculp-tural forms in stoneware clay. She has lived and worked in

London since 2005.Merete is interested in the idea of one continuous sur-

face, with one connected edge or line running through the whole form. Clear, clean

shapes; soft smooth curves in contrast to sharp edges;

100% LIgHTwEIgHT

HUMAN HAIR wAS INCORPORATED IN JEwELRY SINCE THE LATE 18TH CENTURY IN MEMENTO MORI PIECES, TO REMEMBER A LOVED ONE.

36 D’ MERETE

37 D’ MERETE

InspirationMERETE DOES IT AgAIN

Expression FORMforM ExPrESSIoNS THAT APPEAL AND rESuLTS IN CoNTINuouS ExPLorATIoN AND ExPrESSIoN IN MANy DIffErENT vArIATIoNS.

38 D’ MERETE

Sculpted to resemble structural, yet Organic functional clouds

MereteRASMUSSEN

CONCAVE AND CONVEx SURFACES; THE DISCOVERY AND STRENgTH OF AN INNER/NEgATIVE SPACE

D’ MERETE39

Bold & BEAUTIFULTo emphasize the form she uses matte monochrome colours.

KEYS

RE_defined FOR THE USERThe method of locking varies between models.

KEYS

YOU CAN BE SURE THAT AUTO MAKERS wILL BE PREPARED TO OFFER SOMETHINg NEw.

Chloe Clutch 2011ripe pomogranate

Dry sage

ruch plum

42 KEY FOBS

Automotive ELECTroNICSThe technology may be more advanced, but the effect is basically the same: your key matches

your car.

12 KEY FOBS

Turning KEYSon smart key systems like these, the driver needs only to walk up to the

car and the doors unlock automatically.

A wHOLE, wHICH IS FORMED BY A VARI-ETY OF STRUCTURAL PIECES.

43 KEY FOBS

A different kind OF KEY

gEAR

Time to SHIFTfused deposition modeling (fDM) is used in traditional rapid prototyping

gEAR

46 3_D PRINTED

Initial drawings from sketchbookMArKEr. PEN

thIs Is he physIcal InteRface between the manual tRansmIssIon stIck shIft and the dRIveRs hand.

47 SHIFT IT

FREE AND LOOSE SKETCHES DEMON-STRATINg THE SCULPTURAL SPIRAL FORMS THAT ESSENTIALLY CREATE AERgONOMIC DEVICE

AFTER ALL, PEOPLES’ PHYSIqUES VARY

gREATLY FROM ONE TO THE NExT, AS CAN THE TYPES OF JOBS THAT

HAND TOOLS ARE USED FOR. REgARDLESS OF HOw USER-FRIENDLY

A TOOL IS BUILT TO BE, THE MOST IMPORTANT DECIDINg FACTOR IN wHAT MAKES A TOOL

ERgONOMIC IS, AT THE BOTTOM LINE, YOU.

48 SHIFT IT

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49 THANKS MUCH

Thankyou