Yiqing Miao .
Interior & Spatial Design
02
Design a refuge for a Babelian with the minimal requirements for survival in a transitional space within your own version of the Overlook Hotel.
Background
Introduction
“Whether a space is yet to be built, or whether an interior will be placed in an already existing ancient or modern building, the design of the interior is reliant upon the understanding of the patterns and forms of a given outline, or of a found site. The processes of making sense of what is extant, and how it will be utilised, requires a very particular sensibility, one that is predisposed to working on-site and one that is concerned with a multiplicity of processes of appropriation. These processes form the basis of the interior sensibility: a predilection for the extant and a profound curiosity with working with what is already there.” (Graeme Brooker)
This project is primarily concerned with developing an understanding of existing places be they a room, a building, a street, a district, a town or a city, or a fictional hotel. The relationship of each element to their context is of particular interest.
The Site
The Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining (1980). - The Staff Room
Proximities: Babelian’s Refuge
The project takes from the refuge scape developed as a starting point to understand Wendy’s complex everyday life moments where she would like to have a parallel/mirrored life. The narrative developed from sketching this narrative, and was successfully articulated as spaces beyond the figurative representation of film scenes. Quite suggestive and begins to elaborate on a comic style that explains the process ofescaping everyday life.
