We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Ying Lin about their original and creative Office design work. Ying Lin is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original office works.
Ying Lin ("YL") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Irene Office. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
YL : “Irene is the city visible when you lean out from the edge of the plateau at the hour when the lights come on”. (Invisible Cities, 1972, Italo Calvino). The novel describes Irene as a virtual reality city where one can speak of Irene as it is seen from within. But one cannot do this: he/she has not succeeded in discovering which is the city that those of the plateau call Irene.
YL : Focusing on establishing and achieving the transition from virtual reality to actual reality by using the concept of a vertical microcity.
YL : To use it as an inter-medium tool to reach out and communicate with people.
YL : It took me about six months design this particular concept
YL : It was an inspiration from the height of the space, and the main stair case located in the middle of the space. We decided to pursuit an inspiration.
YL : The design has been produce by ourselves.
YL : The usages of space as an medium of interactions towards people.
YL : The coworkers/ employee of the company
YL : The various height usages established in the space. For example: a height of 45cm representing the height for chairs, and the height of 75cm relates to the height of tables, and etc.
YL : “Irene is the city visible when you lean out from the edge of the plateau at the hour when the lights come on”. (Invisible Cities, 1972, Italo Calvino). It means a virtual reality city where one can speak of Irene as it is seen from within.
YL : Several design tools were being used in this project, such as: Adobe AutoCAD, Photoshop, 3D Sketchup and etc.
YL : The cement grouting stair case without seeing the structure beneath it. So it looks like floating stair case. And with the six foot long fish tank underneath the stair case, representing the rivers flowing in the jungle.
YL : Structural engineer.
YL : It helped us finding the methods of making the cement grouting stair case looked like its floating above the ground. Using technical methods to hide the stairs structure so that people don’t see it.
YL : The cement grouting stair case
YL : This design is like a poem describing the interactions of vertical and horizontal relationships and communications between people.
YL : I learned about the cement grouting stair case from the structural engineers.
