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immersion

I design to systematically identify what opportunities and

constraints arise from a project, to then develop relevant,

innovative and engaging spaces.

Louis Khan considered design to be of ideation techniques including

an systematic form-making, ordered in sketching, physical modelling, 3D
creative force with design being the CAD modelling, research, precedents,
means to express it. The spirit of design experiments to develop a sophisticated

lies in the nature of space and the will conceptual approach to spatially
to exist within it. Design should follow translate these ideas through visual

that will. through the why (nature), and verbal presentation, that
what (order) and how (design) (Khan, communicates the design I generate.
1960). Design is capable of both

containing existing meaning (expressing By immersing myself in my design process,
old ideas) and creating meaning I can generate relevant and cohesive
(expressing new ideas) (Ganoe, 2008). design schemes that creatively fulfil the

All designers have their own unique needs of clients, users and the brief.
design process. //

Personally, I seek
to understand
the core needs

of a space;
how it will feel

& function.
Then I explore
inspirations to

form ideas. I
utilize a range

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fig 2./ design thinking: a linear process/
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