Foliage Table

by Sabrina Baillie

Project Description

Due to COVID 19 pandemic and its resulting lockdowns, the home environment has forcibly transformed into a place for work and productivity. With many people inside their homes for the majority of their time, nature and green spaces have become a solace for many. However, many people have limited access to these important green spaces, if any. In studying the effects of the surrounding environment on the user, it is apparent that the traditional form of the home environment has become over-saturated in today’s society. It becomes important to find a means of incorporating a safe, natural, inspired space into the interior of the home. A natural space can be mimicked through utilising biomimicry, in which features of nature are incorporated into the built environment in order to heighten our own experience in unfamiliar ways. The research for this project placed priority upon the mood and mental state of the user within the environment. When studying the evolution of the surrounding environment, many patterns emerge; these patterns are innate to many of the organic forms that inhabit this planet. 

The aim of this project is to develop a new concept of interior furniture that utilises the natural forms of growth and evolution in order to differentiate itself positively from traditionally manufactured forms by utilising natural motifs. The furniture piece will comprise a single sheet form with a repetitive design feature representing patterns from natural sources.

Bio

Sabrina Baillie is a third-year product design student studying at the University of Technology Sydney. Sabrina uses a keen eye to exploring her creativity, developing products both by hand and digitally. As a designer, her favourite part of the design process is seeing the process of initial ideas grow to become beautiful, highly refined, final physical products. She enjoys exploring and developing ways in which furniture fits into users’ everyday lives and new ways in which furniture can be enhanced or reinvented. Inspired by nature and its beauty, her designs take strong influence from the motifs found in the environments surrounding her.

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