Emma Hirst Portfolio
Interior Architecture and Design (BA) Work

The Interior Major Project brief was to create a magazine displaying highlights of our design process over the course of the academic...

The aim of this poster was to represent and display the Interior Major Project, in the form of a poster, for an exhibition at the...

This piece of work is a magazine, created for the Professional Identity module. The objective here was to develop and articulate a sense...

This is my report for Material Expression, which is a refined summary of my work portrayed within the blog for this module. This work...

Material Expression PROPOSE | Finding the Materials Narrative Key words: Connections, ethical consciousness, adaptive reuse. "We are...

PROPOSE | Detail and Hand Drawing Key words: Propose, realise, materiality, detail. "As an architect you design for the present, with an...

PROPOSE | Developing Details "Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than its physical attributes. It is a many layered...

PROPOSE | Detail Application Key words: Organic, natural, sustainable. "Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of spiders...

ANALYSE | Materials Research Key words: Fabric, sustainability, recycle. "Textile arts are versatile and can transition from use to use,...

ANALYSE | Elaborating Detail Key words: Seamless, organic, bright "Details, when they are successful, are not mere decoration. They do...

Material Expression EXPLORE | The Materiality of Portsmouth Key words: Observation, exploration, wider issues. "Cities have the...

EXPLORE | Writing the Site Key words: Experience, the body, touch, sound, taste, smell. "If I could choose anywhere, it would be here. My...

EXPLORE | Material Transformations Key words: Create, transform, reflect. "The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through...

EXPLORE | Detail and Material Key words: Exploration, detail, environmental impacts, finite resources. "The details are not the details,...

EXPLORE | Follow the Material Key words: Preservation, disruption, transformation, palimpsest. "Every inch of ground on this planet is a...

This blog is a visual and written record of my investigation into interior materiality relevant to my Interior Major Project 'TreeTop...

My dissertation investigates the concept of home through a psychological lens, and how inadequate housing can affect mental wellbeing. I...