Emily Robinson is an emerging Interior Designer, with a zealous approach to conceptual, evocative and illusory spaces that subvert reality. Emily’s style is rooted in a fervor for the liminal and experiential, and with a passion for architectural drafting and speculative design, she conjures emotive and meaningful spaces that playfully immerse the user. Emily’s unique design perspective is anchored in her childhood memories, growing up in Australia much of her formative years were spent on long road trips through the outback with her family. The surreal imagery of the profound stillness, scale and colour palette of these environments inspired her interest in design, fostering notions of immersion and seclusion. Her spaces emanate themes of dreamscape environments, eclipsing expectation and tradition. Emily’s enthusiasm for design and innate drive for innovative solutions converges a multi-skilled and adept approach to interiors, hinging on her own autoethnography and personal narrative.
Design Visualisation
Design Development
Oxide, a subterranean bathhouse set within Cockatoo Island’s Turbine Hall, is an immersive journey that reimagines the raw atmosphere of the Australian Outback within an urban context. The existing fabric of the building operates as a vessel of transcendence and experience, immersing a guest in the surreal liminality of threshold landscapes. The project explores a contrast between the red sands and crystal blue water that exists in the coastal outback zones of Australia, forging a dialogue between arid expanse and oceanic vastness. Oxide is an experiment in environmental immersion, thematically
transposing the colour palette, forms, textures and sensorial harshness of the Outback in the heart of the city. The space celebrates the calving forms of the coast, the planes of the desert and the contrast of the blue water, representing the uniquely Australian landscape. It ventures the feeling of existing in two places at once, a liminal space allowing a guest to inhabit two disparate environments. Oxide endeavors to wield spatial language, materiality and atmosphere to foster a deeply transformative experience for the user.
The Site
Cockatoo Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Sydney Harbour. The site is home to a range of building types, reflecting the layered history of Australia. Oxide’s proposed location is within the Industrial precinct, the South East area of the Island.
Building 150, known as the Turbine Hall, is the proposed site for the design of Oxide. The Turbine Hall was constructed in 1946, and was used for the repair of steam turbines. At the time of its completion, the Turbine Hall was the largest building in the Southern Hemisphere, underpinning its historical significance.
Cockatoo Island’s location and structural opportunities present a strong potential space for Oxide, with strong links to the conceptual foundation of the project. Its isolation from the city but proximity to the urban environment also mirrors the atmosphere of the outback.
Proposed Floorplan
Bespoke Designs
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This work represents a dedication to originality, creativity and precision, embodying a passion for innovative and sustainable interior design solutions.
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EMILY ROBINSON
Emily Robinson is an emerging Interior Designer, with a zealous evocative and illusory spaces that subvert reality. Emily’s the liminal and experiential, and with a passion for architectural design, she conjures emotive and meaningful spaces that Emily’s unique design perspective is anchored in her childhood Australia much of her formative years were spent on long with her family. The surreal imagery of the profound stillness, of these environments inspired her interest in design, fostering and seclusion. Her spaces emanate themes of dreamscape
Emily’s enthusiasm for design and innate drive for innovative skilled and adept approach to interiors, hinging on her own
ROBINSON
zealous approach to conceptual, style is rooted in a fervor for architectural drafting and speculative that playfully immerse the user. childhood memories, growing up in road trips through the outback stillness, scale and colour palette fostering notions of immersion dreamscape environments, eclipsing
innovative solutions converges a multiautoethnography and personal
