Novita Japara

Novita Zeslin Japara Interior Designer

PROJECTS
BAKPAO 6
Q BILLIARDS 2
WYNN HOTEL 22
GUCCI 28
OTHER PROJECTS 36
CHANDLER
VACATION HOUSE 12
SAN FRANCISCO
RESIDENCE 16
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Q BILLIARDS
Located in the Fillmore area, Q Billiards is a café designed
for people to hang out, relax, play, and have fun. There
are 3 different billiard tables provided in the café. Each
table has a different size from small, medium, to large. Not
just that, there are board games and cards provided for
those who choose not to play the pool table. There is a bar
at the back of the room, providing snacks and cocktails,
a perfect place to spend your evening and weekend. Q
Billiards is inspired by Billiard itself, which includes their
billiard table layout, stick, balls, and triangle.
CAFE, POOL HALLS & ENTERTAINMENT CENTER
Right: Q Billiard entry experience view

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Left: Bar view
Bottom left: Ideas & sketches
Bottom right: Floorplan
The space is diveded into 2 area, the left side of the room
for people who choose to play pool, while on the other side
is where the seating lounge chair located for people who
wants to play other board games and cards. There are
three different sizes of billiard tables, small, medium, and
large, seperated by dining tables. The nooks in this area
have built-in cue holders. This area is where people can
play the billiard while their friends watch them and dine on
the side. While on the right side, the nooks are used as a
place for board games and cards shelving.
Built in seating and hooks along the wall of the space
mimic pockets in the pool table. The walls of these nooks
are angeled just like the edge of a billiard table, where the
balls enter the pockets.
The bar design style is based on the billiard triangle (rack).
The billiard triangle is being used for the shape of the bar
as well as the drop light fixtures. It mimic exactly like a pool
table with the triangle placed at the end of the table.
Left: Dining & board game area
Bottom left: Dining & pool table area

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BAKPAO
Mr. Shen Jianhua is a very successful businessman from
Shanghai, who is very experience in managing a company.
In Shanghai he is currently running a very well-known
Chinese bun company called Bakpao. In 1986 Bakpao
started as a small dim sum restaurant, which specialized in
their bun. As they are exapandig, Bakpao officially become
a manufacturing company, with their dim sum restaurant
on the ground floor, and they become one of the greatest
dim sum restaurant in Shanghai. Bakpao start to expand
internationally, and San Francisco will become their branch
in United States. With more than 25 different flavors of bun,
having all different types of meat and flavors from juicy, hot,
spicy, and sweets, Bakpao will become San Franciscan’s
Favorites.
STEAM BUN MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Right: Entrance to Bakpao lobby view

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Left: Inside outside entry to the
manufacturing company
Bottom left: Dim Sum restaurant
located in front of manufacturing
company
Bakpao’s unique logo was inspired by Cash (Chinese
Coin). The logo is being pictured as a Gold Chinese Coin.
It has all the features of Chinese Coin, a circle with a hole
in the middle, which then the hole is being carved based
on the steam bun’s shape. The logo represents fortune
and wealth that Mr. Shen Jianhua value and believe that it
is one of his greatest luck.
The concept of Bakpao is based on Bamboo Steamer.
Bamboo Steamer is a cooking trays commonly used in
the creation of Asian cuisine. A basic bamboo steamer
is hoop-shaped, with a latticed bottom and a snug top.
As people enter from the front entry, they can see there is
this circular space in the middle. The space has a lot of
curved walls and organic shape. Those shape represents
movement, just like how steaming works inside the
bamboo steamer.
Above: Bakpao’s logo development
Left: First level manufacturing
company floorplan

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Left: Demonstration Kitchen
Left: Conference room views, located
at the very back of manufacturing
company
Above: Demontration Kitchen elevation
Left: Design development sketch

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MOUNTAIN RANGE, COLORADO
CHANDLER
VACATION HOUSE
Located in Mountain Range Colorado, Chandler Vaca-
tion House is specially designed for 4 people living in
the house, a couple with 2 kids. With an extreme climate
change of hot weather in the summer and extreme cold
winter, wood will be the best material used both for flooring
and walls, since they won’t absorb cold, and easy to
clean at the same time. The concept of the house will be
bow and arrow. There will be a lot of movements, curves,
triangles, and straight lines in the house. The furniture
have mostly a bow feet figures which resembles the shape
of bent arrow when they are ready to be shot. The main
color palette of the whole house are variety of brown color,
black, white, and red. Since bow and arrow are mainly
made of wood and steel (brown and black color), and the
target mainly has red and white color pattern.
Right: Second level master bedroom

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The great room and the dining room are located in the first
floor open area, separated by a tall full-height modern
glass fireplace. There is a stairway next to the great room
that goes directly to the second floor. The stairs hand rail
are made up of strings that attached to the ceiling just like
the bow’s string attached.
Above: Exterior house view
Left (left to right):
- First level floorplan
- Second level floorplan
Above: Entry experience, great room
on the firsr floor.
Chandler vacation house consist of 2 bedrooms, 2
bathrooms, family/living room, kitchen, dining room and
outdoor balcony. The first floor is where most of the area
located except the master bedroom which located on the
second floor. When they first enter there is a great room
and a fireplace in the middle of the room. The dining room
is located right next to the fireplace with sliding glass door
all around. It gives an infinite view to the outside, and the
bar & kitchen located next to the dine area. The kids are
sharing a room on the first floor, and their bathroom located
right across their room.
The second floor is designed privately for master bedroom
where the couple will have their own private space of the
entire floor. The space consist of bedroom, office, closet,
bathroom, laundry and balcony. There are zigzag windows
that overlook the first floor area of the open space where
the living room, great room and dining room are located.
The shape was inspired by the triangle arrow’s head
shape.
GREAT ROOM
THE HOUSE

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13 WOOD STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO
RESIDENCE
San Francisco Residence is a house designed for the
Mariotto Family. Located at 13 Wood Street, the house
needed renovation. There are 3 different clients in the
house. Each floor is designed differently with different
concept and ideas, according to the users need and
personality. The ground floor concept is designed for a
young girl with bright personality. The first floor concept
is guitar, designed for a single man living in the house.
The second floor concept is Japanese fan, designed for
a married couple. There is also a rooftop designed for the
family, as a place for them to relax, enjoy, and spend their
time together.
Right: First level dining room view

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The ground level is a studio house, designed for a girl with
a young bright personality. The house is designed with
simplicity, contemporary and modern elements. Red, black
and white colors are mainly used as the primary colors.
The open walk in closet is located between the bathroom
and the bedroom. A chandelier is placed in the middle
of the closet, not just for lighting, yet it also a focal point
for the space. Inspired by masquerade mask, the space
incorporated a lot of patterns, movements & organic shapes.
Left: Open walk in closet view
Left: Studio bedroom view
Right: Ground level floorplan
GROUND LEVEL
THE HOUSE
Above: Exterior house view
Left (left to right):
- Ground level floorplan
- Level one floorplan
- Level two floorplan
- Rooftop floorplan
The house consist of 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, family/living
room, kitchen, dining room and outdoor balcony. The first
floor is where most of the area located except the master
bedroom which located on the second floor. When they first
enter there is a great room and a fireplace in the middle
of the room. The dining room is located right next to the
fireplace with sliding glass door all around. It gives an infinite
view to the outside, and the bar & kitchen located next to the
dine area. The kids are sharing a room on the first floor, and
their bathroom located right across their room.

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Left: Great room & dining area view
Left: Master bedroom view
Right: Level two floorplan
Above: Office with working space,
material library & seating lounge
The second level is designed for a married couple. The
design of the house is warm, comfortable with Japanese
style. The wall pattern of the master bedroom reflect the
japanesse fan’s pattern which spread from a single source.
As the married couple loves to entertain people, the living,
dining and bar area are one opened space. The kitchen is
closed, as they requested, and it is huge so that they can
comfortably cook and mingle around.
The first level is designed with hard surfaces with mainly
cool neutral colors of palettes. With the use of stone, wood,
metal, and glass, the house gives an inside out feeling with
a sense of modernism and contemporary.
On the first floor, there is a huge office which able to
accommodates 3 workers in the space. There is also a
material library and a seating lounge space to sit, and chill
in front of the fireplace. Inspired by guitar, this level uses a
lot of string, lines, with a little bit of curves and circle.
LEVEL TWOLEVEL ONE

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
WYNN HOTEL
Located in Avenida Atlantica 1652, Rio de Janeiro, State
of Rio de Janeiro 22021, Brazil. Rio, the second largest
city in Brazil, South America is a city of beauty with nature,
beaches, yet metropolitan at the same time. Wynn Hotel
has it all. A strategic location nearby the beach, Wynn
location is a good place to stay on, enjoy and relax. The
concept of the Hotel is based on Jellyfish. Jellyfish is a
free-swimming marine animals consisting of a gelatinous
umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. The body of a
jellyfish lacks skeletal structure and comprises a gelatinous
substance, which is 95% water. Water is transparent, clear
with no definite form. As they are also identic with blue
color. Wynn Hotel is a space to relax yet has a mysterious
feeling when person enters a dark room with ambience
lighting of glowing neon color. Different layers will also be
applied into the space, to create a sense of harmonious
and unity.
Right: Entry experience, Wynn Hotel
lobby view

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Elypso is a bar located at the first floor of Wynn Hotel. The
guests can see directly that the bar is located at the very
right side of the hotel, since the vibrant purple, combined
with this curve wave textured wall. The wall has a gradient
color mood, going from light blue from the top and going
into a darker purple to the bottom. It represents sea layer’s
color, as it goes deeper, it becomes darker. Those features
will capture people’s attention from the outside.
There are booth, lounge and bar seating for the overall
space. Larger circular booths are designed for a large
party. They are located against the wall with a curved
organic window viewing to the outside scenery. There
are bubble pendant lighting fixtures placed in the lounge
seating area inspired from the water bubbles.
Left: Booth & seating area
ELYPSO BAR
Left: Elypso bar entrance
Right: Elypso bar floorplan
Upper left: First level floorplan
Upper right: Second level floorplan
Left: Third level floorplan
Right: Hotel lobby ideas development

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The Bedrooms Suite is divided into 2 parts; the left side
is the Master Bedroom while the right side is the Double
Queen Bedroom. The room color palette is based on
neutral color, shades of brown, beige, black and white,
while adding a bit of purple ambience from the drop cove
ceiling to still give an underwater kind of feeling.
The Master Bathroom Suite is mainly black and white with
a touch of purple ambient lighting, again from the drop
cove ceiling. The chandelier acts as a focal point for the
bathroom. It adds a luxurious and elegance feeling to
it. And together, combined with pattern wall, the whole
room has a lot of movements and organic patterns which
represents jellyfish under the water with no definite shape.
Left: Master bedroom view
Right: Suite floorplan
Left: Master bathroom view
BEDROOM SUITE
The restaurant that’s located on the third floor has three
types of seating; booth seating, table and small bar, the
room also divided according to the seat type. There two
types of seating booth; big circular booth (used for large
party), and a four seater booth. The large circular booth
mimics the shape of jellyfish, with their head and the detail
of jellyfish’s structure illustrated by the circular mounted
light fixtures, the string attached from the booth to the
ceiling represents jellyfish’s tentacles. Circular cove ceiling
is use to emit a glowing vibrant purple color effect that
resemble jellyfish
RESTAURANT
Above: Restaurant view

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DOWNTOWN UNION SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO
GUCCI
Right: Level two, men section view
Gucci is an Italian fashion and leather goods brand, part of
the Gucci Group, which is owned by French company Ker-
ing formerly known as PPR. As one of the biggest selling
Italian brand, Gucci has gone internationally all to Ameri-
can and Asia. For this project, I’m going to re-design Gucci
Retail Store which located at Union Square San Francisco
(1743.5 sq ft. ). The store is a 3 stories building, divided
into different categories of handbags & accessories,
shoes, and clothing. The concept of this Gucci store is
Under the Sea. As the store plays with gradients, changing
of color mood and lighting from one level to another, the
store also used transparencies and see through materials,
just like the characteristic of water.

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As in general, the store is too crowded and packed
together, since to capture a high-end type of store, the
space needs to be more spacious and organized.
There are no focal point and central of attention when you
first enter the store. The shelving and display cabinets are
everywhere and it’s kind of blocking the view and makes
it less attractive. The overall display for the first floor also
need some work, since ther are not really well organized
and it looks like they are everywhere in the store.
In the mezzanine and the second floor, ceiling height
looks too low, and the space looks so packed up together
since they crunch up all their products in a smaller space
(compare to the high ceiling of the first floor), which makes
the room looks even smaller.
In conclusion the problems are:
1. First floor too crowded, unorganized display.
2. No entry experience and focal point.
3. Mezzanine & 2nd floor too pack with low ceiling.
EXISTING STORE
To Solve this problem, I’m going to propose a design that
will turn the space look more spacious and less crowded.
Since the existing area has a lot of columns and display
retail shelving through out the store, I’m going to reduce
the amount of display retail in the store and to make the
space look more spacious too and less crowded,“less
is more”There will be transparencies, and see through
materials.
The store has 3 level of retail; level 1, mezzanine and
level two. From one level to another there is a transition of
colors, starting from the darkest to the lightest (just like the
layers of the sea). Those can be seen from the lighting,
materials of the ceiling and flooring colors.
2 - RETAIL
2 - CLOTHING
M - SHOES
1 - HANDBAGS
SB - BACK OF THE HOUSE
B - BACK OF THE HOUSE
1 - RETAIL
M - RETAIL
Above: Existing store pictures
Above: Store floorplan
Left: Gradient chart

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Left: Entry experience view
Bottom: Handbags section view
Level one is where the handbags and other accessories are
located. As the customers first enter the store, they can see
directly the handbag display located at the very back of the
store. A cylindrical elevator located next to it has a gradient
lighting changing from darkest to lightest. It will attracts
people’s interest to go up and see what’s going on the next
level, as the lighting gradually change to become brighter.
This level has the darkest flooring and ceiling color. Most of
the materials used has a high reflectivity to add the sense of
high-end & luxurious retail space.
LEVEL ONE
Above: Store front view
The exterior facade of the building uses a lot of glasses
and transparencies which allows people from the outside
to see what’s going on inside the store. Compare to the
old facade, the new building is more open with a lot of see
through materials.
There are layers of lighting, coming down from the top
of the building. It represents different layers of the sea.
Overall the building is bright and glowing from the outside
with the use of glass and see through materials.
THE BOUTIQUE

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The Mezzanine level is where the shoes are located. The
left side of the room is for the women’s shoes, while the
right side of the room is for the men’s shoes. To make the
space less cramp and more spacious, there are no walls
that divides the room, the space is one whole floor with
seating in the middle.
Above: Mezzanine level, shoes section
MEZZANINE LEVEL
Level two is where the clothing and other accessories
are located. The space is divided into 2 sections. The
men section, located at the back side of the store and the
women section that’s located at the front side of the store.
This level is a level with the brightest material color and
lighting.
Left: Level two, women section
clothing and accessories view
Left: Level two, women section
elevation
LEVEL TWO

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OTHER PROJECTS
Right: Color rendering assignment,
watercolor medium. 8” x 11”
Besides residential, hospitality, commercial & retail
projects, there are other projects that allows me to sharpen
my design skill including: textile design, color rendering,
and lighting. On the right is a watercolor rendering of a
cabin located at Lake Tahoe, El Dorado Beach. The cabin
uses wood flooring combinations, Together with dark
brown sofa leather. The cabin composed a lot of warm
colors in the foreground, while cool colors are used in the
background.
TEXTILE | HAND SKETCH | COLOR RENDERING | LIGHTING

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Left: Concept inspiration sketches
Bottom: Textile in interior rooms &
furniture
The fabric is inspired by Akepa Bird, Akepa bird is one of
the smallest Hawaiian forest birds, known for their vibrant
red orange colors. Each fabric portray different pattern and
shapes, all inspired by the bird’s shape, feathers, as well as
the branches and trees. In the fabric, their red orange, and
dark maroon color is being pair with pink, dark purple and
brown, a perfect combination for furniture, and drapery.
TEXTILE DESIGN
Left to right, fabric: linen
- Paper stencil printing
- Paper stencil & hand painting
Left to right, fabric: linen
- Photographic silk printing
- Paper stencil & hand painting
- Photographic silk printing

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Upper Left: Color rendering
assignment, marker & color pencils
combination. 9.5” x 13.5”
Lower Left: Color rendering
assignment, watercolor medium.
3” x 4.5”
Right: Color rendering assignment,
watercolor medium. 3.5” x 7.5”
COLOR RENDERING
Understanding color theory & principles to use color
effectively in all aspects of visual communication. There
are 3 different medium used: watercolor, color pencil &
marker. The assignment allows me to try variety of media
and apply color with regard to its interaction with materials,
light, form, and its overall impact on the environment.
The table lamp is inspired by bamboo steamer. It has the
zigzag pattern that’s made by a veneer sheet sew together
into the body of the lamp. The lamp cast a beautiful pattern
shadow that is made from the space in between the veneer
sheet and the body of the lamp.
TABLE LAMP
Above: The LampAbove: The making process
Right: Table lamp specification

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