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Farrah Khader

Process

From footprint to finish

Every project in this portfolio follows the same five stages. The order matters: each one constrains the next, which is what keeps a scheme coherent once the decorative decisions start.

  1. 01

    Measure & Understand

    Nothing starts on a blank page. The existing footprint gets measured and recorded — walls, openings, levels, the awkward corner nobody mentions — because those conditions decide what the design can honestly do.

    Existing conditions · Survey · Constraints

  2. 02

    Space Planning

    Several layouts get drawn before one is chosen. The test is always circulation: how someone enters, where they pause, what they see first, and whether the furniture plan supports that or fights it.

    Circulation · Furniture layout · AutoCAD

  3. 03

    Concept & Materials

    The direction is set as a colour and material palette before any room is modelled — so that every later decision has something to answer to, and the finished space reads as one idea rather than a collection of nice objects.

    Mood board · Palette · Atmosphere

  4. 04

    3D Visualisation

    The space is modelled and lit so it can be judged before it exists. Layered lighting is treated as part of the design, not an afterthought — it is what makes a material look the way it was intended to.

    AutoCAD · 3ds Max · Corona Renderer

  5. 05

    Present the Thinking

    Finally the project is set out as a sequence of plates: the starting point, the plan, the direction, the result. A render on its own only shows the answer — the plates show why it is the answer.

    Plates · Narrative · Rationale

See it applied across three projects.

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