I am Sakina Pothiwalla, a final year interior design student at the University of Kent.

I take projects from first concept through to resolved, build ready design. I plan and zone spaces, develop material and lighting schemes, and produce detailed, accurate CAD drawings, plans, sections, elevations and construction details worked through to the small things like junctions, fixings and build ups. I am confident reading a real brief and designing around the people who will actually use the space.

Visualisation is where I am strongest. I model in Rhino and build fully lit, immersive environments in Unreal Engine, with Twinmotion for fast, realistic renders. This lets me test a design properly and let a client feel a space before anything is built.

My work is biophilic by approach. I bring warmth, daylight and natural materials into everyday spaces, and I design with wellbeing in mind, which I have applied to real briefs from an air ambulance crew room to study and wellbeing spaces inside a busy library.

I am graduating soon and looking for a studio where I can keep designing calm, human centred interiors and put these skills to work. If that sounds like your kind of practice, I would love to hear from you.