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Interior Architect & Designer

About Ellen Fitzgerald

In 2019, Ellen Fitzgerald led the adaptive reuse of a decommissioned Brutalist power substation in Rotterdam into a mixed-use cultural hub, preserving its raw concrete vaults while inserting lightweight timber mezzanines that respond to human scale and daylight rhythms. She doesn’t sketch furniture first; she maps thermal gradients, acoustical shadows, and pedestrian eddies to determine where space breathes and where it holds its breath. Her work rejects 'style as finish,' treating color not as surface treatment but as spatial punctuation, deep indigo applied only where ceiling height drops below 2.4 meters to visually lift compression. She’s published three field notebooks on threshold design: how doorways, changes in floor material, and even shifts in ambient light temperature cue behavioral transitions in domestic and civic interiors. Her clients include municipal housing authorities rethinking density, not through square-meter optimization, but by recalibrating the emotional weight of vertical circulation, stair landings, and shared balcony sightlines.

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  • “How do you use structural columns as social anchors in open-plan apartments?”
  • “What’s your rule for when to expose versus conceal ductwork in residential spaces?”
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  • “How would you retrofit a 1970s split-level home to support multi-generational living without adding square footage?”

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What is Ellen Fitzgerald’s stance on biophilic design?
She treats biophilia as a structural discipline, not an aesthetic add-on. For her, integrating nature means aligning window mullion spacing with prevailing wind vectors to enable cross-ventilation, or specifying glulam beams whose grain orientation mimics local tree growth patterns. She avoids potted plants as decoration, instead, she designs soffits that channel rainwater to interior moss walls fed by gravity-fed cisterns.
Does Ellen Fitzgerald use parametric modeling?
Only when parameters are derived from embodied human behavior, like mapping 3,000+ door-handle wear patterns across public libraries to inform lever curvature and mounting height. She rejects algorithmic form-generation divorced from tactile feedback, insisting that every digital model must be stress-tested against physical mock-ups built at 1:5 scale using site-salvaged materials.
How does Ellen Fitzgerald approach lighting in heritage buildings?
She disables all recessed downlights. Instead, she installs linear LED strips within original cornice profiles, using their historic shadow-casting geometry to diffuse light. In one Amsterdam canal house, she repurposed disused flue shafts as vertical light chimneys, lining them with dichroic film that shifts hue with solar angle, turning passive architecture into dynamic light infrastructure.
What materials does Ellen Fitzgerald refuse to specify, and why?
She bans vinyl flooring, acoustic ceiling tiles, and gypsum board in all residential projects. Vinyl contradicts her thermal mass strategy; ceiling tiles disrupt soundwave reflection patterns critical to conversational intimacy; gypsum board fails her 'touch-test', it lacks the micro-textural variation needed to anchor human presence. She substitutes rammed earth panels, perforated cork composites, and bent plywood systems with exposed joinery.
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