Reflection

After being at the critiques, and presenting my own work, I can honestly say that overall I have learned that talking to the board is not acceptable. As I was presenting my board, I was nervous and trying not to just have a conversation with my board. As I was up there I could have taken more time explaining the materials and the floor plan. Another thing is that board layout is important. If a client is not able to understand it from a distance then something is wrong. There were some boards that I did consider to have a great layout, and maybe I could improve my layout organization for future presentations. I also saw presentations that did a good job presenting their work and ideas and were very organized, something that I personally have to work on. From my own presentation, I have to work on how I present my materials and how they will be used.

Proposed Space for Loading Dock

The designer I had in mind for this space is Phillip K. Smith III. However this space could be inhabited by any other designer/artist. I wanted the design to be flexible for any person who visits.

Both are sketchup renderings of the bedroom and the entrance to the studio space.

For the Studio space I wanted to have the public entrance and a sliding door so that the artist can bring in taller supplies. For the studio space I wanted to give them a place to assemble their designs, I wanted it to be very versatile and open.

For the kitchen I wanted to keep it very simple. The bar can be used as a table, I figured since it is to be a temporary space, the artist would not need to have a full dinning table.

The bedroom is beside the bathroom and kitchen, it is enclosed with transparent panels, I wanted the bedroom to be enclosed without having walls to completely shut it out.

South Elevation

West Elevation

The floor plan is very open can be changed according to the needs of the artist visiting.

East Elevation

North Elevation

The elevations show the ceiling changes, from being lower in the kitchen, then increases by the bedroom then the studio space. This way each space is divided by the ceiling changes.

The materials thought to be used is white oak wood for the furnishings, and wooden beams in the ceiling. Stainless steel would be used for the counter tops. The green color would be used for the bedroom and kitchen area, while the blue would be used for the bathroom. The studio area would have an off-white color.

process of redesigning the loading dock

So the space I had to redesign was the loading dock. At first I had the intention of having a loft raised about 10ft. Still with the concept of using concrete as the main material throughout the space, even the loft. The furnishings would be out of white oak wood, and would be highly contrasted with the concrete.
The bedroom, or loft would be accessible by stairs. But in order to actually do this, the air vualts would have to be removed.

For the studio space I wanted it to be very open. I wanted the privite entrence to be near the studio, and changing the garage door into windows.

The kitchen would be very simple, but in this perspective I just focused on the eating area which is like a bar, I figured that the artist/designer, would not need a full dinning room, just some place to place their plate at.

At first I wanted the office space to be under the loft and near the bathroom, with a built in table, suspended by wire. The office space would be mostly used to sketchup different designs.

The bathroom I was mostly focused on how the shower was going to be placed, the shower was to be open and just covered by glass brick and tile for part of the wall, the floor would still be concrete.

This is another perspective of the office space.

Another perspective of the kitchen area.

I wanted to change the garage door that was in the loading dock to windows. But then it I wanted it to be slidding door panels to be used as a public entrence. The private entrence would be the wooden doors that were already in the space, near the office space.

For the loft, I played around with different color schemes, since at this stage , the only color I wanted to use was for the bedroom. Something about this whole design still did not convince me.

I choose this precedent image becuse of its vast open studio space.

This precedent image was something I wanted to do, trying to compact all the living space together.

Looking back at my precedent images and some of the begining perspective, I did not like anything about it. At the last moment I ended up changing it.

sketchup model

So this is my first attempt on sketchup, trying to recreate the window from a previous assignment.

Piece of the whole Picture

The whole assignment was to create two moments of light. Each of us choose the window in which we were going to use to create this, and work with classmates around our particular window so that they somehow interacted in someway.


Trying to challenge ourselves we decided to take it upon ourselves to form a big group to create this moment of light that would be overwhelming when looked upon. At first we had no idea what we were going to create. We ended up with a wave type of shape, after crossing out the idea of a jellyfish. The photo above shows the wave at it's simplest form, the concept behind this is that each window would have this form. The cardboard was to be just flat and mounted on the window.

The photo above shows the end result as a whole group. The overall shape of it is two waves overlapping. Each of us had a small piece of this overall picture that captured your eye as you looked upon it. The cardboard was made into three separate panels to cover the whole window and only focus on the light seeping through the bottles. Each of us did something completely different however united by this basic shape.

This is the piece I had, the window behind the column. I used the bigger bottles to then decrease in size and the amount of filtered light.

In order for me to have some relevance to the window beside me, I had to decrease the bottles in the last panel. By just having four bottles in the last panel allowed me to incorporate holes in the panel to resemble the window beside me, which was a descending line from the corner increasing in size by little holes and ending with straws. Not only did it allowed me to unite my window with the one beside me, but it gave me my second moment of light. After mounting the three panels on the window, I would have liked to have incorporated the holes in all three.