Monday, March 23, 2009

Model of the Model :)

Here are some photos of our model that we have made, We will use our models to develop our concepts in the coming days....




Monday, March 16, 2009

Concept stage



Starting with our concepts we had lots of different ideas but had narrowed them down to just 2... sense and nonsense and illusion.


Here are some of our concept boards which show the 2 different concepts

Sense & Nonsense













With Sense & Nonsense we wanted to have a fun and play element to the design (nonsense) while at the same time the sense part of it is to insure that all the elements of the design work and meet the criteria of the brief.

Illusion


For the illusion concept we combined a few different conceptual ideas that we had. We wanted to incorporate the idea of dreams and emotions in with illusions. The idea that all is not as it seems ties in with dreams and how they can be illusional.

Concept Models and Models of the building to Follow :)

Diagramming


We used bubble diagrams and relationship diagrams to help us come to our final decision as to which activities have the highest interaction with each other

The site plan, wind directions and sunpath diagrams. The suns location is shown throughout the day and through the different months of the year.

Using Relationship diagrams we figured out which activities had to be directly linked and which needed the most privacy, light, access etc.

The next move is to come up with some concepts !!

Precedents


Our Precedents wall!! We researched similar installations on sleep and some "pod" hotel rooms in china. also looked at different types of communal sleep and alternative sleeping spaces.