Ravensbourne Space II - Design

Construction of the model began with my base shape:

I used this shape to guide me on how a booth would extend from this piece. As I began to construct an individual booth, I became quite caught up in measurements because the shape drawn did not result in an equal measured booth. This issue meant I had to slightly adjust how the final booths would appear.

Writing and finding all these measurements became quite time consuming, because at the same time I was attempting to make the model but the measurements continuously kept on having errors. I then resulted to using sketchup to quickly create a brief model on the space and find the correct measurements. This sped up my model making process.

I calculated that the roofs would have to be formed of 4 parts because there were 4 different lengths on the roof. Additionally, I looked at the two different compositions that the roof could make with its shapes. I chose my second composition because when that booth was in a larger number, the overall appearance seemed more connected.

Joining multiple booths together

I joined multiple replicas of one initial booth to create a line of booths for the space. It turned out to appear too claustrophobic and too uniform. I then decided I needed a way to separate the booths but still keep the roof design, because it added a Ravensbourne aesthetic. 

Another way of integrating the roof and divider designs was too implement them into the floor plan, which I tried, however it appeared to busy. From this I then reduced the floor design to have my core design as the floor plan.

Experimenting with floor plans

I used the final composition as my floor plan, since it was the least busiest yet it still integrated my core design. Furthermore, I used the roof designs to be the facade for the space, which would appear as an intriguing aspect to invite people to see what is behind the facade.

Exterior of space

After making the sketchup model, I met a very big issue. When I was constructing the facade for my model, I was not able to construct it with just using the shapes used on the facade. I had to recreate every single booth for each roof section. This was extremely time consuming and wasted a lot of material. I then realised I should have revisited the process I used on sketchup, rather than to just jump ahead and make a model that copied sketchup.

Candlelight used for an ambient setting

Each divider has been wrapped in grey card and tracing paper to show that layers of sound proofing the dividers.

At this point I realised that I had spent too long on trying to integrate the roof design, because of this I was delayed in making model. In future projects, I will try to set improved time limits on the smaller designs.