Following on with the new project that we had been given ‘A Place to Exist’. I had produced many ideas using the Bubble Diagram method, where it was a quick process instead of re-drawing the building plans out over and over again as shown below. This allowed me to get a quick idea of how I was thinking of having my floor plan for my building.
From this I then moved onto making more final plans onto the building plans to see if I would need to add more walls or if I would need to move rooms around by how they looked or if they were too small for the feature that I wanted in there. Throughout the ideas that I had for my plans, I had then moved onto using Sketch Up. By using this software I had struggled at the start on remembering how to use it, by this I had then signed myself up for a tutorial with Charlie where she had re-shown a lot of us on my course. Once I remembered how to use the software, I had quickly moved onto making the basic structure of the building where I had used a dark grey paint for the walls to show myself that I can’t remove the walls as they are the main structure .
By doing this I was able to then moved onto creating my final floor plan with what I had produced in my sketch book of my designs. However, when producing the model and seeing how big each room would be on Sketch Up by using my plan I decided to extend on the building and to switch the bedroom and bathroom around. I had also taken away the stairs and storage room from my plan, this of which I was able to have each room bigger but to have it more open planned from where I wouldn’t need to add many walls in as I thought by adding walls it would make it too crowded and unclear with how I wished my design to look like.
However, to start it off I had produced a Sketch Up model which has helped me a lot to visualise how big each room would look like. From this it then helped me with how much furniture I would be able to place in each room whilst still making sure that it would still be functional for a person to walk around in but also live and work in.
Rebecca Chick 