During the first week back after a long summer, the day began by having a warm welcome back with a lecture from Craig telling us all about the new project ‘circular economy’. Which we would be submitting into a live competition as well as Moodle where it would then be marked based on a Pass/Fail.
By having the lecture about the briefs for the competition and project, I decided that I would go more into detail on the competition brief. This of which led me to have a better understanding that the competition consisted of three companies (Work to workstations, Perch and Greyfox) I had worked out that we would have 5 weeks to focus on improving a work/learning space by making sure that it is also sustainable.
Following on from getting a better understanding about the briefs, I was still quite confused on what I was supposed to design as a final outcome. This soon led me to go straight into a host building analysis and SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis to firstly get my site out of the way as I was torn between doing the ‘Atrium’ or ‘Heart space’. By doing this I soon decided that I would do the ‘Heart space’ as I felt that it would best suit a working/learning environment.
Before the concept design review took place I had been struggling a lot on how to process this whole project, this of which led me to struggle on what I could design as a final design as I didn’t really have any idea in my head. By going to my tutorials weekly I was then guided slowly in the right direction whilst still not being 100% sure where it was going to lead me. However, I soon overcome this by gathering lots of mood boards of different type of working spaces and space displays which soon led me to gather my thoughts on possible designs that I could do as a final outcome.
Due to struggling a lot about what I would do as a design I learnt that the more I asked questions with what I didn’t understand and asking fellow students and looking at their sketchbooks, the more I was able to get a better knowledge and know what I needed to do.
Overall, by getting a better insight ready for the competition submission I have been able to get some initial thoughts together in my head on what I could do as a design, although I am still quite confused on what to do I felt the more that I explore and do work in my sketchbook. By doing this I was then able to go to more of my tutorials to get more feedback this also allowed me to ask more questions which had cleared certain queries that I was worrying about. This then allowed me to make even more progress in my sketchbook ready for the scheme design review.
Rebecca Chick 