“imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere” – Carl Sagan
During my 9th week studying interior design at university I have had to undertake a project that involved displaying and lighting one particular object within the chosen host building. The object I chose was a nightlight/light projector which would display a variety of colours and shapes around the interior of the room. I wanted to capture the idea of being immersed within a child’s imagination during their bedtime stories, after being inspired by “where the wild things are” I created a space which not only looked like a child’s bedroom but also encompassed their growing imagination by turning some parts of the room into a forest. I wanted to incorporate aspects of reality (you know it’s a child’s bedroom) but also encourage the surreal aspects of the room (furniture growing into trees). I was also inspired by Olafur Eliasson’s work as he has previously worked with glass to explore how light is affected when it is projected through glass objects. This spurred me to use a light projector as my main object.
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson
This project has enabled me to further develop my skills in technical drawing, therefore allowing me to increase my confidence in drawing plans, sections, axo’s and one point perspectives. These skills can help me throughout all my projects as an interior designer, enabling me to quickly produce scaled drawings that efficiently present the opportunities available to the host building. I believe that the processes within this project have gone well however, if I was to do it again I would increase the amount of detail/research which I carried out for the host building analysis. This would enable me to truly identify all the opportunities and restrictions within the host building. I could possibly carry out some tests within the space for example a pedestrian count to understand how many people will be walking in and out of the area per day.
Throughout this project I completed a series of Photoshop workshops which have allowed me to gain a better understanding into how to drop texture and pattern into my 3d drawings. I have never used Photoshop before and I found it hard to grasp the tools used within it however, by the end of the week I was able to easily drop images into my work to make them look more realistic. I am excited to increase my knowledge further in Photoshop over the next couple of months, to develop more sophisticated designs for future projects.
My finalised interior for this project involved the entrance to the space having large trees seeping into the bedroom, in order to get into the space the individual will have to walk through the mass of trees. I found this hard to communicate through my 3d drawings however, the skills I learned in Photoshop enabled me to drop images of trees into the drawings, this allowed my idea to be presented more efficiently and sophistically. I have grown massively as an interior designer throughout this project as I have learned how to produce large amounts of work within a short space of time therefore, showing me that designs need to be created and processed quickly but also to a very high standard.
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