Third Year/Project 1

brief: "You are halfway through your course. It's time to take stock, to reflect on the design process and on your own ability to deal with it. You can improve your own performance if you analyse it, indentify your strengths and weaknesses - and then deal with the weaknesses.

"Make 2 diagrammatic drawings, one describing the qualities you think essential in the making of a good interior and one describing the design process."

initial responses

Design Process: My first thought was that the design

process is a journey. You have a starting position (project brief) and a final destination (design outcome). I recognised that I had my own common approach to each project but these could take many form ie. routes. And that I often require direction along the way.

I found a map which I thought suitable for describing this "design journey".

It begins with the brief, and from that point I branch out into the first ideas the brief has sparked. At this stage there is alot of trial and error involved to find an appropriate solution to the brief, and once it has been found it can evolve rapidly - combining both function/practicality with creative/innovative ideas.

The dashed lines describe the vague ideas that happen along the way that quickly dissolve.

Qualities for Good Design: During our first discussions the question was raised "is an interior good purely because alot of people like it?" This made me re-think my initial ideas, as originally I thought about the different components which lead to a "successful" interior ie. light, materials, textures.

But this didn't seem to answer the question brought up in the first review. I tried to think how an interior could attract a mass market and how it should provide some experience for each person entering. This is where my idea for "challenging the human senses" came. I remembered how certain smells, sounds, textures could remind you of past experiences and i thought that if you can connect to the viewer this way then you can make some sort of lasting impression which they will remember.