Residence Design

Now that I have learned about kitchen and bathroom design and reviewed my designs for two apartments and a common space with my peers and professional interior designers, I created a final summary of my designs and their process. I created four posters describing my design. 

The first poster summarizes the development of my concept with my concept statement, inspiration quote, 2-D parti, 3-D concept model. It also includes some of my early process work.

The second poster shows a floor plan at 1/8"-1'0" of the one bedroom apartment and the common space with a few elevations of the apartment.

The third poster includes more elevations, a 1/4"=1'0 floor plan of both apartments and the common space as well as a few furniture pieces for the living room and perspective drawings.

The fourth and final poster shows appliances and furniture for the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen, and a perspective drawing of the kitchen.

Using my concept and knowledge about kitchen and bathroom design, I developed a floor plan for the space. I chose materials and then drew elevations and perspectives of how I designed the apartments and common space. The biggest improvement I noticed in this project was my ability to visualize and draw a space through elevations or perspectives. I think my project has a lot of strengths, and I put a lot of thought into my design. However, there are many weaknesses as well. After presenting my final design to practicing designers, I realized that I should have focused a lot more on natural lighting. I also struggled to arrange all the images on my four posters.

Here is my volumetric model of the one bedroom apartment.

These are a few of the materials I chose to install in the apartment.

Residence Design

Now that I have learned about kitchen and bathroom design and reviewed my designs for two apartments and a common space with my peers and professional interior designers, I created a final summary of my designs and their process. I created four posters describing my design. 

The first poster summarizes the development of my concept.

The second poster shows a floor plan at 1/8"-1'0" of the one bedroom apartment and the common space with a few elevations of the apartment.

The third poster includes more elevations, a 1/4"=1'0 floor plan of both apartments and the common space as well as a few furniture pieces for the living room and perspective drawings.

The fourth and final poster shows appliances and furniture for the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen, and a perspective drawing of the kitchen.

Using my concept and knowledge about kitchen and bathroom design, I developed a floor plan for the space. I chose materials and then drew elevations and perspectives of how I designed the apartments and common space. The biggest improvement I noticed in this project was my ability to visualize and draw a space through elevations or perspectives. I think my project has a lot of strengths, and I put a lot of thought into my design. However, there are many weaknesses as well. After presenting my final design to practicing designers, I realized that I should have focused a lot more on natural lighting. I also struggled to arrange all the images on my four posters.

Bathroom Design

I designed a bathroom based on my earlier concept of home. The bathroom is meant to be visitable, so the sink and toilet are wheelchair accessible. Once I decided on a design, I drafted different drawings of it, then traced them and scanned them to put them on a digital poster.

Designing the bathroom was a lot of fun. I chose more fixtures than in the kitchen, like the bathtub, shower doors, toilet, sink, mirror, and task lighting. I like my design and I think the details regarding accessibility and and relation to my concept are well done. There are a few things I would change, however. If I were to re-do the poster, I would darken the background so it matched the paint color better. I would also hand draft my titles using marker lettering and draw them bigger than the typed titles. Another issue with my poster is the darkness on the edges of some of the scanned images, which I would fix with Photoshop.

3-D bathroom model