Bed and Breakfast Concept Model-"Human Body as a Beautiful Structure"

This is my concept model that came from my module and textile pattern. This is my interpretation of the concept behind my design in 3-D. This shows my artist and my inspirational object with in the depot. The concept of this 3-D model is that "we all have this preconceived notion of the body as a strict structure that is universal to all and never changes. But the human body is so much more than that and the beauty of one's personality, curve, fluidity and motion breaks up this idea of the body as a universal structure never changing and shows that there is beauty with in". The universal structure aspect of the the concept relate to the wooded beams which are my inspiration of the depot and the beauty in the human body through curve represents Martin Blanks works of bright color and fluid, body like shapes. Displayed above are some images of the first model I came up with and then the bottom four are the images of the final concept more developed and revised. I really think that this model came together well and stays true to what my concept is all about. It visually explains the concept and I believe it will make for a great element in my final design of the bed and breakfast.

CONCEPT STATEMENT:

True Beauty Lies Within a Universal Structure

The wooden beams as my form giver show strong, structural support and represent a stable, unchanging form. In order to soften the look of the beams and to be able to further incorporate my idea of the human body as a beautiful, shapely structure, I worked from the beams textural like pattern. The beams were hand carved, with chunks shaven out of the beam. These wooden beams in the visitors center, demonstrate the stability, structure and shape of the human body as a universal structure unchanging.

There is a strong relationship between the beams and Blank’s work representing the human body through curve and shape. For me to show the relationship between the beams and the human body’s beautiful curve, I have the tear drop shapes in my model, which are demonstrating the individual, specific beauty that is present in the human body, but often unseen. This beauty acts as an interjection to the thought of the human body as an unchanging structure. This tear drop is to represent the beautiful curve, fluidity, movement and balance of the human body with in a structure.

Together, these two inspirations of the beams and the human body as a beautiful structure represent the human body as more than just the preconceived view of the body as a universal structure that is never changing and permanent. The beams, which show a strong stable form and yet have beauty to them portrayed through the textural pattern of the shavings. This pattern acts as the universal structure the human body appears to be. It’s not until you incorporate the tear drop shapes that interrupt this strong universal structure idea and evolve that structure into a beautiful form. The human body is a structure that is beautifully shaped by one’s personality, natural curve, movement and form.

With the wood strips being interrupted by the teardrop shapes, this further shows the body as more than a universal structure. The tear drops have the beautiful energetic color representing the beauty of the body, which helps to break up the idea of the body as a universal structure. This shows that beauty goes beyond a body’s structure, one that everyone has. Each person’s body and shape is special and specific to him and her. We must learn to step back and realize that there is more to structure than a universal shape.

With this concept that is demonstrated in this strong, abstract form, I am able to incorporate this in my design of the bed and breakfast and make for an over all aesthetically pleasing, interesting and comfortable design applied to all aspects of the over all design.

Final Textile Design

Displayed above is my final textile design which I will be using at some point and place throughout my bed and breakfast. I was able to come up with this textile pattern after playing around with a number of different modules (like the one displayed on the bottom). The modules that we were to draw were supposed to some how represent our depot's inspiration object and also your artist's work combined. We were to choose the best two modules from a selection of eight that we had chosen from a prior fifty. I took the best two and played around with them in photoshop and indesign. I experimented around with different color schemes and patterns that I could lay the module out in and discovered that after transforming, shrinking, flipping, rotating and reflecting, I had alot of different patterns to choose from, all coming from the same module. I was able to come to a comfortable stop with this pattern. I thought that this module made a strong pattern and also a good interpretation of the wooden beams, (which is my depot's inspiration object) and my artist's work. I think that the over all pattern is working well in my design and displays what I want to portray, but I think next time I would design a module whose over all pattern is more loose feeling so that it doesn't look so heavy and strict in shape. I need to figure out what part of my design is most important whether it be the concept of the structural part of the design or the concept of fluidity, movement and the curves of the human body of the design.

TEXTILE REFLECTION ESSAY

After receiving my textile, I feel that my concept and is portrayed at large through out the whole textile. Both the colors and way in which I chose to lay my module out to make the repeated pattern explains my concept well. The straight beams and the round bursts of purple and magenta really help to model the concept of beauty with in a universal structure.

When looking at this textile as a whole your eye begins to flow from one corner to the other, making an over all well rounded textile design. You really do start to feel the concept while looking at the textile.

The only thing I would have done differently with this design is play around with the pattern a bit more. I know that after I sent in my textile order I tried some different pattern ideas and the mirrored pattern made for an even better concept relation. The way in which the mirrored modules met each other made a beautiful, organic, round shape through out the design, which would have made more sense to the view right away.

Other than that, I really do like the textile and cannot wait to begin to think 3-D about my space and this textile that will be incorporated in it some how.

Artist: Martin Blank Client Brief Poster

This is my poster that I created to go into my client brief folder, a folder that contains some information that is going to be used while I design the bed and breakfast. I was to design a poster that showed some of my chosen artist's (Martin Blank) work along with a blurb about them as an artist and heir design philosophy. This allowed me to think in depth about what the artist is trying to portray in their work and then think of ways in which I may be able to incorporate their work into my design. This was also a way in which I was able to show the rest of my class who I am using for my inspiration and get some feedback as to how I may use their design in mine.

205 Final: Sunset and Nightlife

This is my end of the semester studio project that entailed me going through the process of interviewing a client (one of my classmates) and asking them a series of questions that would better help me design the perfect room for them. I was to design a room out of a 2,500 sq. ft living space that was chosen by the client, along with a desired paint color, inspirational piece and furniture piece. From this I was then able to come up with a concept for the room just from the pieces I was given and also design a space. This space's concept is derived from the idea of a sunset and how someone can have a bubbly personality (sun/bright) but also a serious one (sunset/intense/rich). This is apparent through my space's design and color. The bright colors of orange and yellow represent the bubbly side of a person and the deep mauve color shows the person's serious side. This is a place that can let in the sun during the day, the sunset in the evening and the glow of the city's nightlife at night.

Vision Disability Workshop

This is the hand out that we were given to follow. It told us what to do and where to walk while we were "visually impaired" (not totally blind). I made some notes on it talking about how it was hard for my partner to walk down the green marble stairs located in the cub because the black strips that usually are an indicator of the edge of the step, fell back into the green and were not very visible. The green stairs were so shiny and all seemed to mesh together. However, the tan stairs that I walked down outside the libraries were easier to navigate down because the tan steps had a duller finish to them and I was able to see the black strip more easily.

These are some of my notes and sketches that I made while on my walk through the cub "visually impaired" (not totally blind). This showes that in the elevater it was hard to determine what the buttons said and so it made it frustrating to decide what to push. This is something that Ifeel needs to be addressed and maybe better planned and designed. It really is sad how often people with disabilities are disreguarded when it comes to design and I am glad that I was able to participate in this workshop. Now when I am designing the depot for the inkeepers wife, I will know some of the common things that are ignored when designing for the visually impaired, and also how to address them properly.

This is a sketch that I drew of my interpretation of the CUBS environment while I was "visually impaired" (not blind). This workshop asked us to walk around the CUB in glasses smeared in petrolium jelly which stimulated how it would feel to be partially blind. This sketch I drew shows some of the environments problems that I encountered, such as the CUBS lighting that reflects off the marble flooring. This makes it hard to determine where you are at and makes for a hard time determining where you might be at. This sketch also shows the ATM in which we had to locate. I thought that the flashing lights around the card slot did a great job showing where the card goes and then you were able to know that the key pad was close by, along with the brail to help guide you in number patterns.