Explore the exciting journey of creating a comprehensive final project in a design course, where students will research a famous designer, design a space for them, and create a material board, among other things. Learn how each assignment builds upon the last, leading to a final project that reflects a deep understanding of the chosen designer's philosophy and style.
Key Insights
- The final project includes researching a famous designer or architect, considering them as the 'client' for the space students will design. This allows students to delve into the designer's history, design philosophy, and key works.
- Students will create a material board, design a gallery or lounge space, and also prepare a furniture layout. The project emphasizes on ADA and accessibility, ensuring the space is usable by all.
- The project concludes with a final presentation, which includes a material board, a scaled space plan, and a rendered elevation. The course offers guidance on how to create these elements, with emphasis on maintaining alignment with the chosen 'client's' needs and style.
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Now, the final project is really exciting. We're gonna talk about all the various homework assignments and I'll dive into each one as we move forward. And just so you're aware, the final project will be discussed in lesson seven.
Now, just to give you an idea, so you can start to get excited on some of the things that we'll be working on, I'm gonna share with you an example. Now, this project is very similar to the project. It is not the exact same project.
Each course that we develop, develops very specific projects and we're creative, we're innovative and we change those projects. But just to give you an idea of what you'll be moving into and the idea of what you'll be designing, I think this will be a good example for you. Your project, your final project will entail you doing research.
Now, that research will be research of a famous designer. For instance, here, this student researched Zaha Hadid. Zaha Hadid was an extremely famous architect and interior designer and she made some huge landmarks.
She had landmark buildings all over the world, thousands of projects. Now, this particular student used this client as her research client. Now, you have to imagine that the architect or the interior designer who you're choosing for your final project, that they are your client.
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That's the way we approach this class. We want you to find a client who inspires you. When we get to this assignment, I will talk about the variety of different clients who are out there for you to choose, but know that you will not only be designing a space for that client, but you'll be researching that client and they will act as your client.
So through that process, you'll develop and look at some of your, develop your presentation and you'll look at that client's history, you'll look at their background, you'll look at their design philosophy and you'll look at what was important for them as a designer and we will present this research. Each of your assignments in this course builds up towards your final. So each of the portions that we do from the research to creating the final project will all layer on top of each other so that you can develop a very comprehensive final project.
So again, you'll start with the research, you'll look into the history of your client, you'll look into their education, you'll look at their most famous work, you'll look at why and how they approached design concepts, you'll look at inspirational projects that may not have been built yet, right? Conceptual ideas. And we'll talk about the different phases of design. We'll talk about conceptual design versus construction documents.
The most important thing with this project is that you are inspired. And in order for you to inspire one of your clients in the future, it's important for you to get inspired, right? So pick a client who meets or excels and also is someone that's inspirational to you. If you don't know who these clients are, we're gonna have time to research and look at the various works.
You can see that Zaha Hadid was a very organic architect, very contemporary, very futuristic. At the same time, fluid and motion were an extremely important part of her conceptual ideas as she developed projects. So in your research, you'll look at those projects, you'll look at how they develop, and you'll look at what her thought process was or his thought process through the work that you start to discover.
Now, after you've done the research, you will actually create a material board. Well, you're gonna create a lot more than a material board, but one of the aspects you'll create is a material board. In the end, you're going to design a gallery or lounge space.
So this space will have materials, it will have light fixtures, it will have ideas for what you're gonna do with your color palette, and you'll actually put a material board together that shows your client how you're planning on approaching this design. We will talk about strategies on putting material boards together, and we will talk about strategies on how to approach the various design aspects that you're gonna need to create for the final project. You can see here there's a furniture layout.
You will do a furniture layout. I will teach you how to scale your furniture in. You'll have some templates that you can use, or you may go and find some of your own templates that you think are appropriate for the space.
We'll look at seating layouts, we'll look at what makes the most sense. We'll also look at ADA and accessibility, which means we are gonna make sure that this space is accessible, right? So anyone can use that space. You will also develop and render an elevation.
Now, that elevation will be in sync with your material board. It will show some of the materials that you've selected, and your material board might have more than one material option, and that's okay. The idea is to be creative and to be in line with your client, right? The use of this elevation, and when I say elevation, I am referring to a view of a wall, right? Floor plan would be a view from above, and we'll talk about that a little bit later.
You're gonna design an elevation in color, and I'm gonna show you how to do this in a simple presentation format using PowerPoint. We'll show light fixtures, we'll show furniture, we'll show the wall materials, we'll show our color palette, and it will all come together. So as a quick recap, for your final project, you will research a famous architect or interior designer, you will find and research what inspired them and how their history brought them to where they are today.
You'll slowly use that to develop your own ideas for your project, and you will develop not only a material board, but a concept, and you'll develop a concept that makes sense based on your client's needs. You'll develop a space plan where you'll have furniture scaled, and you will end the presentation with a beautiful rendering. I'd be saying, I don't know how to do these renderings.
Not to worry, we will dive into that, and I will teach you how to do elevation renderings, and I will teach you how to do the basics of space planning and working with a floor plan. So that's what we get to look forward to.
