Inside Out - Head - Space Cube

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The last 2 assignments exposed us to design elements and principles of spatial design, in this assignment we now have to design with a clear intention, as we have to design a headspace for our clients- emotion characters from the movie Inside Out.
Scale and proportions and the understanding of anthropometrics and ergonomics had to be applied too.
For this assignment, I needed to design a headspace for my client Joy .

Progress

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My Client Joy

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My Client Joy

Analyzing character

We started off by watching the movie Inside Out and I paid attention to the traits of my client named Joy. Then I analyzed her character from the movie and included my own interpretation of Joy herself.

Bubble diagram

Showing relationship between each space and the activities within

Space design1

Brainstorm

Space design 2

Finalized

Bubble diagram

Showing relationship between each space and the activities within

Space Planning - Bubble diagram

An interesting finding of mine is I realized Joy and Sadness coexist with one another, in which one needs to go through sadness sometimes in order to find Joy, I decided to make this my concept for my headspace.
So I planed my spaces through a bubble diagram, there were 4 main spaces: Joy, Resilience, Sadness, and Reflection. In which Joy must undergo the journey of being happy and resilient, to being sad when things go wrong, and then reflecting from there on, realizing whats need to be fixed, which would then lead her back to joy.
Then I sketch the designs for each space before designing the whole headspace.

Finalizing concept

I found out the spaces relate in a cycle

Mock 1 sketch

After many sketches, I finalize the sketch for mock 1

Finalizing concept

I found out the spaces relate in a cycle

Finalizing Concept and planning mock 1

As I was planning I realized the spaces related to each other like a cycle, hence this gave me the concept of Merry - Go _ Round, which is a cycle of growth and adventures.
Then I planned to merge all 4 spaces, eventually, I produced the sketch for mock 1.

Mock 1 Front view

Mock 1 Left elevation

Mock 1 Right elevation

Mock 1 Front view

Mock 1

I made the 30 x 30 x 30 cm mock model, but there were many things to improve on like there were a lack of connectivity, lack of exaggeration and etc.

Mock 2 Planning

Then I move on to sketch and plan mock 2 while making amendments from mock 1. This time I arranged the cubes in a more playful manner.

Mock 2: Front elevation

Mock 2: Left elevation

Mock 2: Top view

Mock 2: Front elevation

Mock 2

I made the 2nd mock model. However, there were still some issues, the cubes should be rotated horizontally because the composition was too messy. There was also a need for more connectivity among the spaces.

Final Sketch Planning

From mock 2, I developed the final sketches for my model.

Present

Once my sketches were finalized, I went to make my final 30 x 30 x30 cm headspace model using modeling board. I also composed my presentation board and filmed my presentation video.

Presentation Board

To watch the video presentation please click this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gRsJB3JtbMLYNuO59pe1-AtbgDwWskEM/view?usp=sharing

Taylor's Graduate Capabilities

In this assignment, I finally applied all knowledge learned in ITSD and with a clearer intention. Everything that we learned previously made more sense now.

There were many things I was quite new to, hence my works were prone to many mistakes. But thanks to Mr. Paul's guidance I could learn from them and amend my mistakes with good solutions.

This assignment was not easy and there were frustrations along the way, however, I have learned to self-manage myself and take charge of my progress to complete my work.

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