Interior Design Studio 4: Final Presentation Reflection

 

 

The project has been incredibly challenge to me.  During the process of developing the concept idea, I have been struggling with connecting my design idea of layering transition of flowing undulating forms of walls.  I tried to design spaces between the undulating walls that are solid and free forms(fabric) that people can experience and perceive the mysteriousness and the activities of the spaces during the journey of each spaces. Therefore, people can reach awakening by perceiving their current moment as remaining in the cycle of rebirth. Also, during the journey of the space, I wanted people to have moments to turn off their idle thoughts; especially, while relaxing their body on the hanging fabric seats and watching the corrosional Buddhist sculpture from the underwater.  The corrosion provides some sense of time (death).

Overall, the presentation was disaster for me. During the presentation, I was not able to communicate about my design idea because I slept only 3 hours in the past two days before the final presentation.  I failed with efficiently managing my time.  The handing rendering took away so much time that I could not prepare my narrative.  Overall, I had hard time focusing in one direction of the concept.  At the last minute of the final, while I was actually rendering the space, I decided to incorporate Buddhist elements to support my concept.

From the critic and as I was developing the project, I realized that I had restricted my design idea by focusing on unimportant things.  I would say that I was wasting time for small details.  I was struggling with focusing on the overall big picture of the concept. As a designer, I should be able to break all the norm to design my own concept. Also, I need to make my decisions more quickly with confident. In general, I learned a lot about my problem. During the vacation, I will reorganize and develop this project.