Height x Width x Depth - 3DD Project Evaluation

I was told in the brief that throughout this project I was going to be visualising three dimensional forms in both object and spacial. I was excited to look at each of these in smaller, separate but linked projects. I was most looking forward to the spacial segment of the project as I have worked with three dimensional objects in the fashion project already, however I had not yet worked in a spacial, architectural/interior design way. I have always been interested in making spaces and decorating and filling them in my own preferred way. I begin the object part of this project by choosing practical and impractical objects. I found this a restriction as although the brief for choosing these objects was quite open, I am not an incredibly sentimental person and therefore I found it quite difficult to choose my objects. I was therefore not very enthused about using my objects in the project, and this may be a reason as to why I wasn't incredibly excited throughout this part of the project.

I looked heavily into the designer Zaha Hadid. Although I am not a huge fan of her work as I find it very repetitive and predictable, I am a fan of the curves and overall style of her buildings in particular, opposed to her other products such as her sofa and shoes design. I think that this was very interesting as I found that her work was more influential for me during the object part of the project rather than the spacial part. I was heavily inspired by her sofa design when creating my own sofa from my pen knife, despite not actually liking her design. I new that spacial and architectural design incorporated a lot of calculating, however I didn't quite predict how much it would entail. Although this wasn't too complicated, it was frustrating when I didn't work out the scale of things correctly first time. This was to be expected as I am an amateur in this discipline, nevertheless it was still frustrating and not very enjoyable.   

For both projects I began by researching several designers that work in the appropriate fields. I always find researching designers very interesting as it is always intriguing to see how designers work and how they each come up with different and unique creations. I think that a significant step in my work was the sketching of buildings and objects. Up until this point I wasn't very inspired and therefore this was the first time in the project where I really started thinking about what object I wanted to create as well as the latter problem of how I wanted to go about changing my house. I found timings to be the area in which I struggled the most. I had two weeks for each of the smaller projects, with the first week of each being dedicated to more research based tasks. After completing the research I only had one week to produce and present my new object and space. I felt that in the end I was very rushed in completing my work and that therefore it is not up to the standard that I would have liked it to be. However the fact that I am an amateur in these fields I am proud of the work that I have produced. Feedback throughout the project taught me that I need to focus more on thinking outside of my comfort zone, although there is no real excuse for this, I think that the reasoning behind this is that I spend too long researching and therefore rush myself when creating my ideas and producing them into a final outcome. 

I used several architectural books when creating the floor plans for the spacial part of this project. I found this really helpful as it was good to see how other designers go about creating their designs. The books I used were; 'Drawing into Architecture' by Papadakis and 'Drawings of Architectural Interiors' by John Pile. The main technique that I learnt and used in this project was creating presentation sheets in InDesign. I hadn't worked on InDesign that much up until this project so it was good that due to this project my skills had been improved. Other than that a lot of the other techniques used where transferred from other projects, technical drawing being an example of this. I am thankful that many of the techniques that I have used throughout the projects have been transferable however it would have been nice to experience new techniques and skills.

I think I am a very organised person in the way I work, however I think that sometimes this leads into being a perfectionist, although this isn't necessarily a really bad things, it often leads me into running out of time and therefore I often rush to finish. I would like to change this habit in the future. I do think that I have improved on this throughout projects but there is definitely more room for improvement in this area