Skill Development: Interior Design Space Planning Exercise

The next task for the skill development lession is creating a space working from life size proportions. First, we would listen my tutor to talk about relationships in space, like space within a space, interlocking space, adjacent spaces, and spaces linked by a common space. In this task, I had to work on with a hypothetical customer, DMUIC. They required to redesign the upper breakout space at the Art Factory. And it had to include new office space, archive room, restroom, and a food vending machine. Besides that, the entrance, exits, and lift would stay in the same place. 

I worked with Nat and Tala. First, we had to measure the actual size of breakout room by tape measure, tape, and camera phone. To working effectively, Nat would take responsibility for measuring. She had to measure all the distances, such as the distances between doors, the size of sofa, the size of lift, or the size of printer, which would be replaced by a food vending machine. Tala would note the actual sizes, and I would take some photos around this room to compare realistic room between redesigned room. And there are some photos I took, from the corners, the original space of lift and sofa.

This is a map of upper breakout room, which would help us define the traffic flow and the original space of lift more obviously.

After measuring, we had to think about the new layout based on the client's requirements. First, we created an L-shaped room for the office. We positioned the wall directly opposite the door to avoid obstructing the view of the opposite room. Next, the wall facing the lift would be the same length as the wall to the edge of the window. This room would have 2 doors to make traffic flow easier, which helps people easy to access other amenities inside this room. Besides that, opposite the new office room, we placed a sofa and a food vending machine next to the lift to create a relaxation area. This space is quite suitable for resting because it's very close to the lift and the entrance, and also opposite the office, making it easily accessible and allowing for more flexible movement within the room. 

                                                               

After redesigning, I would take charge of sketching the layout by a pencil and a ruler on the A1 paper. Nat and Tala would calculate the dimensions at the scale of 1/25. Then, we resketched with ink pens to make sure all the lines could be clear while it was scanning. We worked quite together quickly. However, during the drawing process, we had to remeasure that sketch because we hadn't initially planned for additional rooms. Therefore, we have to remeasure which is based on the design that we wanted. 

This is final scan. This was our first time working in a real room. All the work, from measurements to calculating actual dimensions, was done in a realistic space. It was a very interesting experience for me because it provided practicality and was a great lesson for me when I start working or doing other large projects. In addition, I learned how to arrange the functional spaces to make sure flexible movement within the room and how to devide rooms in various ways, such as using dividers or connecting two rooms with another space. This will definitely be very useful for my future work.