My Thoughts: Artist/Designer Studio Process

One of our finals was to design a temporary lodging area for a possible guest of Gatewood Studio Art Bldg. The class was split into two groups and each group had a space to work with. One space was the administrative office and the other was the loading dock. I was in the second group so I was designing a living space inside the loading dock. After noting all the measurements of the space, we had to draft a floor pan & elevations of our space. After that we had to pick some precedent images. Then we had to pick a couple of designers and then narrow it down to one to guide us through our designing. After that we had to research two materials that we were planning on using for our space. We also had to build a model of our space. Our final came down to a board with images of our redesigned space- which included a floor plan, section elevations, hand drawn perspectives, SketchUp images, our precedent, our designer and materials; a re-made model and to present to our class.

These are some pictures of the loading dock after I had the measurements:

Exterior view of interior entrance

Interior view of south wall --------------Interior view of east wall
(interior entrance)

----Interior view of north wall--------------Interior view of east wall

These are my initial floor plans and elevations for the loading dock:

These are the images of works spaces I liked and became my precedent images, although, in the end I really end up leaning towards the LaboBrain as my precedent.

---Office by Skylab Architecture----------A painter's studio & living space

LaboBrain

LaboBrain is a workplace for Harvard scientist professor David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire. Le Laboratoire is, according to its website, a "center where artscience innovation takes place, thanks to the encounter of an artist and a scientist. [It] is the heart of a project which could take many different directions." I think the reason I leaned towards LaboBrain wasn't just because of the design but the purpose of Le Laboratoire.

LaboBrain was designed by Mathieu Lehanneur (above), who-while working on his final project at the National School of Industrial Design in Paris- became interested in medicine. After graduating he worked for the R&Sie agency, although later that year he opened his own agency that specializes in product & exhibition design in Paris.

My two materials were laminate oak floors and porcelain for my biggest piece of funiture which is a combination of the concave Velleda screen in LaboBrain, which is used as a big whiteboard, and a murphy bed that also has a sitting piece.