I AM DONE!

The longest week of my life is finally over.  And all my hard work has paid off!  My group and I have been working on bringing our concept cube idea into reality since last Friday.  Once we got the news that the project was no longer full scale, we were relieved but still had a lot of work to do. 

Starting Friday, we went out to buy the basics of materials we needed for the project.  We built the floor and walls and the raised platform out of foam core.  We began to build the floor and walls and measured and cut everything out.  For the rest of the room, we needed to figure out exactly what materials and colors we wanted.  With seven girls in the group, it was a bit of a struggle to work around everyone's schedule and compromise each of our ideas into the space.  We worked everyday during the weekend to build the room, create the booklet of our process, and draw out all the views of our design.  It was hard work to translate our ideas into the room and make it all work.  Little things here and there had to be altered once we tried to construct it in the space. 
After lots of long days and late nights and many runs to the art store and fabric store for materials, we got our design together.  It was a complete group effort with everyone pitching in and lending their insights into the design.  The final project was a long time coming and came out even better than we could have imagined!  We used foam core for the horizontal beams coming out with plastic rods for support in between them.  We used fabric to cover the bed in the room as well as the platform.  We printed out paper in the plotting room to cover the foam core in the color we wanted for the walls and beams.  Paper was used instead of paint because paint causes the foam core to warp and bend.  Our section of the space we were designing included the door to the gallery, so we also had to construct a glass door out of plexi-glass.  Our bed in the room is lowered into the platform and had mechanics on the bottom that allow it to rock back and forth.  We used wood and foam core to build the rocking platform and covered carved out foam with fabric to create an ergonomic bed surface.  We used translucent paper to wrap around the beams of the back walls and strung lights around the back to light up the walls through holes in the walls.  When the lights shine through, it makes the room glow and really gives it a great feeling.  It all worked out and we learned what materials worked the best and what did not work.
On Thursday, we had a big critique to display all four spaces that our studio class created.  Our professors critiqued our work and expressed what they liked and what the thought should change.  It was fun to see everyone's space and how their hard work paid off and how they translated their ideas into the spaces.  We brought all four spaces down into the gallery, which was a struggle for four people to carry it and fit it into the elevator!  It has been a hard week of work but I am so proud of everything my group and I accomplished and really made our space look like what we had envisioned.  And seeing everyone's spaces in the class was great to see how far we all came.  This was our first project where we had to take a design off of the paper and make it real.  It was a stressful but fun experience and I am happy with the way it turned out.

Here's some pictures of the final product!!: