SP, 1 DHP Storage Charette Conclusion

The charette for a storage unit that also addresses the design problem of waiting to begin an activity concluded by identifying some basic areas, which need attention to detail.

These areas are:

Proportion and scale: this means the relationship between the size of the storage unit and the human figure and how comfortable they would be when they need to sit on or lean against the unit.

We need to be aware that we give functional clarity through the use of text with labels, or diagram how the unit is intended to be used.

We need to recognize whether the unit is actually able to be moved if that is what we intended, once the individual has put their belongings inside to store – for example: would you really want to turn your items on their side and push them around.

Activation of space – this refers to how your unit engages with and relates to the space or spaces it offers program solutions to – for example if you can sit on your storage unit can you turn or reconfigure the seating to face different directions, get different views or physically move into other spaces.

We need to be sure to provide enough information for the viewer or client to visually understand the unit modulates, moves, or stores items. We must consider that we will not be there to verbally explain our design goals and realize that our design goal needs to be our ability to communicate the objective without having to speak it. This offers a more tangible understanding for our client or viewer.

Employing the strategies we are armed with such as how light, texture, and volume affect the quality of a space and how we can document that through photography, sketch, diagram, collage, and modeling.

Very important, too, is the format and layout of our presentation/proposal. We need to be aware of things like hierarchy of important features/issues, and things like placement of the wall – is it eye level or does the view have to squat or squint to see your proposal. Is it dark enough – remember line quality and that hatching suggests hierarchy in terms of level of importance and what you want the viewers focus to be. There needs to be correspondence between drawings – a relationship from one drawing to the next.

We need to be aware that we are not getting caught up in what we want to designer over what the client needs. If we are deciding on a fixed size and shape of storage we need to find out if the person the unit is designed for has belongings that would work well with that size/shape.