personal project.

as a practice run for a final year, the last project set for us in third year was merely to set ourselves a brief based on our interests in the area of interiors. following on from my continued interest in shared and student living, I decided to pull from my own experiences and redesign the accommodation that I lived in during my first year here at university. the current situation was one that worked on a basic level but that had many things I was glad to leave behind once I moved on to a more independent living situation. the location was perfect, being on campus and being close to everything I needed, it felt like I was cocooned by the bubble of university life and that was a feeling of comfort to the version of me who had just moved out of her family home for the first time. however, the actual space itself I feel could be designed in a much more nurturing and comforting way. so, there was my task. create a safe environment for those who have just left home for the first time, but also create a space that appealed to people to actually want to spend time in it together, not just with their assigned flat mates but also the wider first year community. after having lived there in first year I felt that at times all the rules against personalising the space made it feel as if I was just preserving the space for the next person that would be living there.

I started off by planning out the actions that would be carried out in the space and how they might relate to one another.

as the project developed, I started thinking about creating a visual identity for the accommodation that reflected the personality of the space.

the final project.