Group Work

Group work is essential when it comes to the Interior Design profession. Thus it has been a major part of our curriculum. From research projects to collaborative rendering work, there is a surplus of opportunities to develop team-building skills while broadening one’s perspective.

La Décadence Hotel and Casino

Students were paired into groups of three. We were tasked with redesigning both the lobby and suite of a hotel. We were given floor plans to dissect and then reassemble. We were also encouraged to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create perspectives of our hotel.

My work in this project can be focused on the AI perspectives. I helped curate a set of coherent perspectives and then arranged said perspectives to flow with the floor plans. For perspectives that did not perfectly align with the floor plans, I edited them in Photoshop doing things such as adding numbers and buttons to elevators moving walls and adjusting the lighting.

Cloud of Thought takes a look at the waste that was created from the Space Cases project. The purpose was to invent a new model that embodied the idea “Tree For Life”.

The class was split into three groups, each with a leader that facilitated discussions between groups and helped prompt the invention of the model. I was selected as a leader for one of the groups. Our group created the floating model at the top. I helped encourage my group to freely express their ideas, then helped us filter them down to create something we were all proud of. Once finding our idea, I took it to the leaders of the other two groups and together, we assembled a single, large model that helped represent the aspect of a tree and the process of littering will always come full circle.