Design Reflection Through designing, I have made a few changes to the brief, mostly in the program, I have made it less complicated, instead of having many different exhibitions on each city, there will only be the room showing the issues that is displayed. To compare it to the luxury housing, the Barbican site does the job, by bringing in the entrance to the exhibition through the Barbican, this made a very strong point. I found that colour coding each city became very helpful in displaying the project. Initially I chose the option 3 site but that was very big and too spacious for this project, the choice of Lauderdale place was very suitable, next to the tower and bounded by people’s flats to create that uncomfortable feeling of being enclosed and invading privacy. The design is a tower with pods of each city that you can walk around the room in and there will be actors or researchers that live in that space for people to view in. The rooms are arranged so that the city with the lowest population density is at the bottom and the highest at the top. Japan is a leading housing solving country, it’s capsule living is very popular, many travel to stay in these capsule hotels. I think it is a great idea to bring this into the project as this will help fund the exhibitions, these hotels are cheap and convenient for people, it includes the basic living needs. This is also a great way for visitors to experience what it feels like to live in a small space. The material choice and the structure really helped me through designing by creating a frame that slots in the pods, there are so many ways to arrange the bamboo with to create different atmospheres. It allowed me to bring in the maze like design from project 2 and make the connection between the projects. Bamboo is a very strong material and brings a cultural reference in as it is not used much in Europe. Overall, I have kept the key concepts of this project and developed it into something very exciting and interesting, it is simple but strong. I hope this allows people to be aware of the housing situations in the world
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