Reflection:
I believe the growth and quality of my work is understood by the final commercial project. I spent much more time paying attention to every detail and the quality is leaps and bounds more aesthetically pleasing than my summer work. The strengths from the this project are my rendering abilities, especially with the copper medium as well as representation of materials. My design process involved focusing on the idea of transition as a concept and I used a bicycle wheel as a symbol for the concept. My research included studying other coffee shops to observe the flow of traffic, recycled materials and furniture to coincide with my concept and utilizing my pattern making from my final sketch of the programming process that is is displayed on my copper partitions surrounding the space.
This project inspired me to research third places and observe the traffic flow in certain areas. From there, I was able to decide the best functional furniture floor plan and find creative ways use to my partions in the space. Also, I feel like I have gained more knowledge on finding the best ways to communicate concepts with a client using form givers and finally applying those forms and concepts in the design.
