Project 1-
A Personal Space
The project 1 deals with user experience that requires to design a personal space which is intended for a specific user based on an in-depth study of the user's need. It is to develop awareness of environmental sustainability in a design. Besides that, this project also explores the idea of a personal space designed for an elderly in catering to his or her own personality and distinctiveness. In a group of 3, we are to design an outdoor personal space that is flexible, lightweight as well as safe with the mechanisms being simple and easy to operate. Materials for its construction are from from sustainable sources and weather proof. It is a multipurpose; must be able to do daily activities which include either seating, leaning or resting.
Our site this time is a real, well designed precedent for an elderly home- Little Sister of the Poor, which designed by one of lecturer Mr Edwin. This elderly center is owned by a church group, therefore it was free of charge for their believers to stay for the rest of their life. There are sisters and priests lived together to volunteer to help the elderly's life. the elderly there are friendly and mostly educated. We are supposed to select an elderly there as a client and do a short interview with them. For example, to understand their hobby, background, interest, daily routine, in order to design a personal space that really reflect the needs of the client.
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Our client is Marita Chong, 77 years old, she is an orphan who brought up by nuns. She was worked as housekeepers in different families before. When she was young, she would sew some hand crafts for sell. She had slightly eye disease, not so good in walking and hunchbacked. Therefore, we set our own site at the courtyard outside the corridor that connect from the activities room, where she usually spend her after in the activities room do make hand crafts.
Initial idea is to design a workspace that surrounded by compartment, then we want Marita to actually makes friends because she was new to the elderly home. So have the space that allow interaction with people as it located just beside the corridor, with the simple mechanism of bringing down the table, it creates a sign that Marita is working, being at the space. Minimalist kind of feeling created with the collapsible chairs, so when her friends come can also have a seat. There is a some compartment that attached at the end of the table to keep her tools for sewing. Lightweight open structure with maximum lightning and minimum glare. Marita worked with Japanese before so she likes the zen kind of feeling with wood and translucent polycarbonate paper assimilate like the shoji paper.