Room Sequence - Design E02

This post will get quite heavy, as this Exercise was the first great and seriously criticized and went over the course of three weeks. It was worked in teams of two. We recieved three main tasks, divided into a submission on that day and a submission over the week. Each task was concluded by a criticue to review our thoughts, concepts and ideas.
The final submission should be a room sequence with special attention on the lighting, the number and dimension and the connection of the rooms. The first subtask was to wirte down a first coneptional idea, to scrible some sqetches and to manufacture one or more processmodells. Second task was to build a first greater and high quality modell and to documantate each room by taking a picture of. In the week to final submission we should refine or possibly rebuild the modell get better pictures and place them on a A0 layout for presentation as well as rewrite our conceptional text.
I will split my post into three main sections outlining the respective parts of this Exercise.

Inspiration and Concept:

To get us some inspiration, every team recieved a random postcard showing some more or less exciting view (ours was more less exciting though, as you can see above), wich should us just get started. It could either be the view out of one room in the sequence, or just inspire one or all aspects of the task, beeing lightning, connection and dimension of the rooms. My fellow student and I started of alone, aquiring some first conceptional. He tried to stay in the context of the picture and designed a industrial hall, which is lightened from above and had different plattforms inside, whereas I translated the four layers the picture is divided into (sky with chimneys, the wall, the strip of grass and the tarred court), into four differently lightened rooms. Both of our concepts turned out te be quite bad and un-conceptional (none of us focused on really one thought, both concepts were just a mix of differernt ideas thrown together without reasoning about) when we had our discussion with the assistant. So for our weekly submission we went back to zero and now really tried to focus on one aspect. We built different processmodells (which I would really like to show but I need a camare with macro-function as they are quite small and get blurry when photographed normally) and merged our two conepts into one. The main aspect now was that our room sequence should deal with only lightning from above in different situations. I will add some pictures of the models later, when I'm able to take proper pictures of them.

Provisional model and the first set of pictures:

In week two we had to build our model in a greater scale (about half a meter squared) to be able to take pictures from the inside. Every group recieved an amount of cappa boards, tape, white and black paper and the task to present a model by the end of the week. Our concept of creating rooms was to span layers with a certian gap (where the rooms form inbetween) and to cut out concentrical, amoeba-shaped holes scaling down from the topmost layer. The rooms where then connected by stacked circles that act like stairs. We cut two cones into our layers, one containing the stairs and shot two pictures of every layer. (I recommand to watch them in full view as they are quite cropped to fit in here.)

Final Submission:
We completly redid our model for the final submission, as the pictures above are quite redundand and do not really focus on our main thought. It became pretty basic, featering only two former layers, now arranged horizontally next to each other and connected by a corridor acting as lightbarrier. The two rooms of the same dimension now are enlightened by one small and one great circle cut out of the ceeling, accentuating the differing perception of space and the creation of rooms only by light, as one can't percieve the borders of the rooms (at least in the printed-out pictures). In the final critique the assistance and our lecturer seemed to be quite satisfied with the result, as they started argueing about details (meaning the concept as a whole could not have been that bad) like wether the edges of our holes in the ceiling should be visible or not or wether the room we created above our two main rooms is included in the room sequence or if we should have shown the connecting corridor. Below you see our final submission. Both pictures were printed on top of each other on an A0 layout.