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Post 14

After designing the Burning Man projects, my outlook for my own museum has changed. Doing the Burning Man made me more creative and able to see what my building really could be. It has broadened my horizons and has made me realize that I was being too stiff in my designs. I love the classic look of things opposed to modern looks, but with the new day and age, I can see that my designs should at least be a little modern to attract the younger audiences and people. Although I wasn't there when my group designed our burning man project, when I did go back to school after being sick I felt like they brought me up to speed right away and included me in the project with no questions. My group got our point about the "little man" and how society views people and different things across to the audience. Jason's summary of what our project was about was fantastic and really vivid. Before the burning man project I viewed architecture as mainly buildings, bridges...that sort of thing. But now I know architecture can be whatever you want it to be. It can be sticks put together in a specific way, it can be cars piled on top of each other. It all depends on what is in a person's mind.

Post 13 "The Addition of Who..."

Who am I as a designer? That's a tough question to answer. I am a homebody, I love being at home with my friends or boyfriend and watching movies or playing on the xbox. Who I am as a person in general comes out when I think of myself as a designer. I just want a museum that will feel close enough like home to the people that walk through it, or somewhere that makes a person feel comfortable. I guess who I am as a designer is who I am as a person - I want what is best for people and I want to design a building that makes people feel comfortable. I want people to be able to rely on the building as a safe haven and a fun place to be, like people rely on me when they have problems. With that in mind, I believe my building will mean a lot to both the young and old citizens who visit it. The young will have a close and inexpensive place to hang out after school or see a movie, and the old will be able to walk into the building and go back in history. My favorite space in the building is the theatre. It's where my love of movies began and it was in a theatre where I came up with the idea of designing a film museum. It's a 3D theatre, and it will feel more like a cool cafe or restaurant because of the layout I'm planning. There will be regular theatre seats as well as tables if people want to order food.

Goals for Perspective Drawings

For my perspective drawings I plan on including color, like rich reds, blues, greens...because those are the colors people would normally see when they walk into a theatre. I plan on communicating light through the drawing by adding windows and showing the shadows the light casts, and maybe show some artificial light too. I plan on communicating a path through the museum in some way. I plan on finding a really good movie to base my museum design around and the rooms will be based on a emotion shown in the movie or characters, and as people walk through the museum it's going to be like watching the movie and seeing how it all plays out.

Reflection for Bubble Diagrams

There are a few of my bubble diagrams that I really like. On two of them I had a sunken theatre (sort of in ground), and I really like that concept. I also, on two of them, have an elevated gallery area on the second floor, and that idea is cool too. The theatre fits my concept because it IS a film museum, so it makes sense to have a theatre area to show films. The sections don't really show any creativity in the buildings, except a little here and there with the sunken and elevated galleries. In my head I picture the museum being very cool and dynamic, but for some reason those thoughts and ideas did not transfer well onto paper.