screen shots

I am taking a quick break from this.



Thats the plan for the office space



And thats the plan for the residence above it.

Design Blabber again. I'm apparently not THAT busy

Laura, I am so glad you asked! How AM I going to do that... Well I thought maybe I could try and pull out the sample bin and see what else I have.

It turns out a lot (more than I thought I had)


Most of it, I have no idea where it came from.

(Although I THINK that the few times I've raided the sample room at school I've gotten super lucky because everyone else says its a waste of time - pssscht! Some of the fabric samples are big enough to make a skirt - a free skirt!- you can't complain about that!)

I found a concrete sample that is the EXACT shade and type of thing that I was thinking I wanted for the whole office space. Consistent flooring = a little needed continuity. And I found a sample that is a vinyl wallcovering that acts as a whiteboard - perfect! I am yet to decide if it belongs in the meeting room or by the draftsperson's desk... or in the sample library... or everywhere... I'm trying to shout communication, right?!

(Sorry, I'm not sure, did I talk about that here? w/e, basically www=communication=good=knowledge=global connections=global village=my office space)

Also, most if not all of the non-patterned walls will be white. or a version of white. So that should calm down the papers.

And the wallpaper on one wall will not be sharing the line of site with another wallpapered wall. However, even if that does look good in real life, I need it to look good on a sample board which might be a different story. But, once I get the wallpapers (please please please closer to the 5 than the 10 business days!) I can play with it, see what type of white goes with it all and choose what goes where.

Here's some stuff that could work and I'm putting aside for now.

oooh and see those metalic kinda loopy things on the top left? They are called cascade curtains and are basically loops of metal - come in many many finishes - basically like a fireplace screen if you know what I mean. But they look sooo interesting and dramatic as an actual curtain or room divider. And it perfectly demonstrates my concept. So I also need to find a place for that.

My materials so totally rock my world! I thought this part was going to be painful!!

Today I worked on the ceiling plan. Chose most of my lighting and drew it all out rough....

Other than that, my Saturday included a nap and a salmon dinner and a movie at home with the boy!

P.S. Looking forward to Convention in the morning!

My walls will be so Beautiful!

I worked on the floor plans from about 10 til about 7:30.... at which point I was too hungry to keep going, came home and had supper, and now can't seem to pick myself up to go back to school and keep at it... !!!

But I'm happy with what I did get done and my critiques were quite good, I got a lot of positive comments about the concept and layouts, so I feel a lot better about it now!


My next worry is the material boards I have to do. This will be very time consuming... just did an online search for wallcoverings and somehow... found some great samples - $5 each, but I can't risk not finding them in time and I know that wallcoverings are the hardest to get samples of (especially free) and that I REALLY REALLY want to display the different cultures and 'global influence' by using wallpaper... so... I think I can justify it if it lets me stress a little less. . .

So here is what I found (this is very exciting!):













Got a little Asian Hawaiian, Portugese, American, Moroccan.... I am happy. This is what I wanted.



Thanks for the encouraging comments!

Just so you know...

I am in an I-hate-Interior-Design mood today.

I have a concept. It is boring but it is what they want to see.

Strong, Global Influence, Interconnectedness (pulled from my 2 original ideas; nest and global) which combine to basically create a concept of: WWW

I have a plan but it doesn't work the best. It needs massaging.

Then I need to plan the residence (the exciting part)

Its all up to ME and thats just not how it would be!

in real life.

Inspiration comes of working

These all seem like nice offices for an Architect:

So now that I've wasted an hour finding those... and blogging about it....

I am still not decided on concept.




... I want something that can translate to these types of looks. Maybe "loft", but its a bit vague. I had thought of "global", incorporating different designs from different cultures and what-not. . . hard to explain without an image. OR the other idea I had was Venice/Italy/Gondola - the 'water' aspect would translate through the use of glass (aka the 1st picture sort of, I like how they used glass there) with rustic and historic looking things like the buildings would be. I could use stripes. :D. And bridges. But I don't want it to FEEL like Venice. Just be inspired by it. Modern Venice if you will.



Thoughts?

I NEEEEEED to decide completely and whole-heartedly like NOW.
Let me fill you in...
In 1 month....
I need to complete:

1. a concept statement

2. floor plans (upper and lower)

3. draw 4 elevations, 1 section of entire building

4. draw 1 perspective showing design in best possible way

5. create furniture board - chosen pieces to be illustrated/put together in an appealing way, labelled etc.

6. Colour & material board - must have actual materials, for ALL areas

7. Millwork drawing of reception desk; plan, elevations, section, specs, labels, finishes, dimensions etc.

8. Reflected ceiling plan - spec. all lighting types, create schedule, label all ceiling heights and finishes, both floors

9. sketchbook - used all the way through to show design intent/purpose/train of thought/ideas etc.


This is my plan of action:

- come up with STRONG concept (I am close to committing)

- space plan for functionality/adjacencies - upper & lower floors

- space plan design - add details, design interest, relate space to concept more

- layout furniture (research systems furniture, choose, research all items and have pictures and dimensions first)

- reflected ceiling plan - add some ceiling detail, choose luminaires, play with ceiling heights, whatever. Draw.

- Perspective drawing. Elevations drawings. Section drawings. All Manual. No CAD. I am mad about that. tripple the time...

- Colours and Materials - actually I should start the search for those now

- furniture board (probably the only thing on the list that COULD be done the night before IF I HAD to, which I am not planning on, but... y'know... just sayin'

- Millwork drawings - this CAN be done in CAD, so yippee! AAnd shouldn't take too too long. A day or 2 tops.

- Sketchbook - already started, and will continue to use tonnes as if they don't think it looks 'complete' they don't mark the project at all. Thats right.


So, I am looking for volunteers to come and stay with me for the month. Must be capable of:

a) doing laundry
b) reminding me when to shower
c) reminging me when not to blog
d) reminding me to sleep and, most importantly,
e) making me food

and, a bonus ability would be to keep my room somewhat liveable for the month. And possibly searching for a job for me come September.
Got it? K. Thanks.


Happy B.C. day!

Inspiration comes of working.

Imagination is more important than knowledge

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others. You cannot do much about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its depth and width.

- As quoted by my green folder that holds papers.

August Course Begins...

So! I've been stupid busy and wish I had something entertaining to post, but I have to get ready to go out for a stagette tonight - dinner and comedy at the Giggle Dam theatre! Should be fun and funny! I will take pictures! Then the fun continues with her shower tomorrow! Had my first class of Directed Studies today and am SUPERly DUPERly excited to get started on it. The project is an Architectural firm's office and living space above. Its going to be very intense fitting it into a month - normally people do it in a 12 week layout. But anyways I will try to update the blog if I have time and if there are things I think all you can help with and give me opinions on! By Tuesday I need to have a concept for the space. Something that is going to make the design flow smoothly and makes decisions easier for the layout/esthetic/colours and everything else involved. As an example, past concepts I've used in space planning: -Cave/cavernous -Castle/Magestic -50's -Factory I was thinking possibly global or sort of 'Heritage' symbols and patterns... but I'm not sure how easy that would be to incorporate into the whole layout etc. Maybe round...globe ....

Post Edit: I had an idea - tell me if I should stick with it! "Robin's nest" - and here is why - could be all neutrals, lots of nature motifs, but pops of robin's egg blue. The Architecture plays a part because a nest is quite a construction. The rounded/dome shape found in the eggs and the nest could be used in different ways such as reception area.... I have a vision in my head....PAINT TO THE RESCUE!!!

Ok, so, obviously, a veeeery vague interpretation of what's in my head. But you see where I'm going with the dome thing. I feel like going to school right now and getting on photoshop to get a logo in gear! Logo on the back wall there... or front of desk... or something different altogether...
And see, this is how a concept works. Now when I wonder where their logo should go, I think, well, if this was a Robin's nest, the "Welcome to the Robin Family" sign would be.... (nowhere, but, pretend with me here) maybe....nailed onto the tree? Maybe a post should be coming out of the wall or simply a bare beam from the ceiling to which a sign could be sort of half-hazardly-looking nailed to it.... see how important concept is?! It gets the project moving in A direction instead of 1000 which is what my head would do otherwise. Comment please!

Okay so I am blabbering.

I am kinda glad the project is an Architect's office because the last semester's classes got a car dealership! Blech! So since I have worked in an Architectural firm which was a PERFECT example of what NOT to do (oh, it was bad...) I think I can handle it. I just have to make QUICK decisions, trust my instincts and move forward fast or else I'll be scrambling like a crazy woman on the 3rd week...


Send me some creative vibes!

header to bed...er

So my mom pointed out that my header had everyday spelt everday - how blind have I been since it's been there (forever) !?
So it will be this for now...
I wonder how many of you cheeky sneaky monkeys noticed it without mentioning. Boy I feel dumb.

Anyways Dad is here visiting for a few days and I have to relax *ack!* and go to the beach *gasp!* and go sailing *eep!* and hang around Quadra Island and the like. . .

I will update upon my return! Have a happy, calm and restful week!

Boys House

We had a nice evening there last night, a barbeque and then just watching them groove. I had fun playing with my camera...Dont these just give such a vibe of being at "The Boy's" house??

Guitars Galore

This guy is an excellent guitar player. He recorded an album and he writes songs that are quite impressive. And he was very good at being photographed with no complaining!

The others, well, they just didn't know they were being photographed...

I'm outta here today, have a good week/weekend everyone!

Let me take you on a rundown of my day.

1. Aaah! I haven't been home all week and I have laundry to do, Salmon Arm to get ready for and a zillion other things...

2. Laundry

2a. email email email

2b. blog read

3. try to plan outfits for S.A.

4. get distracted looking in sewing/fabric bin

4a. blog read

4b. do what I read on angry chicken (cut a shirt into a cardigan)

5. try to pack

6. get distracted looking in sewing/fabric bin

7. sew a project I've been promising boy for about a year

7a. text laura

7b. text britta

7c. repeat 7a and 7b and interchange with a bunch of numbers here and repeat x lots

8. sew a piece of a skirt onto another skirt and enjoy the looks of it

9. put on new skirt

10. - oh! laundry

11. rip beads off a dress that looked bad (iffy. icky. distasteful. just can't put the right word to it.) with beads on it

12. dig deeper in fabric bin

13. find tonnes of old jeans

14. make skirt out of old jeans

... 4 hours later...

(that is also my cut-shirt-cardigan I "made" today and I really like it because it's SO light! although the sleeves could've been longer by about an inch)

and if you were wondering if my room is a mess the answer would be...yes

Now if I had any food in my house I would make some supper. But I don't. So I will finish the laundry.

And maybe tidy up a bit. it would be nice to go to bed tonight.

And public apology: Sorry I was making stuff for me, I will work on all your creative things next! I have completed 1 thing though, so there!

Makin' something!

So, I will be making SOMETHING for the following people:

• Laura and/or Leif ... if you guys can both make things for 5 people on your blog, so a total of 10, then you can each get something from me - come on, you can do it!!!
• Susie ... because I'm cheap re the shipping I must think of something extra spicy but also flat. Like me! :P But my mom made me, so that wouldn't work... I'll think of somethin!
• Molly ... yes I can send you something but please please please start a blog!
• Zoe ... can I get on your list too!?

I'm excited about this and I have next week mostly off, which means YAY!

email me your address to aylamae33@msn.com

and there is still room for 1 more willing candidate IF Leif and/or Laura drop out! :P (I can totally see Leif making something cool like old airplane parts glued together to look like cars and tractors....hey!? challenge your wife. I dare you.)

Beautiful day

when I look down



when I look up

Want to Play?

I stumbled accross a blog offering this unique give away, and I want to play. I copied this from her last post. Do I have five readers?.. soon I shall see!

Here's how it works.The first five people to leave a comment on this post will get something from me.But in return, you have to do the same thing on your blog and make something for five other people.The details are as follows, and if you want to play, copy the following onto your blog and leave me a comment:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. Whatcha get is whatcha get.
2. What I create will be just for you, with love.
3. It’ll be done this year (2009).
4. I will not give you any clue what it’s going to be.It will be something made in the real world and not something cyber.It may be weird or beautiful.Or it may be monstrous and annoying. Heck, I might bake something for you and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that’s for sure!
5. I reserve the right to do something strange.
6. In return, all you need to do is post this text on your blog and make 5 things for the first 5 to respond to your blog post.
7. Send your mailing address - after I contact you.

Okay get busy and leave me some comments so I can get busy making you something!!!