Finished Bathroom

Today was the last day of genius hour for us to work on our project. We finished constructing our model bathroom and added the finishing touches. We had some difficulty putting the back wall onto the model. The wall wouldn't stay connected to the floor so we had to reinforce it with tape. We also changed the format of the bathroom to make it more realistic. We also added two rugs, one in the middle of the room and one next to the tub, because the room seemed a little empty in the middle. Lastly we added a stream of dried hot glue to look like water in the sink, tub and shower. Although we had some trouble with constructing our model, we are very content with the outcome of the project.

Week 15

This week we finished the floor. It was a shortened period  so we could not get much done but all we need to do next week is glue the walls on. I feel as if the floor was the hardest part since we had to glue on lots of small popsicle sticks.

Interview Questions

This week we contacted  Gianna Castelli, who is going to college for architecture, to ask her a few questions for our genius hour project.

What is your favorite thing about being an architecture student?

-Being able to creatively use my mind and knowing there is almost never a wrong answer when designing.

How do you start a career in architecture?

-You must start as an intern at a design firm while getting your degree, then when applying to jobs you must have a portfolio along with your resume to show your design skills. Once you work at a firm, you work towards getting your License of Architecture.

When building an actual structure where do you start? What do you use for inspiration?

-Inspiration can stem from anything such as the way leaves move in the wind, to a more practical inspiration from your clients. Much inspiration begins with what you or the client wants to space/building to feel like. Will it be for children? Will it be an office? But most inspiration starts with abstract drawings. When beginning a structure, construction must start from the ground up. Build the floor plane, the main structural walls, create the doors/windows, and then fill in the interior of the space.

Do you prefer sketch and drawing or hands on building?

-I prefer sketching and drawing, but sometimes it is easier to start building to realize how the pieces will work together before designing a final sketch.

What college are you going to for architecture?

-Philadelphia University

Who or what inspired you to pursue this?

-From a young age I found myself very detail oriented and I was always interested in the designs/details of rooms and buildings. I originally wanted to do architecture, but found that interior design is much more detailed.

What would you recommend for first timers to build?

-I would recommend starting off by drawing abstract shapes or pictures and then making a floor plan based on that inspiration. I would then build on TOP of this floor plan they've created, so it is easier to understand how the pieces fit together. And always build from the outside in.

Ideas For Genius Fair

We are coming upon the end of our genius hour project and will soon be approaching the Genius Fair. We know we are going to show our model of our bathroom at the Genius Fair but we would also like to provide people with the other information that we learned like:

• How to identify the measurements before placing the down the furniture.
• How we measured to make sure the walls, and the furniture, and the flooring would all fit into our model.
• Showing the process of our building
• Showing the steps before building the model: making blueprints using FloorPlanner, having to study and find information about architecture models to make sure we could complete this task

We hope that this will help show people how hard we have worked on this project and how much we have learned from being given the opportunity to experience this wonderful and fun project!

Interview with Gianna Castelli

What is your favorite thing about being an architecture student?

-Being able to creatively use my mind and knowing there is almost never a wrong answer when designing.

How do you start a career in architecture?

-You must start as an intern at a design firm while getting your degree, then when applying to jobs you must have a portfolio along with your resume to show your design skills. Once you work at a firm, you work towards getting your License of Architecture.

When building an actual structure where do you start? What do you use for inspiration?

-Inspiration can stem from anything such as the way leaves move in the wind, to a more practical inspiration from your clients. Much inspiration begins with what you or the client wants to space/building to feel like. Will it be for children? Will it be an office? But most inspiration starts with abstract drawings. When beginning a structure, construction must start from the ground up. Build the floor plane, the main structural walls, create the doors/windows, and then fill in the interior of the space.

Do you prefer sketch and drawing or hands on building?

-I prefer sketching and drawing, but sometimes it is easier to start building to realize how the pieces will work together before designing a final sketch.

What college are you going to for architecture?

-Philadelphia University

Who or what inspired you to pursue this?

-From a young age I found myself very detail oriented and I was always interested in the designs/details of rooms and buildings. I originally wanted to do architecture, but found that interior design is much more detailed.

What would you recommend for first timers to build?

-I would recommend starting off by drawing abstract shapes or pictures and then making a floor plan based on that inspiration. I would then build on TOP of this floor plan they've created, so it is easier to understand how the pieces fit together. And always build from the outside

Week 10

We brought in paint and paint brushes to paint over the pink. We found out the hard way that the pink is very bright and hard to paint over. The paint we decided to use was a brown which we will need to add another layer of paint next week so you don't see the pink through the brown. Net week is when will begin got gluing the popsicle sticks together to make the floor. We will use the foam poster for the walls. I hope our interview possibility answers back so we can get an interview as soon as possible.

Week 9

Today we have finally received the bathroom set that we ordered. However the color is bright pink so next week we plan on painting over the pink with either a beige or white color. I have also brought in the foam poster board that we will use for the walls and floor (we want to wait until next time so we do all the construction and messy things on one day). Today Nicole and I also thought of back up plans in case the teacher from high school does not reply back to us. We were thinking of our schools STEM teacher since she has taught us in science about how to construct a pasta and marshmallow building. Below is the picture of the bathroom set we ordered.

Interview Questions

This week we decided on a friend of Mrs. Gautieri´s to interview for our project on architecture. We have emailed her about our project and sent her these questions to answer:

What is your favorite thing about being an architecture student?

How do you start a career in architecture?

When building an actual structure where do you start? What do you use for inspiration?

Do you prefer sketch and drawing or hands on building?

What college are you going to for architecture?

Who or what inspired you to pursue this?

What would you recommend for first timers to build?

Materials:First Room

We recently received our confirmation email for the furniture we ordered for our rooms. Today, we searched for more materials and made a shopping list so we each can go out and buy the materials. Next week we are going to start building our first room for our model. We have also decided o who we may interview ofr our project.

Progress Report Week #6

This week I continued to look at things we could buy to make our room however I came into an obstacle. Most of all mini model objects are crazy expensive. For example we saw that most singular things like chairs or tables are around $15 a piece. After much research we finally found a doll set for $10 and It comes with mini lamps, a bed, a chair, and a table. I think that personally toy company's should make miniature model items cheaper since they are much smaller. Hopefully we will get our mini furniture set in soon so we can start actually building our room and then the full house.

Design Decision

http://goo.gl/forms/Ovzb8BNIqV 

This is a survey we would like you to take to decide which one of our rooms you like best! Which ever room turns out to have the most votes, will be the one we use as our small room model. The rooms will not be shown on the survey so check out our previous posts and decide which room you like best than!

Kids Bedroom- Elena

This is the room that I also made with FloorPlanner

This week we continued to use FloorPlanner. We have all decide that we should build a full set of rooms that will come together to make a house. Next week we will make a survey to see which room we will actually build. These models of the rooms are going to help us to make the build process easier. By starting out by building one room we will learn the techniques, easy and hard parts, and materials of building and building it correctly.

Office- Nicole

For this weeks genius hour time we continued to design the rooms for the model using the Floor Planner app. For this week I decided to design the office. While using this app I found difficulty in making the room proportional and adding the walls to the room. We also found that there is a way to add a new canvas to make new houses or floors. Using the app we discovered that you can add people to the rooms so I was able to put a person sitting at the desk in the office.