Design Process Board
The board shows the connections between the patients, the ward and many of the experiences found whilst spending time within in a hospital. I wanted to use this to show the relation between these different aspects by laying them out in a simple and precise way for people to read.
Altering a Facade
By adding a new texture or colour to an existing facade of a building you can bring new life to it. At first I considered altering the exterior of the "Asylum of the Blind" to highlight the great detail that the Victorians put into their architecture.
After much thought I decided to go back to the drawing board and came up with the idea of using the new hospital car park to alter. It is located ideally to the left of the the building I planned on using for my project and was in fact located on the site of the rest of the building that had previously been demolished.
My plans are to use the facade of the car park to help promote and bridge the gap between the centre and the "outside world". Whether it was through projections or the GKD LED screen meshes, the public would be able to look up to the car park exterior and see what was going on inside and hopefully draw them in to the cafe/shop and help support with spending their well earned cash.
Chromosomes
I wanted to explore the 23 pairs of chromosomes as these are the make up of each person and what makes you an individual. This particularly relates to my project as I want each patient to be treated as an individual and not as a number. Each patient has their own needs and I want to fulfill as many of these needs within the centre.
Exterior Structures
The original shapes in blue were taken from the floor plans of the main Victorian building of the Royal Infirmary located to the right. I wanted to see what influences I could find from the existing site and see how they could help me come up with some sort of design for the exterior space. From the flat "floor plan" shapes I experimented by drawing out and making them 3D. Repeating this process allowed me to create many different alternative ideas, from which I picked the most successful.