Statement

Statement

As part of the final submission for this assignment I was required to write a hundred word statement. I have included it below, but as I believe its only been the last week that I have referred to my project by it's title I should provide some context. I called my project 'Box' because I spent the initial weeks thinking 'inside the box', limiting myself to the boundaries I thought were in my room and that I could not move. It was only in week 8 that I realised that I had more freedom and so was able to fully achieve my original goal of allowing more light into the room and exploring a threshold in the window area. I have tried to explain this briefly in my statement whilst explaining how I could communicate my process, decisions and results to my audience. My final statement is as below:

Box

It is easy to restrain oneself within a limited mindset. Through ‘Box’ I communicate to my audience the possibilities when existing parameters are questioned. This is seen unquestionably in my workspace models. I imagined how college accommodation could be structured to allow more light into small rooms. To communicate this, I made a series of models that showed the progression from traditional configurations to community-minded rooms that increased natural light through shared windows within internal walls. Notably, one model demonstrates how I achieved my goal of increasing natural light in the room and provided a threshold to the outdoors. By changing the existing framework, I learnt to think beyond the supposed limitations and experiment with the ‘what if’.