This week, we focused our attention onto the foyer space of our project. As I had now established where I wanted my hotel rooms to be, I started working on my floorplan. I began by almost segmenting the space into 2 sections, one being the main reception/guest check in area and the other acting as a public waiting area/terrace access point. I then began populating theses spaces with a range of different elements that embody the spirit of my film so that I could maintain the user journey and have an overall cohesive experience.
Through a series of in-studio drawing activities, we were able to develop our key internal view, using a hybrid of hand drawn and digital collage techniques. As my foyer technically spans across 2 connected spaces, I wanted to make sure I show this link within my drawing. For this reason, they are both included within the same drawing. I began by trying to understand how I would go about drawing this, playing around with multiple hand-sketches. This proved quite difficult as it was hard to visualize this space and therefore translate this on paper. As one of the 2 spaces is double height, this added another challenge. However, once I figured it out, I took my drawing into a digital format where I was able to trace over it with clean lines, allowing me to see how the ‘base’ layer was looking before moving onto adding color, texture and other FF&E elements. Gradually, my drawing developed and I started seeing it come together.
