Group Project Part III: Study Model

We created a study model to help us visualize how our ideas will materialize. It was made at 1/2 scale.

This sketch was done marvelously by Sara and it was to translate the idea of our space. We wanted this metal/mesh curtain/tent to cover and define our space. There would be a wall of dancing light on the same side as the booth system. We wanted to create this dim, sultry vibe as you walk thru our hallway. The images on the screen would spark your curiosity and lead you into the booths to take a closer peek at the magazine. Everything is meant to be a tease, like a Peep Show. The images give you a taste of what is inside the booth, the booth gives you a taste of whats inside the magazine, and then you can purchase the magazine to see the rest.

aerial shot of the space. The light on the right side is just simulating the effect we want the light wall to have. In our final model we will not have a huge light sitting behind it. This is just a study model so we are still working out the logistics.

The silver foil on the floor will be a decal that draws the eye from one wall to the other and leads passerbyers into the booths.

The digital image wall

Booth and kiosk area

aerial view of booth system

close up of one booth

Our final models will consist of a 1/8 inch scale model of the entire space, a model of the booth area at 1 inch= 1 foot scale, and a model of our kiosk booth at 3 inches= 1 foot scale. We have some kinks to work out. We are struggling to find a metal material for the curtain. I found some stuff at home depot but we are unsure if it will accurately translate our idea. Essentially we want a metal fabric that would drape like a tent or curtain.  Below are my findings at Home Depot...

industrial wire

chicken wire

vent cover

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Group Project Part II

Our group assignment was to go home and sketch ideas for the size, shape, and contents of our space. My individual ideas were as follows...

I began thinking about how we could display the magazine. Here I thought of a wall with large letter bookcases that would spell Vogue and hold the magazines inside. This would be a display unit and an art installation similar to the shelf below

 

These 2 sketches are 2 different ideas. The top incorporates 3D panels by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroulle . It would be a piece that starts on the ceiling and flows to one of the walls in the space. There would be clear pockets that would hold the magazines in them. Below is a photo of the 3D panels.
The 2nd sketch is of a space made entirely of recycled magazine paper. I started on this whole idea of things made out of paper and ran with it. Below is also an item made of recycled paper that fueled my inspiration.

Since Vogue is a magazine about fashion I thought the store made out of paper would be a cool play on both and it would display fashion items (such as the dresses) made out of recycled paper.

In this sketch I started drafting mini plans of what the space would look like. This started after our group met and decided we wanted to go with the idea of Exposure in the form of a modern day Peep Show. Customers would be able to view the magazines in an ultra modern touch screen booth and they would be able to purchase the magazine at a fully automated kiosk similar to movies you rent from Redbox kiosks. So thinking about the space and incorporating some form of seating and an area to semi-privately view the magazine.

Here I sketched some ideas for the layout and for the look of the kiosk.

Here my group started to think about how people in the airport would interact with the space. We knew we wanted it to be in an airport corridor so we were concerned about interrupting flow in the airport. We wanted something that people could interact from the outside and also choose to come inside and interact with.

The more we sketched the space the more and more we became restricted by the limited amount of space. Our idea was to create an experience when people enter our space. We wanted digital images of the magazine to stream along the outside of our space that way it would draw consumers inside to view the magazine and discover their guilty pleasures. The ideas we were coming up with for a 10x10 space were just too small to create this effect or were getting interrupted by angles. Then we started thinking what if we took up a whole corridor that way the effect would be expansive.

I started to draft the elevation of our space. It would be a hallway within a hallway. Vogue would take up one section of a massively long corridor and everyone would be forced to walk through the entire space. The images would stream along the left wall down the 43 feet of space we would occupy. The right side would contain the booths to view the magazine and the kiosks to purchase it at. This space would still be 100 sq feet (like the original 10x10 parameters) .

Here is an elevation of the booth area.

So our next assignment was to start constructing a model so we would know how all of our ideas were coming together.

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Group Project

My group has gone with Vogue Magazine as our product. We all brainstormed and got to thinking about how Vogue in other countries is so much more envelope pushing than US Vogue so we decided to focus on Vogue International. We wanted to really display the fashion photography of Vogue and showcase the more taboo aspects of the magazine. We have decided to go with the theme of Exposure, exposing your guilty pleasures by reading Vogue magazine. Our first assignment was to look for photos that would inspire our concept of exposure and how these will shape our design of the space. Here are some interesting images I found that have started the wheels in my brain....

Vogue sets the tone for what is sexy in societies everywhere and we want our kiosk to be visible to  large population so we have decided to put it in an international airport. Next we will sketch ideas for how our space should look

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