My collection will showcase my collector’s love of ceramic cups and tea culture. The design approach is to display the cups with an organic, earthy interior as well as provide a space for tea drinking.
The proposed design has taken the inspiration of a traditional kiln room to create a space where the public can walk in and experience how ceramic is made from the kiln room. My proposed design has also achieved the organic feeling of the interior by using mineral concrete painting throughout the whole space. However, the collage above has got different material elements. Therefore, I will need further experiments into selecting the most appropriate one. Although materials are all considered organic, the interior space might look overwhelming for both the collector and the audience. As you can see in the image below, the past examples on the mood board are all relatively simple in terms of selecting materials.
Following on, my proposed design has constructed the space into two levels. This raises an important question of whether the living space should be above the public space or the other way round. The image below showed the two levels of floor plan with the living space on the ground floor. However, the height of the chosen space does not allow an equal division of height for the levels. I will need to improve the space arrangement so that the living space is not cramped while natural light can be provided to both the display area and the private area.
Overall, the design has allowed me to explore the creative way of designing a space. The idea of the kiln room has been complimented from the feedback session where I will carry on this direction. The project has also challenged me in thinking about the arrangement of private and public spaces while taking into consideration of my theme. The division of space with the curved line has not successfully met the needs at the moment and I will spend more time working on this.