Weekly Blog Post 10/27

Today, I went and talked to Maruja about my floor plans that I had turned in on Friday. I was nervous about this because I wasn't all that confident in my floor plan. Talking to my fellow classmates about their floor plans and comparing to what I went through, it seemed that I had an easier time fitting all the requirements into the space, whereas they were having a hard time fitting everything in and meeting the required square footages. This made me worry. If I had an easier time, did I do something wrong? I triple checked all my square footages, and they were all correct, but I was still stressed that I left something out. So I was pleasantly surprised when Maruja said she like my floor plan and thought my circulation was "beautiful."

Some feedback that I got was to change my grand staircase from circular, to be more linear. The half circle seemed out of place when the rest of my floor plan was so geometric and linear. This made sense to me and I have to agree that it would work better if my staircase was half of a square instead of a circle. It also gave me more space for the upstairs room. She also said that I should fix the circulation by the active classrooms and the bathrooms. People may have issues getting in and out of the bathrooms when a class is getting out. She gave me suggestions on how I could improve this and make that hallway bigger. I was also told to rework the furniture in my faculty hub. With it being so linear, she said that it would be better to have all the furniture on one side of the room to allow for better circulation within the room. I should also get rid of the walls that are dividing the large in between space and instead use different carpet of ceilings to show that it is a different space divided off, yet still unified.

Showing the new staircase and a way to solve the circulation coming out of the active classrooms and the bathroom

Showing the new floor plan of the faculty hub, a way of dividing the in between space without using walls, and opening up the student cafe