My second project in my first semester in architecture was an exploration of what makes a room. My professor assigned us each a mythical creature as our 'client,' for whom we designed and modeled a scale model of a dream room. My assignment was a leprechaun, and I built him an underground all-purpose room. The room has a bed, a kitchen area, a reading area, and is centered around his workbench, where the leprechaun spends most of his day building shoes for his forest friends. Some requirements for the room included 2 ways to enter/ exit and at least two places to look outside. Additionally, I modeled the surrounding area, which is a wooded forest. The room itself is designed to be beneath a large tree.
The most interesting part of this project was my experimentation with materials. I ended up making the room out of mud brick, which I made out of mud, leaves, and dry grass. It was applied to a cardboard bottom and a shaped chicken wire wall and allowed to harden for days. Many of the pieces of furniture were molded out of foam.
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