on the second day we met in the drawing studio at 9am, we began to start our allocated tasks from the day before. I started the draw a 1:20 drawing of our floor plan design from the day before. It was when I came to inputting the furniture into the rooms that I truly realised how small the space inside the container was.
We had initially hoped to have an individual bedroom, kitchen/dining and bathroom, but after seeing the limited space we then had to redesign the floor plan in order to achieve all of the requirements but within the enclosed space. For this we decided to create a living space that converted into a bedroom. This would be achieved by using sofa beds, sofas that fold out into beds.
We decided this and then got on to Skype with our Chichester College student Paul to inform him of our ideas to change and what his thoughts on our revised floor plan were. He agreed with the idea and fortunately had not started diving the container he had made yet so no changes to the model had to be made.
Between me Rob and Paul we then sat down and using dimensions of furniture pieces george had found while doing the costings we tried to arrange it in the allocated space so that it would fit. We struggled with the space for the kitchen as the units had to be quite wide in order to provide the services required. But when we made the kitchen the required size it encroached too far into the living space so the sofa-beds would not fit in while ensuring there was enough circulation space for a wheelchair user.
We got around this problem by making the kitchen counters an L shape against the wall of the bathroom. We also at the same time came up with a solution to the sleeping arrangements, if they were all laid out on the floor of the container it would be very shoulder to shoulder. We therefore decided that the fold out decking would be a more permanent feature with an caravan style awning covering it. This meant that the 2 single sofa-beds could be placed out here and stretched out to sleep on with plenty of spare space.
The split decking system was also reconsidered, it was replaced by a full height single decking, eliminating the top shading tier. This was because we needed the space more down below for the single chairs and the awning, if chosen could be used as a shade instead and it would cover the whole decking rather than just a section of it