Cockfield Community Centre- Selection of furniture

Furniture which I choose are mostly from Barker and Storehouse, Chapman and Next. I chose those shops because they have a wide range of classical, and Victorian furniture, which are in affordable price. I tried to look for furniture in local shops with used things, because they have lots of cheap, original and antique looking stuff. 

Eltham Tub Chair, Barker and Stonehouse 

 

Pasha Chair (transparent), Barker and Stonehouse

Bourgie table lamp, Barker and Stonehouse

Romance two door wardrobe, Barker and Stonehouse

Chapelle bed frame, Barker and Stonehouse

  Brooke tall bookcase with columns, Chapmans furniture

Onyx large coffee table, used furniture

Carmen chest and Rocco mirror, Next furniture

Red striped 2 drawer chest, Gosforth Pine Company

Green armchair, Used furniture

Cockfield Community Centre- Final idea

I decided to create Victorian modern style to an exterior and an interior of the building because it suits to general appearance of the building. My idea is to don't change much details within the exterior of the building. I think that it could be repaint and a roof should be refurbishing and there should be added some elements of decoration like lighting, flowers etc. Dormers should be build onto roof to expanse inner space.  It creates a more domestic look to the exterior too. I choose wood frame for windows, which have Victorian look. They are very elegant. The specific shape of windows let the sunlight get in to light and bright up the interiors. Below you will find picture and plans of my final concept.

I decided to separate the domestic zones from the studio, which will be located on the back of the building.  Visitors can access it from a street by the separate entrance, which will give the residents more privacy. Studio is a square building with toilet. It has lots of windows. Sunlight lights the space through day so it helps residents save energy. Natural light is also profitable for our vision if we spend more of the day in a workplace. It has an amazing view on the garden, which is located on the back of the house. Lots of flowers and plants and contact with a nature can influence the artist work, so I think it was a good idea.  

 First floor- Auto Cad plan 

 Second floor- Auto Cad plan

The Living Room will be connected with the Kitchen. On the first floor will be situated toilet for quests and for inhabitants. I chose gold and brown colour for the Living Room. It creates a sophisticated look but it warms up the interior too. Colour for the Kitchen and the Dining room is cream, because  this colour  bright up the space as there is just one window.

I designed three Bedrooms, which can be us by family member or by quests, and one Master Bedroom with a toilet. Each of them have a different colors and style. Some of them have a large wardrobe, which was a grate solution to save some space.

Below picture shows a Bedroom on a upper level. The only stain-glass work will be installed in the bathroom  and first floor where the wallpapers are in pale and neutral colours. 

Final project for the year - Cockfield Village

This is a final project for this year. I have to transform a old community centre into 4 bedroom house within the existing structure. Client wants to have an art studio, living and dining area and a garden. 

This Detached stone built former chapel is situated in the heart of Cockfield Village . The village has primary school and local shops. It is a conservation area so all the exchange of the exterior have to be consulted with a local council.  Its large building. Its overall net internal area is 139.25sq.m. (1498.3sq.ft.) At the beginning of  May we went there to see the property which we are going to design. Below you will find pictures which I took on that day. 

The interior of the building is destroyed and need to be completely renovated.  

As you can see some of a feature are Gothic style like windows at the front and sides and the small windows above them.    

There will be create a upper level which client wants to be use for Bedrooms.  

In the past there was added stone build extension to the back of the building to provide kitchen, refectory and toilet facilities. 

Building Regulations, Stairs- Basic dimensions

Well designer stairs should be created in way which fallow certain rules and can  guarantee safety and comfort to their user. 

  

Width and rise: 

Width and rise must be adequate to the length of human step. Which is  60-65 cm.

If we want to change a width of the stair  we have to change the rise of the stairs too. Connection with those two should be 2r + w = 60 -65.

Where w is width in cm and r is rise.

The correct rise of the stairs inside the buildings is: 

 20 cm for stairs which leading to the attic or to the basement

19 cm in single  family house and two floor flats

16 cm in the public buildings

17,5 cm in other cases

Number of stairs

In one row there shouldn’t be more than 18 stairs. The reason is the health and safety of their  users. One row should have from 9  to 12 stairs. Stairs which are located inside the building shouldn't have less than 3 stair because it’s easy to fall over.

Pitch 

 The angle between the pitch line (notional line connecting nosings) and the horizontal. The maximum pitch for domestic stairs is 42°, semi-public stairs, eg factories, offices and common stairs serving more than one dwelling, 38° and public stairs, eg places of public assembly, 33°.

Ken Currie Shot Boy

This staggering painting which  was inspired by a news paper report of urban violence.  It presents a young boy who  had been shot dead.  Ken Currie shows the boy suspended in time ,his spirit hovering between life and death. Currie intended the boy’s damaged body to represent the damaged society in which it could happen. Currie was born and brought up in North Shields and later became one of the Glasgow School of Artist. Currently you can see it in Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.   

John Martin exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery Heaven and Hell

John martin used oil, watercolours and prints to create painting which are shown on this really amazing expiation which makes you disbelieve that all those painting were painted paint by one artist.  He really cares about details with professional finish and large size of the drawings  makes these paintings so realistic that it makes you believe you are a real observer of those occurrences. Some of the painting show landscapes but most of them are about Old Testament scenes of doom and destruction. One of my favourite is a painting called Belshazzar’s Feast the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra and the Day of Judgement the first one you can see in a special created room whit a sound effects and lights which create an incredible atmosphere.    

 

                                                    John Martin  Belshazzar's Feast

  John Martin Seven Plague of Egypt

 

                                         John Martin Destruction of Sodom and Gomorra

  

Good program for rendering Kerkythea

Kerkythea is It’s a free adds which you can use with a sketch up program.  This rendering application able you to create a good quality imagines in a very short period of time, which look really photo-realistic. It improve the realism of materials and give you possibility to create natural looking light effects.  It also let to export those pictures and able user to open it on other computer where the sketch up isn’t install. 

Below you will find pictures before and after rendering so you can see and compare the results.