Architecture Project

The end of the school year is here and as a final wrap up project in engineering we were given the task of finding a client and creating a building/structure for that client based on their needs.  Our group decided to redesign the costume and prop room from our schools theater. Both rooms are cramped and make it difficult to access objects needed so we decided it would be a good idea to redesign the rooms so that they are more efficient. I joined forces with Brooke and Sean in order to complete this project.

1. First, I showed Brooke and Sean the costume and prop room to give them a sense of how cramped cluttered and ineffective both the rooms are at housing the costumes and props for CoSA and I talked to Adrian (my CoSA tech teacher) about letting us design an new prop and costume room for technical theater.




This is what Sean came up with


2. Secondly, I talked with the prop room manager Caroline in order to get an idea of what she would like to see in a new prop room. (See gave us the idea of creating a UCLA Prop Room like design)
3. During the weekend Sean created a model on Minecraft of a prop room with a costume room and dressing rooms. Sean's Mom advised him to make the girl's dressing room bigger in order to accomadate the ladies.

Here are our brainstorming sketches: ALL of them are very SIMPLE because we worked backwards and created sketches that could be easily built in minecraft.

 Here was our first sketch which was just a simple two sided room where big props such as couches and tables would be placed and small props would go on the other side.

This idea was based off of the UCLA prop room where all of the bigger props are on the bottom level while stairs lead up to an upper floor where small props would be kept in order to have easy access to big items.

This was our last sketch based on the design the Sean created in Minecraft.

Computer Generated Model of Our Final Design: This model is my attempt to create a CAD replication based off of Sean's design.

Hope you like our designs!

After showing the ideas so our client, we gained some great feedback that we could use to redesign our structure.

•  +: spacious, supermarket feel for small props, dressing room especially the girls dressing room
• change: accessability to prop and costume room, more room for bigger props
• ?: "Why combine the rooms"
• !: Ramp for accesability of bigger items