After seeing a volunteer request from upper stage students, I was incredibly excited to get involved with the design and construction of an interior library for West End Women and Girls Centre, Newcastle. After attending the frist meeting, I became a little daunted with the scale and quality of what was being asked for, especially concerning the software we were expected to use - some of which I had no experience with! The deadlines were very suprising to me as well, the soonest only a few days after the meeting. Despite my rising nerves, I resolved to try my best with the hope that I’ll learn from the experience even if there are some bumps along the way!
Follong this, a group of us attended a visit to the centre, to discuss plans with the clients and allow some of the newer recruits (such as mysellf) to see the site in person. I’d had difficulty understanding the drawings etc that we’d been shown until I could take in the entire room. We decided to split the room into sections, in order to assign members of the group to taks in their respective areas. Considering my requested section, I took some photos of the relevant space, which can be seen below!
From this point, I was asked to produce drawings of my assigned section that could be used by the centre to build the majority of the furnishings during their own workshops. I struggled a lot with this task, as I wasn’t too sure what they were asking for and didn’t have an established understanding of how the shelves would be assembled. I managed to get clarification from the others on some of these issues, but still felt very uncertain.
I started ahead of time, in order to get feedback from the others with plenty of time to fix things before the set deadline. After getting some feedback, here were the final drawings:
Once these had been completed, it was onto the building of our designated seating area! Here are some images to document parts of the process!
