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Prep. for a space design

Building Blocks for a new Maker Space and a Tech. Lab
Lampros is the tech lab and wants more space. I think the biggest challenge will be how to store everything they have and still have space to work with their need for space when working with virtual reality. We should utilize the corners and small pockets found in the area and use them for better storage. The current focus of the space is on the overflowing storage shelves along the walls. "The room feels like work". My interventions are rather small, but better shelves would be useful because no access would be blocked by the shelf or desk next to it. Useful interventions would be rectangular and triangular.
The biggest challenge will come with the maker space because we only have blueprints. However, a concern with the space was getting around with ease and I think the best way to do that is to inform with colors. There is only one floor, so we should focus on how to guide a visitor through the area with ease. Right now there is no main focus outside the building, it is plain brick. There needs to be something to guide curious visitors around because right now it attracts no attention. These interventions would be minor, using color coded hexagons to call attention to specific utilities. Linking hexagons together in a hive-like pattern connotes industry and community, which is what the Ogden Maker Space is trying to build around it.
Both places want to have a sense of welcome and a modern feeling.
Colors dictate what items get stored where. The colors are bright and feel like the outdoors. This activates the space to feel brighter and a bit happier.
For the Maker space, the same color tactic is used, but colors instead guide a visitor through the space. The choice of these three colors was to warm-up the feeling in the space.
Prep. for a space design
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