'Room For London'

STUDIES IN DESIGN - CONTEXT

 

For this project, each student was asked to carry out research and a site survey on the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South bank, London. Each student was then asked to design a 'Room for London', which would be a room to be placed somewhere in the specific location around the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

 

The Room for London design is part of a competition held each year, where applicants design a room for up to two users for one night to be around the site. The room is an opened planned room with hinged furniture inside for extra space and privacy.

 

For my room for London design I wanted to create a room to be placed directly on the rooftop of the Purcell Room of the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The room can be accessed from the roof of the building via staircase, and the room will be facing outwards along the Thames opposite Somerset House, Embankment Pier and Westminster Pier.

 

The main Focal Point of the room will be the circular wall covering windows, which will enable a panoramic view of the surroundings, of the South bank and the Thames.

 

The room is planned in a way so that there is minimal artificial lighting in the room to create a stronger emphasis of the views and lights of central London.

 

Here shown are plan, section, elevation and the panormaic view, as well as study models and a perspective veiw of the Room for London.

Done