Both briefs, the 'Gpods' and the 'Bpods' have both revolved around modular housing solutions. Even though both briefs are designed for completely different purposes, they have both helped to inform each other when gathering research around modular housing as a whole. Before these projects I had little knowledge on how modular housing worked or in fact what it was. It was my starting concepts for one project that ended up creating 2 tangents, both solving 2 separate briefs in their own unique ways. I found it fitting that as they both evolved from one concept, they should share similarities in their names and origins.
As I am not an architecture or packing student, I feel that these two projects were brave of me to take on knowing that I would be pitched against students specialising in these fields. I also however feel that it was due to my graphic design specialism that my projects have become so unique. It allowed me to be more engaging with the judges utilising layout, composition and branding techniques. My illustrative artistic style should be a refreshing change to the majority of complicated design boards which the judges will have to go through. Most architecture students would have probably jumped straight onto designing structures and buildings on software however, I had to think differently about how I could represent my ideas and had to look elsewhere to create a concept.
My initial starting point was by looking at structures within nature as these have naturally evolved over thousands of years to perfection. Nature is where many architects get their inspiration as shapes such as the honeycomb have been naturally perfected. Within the architectural aspect of the project, it became clear that I would not be able to compete with these students if I were to design complicated structures. This lead me onto using simple shapes to build up an overarching modular structure.
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