bungalow:final presentation

The Bungalow craze swept western America during the early 1900’s, an ideal transitional house for young families due to its affordability and simplicity. Part of the Arts and Crafts movement, the Bungalow represented a revolt of sorts against the Victorian home. With a design based on the principles of a gradient, the rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in response with distance from the stimulus, I explored this design idea through mass, form, design elements, color, and material selection. With many layers – the enclosing walls, furniture, lighting, textiles and art – the viewer understands that linear geometry unifies the design scheme. I worked in from the enclosing walls, through two to four linear cut-outs in the furniture and lighting fixture to produce a sense of movement and direction. The textiles, which change the most in response to the stimulus, the room, feature repeating lines that seem to continue forever. The second layer to the design gradient – the central table – provides a focal point of the room, with one main cutout that is larger than the correlating lines running both perpendicular and parallel to it, a graded descent that connects the furniture parts together – continuing one line, both in its location and width, which runs from the chairs to the table to the hutch. The last layer of gradient shows projection in color, scale, and geometry and their varied placements that, together, coalesce into a focal line that moves the eye throughout the space. The progressive experience of the space echoes the bungalow of the past, linking forward to this graded space of the current century.