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WEEK 10 BLOG: Container Home Update and Sketch Location: Jacksonville Beach, FL Climate : warm, humid, near water, some rain  Clients : My parents (Middle age couple) Number of Containers : 6-8 5 words : Views, Daylight, Outdoor Spaces, Cozy, Clean Setting: comfortable space for chill afternoons spent inside and mornings and peaceful evenings For my inspirations so far, I decided that I want to make a container home as kind of a retirement home for my parents. They have always wanted to move to Florida, especially once my sister and I are out of the house, so creating something like that for them really interested me. They love the beach, so my entire childhood we took trips to beaches, to Florida and I know that they would love to be as close to the ocean as possible. For the location specifically, there is a beach we used to visit when we kids near Jacksonville, Florida that is a perfect location for my container home to be. There are many tall, bright colored beach houses and...

  WEEK 9 Blog: This week in class we talked about the container home project and the considerations we can start figuring out for our own container homes. We talked about how the location, the client(s), feeling and setting are important. We should also start considering how many containers we would like to use on our project and levels we want. For my inspirations so far, I decided that I want to make a container home as kind of a retirement home for my parents. They have always wanted to move to Florida, especially once my sister and I are out of the house, so creating something like that for them really interested me. They love the beach, so my entire childhood we took trips to beaches, to Florida and I know that they would love to be as close to the ocean as possible. For the location specifically, there is a beach we used to visit when we kids near Jacksonville, Florida that is a perfect location for my container home to be. There are many tall, bright colored beach houses and...

  Week 6 BLOG: The Principles of Design Pt. 2 This week in the principles of design pt. 2 lecture we talked about rhythm. Rhythm is the repetition, progression, transition or contrast in a space. Rhythm directs someone's attention around the space and enhances the overall impression of the room. Rhythm is often always needed to enhance an interior space. It can be applied to color, texture, shape or pattern and leads the eye throughout a room to enjoy every aspect of the design.  There are 5 main types of rhythm. Repetition, gradation, contrast, transition, and radiation. Repetition is when an object, shape, texture or color is repeated within an interior. It gives a feeling of predictability and stability to viewers. Gradation is the uniformly increasing or decreasing the size of objects in a room to lead a viewer throughout a space. The size could mean height or width of an object. Contrast is when one object is used right next to another object that is contrasted by color, ...