Bay Wander
Location: Watsons Bay, Sydney
Year: 2023
Designer: Sara-Ann Interior Design
Renderer: Melodee G Miller
Software: Revit and Canva
Client Brief:
~ Encourage zero alcohol experiences
~ Enable board games and interactivity for social bonds
~ Consider sustainable design
~ Consider circular design
Project Overview:
A purpose built venue to reduce over consumption of alcohol and encourage social engagement through activity was the goal behind this project. Materiality, whilst always important, came second to the potential of this venue.
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Having a central location with a high demand for active social lives, situated on a cliff over looking Sydney Harbour, this venue couldn't have been more perfect. Introducing large louvred windows to encourage the sea breeze to circulate through the venue as well as using locally sourced materials for the floors and walls. Where new products were required to be purchased biomimicry was taken in to consideration to ensure a circular design process was maximised.
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Combine the two above components and you have a venue allowing board games, interactive physical activities, a DIY alcohol free cocktail station and a tracking device to enable alcohol consumption along with a sustainably sourced space encouraging clean, fresh, circulated air flow for a positive and engaging experience both physically and mentally.
Render Process
Throughout the development of the process and it's requirements, I begin to develop the colour scheme as well as the physical layout of the space. Before drawing the space within Revit, I sketch by hand first adding in the proposed materiality.
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Once the hand renders are developed and I am happy with the outcome, I then render them within Revit.
Revised Render Process
Maintaining my hand sketching as my strongest suite, I utilise the amazing Melodee G Miller to produced, refined and more professional renders.
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This is done through email providing the below to Melodee so that she has what she needs to product the render:
~ Submission documents, both interim and final
~ Potential views to develop based on what was already developed through hand sketching and Revit rendering
~ Materiality Board
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Melodee will initially produced a view un-rendered (Image 1 adjacent). We discuss the view and the image itself via email and then once content, Melodee produces the final render (Image 2 adjacent).
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