sensory room

I chose this because I thought it would be a good challenge for me and it is, in order to design this room to the best of my ability I did research into the autistic spectrum and I have realised it is difficult to create this room with each individual child in mind due to the fact that different people have different triggers that can easily set them off like a sound or a sight, not only do I have to consider this I have to take into account the different levels of autism I will be designing for some of the children may have difficulty communicating in order to fully understand what I’m going to be catering for I believe I need to talk to either the teachers or the parent as well as for the library wall I think I will need some input for that as well.

 For this project we also visited Osborne technologies to see what their sensory room had to offer and while discussing our project we were asked our budget and we were told it would be very difficult to have a similar setup for our sensory room.

library wall

For this project we have been working with Shawlands primary school and they have asked us to design a space for them only working on two of the three options we were given a library wall two display boards for key stage 1 and 2 children and a chance to design a sensory room mainly used by children on the autistic scale for a place where they can escape to if need be.

I decided I would design the library wall which has to be about encouraging the love of reading and I decided to design the sensory room as well. For the library wall I have been looking into book illustrators to back up my design plan and perhaps gain some perspective from their work for a child friendly design.
I started by looking at some of my favourite books like harry potter and Jim Kay is the man behind the illustrated version of the book.

I was quite mesmerised by the detail that went into these illustrations and I wanted to recreate them for my artist studies, I believe I did a good job it is one of my favourite pieces of work and is also part of my portfolio.

My artist research into Quentin Blake was quite fun though tricky his penmanship is difficult to copy as well as his colouring techniques my favourite illustration was Willy Wonka from Charlie and the chocolate factory. as a book I preferred the twits I believed it to be funny and well thought out and the illustrations weren’t bad at all a little chaotic at times but they represented the books well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EE9q1lygpM Quentin Blake 10 minutes of illustration

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQn8Qc_P6SA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhclMOesHdM