Sunroom

For my design, I decided to create a cozy sunroom. It is typically attached to your home and serves as a nice place for you and your family to relax while also having aspects of the environment by having glass walls and ceilings that allow you to grow plants freely all year around.

After much consideration, I choose to settle on the sunroom because it has always been a dream of mine to grow my own plants, but many things like a garden, greenhouse, etc wouldn't work out for me, but sunrooms are perfect as not only can you make your own indoor garden, but you can also create a lounge area to relieve stress and anxiety. 

I used my imagination while creating my design by arranging how I would make the glass walls work, as I wanted to ensure that the most amount of sunlight was able to go into the room to help the plants thrive while also adding supports to make sure the room would remain stable as people went in and out, presumably on a daily basis. In my design you can see how I added wooden beams between each panel to give them the necessary support to realistically hold up while also remaining thin enough to not take away sunlight from the room.

1. Laptop (fusion 360)
2. Blue Fabric
3. Foam cushioning
4. Popsicle sticks
5. Plastic panels
6. Wood base
7. Pipe cleaners
8. Cardboard
9. cardstock
10. Hot glue
11. Paint
12. Thick straw
13. Small ornaments
14. Paper
15. Poster board
16. Sandpaper
17. Container caps
18. cotton

When I started creating my CAD design, I first started by making my base and outside environment. After I had those laid out, I moved on to making my walls. To save myself time, I started by making my first beam and patterning it six times. I ensured that they were in the correct spot before adding the glass panels and also pattering it to sit between each beam perfectly.

 I then started planning out what furniture and plants I wanted in my design. I ended up creating two couches, a coffee table with a milk and cookies set on top, a shelf with a small pot that had a plant growing inside, a rug, and three bamboo vases.

I would say that all of these things were easy to make as I used simple shapes and then extruded or filleted them to turn them into what I wanted to create.

After I had all my furniture completed, I started adding color to my design. I didn't want to make my design too colorful, so I made most furniture white, brown, and beige. The only pop of color was the bamboo, small pot, couches, and rug. I made these more colorful as I wanted them to stand out since they were the main thing I wanted people to see once they saw my room. This is to give a sense of security and calmness so people knew they could go in there to destress after a long day.

When it came time to start creating my 3D model, I started off by gathering all the materials I had to use. I created my base by cutting a poster board and wrapping it in foam cushioning that I had previously painted green to represent grass. I then cut out where my wooden base would be and the slab of “cement,” which was made out of sandpaper that I painted.

 After I glued everything in place, I started adding my walls and beams. For my side walls, I simply glued one plastic panel on each side of my room and used boxes to hold them up while the glue fully dried. Then for my back and front wall, I cut them out of the foam I had leftover from the base. I made sure to cut a hole to fit the size of my door for the front wall. After all my walls were up, I started cutting, painting, and then gluing all my popsicle sticks where my beams were supposed to be and on the door frame. I then glued on a thin piece of plastic where my door is supposed to be and painted a gold doorknob.

 After I finished my walls, I started creating all my furniture. To start off, I made my shelf entirely out of popsicle sticks that I had to individually cut, glue, and sand down to fit the exact measurements that I wanted. Then I moved on to the small pot I placed on top of it. I made that out of cardboard, a straw, and pipe cleaners to fill the inside and seem like a small plant barely sprouting. Then I moved on to making my couches. I made these from foam that I had cut into various squares and rectangles. I then wrapped every part of the couch in the blue fabric and glued each component together. I repeated the same steps for both couches. Once I did this, I moved on to my coffee table. I did this by gluing three container caps together and then wrapping it with white paper. The cookies that I had on top of the coffee table were made out of cardstock and hot glue, and the milk was made out of the bottom of a pen that I filled with cotton to look like milk. Finally, I started making the vases with bamboo. To create the vases, I glued half an ornament and a piece of a cardboard pipe together. Then I wrapped it in paper and started filling the inside with glue and paper. I then glued nine pipe cleaners that I had already cut into the desired length. Then I glued a penny on the bottom so they could stand up and repeated the same steps for all three vases.

Once I had my model completed, I moved on to photographing it. I used lights and shadows to showcase the type of mood and environment it would feel like to step into the room if you owned it. I want people to feel secure and calm when they think of being in a room like mine; that's why I wanted to include a good balance with lighting so it's not too bright and overwhelming to others while also not looking too dark and depressing.