Room 0742 Research Paper

Room 0742 is a studio design room located in king pavilion at the Iowa State University college of design. In a way it represents the beginning of my journey at Iowa State, for it is the first class room I had ever been in as a student, and its represents hours and hours of hard work and dedication to my major. It is a rather bittersweet place with times where it became a place to put my work on display as well as a place to spend many long nights and very early mornings working and developing.
The space itself physically is not a room by traditional means it has no doors and stall like walls that rise above the ground six to eight inches as well as an opening at the top. This design was done on purpose to promote community and closure. Exploring the theory that design is freethinking and has no walls of blockage. The rest of the room is surronded by large panes of glass to let the natural light in. There's usually six large tables in the room with wood surfaces which bear thousands of scratches from students in the past. In a way it's sort of an unofficial signature left behind, with each mark different than the last. …show more content…
The tedious amounts of work and the little amount of time to complete projects before their presentations. I am also reminded of the nightwalks, the twenty minute walk from my dorm to the building. In this room I associate the quiet deserted campus I went through at all hours of the night. Not only the long nights but the days as well the three hour class twice a week for an entire semester. Happiness would come when the time came to place my work in the room and explain what I had done for so many hours as everyone gazed at it with their own interpretations and