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“It should in some way reflect how the artist model uses colour and or material.”

When designing my door knob I kept in mind the motifs used by Wes Anderson in the Grand Budapest Hotel such as symmetry, grandeur and classic european shapes.

My proposed door knob alludes to the grandeur of the theatre and walkway inside. The use of a larger scale for the door knob strengthens this idea. Large versions of traditionally small objects can evoke the feeling of being small or childlike. The proposed measurements are a 10mm attachment from the wall, and 150mm by 150mm for the knob.

It also draws on the ceiling detail of the theatre remaining true to the original designs of the theatre but in a new way. It also adds a bit of drama to the front of the building.

Make 10 sketch designs, that explore elements from your surface design and the threshold transition between Lorne St and the interior foyer space:

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Take the best three sketch designs. For each sketch design, make a further 3 iterations of exploring how these designs could function as a door handle:

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I want my door handle to be heavy and to radiate strength and luxury so materials like brass, copper, polished stone etc. could be used to convey this.

These materials would provide a smooth polished surface, cool to the touch unless bathed in sunlight (which would be the case in the morning as Lorne Street faces east). If brass or copper was used, the use of peoples hands would polish the door knob creating a relationship of reliance that the theatre needs the people just as much as the people need the theatre. The use of small sections to create the door knob ‘halo’ act as an invitation to touch, to feel the undulating texture of this door knob.

The door knob would be placed on a pivot door causing people to interact with it needing to push or pull the door to enter into the space.

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***Things to consider while doing this exercise – identify any ideas or material exploration you could use in the design brief going forward. Include this in a post reflecting on the exercise. This will be useful for the written abstract that will support your final submission as well as proposing the intervention and programming of the space.