Children's nursery

Over this last week I have begun to experiment with Interiors for children working on a children’s nursery. At the heart of this space will be sustainability and how to live sustainable lives. I think that design can educate, children are our future and we need to begin to live more sustainable lives. By designing a children’s nursery I believe that by starting children living good habits young they will go on to live sustainable lives in their future and adult lives. I have a number of ideas for these spaces and have currently returned to using 3D Studio max to experiment with these ideas. I have done this to expand my portfolio as the basis of it at the moment is hand drawing. I am researching into how an interactive panel on a wall may be able to generate energy aswell as provide entertainment for the children. A key interest in my research and experimentation at the moment is based on the works of the company smile plastics http://www.smile-plastics.co.uk/ I visited at the Eco-build conference in London and was inspired by the way that they created finished from recycled wellies, upon returning to Teesside I began researching and found that the company not only does this with wellies but lots of other unwanted products such as mobile phones, cd’s and plastic bottles. I feel this is going to form a basis for my project at present and am going to experiment putting these in my interiors possibly creating my own surfaces from recycled materials. A lot of the materials are bright colours which are ideal for spaces which children will use.