Scenic Construction: Scale Drawing

 

The Director gave me a very simple design brief. She wanted a male and a female toilet set with a performance space in the middle.

 

Going from this I designed the male toilet set on stage right and the female on stage left with a performance space in the middle. I also designed it so we could have real porcelain sinks and real taps however I could only have the real taps because the sinks were too heavy. Moreover I designed it so we could have the checker linoleum would cover the entire floor space and then curved up onto the rostra so the floor would look as though it continued. However this was not possible as it was too expensive. So we ended up using a piece from another set that just covered the floor with cut offs to suggest that it carried on. Also, as you can see from the scale drawing of the sinks I originally designed it so the sinks were held up with large metal brackets which I got inspiration from  worktops I had sourced online. However we could not do this as the flats would not be able to support the weight of the worktops and the actors wanted to lean on them, so I decided to build them as full work tops with doors and sides however I could not do this as the amount of wood needed would be too costly. I finally decided to just use 2 by one batons as legs instead and add rail supports with more 2 by 1 batons to give extra strength to the worktops and make it so it was somewhat possible for the actors to lean on them. This change also meant that I could not use the brackets. Using the extra wood I added as rails round the top of the sinks I was able to drill straight through them and into the flat to hold them into place, this also added extra support to them.