model room

I (Robin) have been busy at work on a high-end student housing project. The building is in lower Manhatttan (very close to the WTC and Wall St). There are 17 floors, 238 bedrooms, plus the lobby, lounge, and some administrative offices. We're working in conjunction with architects, engineers, and many sub-contractors. The building is very much a construction site right now, but we had to get a model room together to show the university what it will look like. Yesterday was the big reveal, and it went very well. Everyone loved it! We had no control over the size and layout of the rooms (the architet did that), but we designed all the furniture, chose all the fixtures, finishes and colors. Here is the model room: We kept the raw concrete ceiling and painted it:
One wall has an accent color:


We designed the beds to have lots of storage; underneath and in the headboard. That way each student has their own personal, compact area with all their stuff.

Each room has it's own bathroom:

In the corridor we designed a "feature wall" opposite the elevators. There are steel panels bolted onto the wall with glowing light boxes. Every floor will have a different color, and the color of the room number signs will correspond to the light box color for that particular floor. (This was just a quick simulation, so you can see the ugly fluorescent tubes. The final will have LED's and will look much better)

The bedroom doors in the corridors will look something like this:
And the carpet in the corridors (ignore the dusty footprints, again, this is a construction site, so all the people walking thru made a mess!):
This is the room across the hall from the model, quite a contrast!