Final Work

My design takes the curious traveller on a Journey and process from Buying their ticket, to waiting for the ferry, to exiting the waiting room and boarding on their boat. It explores the nature of a traveller or tourist who has relative levels of interest in either what is around them and what there is to discover, or is more interested in watching the humans around them.

The first room is where the passenger buys their ticket. Like the windows in the dutch paintings, the ones in this room are above eye level, and only serve to allow controlled light into the room. Once the passenger has bought their ticket they descend a few stairs into the lowered waiting room. These stairs are framed by glass, allowing the passenger a momentary glimpse of the outside. From the bottom step, the passenger has a visual connection with the outside world,
The waiting room has fenestration set above eye level on all the walls except for the one facing the water. This gives the room a strong sense of containment and directs the focus to the one wall, which has been articulated by angled slit shaped windows (inspiration taken from those in the photo below) which allow glimpses of the outside world.

Inbuilt masonry seating has been set up against the walls on either side of the room, meaning that passengers can either sit facing the framed views or are forced to turn away from them. This is related to my analysis of the 'traveller' who is either very interested and curious of their surroundings or less interested in their surroundings and more intrigued by watching the other humans around them.

The ferry is accessed via an outer waiting area which can only be accessed on the boats approach. A large set of automated roller doors open upon the boats arrival, only allowing passengers to leave their contained world at the final moment. There is a textural change, as the floor of the outside area is covered in gravel. The traveller has little visual access into the building from which they have come due to the nature of the windows and is therefore forced to look ahead to the expansive water in front of them and the boat. Thus the curious traveller is finally able to escape from their contained world and into the expansive beyond.