Lorrayne Pinza

“The Zoo” by Suzy Lee has child-like drawings and bright colors that have been made into a new shape to suit two six year old girls while they grow up. The main idea in creating this concept is to make it fun, colorful, and open. To create this main idea, the elephant scene was chosen because it has a flowing circular shape pond that was made into random colorful lines that also represented the color pallet throughout the book. The openness of the zoo is also represented in the idea with room between the lines.
The bright Colors will be represented on one wall as wavy blue, purple, pink, green, red, orange, and yellow lines to make the room pop with color and reflect back to the original idea of bright curving lines to add color that is suitable for a six year old as well as a thirteen year old. The remaining walls will be a warm cream color accent the multitude of colors within the room. To create a study area for homework there are desks for each girl placed against the wall at the foot of each bed. Each desk has three drawers for storage. The decision on bed style was influenced by the bright colors in the book along with the smooth lines. Each bed has a pullout bed from underneath to accommodate a total of two guests for the girls. By adding bright colors on the walls and creating smooth lines and shapes the overall design shows the inspiration from the book “The Zoo” by Susy Lee.

By doing this design I learned that there are many aspects to a childs room that I wouldnt
necessarily think of by just walking into the space. Things like, do they have enough space for
their clothing, do they have adequate toy storage, and is the space large enough to be able
to accomodate more that just those who live in the room.


(The first two pictures are of the presentation boards. The third picture is of the concept model for the space and the last is a model of the room itself.)