New View - Senior Capstone

New View is a black-and-white interactive mini-city apartment with windows looking into different visually impaired artists/designers in various creative fields. The space also includes a working street lamp and a braille candy heart cart (referencing a New York City hot dog cart). 

Due to my own experience with my eyesight, I went on a journey to find other artists and designers who were visually impaired or disabled. | wanted to find out how their experience either informed, shaped, or changed their careers or approach to being creative.

The project primarily utilizes cardboard as its base material, with additional minor elements crafted from tissue paper and styrofoam. To replicate the appearance of a brick wall, I constructed brick cardboard panels. Each brick was individually cut and arranged to emulate the natural texture of a brick wall, enhancing the tactile experience. Even the windows, including their hinges, are entirely composed of cardboard. The braille hearts were crafted from styrofoam, with braille text formed using hot glue dots. The streetlamp's core structure was ingeniously fashioned from a cardboard mailing tube, with the addition of a battery-operated puck light for illumination. I then applied acrylic paint to all components and sealed them with a spray-clear coat.

In total, the construction phase was a total of eight days,