In this project, you will be introduced to the raw materials of interior design by studying closely how others have used them. You will be building a model of an interior that is depicted in the painting you have chosen from the list provided. Each of these paintings depicts an event: a marriage, the Angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, people at a party, or even doing the washing up. Model the room without the figures that dominate it –how do the objects they leave behind tell us the story that the painting tells us when they are there?

In each painting, the materials of which the interior is composed, the light that lights it, even the views out from it, reflect the central activity at hand. In each, these, all of these, materials and light, the space itself, are livingly modelled and painted in extraordinary detail.
Your task is to build the room in the painting, showing an equally high level of attention to detail: to textures and materials, to light effects, and to the form of the space itself. If the floor is dirty model it as dirty. If the light falls only fro the west, work out why, and make it fall only from the west etc. etc.

These paintings were painted centuries ago, when the technique of drawing in perspective was in its infancy. DO NOT correct the perspective of the painter in your model –however wonky it might look. Work out WHY it is like it is, and HOW to make it appear that way. Perspectives and, traditionally, paintings, exist within frames –your model does not need to –what is implied BEYOND the frame of the picture –what is outside the window? behind the seat, or the bookcase?

This is not a task in neat, white card architectural models, but a messy and absorbing exploration of a world of materials and sensations. Your model may use any materials you desire-fabric, polyfilla, shoe polish, so long as it accurately reflects the materiality of the space within your picture. This is not a task in making an object, but a space. What your model looks like on the outside is irrelevant –concentrate on the imaginative world you create on the INTERIOR. Use sketches and drawings to help you envisage the space as you devise the model –try to draw it from a different point of view to help you imagine it as a totality.