For my interior project I have gathered research on existing products used in nightclubs to help me when designing my own furniture and making my final model. I have used pictures of existing nightclubs from the internet to help me design the layout of the nightclub and choose a suitable colour scheme to decorate it. I can also use these pictures to see how pieces of furniture are placed in a nightclub, for example chairs or stool near the bar or dance floors and spotlights.
Next, I looked for existing chairs and tables to help fill my nightclub with furniture and make it seem less empty. I looked for leather chairs and benches as I found these to be the most popular in nightclubs because they look the best and are expensive. I also found glass tables to look best in a nightclub environment since it lets light from the dance floor through and looks classy. Finally I found small, high stools suited bars the best because they don’t take up a lot of room.
Moving on I looked at wine glasses and bottle and found the bottles were all a similar shape so I couldn’t do much research into them, however I though the bottles with transparent wine in them looked the best. Wine glasses however, were in many different shapes and sizes and also came in many colours, but colourless, transparent glasses seemed to suit a nightclub better than coloured ones, as the coloured ones seemed too cheap and was made a plastic. Also, a martini shaped wine glass looked great because it would make the drinks in the glasses look expensive. Finally I looked at dance floors spotlights and speakers which will all go together in a corner of the nightclub. The dance floors I found varied from standard colored, square tiles to a wooden floor with decorative spotlights creating all the patterns using its light. Because lights with patterns on them would be difficult to model I went for the traditional tiled dance floor, since it looks pretty and can be modeled in 3DS max easily. The spot lights I found were mostly similar but the one I chose was one which could move around easily and suited my color scheme the best. Lastly, the speakers had to be really big as you would expect them to play music really loud in a nightclub; however the speakers I found were the best was the one which was big and looked as if it could fit neatly in the nightclub wherever I put it.
I could improve the way I get research by taking my own photos from nightclubs instead of getting them from the internet and also look at the popularity of each piece of furniture to see if people like that type of design.