Internship

My last semester is finally here! Such a bittersweet moment. During our last semester we are required to put in at least 320 hours of interning. After a great deal of research finding the perfect fit for me, I find a place. The interview is scheduled and the nervous jitters automatically set in. After a small tour and presentation of my projects from the past four semesters, it's decision time. Did I get the internship? YES, I did. I will be focusing on Kitchen Design at Village Design Group located in Southern Pines, NC. I will be spending the majority of my life this semester interning in what I absolutely adore, love, and puts a smile on my face just thinking about it!

REVIVE Hotel

During our Fall 2012 Semester in Commercial II, we were assigned to design a hotel. We were to choose a concept to design off of. I choose Botanical Rejuvenation. The assignment was to start with an 8,000 square foot exterior building shell and then to space plan the interior by designing the floor plan and then to design the Lobby, Restaurant, and either a Boutique or Spa. REVIVE hotel is located off the beautiful shorelines of Costa Rica. I broke my concept into three separate concepts, the Lobby was designed around the Papaya fruit, the Restaurant around the Dragon fruit and the Spa was around the Kiwi fruit. Throughout the spaces I created a soothing environment with warm, rich tones and then adding bright pops of color through accent walls, furniture, and finishes. 

The Lobby: Papaya Fruit

REVIVE

The Spa: Kiwi Fruit

PURIFI

The Restaurant: Dragon Fruit

PITAYA

Harmony House Materials and Finishes

For the Harmony House, I choose to design the space with an Organic Modern style. My materials and finishes consists of LEED and sustainable products such as bamboo and reclaimed wood, low VOC paint, recycled glass, etc. Using an Organic Modern style, I decided to use bright white walls and fabrics that will have high contrast with the dark bamboo flooring and dark stained wood frames on the furnishings.

Sandwich Shop Materials and Finishes

Bamboo Flooring

Low VOC Counter Tops 

Fabric

White Leather

Low VOC Wall Color Paint

Glass Tile Back Splash

Hallway

Bamboo Flooring

Low VOC Wall Color Paint

Reception Area

Bamboo Flooring

100% Natural Silk Wallcovering

Curtain Fabric

Fabric

Fabric

Restrooms

Glass Tile

40% Recycled Ceramic Content Tile Flooring

Residence Rooms

100% Rapidly Renewable, LEED Certified Wool Carpet

Low VOC Wall Color Paint

Curtains

Fabric

Fabric

Common Area

Bamboo Flooring

Reclaimed White Wood Walls

Fabric

Fabric

Bamboo Fiber Material

White Leather

Pillow Fabric

Pillow Fabric

Floor Plans

 

First Floor of Harmony House

Second Floor of Harmony House 

 

The Bienenstock Furniture Library http://www.furniturelibrary.com/ located in High Point, NC and ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) http://www.asid.org/Channels/ is offering a $10,000 scholarship design competition in Interior Design. This semester the Randolph Community College Interior Design Program has entered into the competition. Hopefully one of us will be the lucky winner!

Design Challenge: Design a sandwich shop and residential space including floor plans, 3-D renderings and visual presentation boards.

Design Overview and Client Profile: Harmony House Foundation located in Seattle, Washington offers an unconventional youth shelter for runaways providing housing that creates a healing and rehabilitating environment for youth in crisis ages 10-17. The facilities goal is to provide a stable, secure, and inspiring environment that will change lives. Harmony House will provide a home-like feeling rather than an institutional space that allows youth to feel inspired, uplifted and encourage a positive change in their lives. Throughout the process sustainability is going to be a strong impact in the overall design. 

The First Floor: The first floor of the three story building will contain a sandwich and soup lunch shop featuring locally grown and organic foods. The shop will employee a creative and motivated team that will mentor the youth housed on the above floors. The kitchen is located on the basement level that is also used to cook the residence meals, but will be designed by a separate firm, therefore not a part of the project requirements. The first floor will also house the mentoring rooms and offices. 

Second and Third Floor: These two floors are to be identical providing gender neutral residence rooms, a counselors station, two lounges, and a computer area-reading room. 24 hour supervision will be provided by the counselors. 

Only the first and second floors are to be designed.

Commercial I

Project Description: The American Heart Association wants to open it's first headquarters and clinic in Dallas, Texas. Design 2 buildings with a combined square footage of 7,000 square feet.

Clinic: Include 2 Doctors Offices, Echo Room, Stress Test Room, Combined Stress and Echo Room, Nuclear Imaging Room, ADA Restrooms, Cleaning Closet, Break Room, Lobby, Reception Area, File Room, President's Office, and Vice President's Office. 

Headquarters: Include 10 Office Workstations, President's Office, Vice President's Office, Human Resource Office, Public Relations Office, Lobby, Reception Area, File Room, CPR Training Area, Heart Healthy Area, Break Room, Collaboration Area, Conference Room, Cleaning Closet, and ADA Restrooms. 

There was one design twist that really made us have to think outside the box.....All exterior walls are GLASS! With this in mind, rooms  had to be placed in strategic places as well as meeting required square footage. Therefore, giving me much needed practice in Space Planning in CAD.

Several configuration later, here is the finalized Floor Plan!

After space planning, finishes were selected and the countless hours of Sketch-Up begin! We were to select 5 rooms to design with our finishes, add lighting, and render through Podium. 

Office Lobby

Workstations

President's Office

Clinic Lobby

Combined Echo & Stress Test Room

Skills:

Evidence-Based Research

Commercial Finishes

Commercial Codes

Sketch-Up

Podium

Lighting

CAD

Residential Design: Mark and Holly Woodward

Mark and Holly Woodward are a couple from High Point, NC that I have previously met with to gather design concerns, interests, and desires for the interior of their home. They own an adorable, peanut butter loving  Chocolate lab, Boscoe. The couple plan to adopt in the next year so expansions and additions are needed for the home. 

Scope of Services

• Design floor plan to include an additional bedroom, master bathroom, walk-in closet, garage, laundry room, and expansion of kitchen.
• Select fabrics, finishes, furnishings, and equipment for living room/dining room, master suite, den, and kitchen.
• Space plan residence using selected pre-existing furnishings.
• Specify design solutions in efforts to make residence more accessible.

Design Style & Aesthetic

After viewing each space, a was style was picked: Eclectic-a mixture of three or more styles in the space. 

The couples mixture was Traditional, Mid-Century Modern, Modern, and Classic. 

Traditional

Mid-Century Modern

Modern

Classic

With all these styles in mind I've found some inspiration images to jump-start my creativity to create the perfect space for Mark, Holly, & Boscoe. Below each image, I listed interests of the couple that are included within each picture. 

Simple panel curtains, Canopy bed, Neutrals with pops of color, Fun art pieces, Mid-Century Modern furnishings, Teal accents, White rug, White bedding, Chocolates

Patterned rug, Clustered framed art work, Modern lamp

Traditional, Clustered framed art work, Neutrals, Pops of color

Mid-Century Modern furniture, Teal, Natural floors, Glass Accessories

Glass coffee table, Comfy Furniture, Neutrals, Interesting Accessories

White cabinetry, Different colored Island, Stainless steel equipment, Open storage

Plenty of open shelving!