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!

Summer 2012: Week 1 & 2

Off to a fun start with my Summer 2012 semester by taking Residential Design, Commercial Design, and an online Lighting Class. 

Only two weeks in, the class has already been on 3 Field Trips. 

First Residential Client: For two days we gathered at our teacher's house Holly and her husband Mark in High Point, NC to gather client interest, concerns, and desires for her and her husband interior space. Our next step was to gather measurements of each room, which I might add is definitely a two person task after getting whacked by the tape measure. After viewing each space, a was style was picked: Eclectic. Eclectic Style is a mixture of three or more styles in the space. The couples mixture was Traditional, Mid-Century Modern, Modern, and Classic. 

Proximity Hotel: Located in Greensboro, NC. Recognized the "Greenest" Hotel in America. Both Proximity Hotel and Print Works Bistro attained the USGBC's highest rating, LEED Platinum.

http://www.proximityhotel.com/index.html

Carolina Cardiology: In Commercial Design, our project is to completely design two buildings for the American Heart Association. We traveled to Carolina Cardiology located in Asheboro, NC. We visited this office to gather measurements and take a general look at how doctors offices are set up, laid out, and equipment required for each room. The rooms include a Stress Room, Echo Room, Nuclear Imaging Room, Exam Rooms, Doctors Offices, Lobby, Reception Area, File Room, ADA Restrooms. 

Furnishings

Wicker

Refurbished Furniture

Spring 2012 Color Trends

The HOT and TRENDY colors of Spring 2012. The striking blend of hot, neon colors with soft pastels. Stated that Yellow will be one of the key colors of the season. Being an aqua color lover my whole life, I'm starting to transition to other colors and palettes, yellow being a new favorite.

Margarita: Already sounds fun. The green palette is touching the neon side as well as the pastels. Green can be the main focal point as in the picture to the right or act as subtle highlights to accent bolder colors or prints.

Sodalite Blue: Calm, soothing, subtle, but definitely makes a statement. This is a perfect example of how designers and homeowners are using wall space as the POP of color while using earth tones as accessories to give that nice even balance.

Solar Power: Yellow is back and making huge statements. Yellow being a key color of the season, the color is eye catching with painted walls, furniture, fabric, even down to the smallest accessories. Earth tones and Gray scales are paired up with yellow, so the fun, funky color is sure to POP!

Starfish 

Driftwood 

Bellflower

 




Multi-Color:

WOW! I've also notice that designers will combine several colors from around the color wheel to add an extra wow factor to an interior space.