Parrish Wine/Residence Final Poster Presentation

Parrish Wine/Residence Finalized Design

The wine bar and the above residential spaces were generated in response to the organization and living habits of downtown Durham, NC. Within the downtown organization, one’s home is clustered amongst restaurants, bakeries, salons, and galleries, all of which are footsteps away. A similar approach has been taken with the open floor plans whereby rooms and functions are blended; each sharing one footprint, generating a spatial identity within home and utility.

Much like the revitalizing process taking place in downtown Durham, components of the space are designed to soften industrial qualities through an exploration of urbanizing nature. The visual weight of distressed woods is brought to modern standards through the sleekness and utility identified with the urban setting. Perspectives, like that of the outside environment are interrupted but never broken as space-defining components seek to filter space rather than define it.

I have to reference Craig Irvine's design blog, as I borrowed a lot of ideas regarding the composition of my scale figures; enlivening the spaces; breaking out of their frames. I also looked to one of his board layouts, which showed me how a layout can be influenced by shapes and elements present in a "hero shot" perspective.

Central Regional Hospital Poster Presentation

Central Regional Hospital Finalized Design

The elements fundamental to the healing system: familiarity to a child’s home environment, comfort, as well as providing some sense of growth and connection to the outside universe direct the design proposal for the Child and Adolescent Unit of the Central Regional Hospital.

The design concept is based on the moment under a shade tree: the revitalizing sensation one experiences while lying on fresh green grass, patches of dirt, encircling roots and a cool earthy scent in the breeze. The proposed spaces comprise this moment through components that influence, connect and govern each other

Ram of Grapes

How else might we brand our wine bar but with the Ram of Grapes. Since our wine bar is to be named "The Horn" by the client, finding a creative way to brand a horn with some personality was fun. My first iteration was the red one, but due to some feedback I learned that he may look a little like the devil or like he's been skinned alive. I tried to soften him with some color pencil accents, but ultimately decided to do another rendering (thank God I scanned the black line drawing) in a more purplish tone.

The Ram of Grapes is a mythological creature who prances through crops, blessing farmers with rich harvests when they have done great deeds... Okay I made all that up but perhaps this mythological tone can be brought into some of the other branding types for the space.

Biff Burger Analysis

Fun Draws From Class

I've been practicing a lot with amping up my line weights. I've been shown a few drawing techniques by David Gibbs on how to finish a line by fattening the ends. Receding round surfaces can be fattened to show the compression of area, implying roundness.

Parrish Wine/Res Design Development One

Parrish Wine/Res Schematic Design

These images are some initial sketches and spatial diagraming regarding the wine bar and residential spaces.

The bar perspective is based around the moment of creating diverse ways of engaging a bar and the band that would perform in front. Bar patrons can sit at the booths, sit at the bar, lean on the bar (with provided leaning ledge), or stand, all the while at the same relative eye level. It is interesting to explore the dynamic between booth seating at 1 1/2' off the ground on top of a platform to meet bar benches which are typically twice that height.

This perspective was also helpful in exploring how the environmental systems can be integrated with the space.

Downtown Durham Wine-bar/Residence Reinvigoration

Our third project is to design and create a multi use retail/residential unit within the historic building site of 106 Parrish Street. This project is part of the planned reinvigoration and economic development of downtown Durham, North Carolina. This building will complement the flavor of the emerging surrounding businesses. The first floor will feature a wine bar/ retail space tailored the local tastes of downtown Durham. The second and third floors will be made up of four residence/apartments each complete with kitchen, bed room, laundry, bathroom, and living space units.

I am tackling this project with my talented classmates, Felicia Dean and Ino Loloci

Central Regional Hospital Design Development Two

A View To A Garden

The Group Space and Patient Care Room

Central Regional Hospital Design Development One

I based my concept on the moment of the shade tree. I look to the shade tree for the revitalizing moment one experiences while lying on fresh green grass, patches of dirt, encircling roots and a cool earthy scent in the breeze. The proposed spaces are to comprise this moment through components that influence, connect and govern each other.

The existing group room is primarily white, composed of a television amongst multiple chairs and tables. This perspective exemplifies my concept through the central unifying element “the plant slant;” systems of the room reverberate and connect to this element, other systems continue the connection, thus generating a network comparable to the roots, the grass, the dirt, and the atmosphere of the shade tree. A subtle division of space is created along with a slanted planter for fine grasses. On either side of this divider is a tabled area with chairs and a wall mounted television. The other side features built in seating and a comfort circle for cushions and pillows. On the right of the room is the “Art Aedicule” which is at such a height that children may post and observe their art at any angle desired. Patches responding to the central space litter the floor, among them are chalkboard painted patches for decorative expression.

The patient room features more cove lighting centered on the modular bed and storage units. The storage and bed are modular in that they do not reach the walls so that they can be arranged and placed in any patient room. The curve motif shown in hallway elevations is used as a way-finding element to identify individual patient rooms. This curve then transforms into an overhead light and art display above the built-in bed nook. A camera/kaleidoscope light display allows for calming intimate atmosphere when the patient/client may feel agitated or uneasy while providing an inconspicuous mode of observation.

Lighting:

The existing fluorescent bulbs are very direct and harsh on the eyes, and the reflective white floors only work to increase the intensity. Much like the "Spine" corridor that runs the whole hospital, I would like to use cove lighting on the edges of the ceilings to create a softer space. In many of the spaces with windows to the outside I have slanted the ceiling so that light seemingly explodes from windows enlarging spaces.

Materials:

Natural materials are important in that they establish a connection to nature allowing the client a connection to the universe as well as for their abilities in reacting to natural light. For example use of sandstone flooring will be placed where sunlight meets the floor most prominently. Walking barefoot on warm sandstone as I did during a class trip to India was an experience in itself entirely different to what one might compare to warm cement. Having a multi-textural experience seeks to offset the regimented order that may ensue from such an institutional space. Cool blue Terazzo flooring will make up the rest of the space. Accents of walls and storage components will be made of pale species woods. Long dark heavy timbers stretch along walls providing support for and influence on various systems.

The shade tree informs our deepest need for acceptance, yet despite all of the dirt and hard roots, it is all seemingly clean and harmless. A focus much like this must be taken with the facility as such regimented institutional practices may potentially suppress our creative, inquisitive minds to further disorder.

Central Regional Hospital Peer Evaluations

Katie O'Boyle

Katie's concept is based on the changing seasons of the year as a metaphor for how the children of the hospital will grow and heal. This seems to be a very strong concept as the idea of the deconstructed child emerging revitalized echoes the changing of seasons, winter to spring. The patient room that I saw of Katie's featured many built-in storage units at a height and scale of a child. The walls were a subdued dark blue and green with a section of wall where the child's art may be hung by velcro. The velcro wall seems to be an innovative solution to hanging the child's art and is in itself very seasonal in its ability to change according to the client's need (or mood). My suggestion is that Katie frame this velcro section off or have elements of it respond to the rest of the room so that it is cohesive. One idea would be to create an interesting design for the shelves of the storage units and then carry that over to the sectioning and framing of the velcro.

Ino Loloci

Ino bases his design around his "bird's nest" concept. In this metaphor, the parent birds are the nurses and doctors, and the patients are the hatchlings. In Ino's sketches, the value of the nest form is evident as seating is arranged in a circle by the large windows. He also has a blue table placed in the middle of this arrangement to perhaps signify the point of focus during group sessions. The materials of the design are meant to introduce the clients/patients to softer more natural materials than what is available. Colors in the space are light blue accents coupled the red, blue, and yellow primary colors. Plants in various planters will also be placed about the space.

Based on some of Ino's model work I saw built-in cabinet storage units, as well as a small slide placed in the corner of one of the patient/client rooms. Although this slide idea seems pretty good for child interaction, the slide I saw was very short and small, also activities like that are often more social and fun in the company of others. It might be nice to place the slide in one of the activity rooms or group room. I also noticed that many of the furniture components are placed without much relation to the overall design or do not seem to connect together well at this point. A system of forms, objects and services could be put in place that implies the unity that the bird's nest is about. Multiple parts must be strung together, not necessarily always in a circle, but so that an environmental system is established.

CRH Design Schematic

I decided to focus on the "Shade Tree" as my concept. I look to it not so much for aesthetic inspiration but for the revitalizing moment underneath while laying on fresh green grass, patches of dirt, encircling roots and a cool earthy scent in the breeze. I want to create the same moment in my space made up of multiple parts that influence, connect and govern each-other. In the first illustration set below I have my central unifying element of the group room called the slant wall. To exemplify how my concept plays out I will have systems of the room reverberate and connect to this element, then systems from those systems will make the same connection, thus generating a network comparable to the roots, the grass, the dirt, and the climate of the shade tree.

Lighting:

The existing fluorescent bulbs are very direct and harsh on the eyes, and the reflective white floors only work to increase the intensity. Much like the "Spine" corridor that runs the whole hospital, I would like to use cove lighting on the edges of the ceilings to create a softer space. In many of the spaces with windows to the outside I have slanted the ceiling so that light seemingly explodes from windows enlarging spaces.

Materials:

Natural materials are important in that they establish a connection to nature allowing the client a connection to the universe as well as for their abilities in reacting to natural light. For example use of sandstone flooring will be placed where sunlight hits the floor most prominently. Walking barefoot on warm sandstone as I did during a trip to India was an experience in itself entirely different to what one might compare to warm cement. Terazzo flooring in the rest of the space and hallways will be in a cool blue/gray. Accents of walls and storage components will be made of pale species woods. Long dark heavy timbers will stretch along walls providing support for various systems.