Designers soul

final presentations

2009-05-06T12:59:00.002-07:00

Viable [industrial] mode

2009-05-06T12:35:00.000-07:00

Urban Loft

2009-03-26T20:23:00.000-07:00

" one learns people through the heart; not the eyes or the intellect"

- mark twain

our objective is to turn the UNCG storage warehouse into an condo complex complied of loft living quarters. the idea is to take old unused industrial warehouses into affordable dwellings for first time home owners.

the overall concept of our space design is based on the community center within the space. we wanted it to be the life force of our space. it is the heart. each unit is like an organ that only thrives off the social aspects of life. we saw these new home owners to be young citizens venturing into the workforce for the first time, people who thrive on community.

plan

our plan is centralized around the community center [heart], and moves outward from there the pathways connect all the units together. each unit contains a patio space which opens up to neighbors for an added push towards community. i guess you could say we created utopia in a box.

the view below is an area view of the interior of the space.

the overall idea is to create a vineyard type space keeping the overhead beams and punching through the middle of them to expose the outside. the units however would keep the ceiling except where the loft punches through. since the space is sustainable we wanted to take the remaining concrete that is replaced by grass to be broken down and reused to fabricate the walls of the units, in some since we are giving back to the earth and reusing what we take away from the building and not just throwing it away.

From the earth [a place to dine]

2009-03-19T11:35:00.000-07:00

concept

my concept for this project derives from the garden vegetables that are grown for the meals that are served. so the idea is from the earth, and in my design this concept is shown through natural light organic furniture, terra-cotta tiles and stone, and wood. i chose mostly natural materials and formed a 21st century farm style dining space.

The inspiration for my place to dine came from a personal approach. for me i couldn't help but think of grandma, so my table design formed from this idea of a farm table, mostly due to the fact we eat garden produced foods at most family dinners. i wanted the wood to be weathered and have a very rustic appearance.

so for my buffet i went with the same approach something simple but provided enough use. there are drawers located for silverware and a sink like indention for drinks that allow ice to surround them like a cooler.

this sketch image is the overall idea of my dinning space. there are baywindows to bring in the natural light as well as skylights in the ceiling which are not shown here but is hinted in the wall section. the stairs lead to the living space or great room as the double entrance leads into the kitchen.

Floorplan Layout

wall section

wall detail

radiant stages [a place to bathe]

2009-03-06T01:16:00.000-08:00

Radiant Stages

My concept comes from the idea of a wheelchair rotating in full circle, the stages of the sun during the day and the idea of when you go to a spa you generally want to come back refreshed and radiant. But also I want focus on the sun and nature, the idea of spas using natural oils and herbs or nature in general to sooth the body, along with the warming rays of the sun.

Brand

I have always been fascinated by the Spanish culture, but I couldn’t find anything about bathing but they have a tradition. In the Spanish culture after a big meal, generally comes a nap before they go back to work and I have heard that time is really not an issue for them. So the idea for my spa becomes a place of rest where time is lost and this idea of rest and relaxation becomes the main event.

The idea of my spa is to come in and relax among nature. Usually spa treatments are done with botanicals, river rocks, and natural oils to sooth muscles or radiate the skin. I want all clients to feel like time has stopped and all you are required to do is relax and take in your surroundings.

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Floor Plan

wall sections

Perspectives

this perspective shows the individual jet bathes and the massage tables in the other room. the space dosent have a sense of lighting but i imagined tracking lighting that focused on the picture graphics. so the rooms would essentially be dark but, sense the rooms are saturated with color the reaction would be a pale luminescent that would light the entire room. the idea is to focus on your surroundings so i wanted the graphics to be whimsical abstractions of nature that entice the mind and the free forms would relax the mind. the light surfaces on the ground is sand, sand is a natural exfoliant for the skin. sense people restricted to a wheel chair for mobility will be in the space i have created this broadwalk so to speak to guide you through the space.
sense this idea of a wheel chair turning is important to my concept there are large spaces and walk ways for this. the ramp id located in the pool for easy access. the pool is enriched with botanicals to nourish the skin along with more sand in have of the pool. i imagine there would be seating so that the people in wheel chairs could also put there feet in the sand. the lounge chairs provide for perfect sun bathing for any individual. there are also water walls located on the exterior walls that allow for rinsing after leaving the pools.

Design manifesto

2009-01-28T09:19:00.000-08:00

" The utopia of design derives from ones ability to harmonize reality with imaginable possibilities."
After researching De stijl and Antoni Gaudi I wanted to combine the elements of right angles and curves to show how they are different and the unite them with a circle thats perfect.

shelter/ bus

2008-10-07T16:41:00.000-07:00

my one week charette the shelter bus so hers my idea....

guerilla marketing

2008-09-22T09:26:00.000-07:00

ok so for our design marketing in a place we wanted to follow some similar lines of guerilla marketing so as kind of a metaphor for bus shelter we decided to place an umbrella over a GTA sign that has know shelter to implicate that it needs one. the umbrella would say iarc to link it back to us. I tried to get a picture of this in reality but unfortunately I was not tall enough to put the umbrella over the sign.

for our internet marketing we decided to make a awareness test video on youtube by creating a test to see how many red umbrellas that walk by, there would be like 10 or 15 and the take them back to the scene and ask them if they saw the man standing by the bus sign waiting for the bus without an umbrella. then we would link iarc and our blog community by design on the video at the end so they can be on an awarness of how few bus shelters we have and what iarc is doing to help.

see: Hannah Daughterty, Jennifer Cochran, and Jessica Crews for more marketing ideas for our group.

Codes To Live By

2008-09-19T07:20:00.000-07:00

What was your experience with the various requirements to support human activities and needs?
While researching through the Federal Reserve and Interior Graphic Standards documents our group found it very interesting how much thought went into meeting the needs of humans. There were specific codes on things like railings, protruding objects, chairs heights and turning spaces for wheelchairs. I think it is very important to break apart spaces into codes and standards not only for safety reasons but also for accessibility purposes. The most important thing we learned while researching the codes, ergonomics and proxemics of our group’s bus shelter and shelter buses were that these codes are in place for everyone not just the average human. For instance just the other day I was walking down the sidewalk when suddenly there was a two-inch drop to the connecting sidewalks and I lost my balance and almost fell. I believe this was because the designer for the pathways did not follow the specific code for making surface heights distinguishable by color or texture. The Interior Graphic Standards book had diagrams showing people of all ages in different positions and also included height requirements for the max and min handicap persons reach.

What would you recommend to designers about changes necessary to better accommodate varying abilities?
We would recommend to designers that before you begin to design your space try to think about all types of people that would be experiencing or using your space. Take every part of your design into consideration and look up codes for things from height requirements to safety precautions. Also, make your design versatile so it is easy to alter to accommodate human activities.

How do codes help in design?
Codes help us to design for the community that we live in today. They provide us the standards of humans and their activities while allowing us to break the limit on how far we can go to help others.

How do you anticipate codes will change your work as a designer?
The codes that we have learned over the past two days have already helped us tremendously because they have forced us to look at specific flaws throughout our group’s designs. Later on we hope to learn more about different codes, as they will continue to change and impact the way we view design.

symbol group 9

2008-09-16T18:01:00.000-07:00

here are a few of our ideas for our final two bus models.we had 10 needs that we felt should be accomodated....

1. water
2. food
3. clothing
4. first aid
5. sleeping arrangements
6. entertainment
7. daycare
8. recreation
9. showers
10. internet access
we combined in our two buses alot of the ten physical needs that we addressed in our list. Our extended bus is our sleeping quaters bus that includes clean clothing and showers to freshen up. there are beds included and various tvs for entertainment.

our double decker bus is primarily used as a cafeteria. we included a cafe with tables and chairs along with pantries of food and a endless supply of water.

we wanted our buses to a comfort zone, a place where you could relax and clean up after a natural disaster a place that could implement the feeling of being home.

both sketch ups used a by design by Kieran at the google 3d warehouse in sketch up.

we also pulled common images from our drawings and with the use of photo shop to implement ideas about the contents of our buses.

interviews with people like me and you

2008-09-14T19:02:00.000-07:00

Ok… so our first interview was with a college student, her name is Nicole Taylor. She had on her Burger King uniform heading to work she complained a little about the bus being late and I asked her if it usually ran late and she said “No not ever.” She told us her mom insisted that she stay on campus for two years before moving to an apartment near campus. Lauren explained to her about her town house and the prices. She told us that she rode the bus to save money to help with school and it was just easier transportation for her while being in school. Just as the bus arrived we concluded our conversation by telling her about iarc and our plans to hopefully build a bus shelter here at Tate St. where she was waiting. We asked her if we could possibly take her picture she smiled and said sure before she boarded the bus.

Lauren and I then headed towards the bus stop to get some more details from the people about GTA. We honestly walked around for maybe 15 minutes trying to find the right person to ask and quite frankly this was a quiet Saturday morning. So we decided to sit inside the depot and low and behold as we where watching news about Ike on CNN a lady walked in and sat down beside us. She was an African American woman who looked to be in her thirties. We decided to strike up a conversation with her, she immediately took to us and we talked for a good half hour waiting on the bus. We asked her if she road the bus frequently she said “Everyday, if not I’m walkin’.” We laughed together and she asked us if we where students we said yes and preceded to tell her about our project and our hopes of helping the riders out with a few more shelters. I asked her if a lot of bus stops had shelters she said “ no, very few have shelters you just mostly have to stand, and even if you walk to some shade just a few feet away and your not directly by that sign they will leave you.” I was astonished, I had know idea they where so strict. She began to tell us a little bit about her life, she had always been riding the bus she said when she was little her family traveled a lot, her dad was in the military. She told us she was ready to leave NC “somewhere else,” she said, “new people new scenery.” We where also shocked to find out that you have to wait an hour for the bus on weekends, we couldn’t imagine what it must be like to plan your whole schedule around the buses. Before we left we asked her for her picture she said “no, no pictures I’m not the photo genic type” so we said that’s ok and asked her for her name and she said “Lolitta Mills”. Since we don’t have a picture I’ll do my best to describe her, she had on a flowing floral patterned white and red blouse with crimson red gaucho pants you know the big flowing business pants and white heels. Her hair was pulled back in small rows of braids that formed a pony tail in the back, she carried two bags which where clear that seemed to be like a purse carrying everything a woman might need.

We made a lot of observations while we waited as well…. There was one man who came in exhausted and hot from the humid air outside just to find out that he just missed his bus and would have to wait another hour before it would return. A lot of bus riders are just like you and me one man walked in sat on the bench and pulled out his laptop. Stereotypes get attached to a lot of things and we begin to judge when really it’s just people like you and me trying to save money with just as much class as someone driving an expensive SUV, actually their smarter they don’t have to pay for gas. Seriously though, you gain respect for something you didn’t understand, that now with a little research, you do.

GTA

2008-09-05T07:18:00.000-07:00

Ok so this was my first Greensboro city bus ride and let me tell you alot different from my car. I went with Hannah, and Maurshell, and the plan was to catch the Heat and ride it to the depot where we would catch a GTA route come back and bring the Heat back to campus. Unfortunately we got on the wrong Heat and ended up going around in a circle then back where we started. It was great let me tell you, so we decided to take the easy way out we drove to the depot and got on the Friendly Center bus rode to friendly shopped for 30min got back on and came back to the depot. Along the way you really change your perspective. Being an outsider of the GTA I always hated driving behind them, and always assumed they where just dirty. But my experience yesterday changed my way of thinking the buses where actually very clean, and it takes alot of patience to deal with other drivers on the road, and the buses where not crowded either maybe on different routes but not this one. My favorite part would have to have been the yellow cord that runs down the interior of the buses along the windows, when you pull it, it makes a ding sound that lets the driver know you need to get off the bus. juevenile i know but it is so cool. I definately have respect for GTA riders it really is a cheap sufficent way to get around the city.

Wayfinding to become a community

2008-09-03T06:54:00.000-07:00

The first week of school was very touch and go, meaning the first task was simple, although many of us complained I think we got something from it that we could bring back to the drawing board for the next task. I am part of the clubs, when we where challenged to combine our groups to make a whole i felt we did not have enough time to completely layout everything to the best of our ability. The idea was communicated well I thought but as the class as a whole agreed, not presented the best way, I was actually one of the ones that felt lost in our presentation, we meet earlier that day and agreed on a solution for our presentation. Some of the group was MIA but we agreed. when I came into studio for group presentations I was lost because my group had changed our idea and appearance of the presentation. As a group I definitely think we learned some key examples of what not to do, and hopefully we can grow from those as a whole. The class as a whole was another story completely and from it you can definitely see the maturity levels in the class and the lack to be professional. When we came together one group had an idea that most really liked, but some argued that we should at least have back ups. So we met in small groups and discussed the idea and found that not everyone agreed. We came back together as a whole presented the former idea again along with two other new ideas. The class voted and the first idea was over ruled by a new one that majority felt was best. In constructing this new idea I could see the corruptness unfold. The group that favored their first idea picked and criticized the new idea until no one recognized it. Along with major pouting and pour sportsmanship the new idea was overruled and the first idea along with there group began construction on the present idea leaving the majority rule in the background. So as a class I believe there is a lot of growing up to do and we need to learn how to respect others.

wayfinding

2008-08-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

sketchup!

2008-04-23T12:31:00.003-07:00

bottle caps anyone?

2008-03-25T19:07:00.001-07:00

Nature as an Architectual statement

2008-03-25T18:32:00.000-07:00

our presentation as a whole!

my presentation board and projects

this is my final. i wanted the statement to be something that people could interact with by walking under and experiencing the circle of lights above as in the picture shown.
in this one i added color, orange. my idea for a color was one that would bounce light off the white paper and create color shadows.
in this model i broke away from the 6 inch cube and formed this design with similar variety of circles.
for this particular assignment we were to study a fruit or piece of produce and draw detailed descriptions of each. then we began creating abstract patterns that were later manipulated with a tool. we chose one of the patterns to create a 3d model that would make an architectual statement in the end. this was my first attempt to create a 3d model it came out as a very flat model still very 2d.

2008-02-06T07:12:00.000-08:00

i tried to focus on the abstract idea for the 2 by 4. so i thought about an elephant and what i could do with it. i talked with stoel and we came up with three good ideas for how elephants have systems. one was there herd how they form communities with each other. two how in cartoons elephants form a train with their trunks holding on to each others tails. three the fact that an elephants pad on its foot can feel the vibrations of the earth and can stomp the earth to let another elephant aware of his presence. my original design focused on the community aspect and how they form a train, but looking at my project i think the foot vibrations come out more. because you have 2 elephants and in between them coming from their feet are blocks that make a sound wave affect and appearance.

2007-12-10T11:36:00.001-08:00

final time capsule drawings

2007-12-03T05:50:00.000-08:00

process on time capsule

2007-11-26T07:20:00.000-08:00

Drawing composition page

2007-11-20T13:06:00.000-08:00

shading buildings

2007-11-20T08:00:00.000-08:00

gesture people and box drawings

2007-11-20T07:53:00.000-08:00

time capsule shading

2007-11-13T08:58:00.001-08:00

potrait installation

2007-10-30T10:10:00.001-07:00

i loved this project a lot it allowed both studios to come together and for us to explore new ways of drawing instead of the ones learned in class. at first my idea was to create panels that can be folded up to gather like an accordion, but then it evolved into a display board type deal out of laminate hard word flooring and metal brass colored hinges.

shading

2007-10-25T10:31:00.000-07:00

for the still life i used the diagonal technique to imply were the shadows where.

i used cross hatching as my shading technique for the coffee mug. cross hatching is difficult to use because you are layering lines and perpendiculars to get the shadow.

Metamorphosis: Heather and Jayson

2007-10-12T04:42:00.001-07:00

this is my middle mix of both heather's and jayson's designs i kept the idea of the geometric shapes from jaysons and the tabs from heathers while incorporating the square shapes as in heathers box.

jayson's egg project

this is the more jayson design. i kept the geometric concepts and added a tab that could potentially hold a pencil but it would not be very stable.

i used post-it notes to create my design ideas. i drew both heathers and jaysons nox or egg project, drawing one or two views of interest. then i came up with inter mix ideas then created like a diagram or time line with the post-its on my desk to keep my ideas organized.

two views of heathers box i went with views that showed my interests or focuses

this was my more heather than jayson i wanted to keep the tabs that held the pencils but in a more abstract way that is taking away the job of holding the pencils, and also keeping the same box idea but allowing it to be more square. i also left the box open so that it would have the same effect as the middle mix sort of like an open book.

memory?

2007-10-03T06:14:00.000-07:00

my memory was an elegant evening on a riverboat in savannah, ga. we set sail on the boat all dressed up, for a fancy dinner. the inside was quiet and serine, while outside all the beauty was happening. the view of the city and sunset was a site to behold. the propeller was loud but majestic in how it tossed the water about. much like my clutch, loud and beautiful on the outside but quiet and calm on the inside but still with a quiet elegance.

2007-10-03T06:12:00.000-07:00

zine zine zine

2007-10-02T13:58:00.001-07:00

the zine was a lot of fun to create, i enjoyed looking at the different types of designs created by different designers. i used to much text in my piece though, my composition i think is good but i needed more pictures overall

2007-10-02T13:57:00.002-07:00

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2007-10-02T13:50:00.000-07:00

studio spread

2007-09-27T12:44:00.000-07:00

the studio spread was a lot of fun designing, it's challenging trying to make an interesting composition that guides the eye rather than confusing it.

shadow? or light?

2007-09-25T07:52:00.000-07:00

shading light instead of dark is really difficult when you have trained yourself to only shade the shadows.

pencil box

2007-09-21T06:13:00.000-07:00

overall my favorite project final. there is still some craftsmanship errors, and i couldn't decide on a closure for the lid but overall very decent.

profile 4

2007-09-20T08:52:00.002-07:00

my best profile yet

profile 3

2007-09-20T08:52:00.001-07:00

Ashley

stylin' and profiln'

2007-09-18T08:52:00.000-07:00

2007-09-18T08:51:00.000-07:00

key sketch

2007-09-18T08:50:00.000-07:00

downtown g' boro

2007-09-11T08:16:00.002-07:00

when i draw i have to be in the "zone", so i think you can tell out of my 4 downtown contours when i start to enter my drawing zone because i feel their is a sense of improvement.

downtown 3

2007-09-11T08:16:00.001-07:00

downtown 2

2007-09-11T08:15:00.000-07:00

downtown 1

2007-09-11T08:14:00.001-07:00

contour bicycle w/ shading

2007-09-11T08:13:00.000-07:00

i really liked my drawing of the bicycle better in contour with shading rather than the negative space drawing

negative contour bicycle

2007-09-11T07:51:00.000-07:00

CONTOUR DRAWING

2007-09-06T07:42:00.000-07:00

mciver street building 2

2007-09-06T07:41:00.000-07:00

McIver street building 1

2007-09-06T07:40:00.000-07:00

Blind contour of hand

2007-09-06T07:37:00.000-07:00

negative contour of lamp

2007-09-06T07:35:00.000-07:00

negative contour of stool

2007-09-06T06:58:00.000-07:00

negative contour of a chair

What a blog !

2007-08-30T11:49:00.000-07:00

This blog is so cool. I feel connected with her because her drawings relate to me. Her artwork is very detailed which I like. Personally I don't think my artwork is detailed very great. I really loved the purses. I don't like cats, but I thought she portrayed the furry cat toys really well.

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