St. Elmos Bathroom Design

For the Past two weeks we have been working on a bathroom design for the St. Elmo's 2 bedroom apartments. For this design I stuck with my concept model of diagonal lines, layers, and natural hues. I also brought in a little inspiration from the paint "The Birth of Venus" with it's sweet natural color hues. I found some parts of this project difficult because it was focusing on ADA design and making it wheel chair accessible. To make it wheel chair accessible there is front and side access to the toleit, five foot turn around, large shower, grab-bars, three foot door entry, and front access to the sink. I found it challenging to find the right tiles but i enjoyed it. I wanted to go for the natural stones and not have it feel so cold. I picked an Italian mosaic tile that captures the light. I also brought in a artistic pendent light that i enjoy that resembles the "Birth of Venus" well I believe. I am pleased with the outcome of my design and ideas.

Sketch Crawl With The Urban Sketchers

We went to the Seattle Sculpture Park and had a great time sketching. It was a beautiful day to just get out and draw what was in front of us. I have never gone out with a large group before to just do some sketching and share our work after, for it being my first time I really enjoyed it. One of the things that made this experience even better was that the Urban Sketchers joined us and they are a group of extreme talent, they shared their work with us and one lady gave me some useful pointers. A pointer that I will take from is this that to bring your eye to only one area and just make that part shine that other area of it is just the frame. After looking at her work I feel like that is advice to take. It was a great time and I just simply enjoyed it. :)

With Pastels 

Flare and Color Pencils 

Habitat For Humanity Home of the Future

Habitat for Humanity was having a display in Seattle by the Space Needle of the home of the Future. It was mainly focused on susantable materials and energy saving. Ways they came up for energy saving was the wetbox. They had all their appliances all connected to each other, this includes sinks, dish washer, washer, toilets, and water heater. This way there would be only one water line. It doesn't just save on cost but it make the building process a lot faster. They also did double wall insulation and double windows to keep the heat in the home. Another idea was that they used large windows to the home seem larger and to bring in more natural light. I thought that the home layout was interesting and it was a great opportunity to learn about the habitat for humanity organization.

Quick Sketch of the Home

Job Shadowing With Starbucks

This was a great day I had the opportunity to spend the day at the Starbucks Headquarters and learn about their design and concept. We toured the headquarter and had the chance to admire the beautiful building.  We had the opportunity to meet several people and learn about their position and the work that they provide for Starbucks. I learned that Starbucks has three base design concepts, Heritage, French Industrial, and Artisan. A lot the the employees there gave us a lot of pointer for an interior design life style. A lot of the Things that were shown to us where top secret so unfortunately i wouldn't be able to share them with you. But overall experience was wonderful and I hope someday to work for them, I feel like its a different rout for design that is so appealing to me. One main thing I gathered from them was practice practice practice and time management.

Kitchen Design

Over all Presentation of Kitchen Design 

Materials used

Perceptive Sketches

Model of Design

From my concept models I wanted to show layers, diagonal lines, and organic tones. I provided layers by having multiple counter heights. I also provided a lot of shelving units and display cabinets. My corner sink and cabinets were inspired by the diagonal lines in my concept model. Also the color scheme and materials chosen were inspired by the organic tones, I stuck to greens, white, and browns; and sustainable materials. I was pleased with the final project and I feel like it represented my concept model well. Also with the display shelving I designed a opened display unit representing the idea of having multiple view points. On the cabinet fixture I chose a white paneled pattern because the inspiration chosen was a country song and also my rustic light fixtures were also chosen for the same reason. I wanted to related to my inspiration and concept model while design my kitchen and I believe I did the best I could. This project was a lot of work but I was please with the out come.

Ride Don't Walk

Me at the counter, with starbucks <3

Having the experience of riding in a wheelchair and having to perform daily task was eye opening. Having proper hight is really important and also door openings and sometimes turnarounds were hard to perform. One problem i did have was trying to get to a door when the door was on a slope. Even though the door was automatic opening for wheelchair access it was really hard to get to the door and help was needed. I also learned that people that have to get around in a wheelchair must be really strong.

My view to a counter 

My sketches From the Wheel chair perspective

Me at the sink

My view at the sink

Concept Models from Inspired Song Lyrics

My inspiring song for my concept models was the House That Built Me by Miranda Lambert. from this song were the words memories, to go, and tree. The word memories resembles layers to me they can be the same size and different sizes. The phrase "to go" paints a directional line so lots of vertical lines. The word tree gave me the idea that organic feels had to be involved, so texture, shape and color. For my models that what I focused on layers, diagonal line, and organic feels. After modeling my three concept models I decided that I wanted my final model to feel more open and have a view point from all angels. So my final model represents layers, diagonal lines, and multiple viewpoints.

Concept Models

Final Concept Model

Context Poster- ADA

ADA (American Disabilities Act) is a set of requirements for universal design. Within my group we spilt up parts of ADA, and what it can provide and how to work with it. I took on the part of technology. Through my research I noticed that options out there, for safety, accessibility,materials, and security. I found a home in Pasadena California and this home was modern home that was designed on a ADA foundation. I found it a very versatile home and had a lot of components that make this home helpful for any age. A lot of this home was also wheelchair accessible. During my research I learned that they are still design for ADA everyday.