One Bedroom and Common Space Assignment

Our final project for the semester was a one bedroom apartment and common space at the St. Elmo's Hotel. Our final  project had to show two floor plans, eight elevations, four perspectives, a section, and materials. The apartment space given had very few windows and since the building was on the historic registry the exterior could not be changes, so there couldnt be any change to the windows. so to bring in more light into the room i lowered the interior walls to eight feet from ten hoping the light will travel. Also the client wanted use of glass blocks so with the bathroom walls the covered the last two feet with glass blocks. I went with an analogous color scheme of greens and yellows with neautral accent colors. I incorperated my concept statment of memories being layers with modular shelving not only are they usefull for storage but they also add a creative design esthetic. The overall project was a lot of work and inclued countless hours. compared to my other past projects i have seen a huge growth in my design, sketching, and drafting. Since there was so much space to work with in this final project it was difficult to make sure everything worked well with each other. You can never tell if things work until you see them in a perspective or a colored model. Below is images of my colored model. This way you can see how all the colors and materials relate to each other.

over all of the apartment

living room

kitchen

bedroom

bathroom

Habitat for Humanity

We had the opportunity to work with the habitat for humanity house in Union Town Washington. As a large group we cleaned up, put up dry wall, painted doors and the garage door as well. A few girl and i worked mostly on the dry wall and it was a lot of work but it was something that we were pretty excited about doing. When we were done for the day the garage was done. It was so much fun bonding with all my class mate and of course it always feels great giving back to the community.

Client Brief

This semester we met up with our client Seth owner of the st. Elmo's hotel in Palouse WA. His goal is to renovate the hotel into apartments and spa. His goal was to keep the original building as much as possible and keep the building as eco-friendly as possible. There were several complications with the building but there came to be solutions with every problem through out the project. One material that Seth could not go without was glass blocks. At first I thought it would be complicated to get that into a mondern comtempuary deign but as always we figure out away. In our client brief its is noticable that there were complications and goals that every client has, and as an Interior Designer it is your job to solve it.