Hipster Haven

Supportive Connections

The original structural columns and beams help to connect elements of the buildings old design to the spaces new deisign and use. With the bathroom helping to support the loft, the existing columns and beams act as a frame, highlighting the height of the ceiling while shaping the different living areas.

Plan Veiw

Section A

Section B

Living Area

Loft

Bathroom

Kitchen

Bedroom

Podium Images of A Place To Dine

Cache-Control: max-age

Animation

A Place to Dine in SketchUp

A Place To Bathe

Design Research:

I’m looking into the Asian and Hindu cultures and how they use bathing and exercise rituals as part of the healing process. Along with bathing, I'm looking at some other ways of healing as well. One in particular that I find interesting is the holistic treatments of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is a system of traditional medicine native to India, and practiced in other parts of the world as a form of alternative medicine.

Concept:

Natural Healing Elements

This space is for people who are temporarily wheelchair bound. They would be able to come to this spa to mentally and physically prepare themselves for the strenuous labor involved in rehabilitation. Along with bathing, this spa would offer oil massages, yoga, skin treatments, and counseling to its patrons.

Designing the bathing space:

Ayurveda believes in 'five great elements' earth, water, fire, air, and space. I used these elements, to aid in the design of the bathing space.

Space Element: My bathing area is raised 3ft off of the ground, allowing it to be separated from the rest of the facility. The floor plan is open using wall partitions to create the bathing area. This helps the space to seem open and as well as inviting. The ceiling consists of glass panels, also creating a more open and serene environment.

Plan & Ceiling Plan

Water Element: The pools are 3ft deep to allow its occupants to sit comfortably in the water and still be able to enjoy the space around them.

Earth, Air, Fire Elements: Ayurveda sees bathing as a therapeutic activity, which involves the three doshas (doshas determine a persons temperament), vata (air), pitta (fire), and Kapha (earth). Ayurveda explains that the three doshas govern all mental and physical aspects of the body. With this in mind, I have created three pools, cool for those with an air temperate, warm for those with an earth temperate, and hot for those who have a fire temperate. The different water temperatures enhance physical energy levels and improve mental clarity, while relaxing the mind and balancing emotions.

Since color also helps to stimulate the mind and body, I have chosen colors that represent fire, earth, and air to coincide with the different water rooms and water temperatures.

Section

Left room: Air with cool water pool
Pool (5x5 ft) room (15x15 ft w/ wall height at 8ft)
Center room: Earth with warm water pool
pool (15x15 ft) room (25x25 ft w/ wall height at 9ft)
Right room: Fire with hot water pool
pool (5x10 ft) room (15x20 ft w/ height at 8ft)

Perspective Into Space

Perspective View of Ramp
2 ramps both 3x36 ft

Detail of pool ramp

Each pool has a ramp that folds up from the bottom of the pool to allow users to be assited down into the water.

Shows the pool ramp unfolding

FF&E Schedule

Sketch Model

A Place to Dine

Object Persuasion

Urban Pathways

Weathered and Disruptive

Another photoshop assignment...... We were given two words that we had to find images for and then manipulate them using techniques that we've learned in class. The images had to represent the words without being to literal and without using text or pictures of people. My words were "weathered" and "disruptive"........ So the above image is of weathered wood with a welding machine. I used the welding machine because the noise that it makes is disruptive. I must say that I did better on this assignment then the previous one :-)

Pattern Percetion

Playing with photoshop :-)

I picked the above Victorian pattern and tried to recreate the images pattern using an urban landscape image...... Well I'm still learning!

Design Manifesto

We were given the assignment of designing a Manifesto that illustrated what design means to us. We had to come up with a statement that summed up our ideas and then we had to make something that expressed what we were trying to say.

What does design mean to me?

At this point in my life its hard to answer that question. What I like about design is how it is ever changing and how I'm constantly learning something new about myself in the process of discovering what design has to offer. Something that I struggle most with is how to add and subtract color without compromising a design.... So I came up with this Design Manifesto in order to help simplify things for myself.

The impact of color, shape, and size help to create and unify design.