2020 Fall – Third Place in Greenville NC

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This Fall the sophomore class returns to using flue-cured tobacco barns to create a Third Place here in Greenville NC.  This hypothetical gathering space would be located within the area designated for ECU’s Millenial Campus. Portfolio 1 contains students’ preliminary research and design sketches. Portfolio 2 follows the students’ work in AutoCAD as they define … Read more

2019 Fall – Retail Incubator Space in Greenville NC

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This semester, students are designing a product display/presentation space in the historic Hughes Tobacco Warehouse in Greenville.  This space is designed to offer students and professors a place to meet with business people, to discuss ideas for product development. Portfolio 1 includes preliminary Quick Sketch Competency exercises, Music as Design Inspiration, Activity Space Studies, and … Read more

2018 Fall – Third Place – Refinement

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For their final portfolio of the semester, students refined their design projects in Revit.  They created a partial Furniture Plan, partial RCP, and a rendering of their cafe.  The renderings included the addition of figures, using Photoshop.        odette-2103-4         Malpaya_2102_4         Stark 2102-4          Joyner-2102-4    … Read more

2018 Fall – Third Place – Prototyping and Testing

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In this phase the students moved from hand process to digital.  They created schematic layout options, reviewed locations and configurations for stairs, and assembled a 3D model with walkthrough video, to test out their ideas.  Please click on the link below each thumbnail to access the students’ slideshows.  Click on the vimeo links to connect … Read more

2018 Fall – Third Place – Ideation

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The next step of the students’ design process is ideation – generating design ideas based on the research and program.  They completed several exercises to further this. The first exercise was Music as Design Inspiration, an exercise originally developed by Professor Becky Sweet, in which they drew while listening to a piece of music, translating … Read more

2018 Fall – Third Place – Program

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In which students identify their client/users, as well as some of the challenges of dealing with the site.                           Malpaya Rezk Stark-1   Joyner Thompson Wohlgemuth-1   Heath Johnson Love-1                           Cousar Reins Sandoval-1      Florez Miller Odette-1        Baker Heuman Wachtel-1

2017 Fall – Schematic Design

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The students completed preliminary schematic design, using hand sketching, AutoCAD, and SketchUp softwares. Section 001       Johnson-2102-P2        Coughlin-2102-P2          Hill-2102-P2       Fox-2102-P2        Giddings-2102-P2       Russell-2102-P2         Austin-2102-P2          Rossi-2102-P2         Reynolds-2102-P2       Nichols-2102-P2    … Read more