2020 Fall – Third Place in Greenville NC

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

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 – Prototyping and Testing

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

2017 Fall – Schematic Design

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

2017 Spring – SketchUp/Photoshop

As always, the students used SketchUp software to model their designs in 3D, and Photoshop to add rendering effects to views of their model.       Cunningham-Portfolio2 Culvahouse-Portfolio2    Jimenez-Portfolio2       Craze-Portfolio2        Stasuk-Portfolio2       Harris-Portfolio2       Pruett-Portfolio2                           … Read more

2016 – SketchUp/Photoshop

As they do each year, the sophomores have taken their reception area design from AutoCAD into SketchUp to explore varied 3D views of the space.  After adding materials in SketchUp, they then exported some of their scenes to Photoshop to add exterior context, figures, and lighting.  Students also rendered a furniture and reflected ceiling plan … Read more

2015 – SketchUp/Photoshop

The students took their floorplans into SketchUp to bring them into 3D, and then added rendering touches in Photoshop.      Brackett2                        DiGiovanni2                         Duerr2        Ferguson2a                   Goodman2           … Read more

2014 – Sketchup

For their first assignment of the semester, students designed a two-storey 20’x30′ reception space. The charrete culminated with them using SketchUp to project their designs into three dimensions.  Click each link to see slides of each student’s work AdebiyiBarringer Brouillette Chapman Christopher Currie Dower  Higgins Lobell  Marks Netter No Payne Polak Thomas