2021 Spring – Hospitality Furniture, Finishes, and Decor in Greenville

This semester the capstone studio student teams are working with Clarendon Properties of Wilmington NC, on the public spaces for the new Hilton Garden Inn in Uptown Greenville.  Ms Gale Wallace, Clarendon’s Director of Project Management, and Ms Kaitlin Moss James, Project Manager and Pirate, met with the class in January to introduce us to the hypothetical project.  The students are tasked with bringing a sense of place to the hotel’s bars, restaurant, and patio areas, connecting visitor experience to Greenville and to East Carolina University.  What color is your purple?

Portfolio 1 introduces each team, outlines parameters, and charts a design approach.

Portfolio 2 begins to plan out the design of the spaces, starting with the students thinking about activities that may be performed in various spaces and how the space might accommodate those activities.

Portfolio 3 finalizes the design for each team, and sketches a rough furniture budget.

 

         
PACK Interiors-4202-1                 SSS-4202-1
PACK Interiors-4202-2                 SSS-4202-2
PACK Interiors-4202-3                 SSS-4202-3

          
UptownDesign-4202-1        EdwardThatch-4202-1
UptownDesign-4202-2        EdwardThatch-4202-2
UptownDesign-4202-3        EdwardThatch-4202-3

2020 Spring – Programming and Design at 301 Fayetteville St, Raleigh NC

This year finds the senior studio class working with a range of professionals on the renovation of a space in the center of Raleigh’s downtown.

Based on a suggestion by Steelcase Sales Consultant & Design Portfolios’ Susan Weiler Lewis, the class is working with designers from Highwoods Properties – Katie Brooks, Kameran Clapp, and Monica Jones; Storr Office environments – Haley Garrison; Bonitz Flooring – Katie Henderson; and Designtex – Alison DiMola.  Responding to a hypothetical RFP from Highwoods, the student teams are working on re-purposing a former restaurant space in Raleigh that has remained vacant for the past couple of years.

Below are links to each team’s initial proposal to Highwoods, and their preliminary and final design submissions.

     
DESIGNWAVE-4202-1   JHB4Design-4202-1     Deck4-4202-1
DESIGNWAVE-4202-2   JHB4Design-4202-2     Deck4-4202-2
DESIGNWAVE- 4202-3  JHB4Design-4202-3     Deck4-4202-3
   Deck4 Walkthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFqzAoFtWI

      
       G5-4202-1          HomeGirls-4202-1    Team Riots-4202-1
       G5-4202-2          HomeGirls-4202-2    Team Riots-4202-2
       G5-4202-3           HomeGirls-4202-3    Team Riots-4202-3

2019 Spring – Christenbury Gym – Design Development

Student teams have completed furniture and reflected ceiling plans for the adaptive reuse of Christenbury Gymnasium.  They have also created a preliminary, per-square-foot budget, and identified some of the major design challenges they faced.  And they have produced renderings in Revit, as well as identifying furniture and finishes.

        
31NONE-P3                  Diversify-P3            Fundamental52-P3

     
5Star-P3                Enliven-P3                ReJuv-P3


STEM-P3

2019 Spring – Christenbury Gym – Preliminary Schematics

The students used this portfolio to sketch space plan options.  They identified common activities that would be performed in the spaces that they’ve programmed, and imagined the optimal configurations for those activities.  They produced design sketches of what the spaces would look like.  And they assembled preliminary palettes of finishes and furniture for the space.  Click the links below each thumbnail to view each team’s design process.

           
Diversify Designs-4202-2    Enliven Designs-4202-2       ReJuv-4202-2

           
31none-4202-2       Fundamental52-4202-2      STEM-4202-2


5 Star Design-4202-2

2019 Spring – Christenbury Gym – Programming

This Spring, interior design students in this capstone studio are working with Cara Phillips, partner at Phillips Architecture, to study the feasibility of repurposing ECU’s Christenbury Memorial Gymnasium.  Students met with some of the current users of the space, as well as with Ms Phillips and Laurel Wright, Chief Accessibility Code Consultant in the North Carolina Department of Insurance, to review challenges and possibilities.  The program documents shared below begin to explore how the space might be used.

     
31NONE-P1          Diversify Designs – P1   5StarDesigns – P1

     
STEM P1              Enliven Designs- P1   Fundamental52_P1


ReJuv-P1

2018 Spring – Co-Working in Durham NC – Design Development 2

With this portfolio, the students completed their design of the co-working project, with renderings, furniture and finish selections, seating specs, and a line item construction budget.

     
Method-4a                 Fusion-4                 Triverge-4 

     
Divergent-4                Skyline-4                   Liberty-4  


Multi-4

2018 Spring – Co-Working in Durham NC – Schematic Design

During the schematic design phase, students created options for space plans, considered where they like to perform different types of work (focused work, diffuse focus work, etc) and created Spatial Concept Sketches, and began sketching their ideas for the various spaces.

      
       Fusion-4202-2         Method-4202-2        Diverge Net-4202-2

     
Multi_4202_2          SKYLINE-4202-2         Liberty-4202-2

2018 Spring – Co-Working in Durham NC – Programming

This semester we are privileged to work with IDSN program alum Jennifer Turner, Director of Interior Design at MHAworks in Durham NC.  Jennifer has created a hypothetical program for the students, including co-working office space.  The building in which the students are designing the space is a roughly 20,000 square foot former tobacco warehouse in Durham.

   
Divergent Network-4202-1      Fusion-4202 – 1      Liberty-4202-1          

   
Method-4202-1      Mutli Designs_4202_1      Skyline-4202-1


Triverge-4202-1

IDSN 4202 | Interior Design Studio VI

Welcome to the senior interior design capstone studio.

In past years, students in this class have collaborated with various outside partners, including a hotel developer working on a property in Greenville and with architectural technology students from Pitt Community College.  Here is a link to a project from several years back in collaboration with PCC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsJVxMIjA8U

Check out the latest student projects above!