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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more