Final Presentation!

Today I presented my final studio project of the year, the Vitra Design Museum lobby! In the previous critique my marker and pencil renderings didn't go over very well, so this time I attempted watercolors:

Ticket booth

Lobby seating

Lobby and Temporary Exhibition from Mezzanine

Cafe

Cocktail lounge at night with view into museum

These were still dubbed too heavy-handed, but I think they're a definite improvement.

Keeping With the Trends

Here are two sketches of my updated design.

This is my lobby seating area, now the furniture layout is more flexible/variable:

This is my cocktail lounge, I've updated it to include lighting from FLOS by Philippe Starck:

Sharpie Sketching

In another chapter of my love affair with sharpie sketches, here are some new sketchup sharpie renderings of my Vitra Design Museum lobby:

This is a glimpse of the facade:

This is the seating area on the ground floor:

This is a glimpse inside the cafe during the day:

And this is inside the cafe/lounge area at night when it is an after hours cocktail lounge:

This is a peek inside the museum's administrative offices:

Sketchup Saved My Life

I've been having a serious love affair with Google Sketchup. I'm not that comfortable drawing perspectives, so this software that lets you quickly make a model on the computer has hugely enhanced my perspectives. They help me keep everything to scale, and have really sped up my process!

This is the view from inside the bookstore/gift shop area. The steps to the after hours cocktail lounge on the mezzanine level double as a bookcase in the downstairs.

This is the view from the sidewalk of the museum at night. The light from the mezzanine cocktail lounge spills out onto 22nd street.

This is the staircase that takes you to the mezzanine cocktail/lounge as well as further up to the 2nd floor where the permanent collection is housed

The ticket office, just inside the gift shop area as you enter the museum.

This is the view across the mezzanine cocktail lounge/cafe.

Mapping

I've spent a lot of this year learning about maps, and was enchanted to find this adorable map of Fort Greene. Check out Pratt!

Stairs...

This is a sketch I did today of the view if you are standing inside my hypothetical gift shop/bookstore and looking into the museum lobby. The shelving for the books is literally built into the stair.

Sarah's Bakery

My dear friend Sarah Warren (check out her blog here) is planning to someday open a bakery (hopefully someday soon!) so I've been drawing up some ideas for her. One idea we had, was that at her bakery while the customers wait in line they have a chance to watch the pastries being made.

Now I know that you're thinking- we've seen plenty of open kitchens before! But what you're used to seeing is the whole kitchen, complete with sweating bakers saturating the space with their stress. Instead, the peeks that you get of Sarah's kitchen will create a calmer atmosphere. There will be a number of strategic reveals built into the kitchen wall: through one small window you'll see hands kneading dough, through another you watch as hands ice a cake, but you'll never see the bodies those hands belong to:



The customer gets the best of the traditional open kitchen: the appetizing peek at what lies ahead, without the worst: the anxiety inducing scene of chaos and stress.

These sketches don't show it, but we've also talked about putting antique shutters on the windows to go with the antiquey/Anthropologie vibe.

ps. the images are scans from my notebook, so the noise in the background is my handwriting on the other side of the page showing through