design school projects: year 3

ahhh...a trip down memory lane.

i remember many things about my years as an
interior design student, 

but the things i remember most are:

1. fingers covered with spray mount and xacto wounds

2. staying up all night to finish a presentation

3. an intense hatred for rendering. blech.

4. dialated eyes from staring at a computer too long

5. spending obscene amounts of money on mat board, 
foam core, markers, staedler pencils, 

xacto blades, spray mount and mat-cutting fees. 

(i think i could have bought a condo 
on mauii for what i forked out on foam core alone.)

5. feeling like i LIVED in the design building.
(i ate way too many "cup o' noodles" and 
cookies from the vending machine. 
for real.
i should be long dead from an overdose of 
sodium and preservatives.)
here are two of my projects from my junior year:

be nice. 
it was the 90's.
restaurant project:

the purpose of this assignment was to create a 

restaurant, using a kitchen tool as inspiration.

i chose a wire whisk.

the board above is a collection of the preliminary

sketches and ideas for the project.

early on, i decided that i wanted the ends of the

wire whisk to be "cut", forming a more tree-like form.

as you can see below, the wire whisks 

became metal tree-like sculptures in the space.

here is the final exterior elevation,

and an interior cross section.

i hate that i didn't photograph these when they were

still "new". spray mount is pretty awesome, but after

13 years in storage, i guess it loses some of it's adhesion.

check out the scuffs on the mat board.

that's what happens when you move 9 times in 13 years.

things get a little dinged up!

the floor plan.

a rendering.

blech.

i hated doing renderings.

(just thought i'd remind you)

master bath project:

for this assignment, our professor gave us a very ODD space, 

and asked us to create a master suite with 

a walk-in closet, sitting area, a fireplace, 

a door to the outside, and a large 

bathroom with all goodies that people want 

in a master bath (two sinks, separate tub/shower,

 enclosed toilet room, as well as a fireplace near the tub.)

here's what i came up with:

i'm sure if i was given this assignment again today,

the space would look totally different!

but even though this was designed 13 years ago,

i still wouldn't mind living here today.