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Design a cottage with 16’x 26’ footprint. Must have kitchen and bath. Maximum building height 18’. Design is for a beach house pri-marily used for entertaining and enjoying the water and sun. It can also be used as a guest cot-tage.
Sloping roof capitalizes on maxi-mum building height, directs the view toward the water and cre-ates intimacy and interest at the entry. Kitchen windows at coun-ter height support this idea.
Nanawall system allows space to be opened to outside. Flooring is the same inside and out.
MODERN BEACH COTTAGEFall 2007
Design a retail store and corporate apartment for a high end designer of your choice. The concept originates from the fact that our French client, Christian LaC-roix favors the use of a modern Ba-roque style of design in his built envi-ronments.
Enfilade is a common feature in grand European architecture from the Ba-roque period onwards. Enfilade is a suite of rooms that are formally aligned with each other. The doors entering each room are aligned with the doors of the connecting rooms along a single axis, providing a vista through the entire suite of rooms. The first rooms are more public, and at the end more private.
In our apartment we have a rather grand bed on axis so it is the main view as you enter the apartment. This plays off of the idea of the king’s bedchamber being more impor-tant than the throne in 17th century France.
CHRISTIAN LACROIXENFILADE
Spring 2008
Design a townhome on a proper-ty 100’x25’. Maximum 5000 sq.ft, and 44’ high.
Client is a family with three chil-dren. The concept is a home with three pavilions. These pavilions achieve three main goals:
Privacy—the home gets more private as you venture back and up.
Outdoors—With two outdoor courtyards and French doors in all ground floor rooms, the home can be opened to the outside. Kids can go out and play with complete security.
Light—Windows open onto pri-vate, courtyard views. You can forget that you are bordered on both sides by neighbors. There is plenty of light coming from all di-rections.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
PRIVATE CITY OASISTHREE PAVILIONS
Spring 2008
The back pavilion is the most private and contains the family room, kids’ suite and master suite.
The kids’ suite features sleep-ing nooks for each child, giving them a curtained sleeping berth with shelves and storage for their treasures, as well as a curtained closet/dressing area. There is a communal desk for homework and sitting area with windows that open to the courtyard.
This is a home designed for a fam-ily with children. It is a home with magical, private spaces. Color schemes are lively and bright. It is first and foremost a place for family.
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
PRIVATE CITY OASISTHREE PAVILIONS
Spring 2008
Design a hotel lobby at 2nd and Virginia that is quintessentially Se-attle.
Seattle is unique in how we orient ourselves to the mountains. An exploration of furniture that might go in the space revealed an idea of exploiting height at the east and west ends of the space, in a reference to the Cascade and Olympic mountains . This idea of mountains grew by adding another interesting layer of Seattle’s history - that being the spirit of expedition that fueled Seattle’s growth into a city during the Yukon gold rush.
With these strong layers of moun-tains and expedition running through the concept, the name of the hotel is derived from the first American man to summit Mt. Everest, Jim Whittaker, who is from Seattle. An image of him from that famous climb is shown on the wall behind the Expedition Desk. The concept is for the guest to discover .
The use of rough, rocky, icy mate-rials is a clear reference to moun-tains, but to keep it from becom-ing too literal they are combined with sleek, shiny painted met-als which are a nod to Seattle’s aerospace and high tech indus-tries - another form of exploration in the area .
WHITTAKEREXPLORATION AND MOUNTAINEERING
Spring 2009
The mountain feel is continued by keeping partitions, counters and seating areas fractal and broken. There are few straight lines in our space.
The spirit of exploration is incor-porated by varying floor heights to let the guest experience the space in different ways. Scout is a raised area for gathering infor-mation about their new environ-ment with swivel Egg chairs for privacy. Ledge is a sunken area for gathering and waiting, and is intended to feel somewhat like a protected rocky outcrop.
Color is also used as an explora-tion. As you venture further into the space, colors become more saturated, beginning with an al-most white, purple-grey and be-coming deep plum.
Furniture, fabrics and lighting sub-tly remind us of camping. Light-ing is a modern lantern. Textiles are the rough, wool of army blan-kets. Tables and stools have the lines of folding campaign style furniture.
WHITTAKEREXPLORATION AND MOUNTAINEERING
Spring 2009
Design a corporate office space for a non-profit organiza-tion.
The design concept originates from the thinking about what creates protection and oppor-tunity in the communities that Unicef serves? Things that are woven - fences, walls, roofs, baskets. I incorporate this woven idea in a less literal way here. Ceiling planes weave to-gether and define space. Floor and wall planes weave together to add light and interest. The woven surfaces act as both or-ganizing and design elements.
UNICEF -COMMERCIAL OFFICEWOVEN
FALL 2009
The design concept of woven is apparent in the entry sequence to the space. Beams weave through the elevator lobby and into a ceiling cloud that directs you toward reception. Here beams and high wooden walls clearly define the space north to south and you can see the floor and wall planes weaving together in the circulation area around the core.
The woven ceiling planes of beams and cloud are further developed by making elements that define space north to south high and dark and elements that define space east to west low and light. This lets the beamed workspaces become intimate and private and the cloud workspaces become open and collaborative.
All workspaces are open plan and have flexibility to be double size for management. Even the smallest areas seat 6 employees so there are many options in how different departments can be accomodated within the office.
The design concept brings orga-nization and interest creating a dynamic and practical space that incorporates the culture of the organization into the work environment in an engaging way.
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UNICEF -COMMERCIAL OFFICEWOVEN
FALL 2009
Design a penthouse condomin-ium in New York City. Choose fabrics and finishes and create color rendering of two rooms.
Home to a retired couple who entertain often and are collec-tors of eclectic art pieces.
Clients like color, texture and classic shapes. Neither too tradi-tional nor too modern.
Two separate furniture groupings maximize seating for entertain-ing. Chaise can be used as seat-ing for either group, or as a place to lounge and take in the view.
The color orange brings vitality. Pattern and texture of all uphol-stery provide visual interest.
CENTRAL PARK PENTHOUSEFall 2008
