Client Brief

This is a poster of my client brief. It talks about the philosophy of the artist, Tom Degroot, and how his strategy of art is applied into the space that I will be designing. The luminous, silkiness and richness of his paintings will enhance the space that I will be designing through the lighting and color choices that I will make.

Vision Disability Activity

My classmates and I had the opportunity to experience how it feels like to move through space as if we had poor vision. We tried different methods of looking through plastics that contained a specific disability in the eye.

Here is my partner, Megan Pharmer, looking through different plastics.

Looking through a ziploc bag that's folded in half was impossible for me to read the newspaper.

The next task was to fold the ziploc bag into fourths.

We were given a sunglass that was covered with petroleum jelly. When you can't really see, you do rely on texture to find your way around!

The stairs in the Atrium library had good contrast and texture for the blind.

The stairs in the main part of the CUB was not well-designed for the blind. Walking down was difficult because the colors were both very dark.

One thing that I never realized was that blind people uses the ATM as well! 

Here is a sketch that I drew and took notes while I was at the ATM machine.

Adaptive Re-use Gallery

This was a group project that I did with Megan and Alyx. Our subject was on adaptive re-use buildings that were turned into a museum or art gallery.

The one I chose was the Akron Art Museum. It used to be a public library before it became a museum. They had no financial support and borrowed only two rooms in the basement of the library. The workers were only volunteers and they strongly hoped for a greater plan. They bought the public library in 1950 and opened up an Art Institute but after it closed, they changed the name "institute" to "museum" because the of the great art collection that they had.