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.

Habitat for Humanity

This design for Habitat and Humanity was a team project with Carly Gonia. Growth & Memories, Family and Protection were the definitions of home that were most important to us. We used these words as a guide in the design process.

We were given the requirements of the home from the Habitat owners. We also had a great question and answer discussion with them in order to understand the purpose and goals that they were looking for.

I had a great experience working with and presenting to real clients.     

Posters by: Nkojoua Yang

Expression

This project was designed for the Gregory family in the Combine building of Pullman, WA.

Meeting with Designer

I had the opportunity to meet with Tina Johansen from ALSC Architects over Thanksgiving break. We met up to go over the floor plan I designed for the Gregory Family. She made notes on which walls to color in black or not; as well as placing taller appliances by each other. Although it was a short meeting, it went great.

Gregory Family Bathroom Design: The Present

This bathroom design was inspired by the painting, "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali. I focused on the contrasting colors, lines and circular shapes.

The circular appliances that lie on top of the straight edges in the design derived from the clocks that were found along the straight edges in the painting.