Heritage Museum Project

          The Heritage Museum Project for Valley, WA is one of the most interested project that I did for my studio. Through this project, I learned many things such as the communication with the community, workshop, teamwork, the programing documents, and etc. 

          For this project, we renovated the little white school house in Vally to heritage museum. Even it is the heritage museum, we still hope our design can affect future of the Valley and not just preserve the history. Thus, we used old Valley history to create new elements and design. For instance, we used old rail road track and the Colvile river elements in our kind modern design, and we also focused on the Children informal learning by making the memorable outside play area.

          In my opinion, this project really trained myself a lot and improved my design skill. I hope we can have these kind community project for our further studio works.

Webster Hall Geology Science Project

This project is about to redesign for the exhibition area of the Webster Hall at WSU. During the design process, we recognized many problems about the code issue and the interactive things, so we updated many times to reach the final. In this space, we are trying to make the space where people can relax and enjoy, so we decided to put the benches in center, and surrounded by interactive objects and showcase.

         The geology poster we made for the showcase, we are focused on the story and easy understanding, so the poster goes from big things such as earth to small things such as WSU. And, we also keep the poster as simple as we can, so every one can understand and enjoy it.

By the way, this is my first time to do the large teamwork for designing space, so it gives me very good experience to learn how to collaborate with other members, and what is my strength and weakness. After the project, I recognized that I am good to provide the idea and make the Revit drawings, but not that good to lead people to do something. Thus, I will try to train my self to be a good leader during the rest of my school life. 

Depot Poster

  This is the final poster for the depot design project. In the depot design , it adaptive reused old depot to the gallery, studio, and residence area for the artist. The entire project reflects the concept idea, which is from the photo of bench. Some places show the pattern and modular design that reflects the concept idea. Moreover, the entire space is detailed considered about the accessibility, and people with visual difficulty, also Egress requirement.
  "Sense of the place" is the base idea for me to design the adaptive reused depot. The entire space reflects the ideas of contrast, unity, dominant, variety, and harmony. One of the most important principles for the project is harmony. The harmony influenced the color, materials, form, and place. The beauty of harmony with the generation between old and new expresses the idea of "Sense of the place."

STIR Competition Poster

 

In this adaptive reused project for a local artist, the design reuses the historical depot for a residence, studio, and gallery. The gallery space design is the best design to express the concept of balance, dominant, and harmony. The gallery space uses Sherwin-Williams Show Stopper, Stolen Kiss, Indigo, Cut the Mustard, Peppercorn, and Origami White to create a triadic color scheme. These colors are  frequently used by the artist in the art creating harmony between the artworks and interior space. Moreover, the strongly Sherwin-Williams Cut the Mustard color wall, in the entrance, represents the idea of the dominant. The design focuses on “Sense of the place”, and retaining the feeling of the historic depot. Finally, the Origami White color created balance between other colors in the space. Altogether, the color use of this gallery design successfully reflects the idea of balance, dominant, and harmony.

Process Work

   This is the process work for the depot design. At the beginning, I tried to identify the concept and thinking about how to use the concept idea on my project. After that, I tried to do the bubble diagram and matrix for distinguish the space. Then, I started to design the actual space. Beside of the design space, I also design the bench and fire place with the concept idea: dominant, repetition and harmony. For example, the bench used the repetition for the circular form seating, and dominant metal frame in the center, and the material is harmony with the entire depot space. I think the process work is not less important than final work, these works are important to organize the designer's thinking.

Depot Model

   This is the model for depot design project. People can understand the space and the ceiling height easily through the model. In the model, I add many specific feature for my design. For example, the movable wall; I used wire in that wall, so it can really move. Also, I add the entrance wall that used the pattern design. Thus, these features can make people feel the space well.

Pattern design

      For my pattern design, I enlarged my original pattern that shows in last post. Through this pattern, it expresses the idea of dominant, repetition, and harmony. In the pattern design, I do not want it become too busy, and I want a strong, and powerful idea through the pattern. Also, the simple monochromatic color scheme make the unity for the entire design. So, people can see the pattern with entire, not individual.