C O M M E R C I A L PROJECTS
H O S P I T A L I T Y
The Bijou Hotel located in Lisbon, Portugal
When: Studio V Spring 2019
What: Hospitality - Boutique Hotel
Concept: Curating an Heirloom : This hospitality experience will allow visitors to
slip into their stay like it was custom made for them, however, the atmosphere maintains an intriguing mystery that visitors can sense has a beautiful & enchanting background that leaves visitors wanting more. As visitors move through and up into the space, the design elicits increasing amounts of privacy.
Design Goal: To provide Tallahassee, FL with a large co working space that accommodates a wide range of users.
Design Solution: The Bijou brand radiates luxurious elegance and class that draws guests in and leaves them yearning to return.
Programs: Revit, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite
Duration: 14 weeks
W O R K P L A C E
CO + OP Coworking Space located in Tallahassee, FL
When: Studio IV Fall 2018
What: Adaptive Reuse - Coworking Space
Concept: Collage is the collection of various elements. The contemporary workplace can be seen as a collage—people of different generations, ages, ethnic backgrounds, and personalities all working under one roof to create community. Co-working facilitates the opportunity for an even larger assortment of people to come together and collaborate. Through an assemblage of materials, modes of work, space types and environments, and user groups, the concept of collage will be applied and represented.
Design Goal: To provide Tallahassee, FL with a large co working space that accommodates a wide range of users.
Design Solution CO+OP, a co-working space, will provide Tallahassee with a membership based, modern, communal workspace for entrepreneurs, students, and small businesses to develop ideas, work, and collaborate. Improving user well-being is a main driver for the creation of this space--choice and autonomy is provided through physical flexibility of the space with a relatively low overhead cost. The space will feature several different workspace options and styles, as well as amenities such as meeting and conference rooms, an event area to accomodate up to 130 people, lounge, and a cafe space.
Programs: Revit, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite
Duration: 9 weeks
Bermello Ajamil & Partners office located in Miami FL
Design Goals: - Provide several flexible workspaces including individual and collaborative spaces to produce the most efficient employee workplace behavior
- Provide at least two social spaces to encourage and enforce a company community that also provides spaces to provide spontaneous collaboration
- Embrace and enforce the company’s culture within the work environment by drawing
inspiration from their history
- Create an environment that promotes employee wellbeing by incorporating natural features into the design and maximizing natural light within the space.
When: Studio III Spring 2018
What: Office Suite for Bermello Ajamil & Partners
Concept: Future Heritage - The three years, 1939, 1976, and 1992 dynamically influenced the firm’s development and has shaped their future so precisely. Elegant, horizontal lines contrasted with dynamic forms mirror the continuous rhythm of growth and expansion that is present throughout their history. The character of the space is inspired by the company’s heritage, while the functionality of the space supports growth and expansion in all aspects of the design.
Design Solution: The design for the Miami office for Bermello & Ajamil partners was designed to fulfill the needs of the client and create a space that provides the most efficient and productive work environment for users. Flexible, yet defined spaces offer several different work place options for different modes of work and user preference. The space is designed to promote company culture and community by providing several social spaces that make user socialization and collaboration inevitable and effortless.
The physical design of the space draws upon the heritage of the company by using angular forms that leads users through the space in a dynamic pattern emulating the firm’s past of company expansion, while it pulls them into the future of growth.
Programs: Revit, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite
Duration: 10 weeks
R E T AI L
Holstein's Market Gourmet Grocery Concept
Design Solution: Holstein’s Market by Gourmet Grocer is an innovative grocery shopping experience that allows users to order groceries on the go and to pick them up whenever they please. The grocery store experience is moving towards the integration of an increasing amount of technology, which is what the design for Holstein’s embraces.
Programs: Revit, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite, hand drawn line weights
Duration: 3 weeks
When: Studio III Spring 2018
What: This grocery store was designed for and submitted to the Retail Design Institute’s 2018 retail design competition. The challenge was to create and brand a grocery store of the future.
Concept: The concept that drove the design for Holstein’s Market by Gourmet Grocer is the milkman. During the time period when milk and eggs were delivered to your front door step, a distinctive type of community was present in neighborhoods and cities that has seemingly disappeared with the age of technology. At Holstein’s market the efficiency of the milkman service is married with the innovation of technology to bring users a grocery store experience that combines the benefits of community interaction and the efficiency that technology offers.
The main dairy producing cow in the world is called the Holstein Friesian cow, which inspired the name Holstein’s Market.
Design Goals:
- Community: Holstein’s creates a communal “third place” atmosphere that patrons will repeatedly visit and become familiar with. The users will grow accustomed to the space and the other patrons that visit regularly, creating a community centered around good food.
- Efficiency: With the use of modern technology, the concept of the milkman manifests itself within the technology that receives grocery orders, retrieves the products from the back storage, and delivers the items to the front of the store for the customer’s convenience.
- Experience: Holstein’s Market will provide customers with the best experience possible while they complete their daily grocery shopping. While the customer’s groceries are being gathered, a café, coffee bar, learning kitchen, and ice cream bar are all available to be enjoyed.
H E A L T H C A R E
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Family Clinic located in Tallahassee FL
Design Solution: The simplistic beauty and efficiency of the veins of a leaf are reflected and represented in the Southwood Clinic with the raw, light attributes of the wood that is infused throughout the clinic. This material is woven throughout the space, bringing vitality and connecting the space, as veins of a leaf do. The space layout responds to the organic efficiency of veins within a leaf allowing caregivers to provide the best care and service possible. The combination of colors, materials, and flow of the space ensure all users feel supported, refreshed, and productive.
Programs: Revit, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite
Duration: 9 weeks
When: Studio IV Fall 2018
What: This clinic was designed for Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare and Partners to be a family care clinic for three physicians to practice in.
Concept: The veins of a leaf serve as the fundamental essence of life in a plant. Just as a clinic and its providers offer support and care to patients, the harmonic, organic efficiency of a web of leaf veins brings essential life-giving nutrients and support to the entirety of the living being. This vital element of life is extremely efficient, but also an organic beautiful aspect of the plant. The character of the space will radiate life, while it functionally will operate in the harmonic efficiency of the veins of a leaf.
Design Goals:
- Maximize efficiency and healthy work flow
for providers
- Empower patients to feel renewed and
positive after their visit at the clinic
- Ensure providers enjoy coming to work so
they are productive and fully present, thus
ensuring that the best possible care is
provided
- All users should feel the space supports and
uplifts them in day to day functions
E D U C A T I O N
Pearl Girls School located in Uganda
Design Goals:
To create an all girls school for Pearl Village in Uganda for Project Orphans. The school needed to be a community for the students to grow and thrive within. The space needs to be a flexible space that the community could also utilize.
When: Gensler Summer Intern Project 2018
What: This school was designed for the non-profit Project Orphans. They wanted a design for an all girls school to be located in their "Pearl Village" in Luweero, Uganda.
Concept: The beautifully complex transition of a grain of sand into a pearl.
The Pearl community will invest in the student’s education and well-being just as an oyster cultivates a piece of sand into an elegant pearl. This school will serve as a sanctuary for new experiences that will foster endless opportunities for these “Pearls of the World.”
Design Solution: The Pearl Girls school consisted of six classrooms, two flex classrooms, a courtyard, an outdoor kitchen, a garden, and admin space for about 300 students to occupy. By the time each student graduates they will be ready to conquer any goal they have.
Programs: Revit, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite
Duration: 10 weeks
Strozier Library Redesign at Florida State University
Design Solution: The Library of the future was designed to include the following features.
Defined Zones that focus on the function of the space, user purpose, and user preferences. Flexibility of the space is introduced through controllable ambient conditions such as noise, light, and temperature control as well as adjustable furniture. Focus on efficiency throughout the space is introduced through maximizing functionality, responsive technology, and intuitive wayfinding and spaces. This was to promote comfort in order to increase productivity within the space.
Programs: Revit, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite
Duration: 6 weeks
When: Studio II Fall 2017
What: This was a redesign of the second floor of Strozier Library located at Florida State University. This project was set 10 years in the future. A custom piece of furniture was an additional design requirement.
Concept: Thriving Boundaries was derived from the concept and practice of Parametric Design, which consists of creating an algorithm with set parameters and letting that equation design based on set constraints. This process aids in defining the relationship between design intent and design response. Boundaries are set within parametric design, but outside influences effect the ebb and flow of the algorithm, which shifts the outcome, however, the algorithm continues to produce a successful output. Thriving boundaries encompasses the need for a flexible space that flows and succeeds seamlessly no matter the variables introduced. The designed environment thrives because of the boundaries designed within the space.
Design Goals:
Based on the survey of 119 library users, the data revealed that users prefer completely differing conditions within the library, driving the design decisions that focus on the flexible conditions for each user to individualize their library experience.