design portfolio - sara spencer

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- Three Major Themes- Thirty Unique Cubes

- Japanese Tea House

- One-Point Section Perspectives

- PAVE Competition - REI- Marriott Renaissance Lobby

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drawing & architectural

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commercial

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foundations

Theme: Nature

Theme: Light

Theme: Repetition

Project I involved taking one hundred photos around Washington, DC. These images were studied and arranged into three major themes, light, nature and repetition. Next, each theme was created into a composition using majority of images taken.

Two-dimensional design solutions were applied effectively to the elements and principles of design.

Course Duration: 12 weeksCompleted: Fall 2013

THREE MAJOR THEMES

This project focused upon the exploration of one of the primary basic solids, the cube, and its countless possibilitiesto form space through materiality, solids and voids. The first part of the project the cube was studied through model making. Thirty unique 2” x 2” x 2” cubes were beautifully created, no cube being alike through rotation. The cubes were construction of bass wood, chip and museum board.

Two and three dimensional design solutions were applied with the interaction of color with materials, textures, light, form and the impact on interior environments.

Part A: 30 2” x 2” x 2” cubes | bass wood, chip and museum board

Part B: Assembled final cube cluster

The second part of the project was based on how additive forms are created by relating or physically attracting one or more forms to create a new volume. Volumes can be added through spatial tension, edge-to-edge contact, face-to-face contact and interlocking. The thirty cubes were explored with grouping possibilities with multiple sketches considering materiality, shape, alignment, negative space, surface volume, edge and spatial tension. Finally, the cubes were assembled and attached.

Sketches provided design possibilities for assembling the cubes. Again, two and three dimensional design solutions were effectively applied with the ability to evaluate and communicate theories of spatial definition and organization.


THIRTY UNIQUE CUBES

Part B: Assembled final cube cluster

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The final project involved designinga formal Japanese Tea house following the ceremonial steps. Guests of the ceremony start by waiting outside of the tea house until the host is ready. Once greeted by host, they continue to walk across the path and enter through a small door, forcing guests to bow upon entry. Guests proceed down steps to be at level with the Earth when seated on Tatami mats of various sizes.

Constitution Pond on the National Mall in Washington, DC was selected for the tea houselocation due to its axis with the Washington Monument. The positioning of the tea house with relation to the sun also allows natural light to flow throughout the space during the hours of the ceremony.

The drawings were hand drafted, scanned and positioned in Adobe Photoshop.

Japanese Tea House | Washington, DCSite Plan


JAPANESE TEA HOUSE

Japanese Tea House | Washington, DCFloor Plan

Japanese Tea House | Washington, DCReflected Ceiling Plan

drawing & architectural

drafting

sketching

Union Station | Washington, DC1.5 hour sketch | graphite pencils


ONE-POINT SECTION PERSPECTIVES

commercial

REI | Washington, DCBicycles & Accessories

While in Commercial Studio, PAVEheld a competition open to Undergraduate Interior Design Students to design a REI store in Washington, DC, the exact location was unknown. Conceptual design was required by PAVE to help develop the REI brand to become more appealing to the millenial generation.

Inspiration for the store came from the Brutalist archiecture of the DC Metro system and the local urban fitness. The store layout mimics the DC Metro Rail Lines and seperate REI’s segments into areas customers know and enjoy.

The project floor plan was finalized in AutoCAD and rendered in Google SketchUp.


REI | Washington, DCSpace Designation

PAVE COMPETITION - REI

REI | Washington, DCCamping & Accessories

REI | Washington, DCCamping & Accessories

REI | Washington, DCCash Wrap

During Commercial Studio, the opportunity arouse to work with Marriott Renaissance to update the lobby of the Dupont Circle Renaissance located in Washington, DC using conceptual design. Renaissance provided brand identities for the hotel.

Designing for the millennial generation, but keeping other generations in mind, the space allows guests to discover more and navigate throughout the space.


Marriott Renaissance Hotel | Dupont Circle, Washington, DCSpace Plan

MARRIOTT RENAISSANCE LOBBY

High-low mixes are done throughout the space with the use of materials, textures, patterns and colors. Each space is uniquely defined, but also complementing each other, by the use of high-low mix. The use of eye-catching products surprises and spikes curiosity in guests.

The project perspectives were hand drafted and rendered in Adobe Photoshop.

commercial

Marriott Renaissance Hotel | Dupont Circle, Washington, DCDiscovery Table

Marriott Renaissance Hotel | Dupont Circle, Washington, DCStudio

Marriott Renaissance Hotel | Dupont Circle, Washington, DCMeeting Room

Marriott Renaissance Hotel | Dupont Circle, Washington, DCBar

Marriott Renaissance Hotel | Dupont Circle, Washington, DCConcierge

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