Interior Design Portfolio 2024

ASHLEY MILLARD

Interior Design Portfolio 2024 Virginia Tech

Introduction Hello! My name is Ashley Millard and I am a fourth-year Interior Design student at Virginia Tech. I have a minor in Residential Environments and Design, in order to better understand sustainability, the way humans live, and why.

My passion for design began at a young age when my father took me to my first boat show. I could not believe how complex designs could fit into such restricted spaces. Designing functional spaces is very important to me and I am fascinated by the study of how interior spaces impact people in every aspect of their lives. Virginia Tech has greatly impacted the way I think, as I enjoy discussing concepts and ideas with others, as well as collaborating on projects.

Contact ashleym02@vt.edu 703.853.3846 /ammillard

Contents

01 NEXT Design Firm

02 Reminiscent Records Luxury Skybox

03 Nourish Coworking Office

04 Sa’adah Refugee Shelter

05 The Unit Academic Branch Library

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NEXT Design Firm

Fall 2023 - 6 weeks - 11,000 sf Individual Project Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

NEXT is inspired by the Reunion Tower, which serves as a way to communicate with the city of Dallas, Texas. The striking landmark is a symbol of unity, progressive thinking, and the convergence of the past, present and future. As a large supporter of Dallas, the Reunion Tower reflects the cities identity as the melting pot, creating a space that is home to any and every unique individual.

NEXT is a workplace that aims to elevate traditional office trends that foster innovation, creativity and connection. All while encompassing a progressive and convergent environment that enhances the human work life. NEXT captures an environment that connects new workplace necessities with past functional necessities, all while composing a forwardthinking, inviting space. NEXT values user-centered design that infuses work-setting choices, flexible spaces, collaboration among meaningful work, and intentional, amenity-rich spaces. Explored through aspects of ambition, height, adaptation, and vertical elements, NEXT offers a dynamic and engaging workplace.

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1 Stairs to Level One 2 Elevator to Level One 3 Huddle Room 4 4 Work Cafe 5 Client Presentation Room 6 Ramp to Client Room 7 Stair to Client Room 8 Phone Room 9 Parent’s Room 10 Wellness Room 11 Elevator to Level One 12 Training Classroom

Monumental Staircase and Office Perspective

East Building Axonometric

Client Presentation Room, elevated on Mezzanine

Client Presentation Room and Cafe Axonometric

The design library benefits from an open layout, as well as lives in close proximity to workstations, where designers can select finishes and materials with natural lighting.

Storage is an essential part of architecture and design firms. Providing ample amount of space to store materials at and near desks is a large need for designers.

West Side | Workstations and Design Library

This axonometric of the design library and the training classroom speaks to the parti diagram of NEXT. The concept of elevation can be seen here, aiming to draw the users’ eyes upwards while continuing the angled design feature.

West Side - Innovation Lab, Workstations, Design Library, Pin Up

Monumental Stair Elevation

Steelcase Materials Dynamic, sleek materials and textures including black metal, polished concrete, medium wood tone, and colors found in the Dallas Skyline are used throughout the office .

Existing Polished Concrete

Arc Com - Empress Butterscotch

Interface Carpet - Play the Angle - Nitrogen

Designtex - FOMO Indigo

Steelcase - Grey Kingswood

CF Stinson - Fiberdrill - Acorn

Steelcase - Low Gloss Black

Designtex - Senecal Aquamarine

Steelcase - Blue Ink Textured

Designtex - Everywhere Texture - Olive

Architex - Dublin - Blue Grey

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Reminiscent Records Luxury Skybox

Fall 2023 - 6 weeks - 4,200 sf Indiviual Project Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

Reminiscent Records is a record label that focuses on the nostalgia in classic rock music, and why the adult brain absorbs the most from the “classic rock” era. The label aims to capture the bold and dramatic sounds that take over every song. This luxury skybox is a place for the label’s CEO and artists to gather and connect further with the history of classic rock.

The design concept is to create a luxury skybox that addresses the cultural influence and sense of nostalgia associated with classic rock, which initiates the idea of “reminiscence bumps”, how the brain absorbs music from teenage years and embeds it into the adult human brain’s memory. Introducing elements of interconnections relative to brain signals, allowing one space to absorb the other in a cohesive and visually continuous space. The space infuses vivid recollections of classic rock aesthetic by implementing focal points through interconnections and with patterns, colors, and circulation, drawing attention to the sentimental value and nostalgia that was absorbed from the classic rock era.

Parti Development

Branding The off-center “red” space in the brand’s logo highlights the hippocampus, the part of the brain that holds onto nostalgic memories. This focal point is meant to be a reminder that classic rock has a strong cultural impact and will forever be a lasting memory.

“Jukebox”

The skybox is designed to have overlapping sections that form a main focal point, the entertainment space. The volume that is created by the intersection is a custom “jukebox”, holding all of the classic rock memories in one place. The circulation is indicated by the floor change that is determined by the overlapping areas.

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Secondary Entrance Perspective

“Jukebox” and Entertainment Axonometric

Entrance and Display Perspective

Conference Room Perspective on Level 2

The conference room is used for Reminiscent Record’s CEO meetings. That can include meetings with clients, friends, artists, and more.

Conference Room Elevation NTS

Residential Suite Perspective on Level 2

The bedroom is designed for the CEO, featuring a custom art piece with the CEO’s favorite classic rock artists.

Bedroom Elevation NTS

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Nourish Coworking Office

Fall 2022 - 8 weeks - 7,500 sf Individual Project Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

This coworking office was designed in a very rigid, industrial building at 315 Albemarle Avenue SE, Roanoke, VA. The inspiration for this coworking space is from the existing building’s structure and a tech company named Clue.

The design concept for this space is empowering transformation. This is displayed through a cycle of nourishment and soft aesthetics. A one of a kind experience that enables a balance between work and life. The concept takes a structural space and transforms it into a comfortable, safe workplace while enabling the desired balance between work and life.

Liquid Modernity also drove the concept. It is a term coined by Zygmunt Bauman that examines the way that society has moved away from a heavy, solid life to a more light and liquid modern life. He argues that this has changed all aspects of human condition.

The tech company in Nourish, Clue, provides women with access to education on their bodies and mentrual cycles. The app is a womans health and cycle tracking app that educates and empowers women to be in tune with their bodies. Clue resides on the first floor of the building. The space includes a large conference room for meetings and small educational classes for women, as well as four offices with two workstations in each.

The lobby has a coffee bar and it’s neutral environment allows visitors to feel welcome and comfortable. The first floor also offers two multifunctional rooms that can act as a room for private phone calls or lactation rooms.

Clue’s Lobby | Coffee Bar

Clue’s Conference Room

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Fluid forms

Final form

The existing building’s structure is originally harsh and industrial. The diagrams above show how the space can be transformed with soft, fluid forms.

Acoustical panels were used for this division and provide the space with zones, while working to lessen the noise levels in more private spaces.

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Level One Floor Plan NTS

1 Lobby two private phone booths + lactation rooms and an administration office

2 Tech Start Up four offices with two workstations and one conference room

3 Hot Desks twenty-two single desks for rent

4 Printing and Phone Booths print station, lockers, and two open phone booths

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6 Dining Areas three designated dining spaces: booth, bar, and four top

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8 Solo Entrepreneur Offices eight individual offices

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Community Lounge Space | Kitchen | Multiple Dining Options

The coworking space provides a variety of lounge spaces and dining areas, all promoting conversation and discussion with the diverse groups of people who come to work in the space. The range of seating varies and allows one to choose the amount of communication they want to have with others. The open community space spread through the middle of the second floor encourages communication.

The spaces vary from very intimate, raised and closed in, to fully exposed.

Custom Booth

Lounge Chair - Velvet

OCL - Glowball Cluster

Intimate Lounge Space

The acoustical panels form a very functional space for the eight solo entrepreneur offices. The offices are fully private from the main community areas but still manage to get plenty of natural light through the glass partitions. The use of smooth and soft edged furniture and materials keeps the space very soft to the eyes, while making the space feel safe and comfortable through the neutral color palette.

White Wood Panel

Green Velvet

Wood 16 - Enscape

White Oak - Natural

Brown Leather

Second Floor Axonometric This axonometric of the second floor emphasizes the curved forms designed to divide the space.

The hotdesks also utilize the acoustical panels as a sense of privacy and comfortablility. Overall, the curvature in the walls and arches are meant to soften the space and allow an easy path of travel.

Lounge Space

Community Space

Displays fluid forms and a distinguished lounge space

Helps to understand the flow and transition from community spaces

Dining Space

Booth Dining

A more intimate space that allows for conversation, eating, and working

Intimate booth seating for eating and quick meetings

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SA’ADAH Refugee Shelter

Fall 2022 - 1 week - 500 sf IDEC Competition - Team Project Program Finalist Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

IDEC Student Competition Project completed with Avery King, Lauren Shelton, and Haleigh Daughtrey. This project prompted our group to design a more permanant refugee shelter for a chosen group and their chosen problems. Our group focused on the narrative of grandparents, their grandson and a goat fleeing Morocco to the Canary Islands due to the rising climate, lack of vegetation, and old age. There are major problems in migrant camps, specifically in the Canary Islands where the shelters are overcrowded, unsustainable, and lack ventilation. The full narrative and design concept on how our group reimagined these unfit spaces are later explained in depth, as the story and Moroccan culture is very important in this project.

Narrative The narrative driving this design describes grandparents, Ayada and Hamou, and twelve-year old grandson, Ammar, with his baby goat, Baba, who made the journey from Morocco to the Canary Islands.

Islands. Due to the rising climate, lack of vegetation, vegetation, for Ayada and Hamou are farmers, and old age, age, the decision to flee was actually made by Ammar’s mother, Adrae. In traditional Moroccan culture, it’s customary for the children to take care of their parents as they age, for elderly shelters are not used like here in the U.S.. Additionally, Baba was brought along due to the fact that he would be slaughtered if left behind and Ammar considered him to be his pet. Adrae found a ship, the Alithini II oil tanker, with a rudder that could be easily snuck on. So, at night they boarded the small, rough rudder to head to the Canary Islands; however, while boarding, the ship began to leave and Adrae was left behind. The approximate sixty- two mile journey was very challenging with the waves, wind, and amount of movement from the rudder steering the ship. Upon arrival, the family was suffering with hypothermia and dehydration and was transported to the hospital. After treatment, they were transferred to a migrant camp that was previously occupied by UN Military tents, but was recently reconstructed to hold more permanent shelters now.

Design Concept While conducting research on migrant camps in the Canary Islands, our group discovered the widespread, unfit structure of plastic tents. tents. These structures have plagued issues like: overcrowding, unsustainability, and lack of ventilation. ventilation. Aiming to mend these noted issues, while providing a sense of permanence, our design focuses on the serene, congenial experience for the family. Through carefully selected materials: corrugated metal, plywood, cedar, and tile, this design reimagines what current camps can become once demolished like planned. Sequentially, the material selection encouraged more of the design, highlighting geometric shapes, Moroccan architectural motifs, and pre-existing framework of preceding tents.

Narrative Story Map

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Parti Diagram

Exploded Axonometric

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The shelter is rotated at a forty-five degree angle, for a common symbol within Moroccan culture is a diamond shape, for it is a symbol of protection. The ceiling structure was designed to imply symmetry and zoning within the interior; it allows a sense of openness within the fifty square meter boundary. The lattice acts as a divider of space, while still allowing light and visibility, which can be seen in the perspectives above and to the right. In traditional Moroccan culture, it is common for the young to share sleeping quarters with family. Additionally, all seating is low to the floor as that is also a common Moroccan practice.

Kitchen and Dining

Kitchen and Dining Axonometric

Prayer Room Axonometric

Prayer Room Facing East Towards Mecca

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Woven Billard

Woven Helsinki

Cedar Wood

Birch Plywood

Staggard Cedar

Ceramic Tile

Corrugated Metal

Handwoven Moroccan Rug

Handwoven Moroccan Rug

Terracotta Clay

Cross Section of Entry and Prayer Room NTS

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The Unit Academic Branch Library

Spring 2023 - 6 weeks - 12,000 sf Individual Project Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

The Unit is an academic branch library in Phoenix, AZ. Inspired by the prominance of first generation students, this branch library is to fit their every need. The core is complex, consisting of all of the library programs, a large classroom and mentorship based programs.

The design concept for this library is to explore a modern branch library that offers a guided experience through a multifunctional space for student centered programs, while focusing on a clear division of space for a direct path of travel and easy wayfinding.

The Unit View

Unit Diagram

Parti

The parti and unit diagram strengthen the importance of the accessible, central mass. Both of the diagrams show that there is a path of travel through the unit, while still drawing attention on the overarching mass.

The parti utilizes a layered concept, showing how the space can be traveled through and around. And beyond the direct path, exists the rest of the library’s spaces.

While bringing in memorable aspects of Arizona, the illuminated central space is enhanced by orange tinted skylights, using the strong Arizona sun to our advantage.

This axonometric is shown to emphasize the “unit” that holds all of the student-centered activities. The unit is made up of: •

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23 Conference Rooms

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The “unit” is surrounded by multiple seating options, the cafe, an event space, study rooms, and the branch library’s book collection.

The mezzanine level is stacked above the first level’s student resources to enhance the objective of the unit: to hold all of the studentcentered programs, providing easy access and wayfinding.

Stair | Skylight | Library Collection View

Lobby | Circulation Desk View

Stacks Corner | Full Unit View

Lobby Axonometric

Half Unit Axonometric

The circulation and support desk, kioks, and book drop are at the immediate entrance of the branch library. There is a direct path of travel into the “unit”. The “unit” was strategically placed in the center of the library, and uses ribbon windows, to gain a direct line of sight from inside and outside the unit.

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The individual and two person pods act as their own unit. The pods are designed using felt to dampen the sound traveling in and out. Individual study is important to students in the library, as most students come to the library to find a quiet zone to focus.

Book Collection | Event Space Axonometric Modern libraries are shifting from providing endless book stacks to providing more resources to the community, which is what the “unit” intends to do. With this small collection of books, there becomes more room for other programs in the space.

This axonometric shows the event space where students and professors can lead presentations, host meetings, or present individual speeches. This space allows students to intentionally gather or quietly listen in.

Underneath Mezzanine | Cafe View

Materials

Orange Acrylic

Light Orange Acrylic

Orange and Light Orange Linoleum

Brown Leather

Polished Concrete

Felt

THANK YOU

ashleym02@vt.edu

703.853.3846

/ammillard