Ya Ching Tsai

How can we create a sense of privacy inside of the public space?

How can the space reduces awkwardness and anxiety of solo dining experience?

YA CHING TSAI

SENIOR CAPSTONE | SPRING 2020

ABSTRACT The project started from the overall question : ''How can we create the sense of privacy inside of the public space?''

Nowadays, when people want to have some personal space in the public, they tend to put the headphones on and dive into the virtual space through their cellphone to set themselves the boundary. This shows the need of some personal space inside of the public area.

Started to think what kind of situations make people want to have their own personal space while in public. The response comes from my own awkwardness solo dining experience while co-oping in strange city. ''How can the space reduce awkwardness and anxiety of solo dining experience?''

Layering of space is designed to provide levels of privacy. Different types of dining furnitures are invented for distinct need of solo dining mode: from more enclosed individual pods to more open shared dining space ; from lowlevel of interaction for meditation purpose to high level of interaction for meeting new people. Wanted to create a new type of restaurant specifically for solo diners.

Recharge Energy

Solo Diner

Walk in as ONE, Walk out as TWO

SITE | 14 GARFIELD PLACE, CINCINNATI

Located in the central herat of Downtown Cincinnati, right arroct the Piatt Park. The building is an onsale four-story apartment buildng in total of 7,500 squre feet. There are lots of hotel, office, museum surrounding. Mainly want to target the users specifically are solo bussiness travelers and office woker who are in the chance of dining alone.

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21c Museum Hotel Hampton Inn & Suite The Cincinnatian Hotel by Hilton

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Main Public Library Comtemporary Art Center

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1. ENTRY 2. RECEPTION 3. WAITING AREA 4. BACK OF HOUSE 5. LOUNGE AREA 6. BAR 7. STAIRCASE SEATING AREA 8. RESTROOM

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DESIGN STRATEGY | Stair as a connector

Expanding the resting area of stair into the functional platforms.

The stairs play as a main role to lead people experience through the space. The form of stair also changes from more open and welcome purpose at the entry to more intense while leading users to the personal pods.

DESIGN STRATEGY | Program ATRIUM DINING AREA

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ATRIUM FLEXIBLE DINING TABLES

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BACK OF HOUSE

ENCLOSED | PRIVATE

OPEN | PUBLIC

Breaking the floors to create the vertical circulation. Food serving programs located in center of the space, and the dinning areas are surrounded. The atriums are crossing through the space allows people have both views of upper level and lower level.

ENTRY

KITCHEN

BAR

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ISOLATED MODE | Partially Covered Pods

One direction placement

to make people face same direction reducing the chance of eye contact.

Physical partitions in between

to provide personal space while in public.

Part of Body been covered

to increase the level of privacy but yet not completely enclosed.

ISOLATED MODE | Tunnel-Shaped Pod

Interlocked Layout

to create more interesting layout then align layout, but still have the sense of privacy.

Full Body been embraced

to allow users have highest level of privacy and more comfortable of sittng/lying position.

Glass screen provides extra direction of view than just partition.

FLEXIBLE MODE | Sliding Tables

Movable sliding table allows

users to move and shift the tables and chair direction to create their own tangible private space.

Communal table

setting provide the flexibility when people want to have interaction with each other while dining.

Flexible Interaction

Depend on the arrangement of furniture layout, the interaction is flexible and open.

FLEXIBLE MODE | Staircase Seatings

One direction placement

to make people face same direction reducing the chance of eye contact.

No partition in between

allows the open interaction with people who sit next by.

Different level of seating

creates layer of visual difference to provide the sense of privacy.