Interior Architecture Portfolio 2021 | Caitlin Turner

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caitlin turner Fourth Year Interior Architecture, University of Tennessee cturne47@vols.utk.edu 256.529.1884

empathy + compassion community + cultural awareness health, wellness, + sustainability dedication to research

interior architecture

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impulsive comforts An Analysis on Impulsive Behaviors in the Retail Environment

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the nook A Tea Shop that Nurtures and Funds Community Development

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experiential connectivity Designing Connections in the Workplace

furniture + lighting design

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seating surrealism Furniture Design | Based on a Salvador Dali Painting

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illuminating senses Lighting Design | Hearing, Touch, Smell

study abroad photography

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capturing the human experience Architecture & Landscape Photography | Greece

interiorarchitecture architecture

9 Course • Fall 2020 Studio / Professor Tim Dolan Location • S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN Award • Metropolis Future 100 Winner

impulsive comforts An Analysis on Impulsive Behaviors in the Retail Environment In comparing e-commerce and in-person shopping experiences, one of the most profitable benefits to in-person retail is the ability to facilitate impulse purchases. Impulse purchasing is difficult to fully capitalize on in e-commerce because it is easier for consumers to leave a website, delete an email, or walk away from the screen. While e-commerce engagement is equally as important to the success of future retailers, the in-person experience is crucial to provide a positive brand experience and multi-faceted accessibility to the

brand for customers. Therefore, retailers must reevaluate how they are encouraging impulsive behaviors in their retail stores.

Dopamine levels rise with the availability of positive and pleasurable experiences, and it affects how our brain remembers and desires to repeat positive experiences. Through various immersive experiences, the project aims to create a space that increases dopamine levels in consumers’ and facilitate impulsive shopping behaviors.

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Dopamine’s Affect The gold color illustrates how dopamine affects pleasure and reward seeking behaviors, emotion, addiction, and perception.

The blue illustrates how dopamine affects cognition, memory, attention, emotional behavior, and learning. Therefore, positive experiences are remembered as dopamine affects human memory.

The green illustrates how dopamine affects movement and sensory stimuli. Therefore, positive sensory experiences are crucial.

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Sound Acoustical ceiling and softer materials in lowered areas.

Dark materials and low lighting to enhance focus on sounds.

Scent Faceted ceiling circulates scents throughout the scent goods retail space.

Ceiling also provides acoustical dampening to emphasize focus on the scents.

Open Air Fresh air creates a natural rise in dopamine levels which can result in impulsive behavior.

Visual Metallic materials and lighting are used throughout the common areas to draw consumers to each impulse instigator.

Touch The displays in the pillow, linen, and cashmere retail are placed for people to easily touch or brush against.

The ground floor has experiential areas for consumers to immerse themselves in some of the pillow and comfort products.

Impulse Instigators

Lighting Analysis

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Bar & Lounge Levels of private to more intimate spaces develop as a customer moves from the elevator to the west end.

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By placing the scent goods retail on the same level as the open air cafe seating, customers can immerse themselves in two dopamine stimulating and relaxing experiences.

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Site Analysis

61% of males and 48% of females Married: 24% of males and 36% of females +

To better understand how sightlines could be utilized to increase impulse purchasing, the site was analyzed to understand the sightlines from the exterior to the interior.

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The third floor serves as a connection between the scent goods and tactile goods. The third floor cafe is also visible from the street level.

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The second floor focuses on the human’s sense of sight and touch.

The central stair creates a blurred sensory experience with the scent of coffee seeping down from above.

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Merging the role of hospitality and retail, the ground floor serves as a middle ground from the street to the retail experience. People are drawn to the center of the space where they can see up the central stair.

Sensory Occupancy This diagrammatic analysis assisted in visualized how different senses can be easily stimulated. Where the site analysis studies how sightlines impact the entire building, this analysis seeks to illustrate how the human scale has optimal sightlines.

In areas where touch is the dominant sense, surfaces are placed at a scale that provides ease of touch and sight. Whereas, products are placed higher in areas where the scent is the dominant impulse instigator.

2nd Floor Retail | Looking into Central Stair

17 Course • Spring 2020 Studio / Professor Cheryl Baxter Location • N. Central Street, Knoxville, TN Award • Crossville Tile Inc. Competition Winner

the nook A Tea Shop that Nurtures and Funds Community Development The mission of the Nook is to provide a recreational community space for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder that is supported by a tea, pottery, and garden retail space.

Through gardening and similar activities, the children can explore their senses in a fun and engaging way, while their parents have the opportunity to create a supportive community within the comfort of the relaxing retail space.

The upstairs community space for the children was developed in the construction documents phase by Allie Bierman, so the portion featured here is the retail space. The retail space helps to fund the children’s community center upstairs.

The purpose of the retail space at the Nook is to provide a space for community. Through research in the

Knoxville area, it became evident that parents who’s children have Autism Spectrum Disorder are wanting a space to develop a community amongst the parents. Therefore, this retail space serves as an opportunity to develop that community while also allowing other community members to support the children’s center. By creating various layers of privacy, this retail space becomes a community center of its own as it aims to support a variety of needs.

[Programming and Schematic Design for the Community Center and Retail was completed in collaboration with Allie Bierman] [Design Development and Construction Documents for the Retail Space were completed by Caitlin Turner. All graphics shown here are by Caitlin Turner]

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Sectional Development FLEXIBLE / OPEN / CIRCULATORY

To connect with the upstairs community space, the retail space was developed similarly. Different formal qualities were developed based on flexible/open space, stationary but active space, and private/enclosed space.

STATIONARY / ACTIVITY AREA

PRIVATE / ENCLOSURE / ESCAPE

Partition Development The partition system was developed based on the visual gradient shown in the exploded axon. Different partitions are used to create different levels of visual privacy.

These partitions can be customized in different ways to create different layers of privacy and can change with the needs of the community and the tea shop.

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Visibility Levels Auditory Levels

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Service Counter Elevation, RCP, and Details

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ALUMINUM ANGLE ADHERED TO GLASS EDGE, FINISH TO MATCH TRELLIS

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ALUMINUM SLIDING GLASS ASSEMBLY PER SPECIFICATIONS. TYP. CABINET PULL SOFT CLOSE CONCEALED HINGES

FINISH CABINETS REFER TO ELEV.

HOLE & GROMMET SPACED 3" O.C. ADJ. SHELVES, TYP.

ALUMINUM GLAZING CHANNEL SECURED TO CABINETRY BELOW. BLOCKING AS REQ'D

Shelf Lighting + Material Detail

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Reflected Ceiling Plan with Plan Underlay

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Retail Displays Finishes, Section Details, and Axons

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1" OD CUSTOM EXTRUDED ALUMINUM TRELLIS. TWO SLOTS EITHER SIDE FOR FABRIC SLOTS.

Enlarged Floor Plan FOAM BACKER ROD WRAPPED IN FABRIC, INSERTED INTO FABRIC SLOT UNTIL TAUT.

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4" TUFTED REMOVABLE UPHOLSTERED SEAT SECURED TO BASE W/ VELCRO AS REQ'D. (HIGH DENSITY FOAM, PROVIDE SAMPLE FOR APPROVAL PRIOR TO FAB)

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TRELLIS PARTITION AT BENCH 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

Custom Seating | Section Detail

BLOCKING AS REQ'D. TYP. EXPOSED SECTION AT BASE TO BE PAINTED BLACK

Trellis Nook Structure Plan, RCP, and Details

25 Course • Fall 2019 Studio / Professor Hochung Kim Location • UTK Aquatic Center, Knoxville, TN Award • Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship Finalist

experiential connectivity Designing Connections in the Workplace This form aims to connect occupants with each other as well as with the form, natural environment, and programming. The curves define these connections and allow for programming to be translated throughout the form. The inherent desire for connections in the workplace, made evident by initial research on the Apple Campus in Cupertino, CA, is translated into this space to provide a connective environment for

Systran’s employees. As Systran aims to connect companies with differing backgrounds, this form aims to connect occupants with each other, harness health and well-being through biophilia, and create a continuous flow of ideas throughout the space. There are four main levels of connectivity in the space: programmatic, spatial, topographical, and sensory.

Programmatic Connectivity Systran values connections as it aims to connect companies across the world with the use of their top rated and continually developing translation technology. The connected spaces throughout illustrate the goals of Systran and allow for a programmatic flow. To provide optimal connection, the lines between the workspaces and the more communal spaces are blurred. By redefining the separation of program, the various programs begin to blend and encourage occupants to interact with others.

Concept/Form Development

Spatial Programming

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Third Floor Plan

Spatial Connectivity The atrium space allows for connections within the atrium as well as across the building. This spatial connection implements a sense of movement throughout the space that is continuous and enthralling. The semi-private and private spaces are still able to maintain a connection with the rest of the building through the contours continued throughout the spaces defining connection from one space to the next.

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First Floor Plan

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Sensory Connectivity The connective tactility of the space is implemented with the monolithic cross laminated timber throughout the form as well as the circulation of air throughout the voids. The visual movement of daylight and artificial light throughout the space creates a sense of continuity and movement.

The sound reverberation, especially in the atrium, also furthers a sense of connection to the space. An auditory sensory connection differs from the others senses in the way sound adapts based on the occupants and activities. Therefore, these sounds connect occupants with the present experience in the space and allows occupants to be fully engaged with the space.

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Reflected Ceiling Plan

furniture + lightingdesign design

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35 Course • Fall 2020 Furniture Design Professor Justin Couch

seating surrealism Furniture Design | Based on a Salvador Dali Painting The more prominent forms in The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali have a melted and organic quality to them. These forms are juxtaposed against a rocky landscape and other harsh edges. The style of this painting is surrealism. The goal of surrealism is to create unconventional and confusing images that often represent the subconscious.

The initial form was developed through sketching different ways in which a form could melt over a solid, rigid structure to create seating. The

surface points of this form were manipulated to create an organic form accommodating the human body.

The materials chosen are representative of the surrealism style Dali uses in his painting. The soft organic form is made with a concrete material with a linen texture stamped into it. The more rigid form is a flexible wood panel material. This material is created with two layers of laser-cut wood on either side of an elastic layer.

hearing | ability to perceive sound through the interpretation of vibrations

touch | ability to perceive external objects through contact with the body

smell | ability to perceive scents and odors through the olfactory nerves

37 Course • Fall 2020 Furniture Design Professor Justin Couch

illuminating senses Lighting Design | Hearing, Touch, Smell The first light fixture, related to the sense of hearing, reacts to sounds within the interior environment.

When there is more noise in a space, more layers of the light will turn on.

If the space is quieter fewer layers will turn on for a more ambient setting. The form was developed by considering the different frequencies and volume levels sound can be perceived.

The second light fixture, related to the sense of touch, aims to encourage people to brush up against it. It

also mimics a sense of movement with the light and sheer textile material. As a floor lamp, this fixture mimics the human scale to further emphasize the body’s ability to perceive objects through contact with the body.

The third light fixture, related to the sense of smell, is designed to emit perfumes into an interior space and visually exhibit the process. The scent fixture is designed as a pendant to align with the human nose.

study abroadphotography

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Architect: Renzo Piano Athens, Greece

41 Course • Capturing the Human Experience in Place: Architectural and Landscape Photography Exhibit • Gallery 103A, UTK Art and Architecture Building Publications • We Inspire Vol. 48, Camerapixo Press Magazine; Dodho Magazine; Archisearch.gr

capturing the human experience Greece | Athens, Santorini, Crete, and the Peloponnese This three-week experience abroad consisted of travel to Athens, Santorini, Crete, and various cities in the Peloponnese. The goal of this class was to capture the human experience in place through architectural and landscape photography.

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manually adjust camera settings, and post-process photos, I gained a newfound appreciation for how we experience and interact with space.

Our goal was not to simply photograph architecture and landscapes but to photograph our experience in those places.

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Emporio, Santorini, Greece

Temple of Athena Nike, The Acropolis, Athens, Greece

[Top] Oia, Santorini, Greece, [Bottom] Santorini, Greece

[Top] Kamari, Santorini, Greece, [Bottom] Monemvasia, Greece

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