Portfolio_Clara_Cummings_2024

CLARA CUMMINGS

INTERIOR DESIGN 2024 PORTFOLIO

Critical thinking

Concept development

Process

Experimentation

CAR DEALERSHIP : GEOMETRIC FORM

RESIDENTIAL: AGING IN PLACE

RETAIL: THE APARTMENT

GEOMETRIC FORM

Created in collaboration with two classmates, we were able to design a dealership with the intent to transcend the traditional car dealership. Located on Dundas East near the Don Valley it is a 30,000-square-foot building.

We presented this project this past spring in front of academic critics. Throughout the semester, Professor Bernardo from Odami Architecture helped us create this concept.

This cave like shelter, represents the beginning of humankind connecting us back to the natural world as we express our human instinct. The cave represents comfort and safety, and a human experience for all. Humans have a deep-seated urge to connect and socialize with others, in the dealership we created a space to do so.

Geometric Form Concept Development

Geometric Form Interior Render

AGING IN PLACE

Located in Greece this project was done for our professor's mother. Dimitri is elderly and doesn’t want to leave her home.

Two key elements from research studies are utilized to incorporate longevity. The first is ensuring social connections with the community, and the second is a connection to movement in nature. Here accessibility is a key factor in continued mobility. Gradation of public and private space is used to create a common garden and store that the community is welcomed to, bringing social connection right to Dimitri’s door.

Aging In Place Isometric Diagram

Aging In Place Site Section

THE APARTMENT

The existing branding of The Apartment, a vintage furniture store located in Queen St East, inspired this project. With the idea of relocating this space to Yorkville in a vacant location of a historic facade, where a new development is being built above.

I incorporated the existing storefront’s pink, keeping its pop of colour, I split the new space into three spaces based on the colours the owner uses the most. This divided space allows for unique peak-through cubbies and shelves for their products and creates a separation of space for the shopper.