Emerging Paradigms: Crafting Ethics of Hope and Revery
B eneath Our Feet
Third Year Studio : Fall
Next Design Competition
Material Applications
A Wave of Space
Third Year Studio : Spring
Horizon
Year
4
Collaborate Studio The Waknut Hill Agora
Music
The Cornhusker Marching Band Big Red Express Pepband
YEAR 1
Being able to quickly communicate ideas on paper is important in design. This class worked to quickly build this critical skill. Featured are two of my most proud perspective drawings from the class.
Design Drawing
Design Making
In order to explore and understand basic design elements and principles, this class consisted of several 3D representation projects, each more complex than the last. This allowed us to understand and practice the process of design outside of the built environment. These exercises posed different requirements and challenges to be creatively solved.
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This class laid a foundation for how to use 3D modeling software such as Auto-Cad and Rhino. The final project was the first time we produced orthographic drawings and renders to represent, communicate, and visualize design. For this project we selected a precedent, gathered drawings and worked to replicate the design in Rhino and produce our own drawings along with a new narrative. I chose the pictured pavilion below by Aguilo+Pedraza. I gave my pavilion a new narrative entitled “A Gem Among Peaks”.
A New Narrative: Render
YEAR 2
Second Year Studio
This studio continued to further the education and application of fundamental knowledge, skills, and methods in defining space for the interior built environment. The projects had an emphasis on design intention, specific strategies and the art of physical modeling. The first project is a precedent study through diagramming and physical modeling titled Taxonomy of Italian Spatial Conditions. The second project is a bathhouse entitled “Soak, Steam, Dream”.
Janelle Johnson_IDES 211_Spring 2023
Taxonomy of Italian Spatial Conditions
In this project, a precedent study was selected and explored to investigate and understand the interior spatial conditions and strategies. These strategies were then to be represented in axonometric and section drawings. The strategies were further expressed and understood through the completion of a hybrid drawing combining both technical drawings with graphics. The final step was to represent these strategies through physical modeling. In this precedent project, materiality and volumetric strategies came to the forefront in guiding circulation and defining spatial zones.
Italian Spatial Conditions Pastiche
This project built on the previous one, tasking us with creating a unique spatial condition designed to mimic multiple strategies studied in precedent projects
“Soak,
Steam, Dream”
Located in Rome, Italy, “Soak, Steam, Dream” is a tenant finish out of the Mattatoio building turning it into a bathhouse This design focuses on creating open circulation that leads to moments of discovery by using planar and linear compositional strategies through the
Section
Pool Deck
Section A
Aperture Study and Physical Modeling
To better understand how light would impact the design, we were asked to mock up our building shell and important interior elements and photograph light coming into the model. Section diagrams were also created to further reinforce how the design intention of aperture reinforcing moments of arrival throughout the project.
YEAR 3
Emerging Paradigms: Crafting Ethics of Hope and Revery
With the ongoing climate crisis, social inequities, and a myriad of other issues in the field of design and society, hope can be easily get lost. However, hope always has the ability to shine through hardships. This course provided an opportunity to talk about what it means to establish ethics of hope within our work.
Beneath Our Feet
The final project of this class asked us to design, create, and complete an act of hopefulness. I chose to spread hope to a younger generation that we can win our fight against climate change by turning back to the land. I constructed a one square meter box, and filled it with soil, worms, and caterpillars and brought it to the class. I made an interactive sheet for them to fill out as I walked through an interactive presentation with them. My goal was to teach them about the immense life our soil contains and how powerful it is. You can view the full project presentation here!
Third Year Studio
NEXT Design Competition
The NEXT Design competition was a tenant finish out in the Victory Commons building located in Dallas, Texas. It asked us to develop the NEXT brand and the office space the firm would occupy. This NEXT office was designed to be a bold space inspiring bold ideas that shatter the status quo. There is a focus on research based design such as; studying selected design principles, wellness at work, the presence of gen z in the work place, and the Dallas communities.
Research in Design NEXT Principles
The NEXT office considers design principles of Me+We spaces, a balance of Open + Enclosed spaces, Fixed to Fluid solutions, and the Braiding of Digital and Physical Technology. These principles were researched and deployed into the project.
EMPLOYEE LOUNGE
Through making exercises using different material types a more critical understanding of material applications in interiors was achieved. The first featured project is the Plastic Making Project. The second featured project is the Custom Studio Component designed for the NEXT Design Competition.
A Wave of Space Plastic Manipulation
The plastic project tasked us with manipulating a 24 x 36 sheet of acrylic. During the creative thought process my main goal with this project was to manipulate the original sheet as much as possible to create a material that was dynamic with a 3 dimensional feeling and a tactile aspect. I landed on a final design idea that would try to both literally and abstractly capture the essence of water. This was accomplished through laser cutting, vacuum sealing, and painting.
1. Melt and vacuum seal over mold
2. Spray painting and iridescence
Custom Studio Component Brand Integration
The final project for the class asked us to design and develop a custom piece from our NEXT Design Competition using all the skills we had learned in the class thus far.
Painted
YEAR 4
In this semester long studio, architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design students come together for a semester long project. Our studio looked to revitalize the of Walnut Hill by re-imagining the site of the historic Walnut Hill Reservoir. My group of 2 architects, 1 landscape architect, and myself an interior designer re-imagined the site as a land bridge atop the site connecting the divided north and south neighborhoods and is community resources.
The following project and
deliverables were created in collaboration with Jacob Leuck, Gabby Van Nurden, and Antonio Stewart.
Understanding the historic architecture of the reservoir and the full site context helped to create our stance on the project. The site plan communicated scale and important adjacencies within the site, and the sections displayed the volume of space available within the reservoir basins.
Drawing were created in collaboration with several students within the studio.
Drawing were created in collaboration with several students within the studio.
We used the indicated locations in the most left diagram as pin points on a printed site plan as anchors to push and pull rubber bands. These physical studies of site context, scale, and geometry lead us to the final form of our land bridge which we then deployed our program to.
SOCIAL HISTORIC
Indicates Basin Removal
Land Bridge Massing
Our program concept was to create meaningful layers of community based necessities which would be supported by the foundational history of the site architecturally and socially.
This diagram displays our program proposal in relation to our land bridge form and the existing basin structures. It also highlights intended circulation and entry.
CAFE/VENDOR RETAIL
Our full site response mends the bridge of time and a community divide Here you can see our land bridge form atop the existing basin structures. Both of which are supporting a vertical layering of program calling back to the current Walnut Hill Neighborhood planning goals and existing historical and social contexts of the site.
Gabby Van Nurden
Gabby Van Nurden
In the south most basin, we wanted to replicate the significance of the 40th and Hamilton St intersection. This intersection was historically busy with foot traffic and was an exciting public hotspot It featured a trolley car system, and several community buildings. Our design features a large ice skating rink doubling as a roller blading rink in other seasons, restaurant space, a small vendor style retail location with a cafe, and plenty of open air green space.
Our vertical restaurant space paired with our retail cafe and skate rink create exciting opportunities for entertainment, recreation, and an economic boost for the neighborhood. While much of our design is aimed at serving the needs of the immediate community, our south basin looks to additionally bring in outside foot traffic and bring back the tourist-like destination the reservoir itself used to be.
RESTAURANT DETAIL
Music
I discovered my love of the arts at a very young age In 5th grade I decided to join band. Pair that decision with growing up a life long Husker fan, and my dream to play in the Cornhusker Marching Band was born. Being in both the marching band and pep bands taught me so much about myself and valuable leadership skills of patience and collaboration
