Kile Hotchkiss - Portfolio 2024

CONTENTS

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ANOTHER VERNACULAR

Gender-Inclusive Luxury Retail Store

12-27

ARPÈGE

A Boutique Hotel Concept

28-33

CREATIVE CO-HOUSING

Multi-Family Project for LGBTQ+ Elders

34-39

CERAMIC LOFT

Live/Work Residence for Ceramic Artist

ANOTHER VERNACULAR

Project Type: Retail

Location: Soho, New York City

Software: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Enscape, Photoshop

CLIENT + CONCEPT

ANOTHER VERNACULAR

(AV) is a high-end, gender-inclusive lifestyle brand developed for this retail project. The line includes contemporary tailored clothing, footwear, bags, and apothecary products.

For the design of the New York flagship store in Soho, the design draws inspiration from the Light and Space art movement and stage set design. The visitor is met with a secondary facade of scrim partitions upon entering the store. These structural scrim elements highlight the ephemeral translucency of the material while defining each merchandising area. Reacting to volume and encasement, the sheer scrim structures act as visual separators while allowing an experience of discovery and voyeurism with each progression throughout the store.

BRAND IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT

The project includes visual creative direction and brand identity development. The stripped-back ‘AV’ logo presents a narrative of minimalism that is carried throughout the brand’s aesthetic.

The color palette, seen here applied to custom product packaging designs, relates to the contrasts of chroma and progression of tint versus tone. The editorial styling and lookbook concepts relay sartorial grit and a sense of irreverent refinement. Overall, elements of ‘soft brutalism’ are woven throughout the branding design.

CLOTHING

CONCEPT

As the visitor moves through the store, lighter, desaturated elements are stripped away to expose structural framework throughout the retail display area.

Upon descending to the lower level, darker saturated materials are layered back into the design while the scrim display framework acts as light-boxes illuminating the space.

MATERIALS

The First Floor materials introduce contrast in weight and translucent visual effects. Lighter neutrals give way to more saturated tones. Scrim partitions are used as space defining elements throughout the space, both vertically and horizontally, to direct the user and introduce motifs of containment versus release.

Natural Scrim, Partitions

Travertine, Flooring

Aluminum, Frame and Shelving

Marble, Display Pedestals

Portola Match Point

Limewash Plaster, Walls

Marble, Display Pedestals

Natural Scrim, Partitions and Curtains

High Gloss Veneer, Walls and Ceiling

Object Carpet Gloss

7920 Powder, Carpet

MATERIALS

The Lower Level creates a moodier, darker environment with high-gloss, dark wood veneer lining the walls and ceiling. The scrim partitions act as light boxes in this instance, illuminating both the product and surrounding areas. A lounge area introduces upholstered seating and mesh curtains, in a looser form, section off the fitting rooms.

Mayer Plaza Everglade Velvet, Upholstery

Marble, Display Pedestals

Aluminum, Frame and Shelving

Custom display solutions utilize materials with contrasting weight and opacity. Hanging racks, display plinths, and shelving work in tandem with the scrim partitions, piercing through the material to connect the foreground with the structural backdrop.

CUSTOM FURNITURE

Modular seating designs for the fitting room lounge area. The weighted pillows along the back of the sofa design are transposed scale to create a sloping bench design for the secondary seating area.

ARPÈGE

Project Type: Hospitality

Location: Montreal, Québec

Software: AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, Enscape

A new hotel concept for the fashion house Lanvin, ARPÈGE celebrates the brand’s historical connection to the birth of the French Art Deco movement while expanding into a more contemporary aesthetic. The hotel will cater to the fashion house’s current clientele, a global luxury client with a keen eye for art and culture.

Lanvin has historically maintained a diaphanous and delicate materiality that is carried across their collections. Currently the brand has expanded into streetwear, embracing sneakers, neo-tailoring, and technical fabrics. This juxtaposition between design trajectories provides the aesthetic basis for this hotel design. The signature “Robe de Style” silhouette brings about an angular parti. The dichotomy of floral patterns rendered in pixelation and grid motifs at various scales and transparencies carry throughout the project.

LOBBY

RECEPTION

STAIR

RETAIL

WC

STAIR

WC

RESTAURANT

BAR

LOUNGE

SECOND FLOOR FIRST

Ruhlmann Club Chair

Pierre Augustin Rose Palais Royal Froufrou Sofa

Christophe Delcourt LOB Low Table

& Co Arp Chair

Charlotte Biltgen Eileen Armchair

Lamp

Custom Oak / Nickel Inlay, Flooring

Metal Mesh Antique Nickel, Architectural

Moore & Giles Tribeca Glass, Upholstery

Pollack Satisfaction Aubergine, Upholstery

Maharam Scuba Cabernet, Upholstery Superstrata Metallic Plaster, Ceiling

Maharam Tempo Beehive, Upholstery

Maharam Metric Fog, Upholstery

Maharam Scape Raven, Upholstery

Burnished Nickel, Architectural Reception + Stair Sketch

CUSTOM LIGHTING

FIXTURE SYSTEM

INSPIRED BY LANVIN SNEAKERS

1 NORTH SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

FIRST FLOOR RCP

SECOND FLOOR RCP

MILLWORK DETAILING PROJECT

Drawings from an advanced detailing project inspired the retail store design. Motifs were adapted from French Art Deco projects and reinterpreted with considerations for depth, texture, and scale.

1/2"=1'-0"

SECTION, NORTH WALL

CUSTOM DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Expanded millwork details guide the development of complimentary ceiling designs. The coffered ceiling in the retail space is reflected in the restaurant with a grid of custom metal mesh light fixtures. The ceiling finish in the dining room is metallic silver plaster, highlighting the direct/ indirect lighting from the pendants.

Custom dining chairs echo the angular parti transcribed from the drop-waist “Robe de Style” silhouette. Layered pleats from the skirt direct linear metal fins applied to the custom dining banquette design. Integrated lighting fixtures bring illumination to the mid-level space, creating a warm glow across the dining room

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Project Type: Hospitality

Location: Montreal, Québec

Software: AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, Enscape

SITTING ROOM

BEDROOM

CLOSET

BATHROOM

CUSTOM BED FRAME

BURL VENEER

WAXED ALUMINUM

ADJUSTABLE LED PANEL SLIDES ON TRACK FROM SCONCE HEIGHT TO BEDSIDE LAMP

STRETCHED SILICON RUBBER DIFFUSER

CUSTOM ADJUSTABLE

WALL SCONCE

SILICON RUBBER

POLISHED NICKEL

CUSTOM DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

The hotel suite displays a vibrancy of color and texture. Many materials, including nickel-plated metals, burl veneer, and macassar ebony veneer were selected based on their prominent use in French Art Deco furniture. Here they are utilized in uber-contemporary forms and juxtaposed with graphic printed upholstery, backpainted glass, lacquered surfaces, and translucent silicone rubber.

The bed frame integrates nightstand and seating surfaces into the design with a rhythm of linear planes and reveals. An adjustable wall light allows the user to move the LED panel along a track from sconce height down to reading lamp level. A strap of silicone rubber provides a contemporary texture while gently diffusing the light. The mixed media sofa continues an exploration of contrasts with an upholstery-wrapped panel shell surrounding the sofa.

CUSTOM MIXED MEDIA SOFA

CUSTOM STACKED SIDE TABLE

LANVIN INSPIRATION

BENJAMIN MOORE OLD MONTREAL

MOORE & GILES CARLYLE BLUEBELL

MAHARAM MESSENGER POPPY

MAHARAM SCAPE BLEND

BENJAMIN MOORE SEATTLE GRAY

BURL VENEER

SILICON RUBBER

POLISHED NICKEL

MACASSAR EBONY VENEER

CREATIVE CO-HOUSING

Project Type: Multi-Family

Location: Upper East Side, New York City

Software: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Enscape, Photoshop

This co-housing community caters to LGBTQ+ elders with backgrounds in the creative and visual arts. The single-floor cooperative is located on the Upper East Side in New York City and will provide a mix of one to twoperson apartments and common areas for residents. Chosen family and care-giving have long been a central components of this community and will be a pillar of the co-housing experience. While continuing to celebrate and affirm the diverse backgrounds and experiences of LGBTQ+ elders, the project will support the diverse needs of this population and provide a welcoming space to continue community engagement.

The communal area is centralized on the floor and provides a Living Area, Dining Area, Kitchen, Laundry Room, Restrooms, and Gallery Space for the residents and their visitors. Different areas will support socializing for larger groups with flexibility for events and group dinners through to more intimate seating areas for privacy and oneon-one conversations. This programming will allow this group of like-minded individuals to continue to engage within their own community while welcoming guests and visitors to the space.

CONCEPT

Industrial Angular Rough Rigid Leather Metal Dark Moody

Natural Curved Soft Plush Velvet Sheer Light Soft Floral

MALE FEMALE

To reflect the inclusive and broad nature of the LGBTQ+ community, design elements highlighted across this project attempt to degender or queer traditional thoughts around the use of color, texture, form, and materiality.

In “The Crumple and the Scrape: Two Archi-Textures in the Mode of Queer Gender,” Lucas Crawford notes:

Consider how easy it is for us to recognize ways in which color is gender-coded and sexualized: pastels are innocent; a hunter-green hanky worn in the back right pocket means “daddy”; parents use pink and blue onesies to communicate the status of their child’s genitals to onlookers.

Texture is every bit as political as color, as thoroughly imbricated in gender and sexual norms. It slides, if slyly, into our designs, vocabularies, and tastes. Texture and gender are mutually defining.

FLOORING

Object Carpet

Object Carpet

Rosso Levanto

Verde Vecchio

Basketweave Marble Tile

MATERIALS

Exploring and breaking traditional gender norms, high-contrast materials highlight variance in color, pattern, sheen, and textural handfeel.

Maharam Alpaca Velvet Alpine, Upholstery

Dark Stained Oak, Millwork

Polished Chrome, Lighting

Aged Brass, Lighting

Object Carpet Chicc 900 - 0917, Carpet

Oak Veneer, Millwork

Kunis Breccia, Tables

Maharam Deconstructed Rose, Upholstery

Maharam Mantle Kinetic, Upholstery

Verde Vecchio Quartzite, Countertop

GALLERY

GALLERY

Project Type: Residential (Live/Work)

Location: Tribeca, New York City

Software: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Enscape, Photoshop

CLIENT + CONCEPT

Harvey Bouterse is an Antwerp-based ceramic artist. After a successful career in fashion, Bouterse discovered his love for ceramics after a sourcing trip to the Belgian countryside. He was drawn not only to the art form, but to the serene natural setting of the remote town where his European studio would eventually be located.

Bouterse requires a Live/Work loft in New York City that would allow him to expand into the market with a private gallery space highlighting his works for potential stockists and retail partners.

Taking design inspiration from his own ceramics practice, forms reflect varied aesthetics to his evolving work. Experimental sculptures highlight layering techniques, hand-formed material manipulation, wall-hung art pieces, light fixtures, and ceramic jewelry. The Ceramic Loft melds Bouterse’s metropolitan lifestyle with the agrestal Belgian landscape, the setting where he fell in love with the art form.

MEZZANINE PLAN

ENTRY

GALLERY

LOUNGE STAIRS

KITCHEN

WORKSPACE

STAIRS

WC

BEDROOM

BALCONY

MATERIALS

Material choices reflect the dichotomy and contrast of the urban and natural environment. Organic forms built in hard materials carve out the space while contrasts in texture and surface finishes reflect the ceramic glazing process seen in Bouterse’s work. Inspiration is taken from the Japanese firing technique of Raku which connects the elements of fire, air, earth, and water, creating a unique glaze across the ceramic surface. The process of kiln firing is translated through amber-colored glass brick, creating a flame-like reflection and luster throughout the space.

5 SOUTH SECTION

SCALE:

527SA-2021/22-S Design and Drawing II

INSTRUCTOR:

AMY EVERARD

DRAWING TITLE:

SOUTH SECTION

DRAWN BY:

DATE:

SCALE:

KILE HOTCHKISS

2/18/2022

1/4" = 1'-0"

Oak Veneer

Object Carpet Chill 1240

Calacatta Viola Blackened Brass

Amber Glass Brick Robert Allen Mohair Titanium

Maharam Scape

Nighthawk

Polished Aluminum Portola Nomad

SOUTH SECTION A