LIVE/WORK WOOD LAB THE GEORGETOWN ARTIST COLLECTIVE ARCH 300 // WINTER 2023

This Live/Work Wood Lab is part of an artist collective located in the heart of Georgetown. It is centered around creating a space for carpenters and furniture fabricators. The space combines the utility of a fabrication lab with the concept of short term rentals to create a artist residence. It aims to cap- ture the feeling of domesticity and its relationship to flexibility in both life and work. Built on a 10’x10’ grid, the goal was to maximize space and introduce modularity.

PROGRAMS USED:

REVIT, RHINO, PHOTOSHOP, AUTOCAD

REDESIGNING THE REFRIGERATOR

ENTRE 490 // WINTER 2022

As a part of the Lavin Entrepreneurship Program 2021 cohort, our team was tasked with finding, researching, and solving a problem space within an industry.

We found significant issues concerning food waste in the United States.

Seeing that over 40% of food per household goes uneaten, we sought to redesign the one appliance meant to prolong food life, yet is the biggest cause of household food waste: the refrigerator.

Access and visibility were the main components lacking in the traditional appliance. The design proposed optimizes sliders that bring food to the forefront, thus preventing food from being stacked and forgotten in the back of refrigerators where they would eventually be thrown out.

Team Members: Janice Dermawan, Gabe Guo, Alex Ungureanasuv

PROGRAMS USED: SKETCHUP, PHOTOSHOP

Shelving is split into a 3:1 ratio for inner shelves and door storage. Having deeper and more storage on the doors means food can be efficiently organized in a single, or at most a double layer.

A hinging arm acts as the primary mechanism, thus extending when the door is open, pulling the inner shelf out along with it, and providing access to the back of the fridge.