Nina Gregory Design Portfolio

Portfolio INTERIOR DESIGN

Nina Gregory

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CORPORATE DESIGN

EDUCATIONAL DESIGN

RESIDENTIAL DESIGN

TRADE SHOW DESIGN

EXHIBIT DESIGN

EXHIBIT DESIGN

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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF ICONCLASM SENIOR THESIS: VCU DEPT OF INTERIOR DESIGN

PROJECT TYPE: Exhibit Design SQUARE FOOTAGE: 5,000 sf COMPLETED: Spring 2024 CONCEPT: Fragment (v.)

Iconoclasm, or the breaking of art, has existed as long as there has been art to break. In Richmond, Virginia, where the mass removal and destruction of Confederate monuments very recently caused massive debate and controversy, this museum explores America’s long relationship with iconoclasm. With a focus on bringing hands-on experiences to an art museum environment, this design seeks to treat the objects on display not as stagnant remains, but as dynamic pieces of storytelling meant to be engaged with.

Honored as Best In Studio for the VCU 2024 class of Interior Design and will be featured in an upcoming online publication of Deezeen Magazine.

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Space Planning

Concept Fragment (v.): to break up or apart into broken off, detached, or incomplete pieces The design embraces that which is broken, deriving much of its visual language from studies of broken chalk and shattered plates. It recognizes the dynamism of shards and retains that energy in the final design.

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Process Sketches

Component Detail

Exhibit Render

Process Sketches

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Component Elevation Nina Gregory Selected Works

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Component Detail

Exhibit Render

Study Model

Process Sketches

Artifacts are all displayed through the eyes of the iconoclasts that destroyed them rather than the white supremacist they depict. Multimedia screens and hands-on interactives bring their destruction to life for the visitor.

Exhibit Render Process Sketches

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Hands-on sliding screens and a visitor poll encourage visitors, locals especially, to engage with the controversies taking place in Richmond, Virginia, where the museum is located.

Ceiling Installation Exploded Axon Detail

Exhibit Render

Process Sketches

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Monuments are displayed suspended in the air or tipped over on their side to highlight their removal or destruction.

Exhibit Render Nina Gregory Selected Works

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Specified Furniture

Lobby Renders

Custom Shelving Elevation

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T H E I R PAT H S / O U R PAT H S STORIES FROM SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE

PROJECT TYPE: Exhibit Design SQUARE FOOTAGE: 2,600 sf COMPLETED: Spring 2023 CONCEPT: Pathways 1 in 4 women will experience domestic abuse in her life. Somebody experiences domestic abuse once every twenty seconds. Every year, ten million people experience domestic abuse in the US. This exhibit within Richmond’s Main Street Station highlights the unique paths of domestic abuse surivivors as they attempt to navigate beyond their trauma and puts faces to an abstract concept. It celebrates their triumphs and their setbacks, attempting to envoke empathy in those who have not experiences domestic abuse and strength in those that have, because they are not alone.

While individual stories are celebrated on the ground, a custom light display serves as a reminder that for every story of triumph, there are still millions suffering.

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Space Planning

The individual exhibition spaces have multiple exit options so that visitors have authority over their visit and never feel cornered.

Bubble diagram

The exhibition does not touch any of the existing walls to eliminate dead ends and the subsequent feeling of being trapped.

The spaces are organized around one central element that visitors can always see and use to orient themselves so they never feel lost.

Bubble diagram over plan

Exhibit Render

Plan Nina Gregory Selected Works

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“Let’s not just point people in the right direction, let’s walk with them“ -- Angela, domestic abuse survivor and public speaker

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Exhibit Render

Display axonometric

Display sketches from models

Concept models

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Light Installation Individual orbs of light serve as a unit with which to illustrate statistics that are to large to be comprehended fully. Each light represents approximately 100 people who will fall victim to domestic abuse in a year. Every twenty seconds, one quarter of the lights will go dim to illustrate how often someone experiences domestic abuse and how 1 in 4 women will experience domestic abuse. It brings urgency back to a largely celebratory exhibit and lets visitors know there is still work to be done.

Exhibit Render

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Exhibit Render

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I C O N AT WO R L D O F CONSTRUCTION 2024 PROJECT TYPE: Trade Show Booth SF: 1,200 sf COMPLETED: Summer 2023 CONCEPT: Visitor Journey COLLABORATOR: Jon Horn Icon Construction was looking to highlight user interaction with their products for their 2024 booth, so the idea arose to send the visitors on a journey through the center of the booth in which they interact with major products from each of their subsidary brands.

Budget was also a major consideration, so the design is largely made of elements the company already owned from shows past. Through a fresh reconfiguration based around the visitor journey and a few minor alterations, the final booth is bold, industrial, and unlike anything Icon has shown with before.

Jon Horn supervised my work and led the project.

I was responsible for all 3D modelling and rendering and the design of the flip display.

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Visitor Journey diagrams Exhibit Render

Space Planning

Plan

The visitor journies through a linear path (simplified from the original idea as per client feedback) interacting with six products along the way until they arrive at the back wall which contains flyers with more detail on the Icon brands.

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Flip display sketches

Exhibit Render

Custom Product Display The client explained that they needed a new, custom system to safely display their board products. As such, a solution was created that safely holds the samples between plexi, but still allows for visitors to touch the product through a circular cutout to feel texture.

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Exhibit Messaging The overall messaging of the exhibit goes from the most broad messages at the highest elevation to be read from a distance, to the most specific ideas at the lowest elevation for more intimate interactions with visitors.

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Vertical Messaging Diagram Nina Gregory Selected Works

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CAMP RESIDENCE P R I M A RY BAT H PROJECT TYPE: Residential SF: 160 sf COMPLETED: Summer 2022 CONCEPT: Timelessness COLLABORATOR: Bonnie Cosman When the Camps began thinking about what they wanted out of a new bathroom, the word that they kept using was “timeless.“ They wanted something that would feel fresh and elegant for years to come. As a result, the tile design combines classics like white subway tile and carrera quartz with dramatic elements like an oversized niche and long bench.

Bonnie Cosman served as my supervisor on this project. I was responsible for all graphic content, including tile elevations that were given to tile setters and framers for installation. The two of us collaborated with the clients on material selection and we both attended the site measure.

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Bathroom Plan

Shower Elevations

Install Photo

Material Palette

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VCU INTERIOR DESIGN E L E VA T O R L O B B Y PROJECT TYPE: Education SF: 1,200 sf COMPLETED: Winter 2022 CONCEPT: Melting Pot COLLABORATOR: Krista Johnson The VCU Department of Interior Design is a melting pot in which individuals on all backgrounds come together under one discipline to design and create. As such, this one week charette proposed an elevator lobby that embodies that principle with displaying student work at the center.

Krista Johnson, a fellow student of interior design, was my collaborator on this project. We collaborated on concept development, each generating models and sketches to work from.

It was my idea to create a ceiling feature and her idea to create recessed displays for models.

I then came up with the final composition based on her sketches. I was also responsible for all graphic content and renderings as well as material research.

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Lobby Render

“Melting Pot” Concept Models Display Wall Elevation Nina Gregory Selected Works

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Lobby Render

Material Palette Terrazzo, as a material that is created by combining thousands of unique aggregates into one surface, was a natural extension of the melting pot concept. The rest of the color palette was drawn from the selected sample to create a harmonious spread of materials. Cork offered both texture and function, as it would deaden sound while providing space to pin up student work for display.

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STEELCASE NEXT STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION PROJECT TYPE: Corporate SF: 15,000 sf COMPLETED: Winter 2023 CONCEPT: Trajectory The NEXT competition brief asked designers to consider what an interior design and architecture office should look like in 2023. With a focus on flexible spaces that are connected to a hybrid workspace, this design proposes a workplace that is kinetic and highly adaptable to the ever-changing needs of the workplace.

This project was selected out of the studio to represent VCU Interior Design in the official Steelcase Student Design Competition.

Assigned Workstations

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Concept Work

Central Huddle Space

“Trajectory“ concept images With the strong energy and forward motion provided by their passionate and talented employees, NEXT will chart a trajectory that will result in designs for today, tomorrow, and

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The logo designed for the company also embodies the concept of trajectory, with a long arrow arcing up through the company name.

“Trajectory“ geometry sketches

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Workstations Resource Center

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Design Library

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Main Floor Plan

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VR Lab

Innovation Spaces

Design Library

Innovation spaces such as the VR lab and the design library allow both clients and designers to experience the designed spaces in more tangible places. Spaces like these allow employees to get up from their desks and work through designs in other ways and also allows clients to feel more actively involved in the design process.

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Training Classroom The training classroom can accommodate up to 40 people, but can also be divided in half using acoustic boundaries to create more intimate meeting spaces to be used more regularly by smaller teams. It can easily be rearranged to accomodate both lecture, discussion, and group based learning.

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Thank You Nina Gregory