Portfolio 2024 by Susan Gilmer-Hill

PORTFOLIO.

SKILLS

GILMER-HILL SUSAN

ENVIRONMENTAL+INTERIORDESIGNB.F.A.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 2024

SAGILMER@SYR.EDU | (313).929.6964

WORK EXPERIENCE

DATAANALYSIS+POLICY

STUDYINTERNSHIP

POLICY PATHWAYS

Theorganizationteachesyouththebasicsofpublicpolicythroughawidevarietyofexperienced,POC policyworkers

PROGRAMS AutoCAD Rhino Revit Enscape SketchUp InDesign Photoshop Illustrator Acrobat Adobe Creative Cloud Formatting Communcations Leadership Networking Hand Rendering Problem Solving Customer Relations Sales Woodworking SEE FULL SPREAD PORTFOLIO HERE

JULY2022-AUGUST2022

DATAANALYSISINTERNSHIP

REFLEX STRATEGY GROUP

JULY2022-AUGUST2022

MUSIC+CULTURELLC

RESIDENTASSISTANT

STUDENT HOUSING LLCRA

AUGUST2022-DECEMBER2022

RESTAURANTEXPERIENCE

SUMMERSANDWINTERS2021-2023

J. ALEXANDER’S FINEDININGSERVER

SUMMER2023

FINEDININGSERVERASSISTANT

MAD NICE

SUMMER2023

WAITRESS

RED ROBIN

SUMMERSANDWINTERS2021-2023

Becameadataanalysisinternaftercomplingtheprogram learnedhowtoapplydataanalysistosupportpublicpolicyreform

Researchedandanalyzedpossiblevotersanddonors Useddataanalysistohelpstateandlocalgovernmentcandidatesbettermarkettotheiraudiences

Oversawafloorof35freshmenresidentsresidinginthedormsofSyracuseUniversity. Handledconflictresolution,communitybuilding,eventplanning,weeklymeetingsandadministrative duties.

ServedasaLiving+LearningCommunityResidentAdvisorfortheMusic+CultureLLC. Createdafloorcommunitywitheventscenteredaroundmusicandculture

TrainedinFIneDiningService

PerformedFineDIningservice

TrainedinFIneDiningService Memorized,rananddescribedfood Polishedglassesandsilverware

Learnedtomultitask,makesales,workonateam,andgive customerservice.

Myfirstjob,taughtmeaboutnetworkingandtheworldas myworkplace.

ORGANIZATIONS

VICEPRESIDENTOFPOLICY+ SOCIALINITIATIVES

IIDA NY

SUMMER2023-PRESENT

PEERADVISOR

SCHOOL OF DESIGN

SUMMER2023-PRESENT

FOUNDINGPRESIDENT

BLACK STUDENT UNION

FEBRUARY2022-JANUARY2023

GLOBALAMBASSADOR

SYRACUSE ABROAD

SUMMER2023-PRESENT

CREATIVEDIRECTOR

RENEGADE MAGAZINE

FALL2023

SETDESIGN

FASHION AND DESIGN SOCIETY

FALL2023-PRESENT

ENVIRONMENTAL+INTERIOR DESIGNTUTOR

CENTER FOR LEARNING AND STUDEDNT SUCCESS (C.L.A.S.S)

FALL2023-PRESENT

FOUNDINGPRESIDENT

FALL2023-PRESENT BLACK BALLERINAS AT CUSE

CHECK OUT MY WORK @STUFFBYSOOZ

Contents. RESUME. NEXT. THE WAREHOUSE PROJECT. SOUTHSIDE COMMUNICATIONS CENTER. ERMA’S ISLAND.

NEXT.

Steelcase Design Competition

Students entered Steelcase’s National Competition, entering hybrid centered designs for a new robotics company located on the Boston Seaport. Each school submitted two designs to the competition.

This design was chosen to represent Syracuse University in the Steelcase NEXT competition.

design selected to represent Syracuse University ✴

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december 2022

NEXT.

The Seaport District offers shopping, dining, views, and nightlife, providing residents with a luxury experience in an enriching envirionment.

These are the goals NEXT wants to achieve with their product and consumer.

The Seaport District offers shopping, dining, views, and nightlife, providing residents with a luxury experience in an enriching envirionment.

innovative hybridity accessible ergonomic multiuse life facilitating flexible

Seaport District HistoryA Timeline

Age Demographics

90% of residents in the Seaport are between the ages of 18 - 64.

NEXT is within walking distance of the Boston Harbor, where engagement and activity peppers the shore.

Race Demographics

walking distance of the Boston Harbor, where engagement and activity peppers the shore.

The Seaport is mostly white, at an overwhelming 81% of residents.

The wider Boston area has 73% of residents in the same age range.

The wider Boston area is much more diverse with a 45% white and 55% other breakdown.

Household Type

50% of households in the Seaport are One-person households. The wider Boston area in comparison has mostly family homes.

Site Analysis.

Early consideration of daylighting, access, acoustics, and other site opportunities allows for planning better suited placement of different types of activities

Private Social/ Loud Focus Work Group Work

Sun Fall 9am 3pm 42’

Interior

Existing Site Analysis D.8 G D H E.2 F.6 NIC Reception Resource Center Retail Mockup Private Office Designated Team Room Designated Team Room Designated Team Room Private office Private office Wellness Room Mother’s Room Phone Room Phone Room Phone Room Workstations Private Social/loud Focus work Group work NIC Designated Team Phone Room Site Analysis. Private Social/ Loud Views Flexible Area Accessible

Site Analysis.

of the Boston Seaport existing interior analysis Block diagram

Materials

Key Factors

Key factors are extracted from precedent research as elements to be incorporated into my design

01. Maximize real estate through multi-functional spaces

02. Incorporate company branding while honoring the local culture

03. Balancing Transparency + Confidentiality

04. Increase employee engagement, collaboration, and productivity

Perkins + Will, New York Linked-in, Chicago

Design Concepts

Interactive Areas + Modulated Space

Various working configurations are provided throughout the floor, allowing for flexibility in work style

Cores + Corridors

Social Core

Worker’s Corridor

Two core areas allow for a separation between public and social spaces and focus work areas

Definition through Ceilings + Floors

Main Entry

Worker’s Core

Main Circulation

Team Workstations

COLLAB workstations

phonerooms individualprivateoffice workstation FLEX

wellnessareasocialflexspace01 workcafe SOCIAL

socialsocialflexspace02 flexspace01

socialflexspace02

designatedteamspaceshomeoffice

FOCUS

HYBRID

NEXT Purpose Drivers

connection

support

community

push towards innovation

Reception

Space shaping guides guests around the interactive areas

Reception features a circular flow to guide visitors around the interactive areas in the lobby.

Home Office

NEXT’s Home Office Lab demonstrates what a home office would look like using NEXT products and ideals.

plan view

The reception area provides various areas for guests to interact with and learn more

maximizing real estate through multifunctional spaces

Flow directs users to choose between informal and formal seating configurations

design concepts Work Corridor

Interactive Areas + Modulated Space

Flow

Work Cafe

the brand encourages connectivity in team areas through it’s motif branding

providing focus, collaborative, social, and flex areas continues the space’s motif through the cafe, allowing workers to personalize their lunch experience

NEXT encourages community growth even when not working

Floor + Ceiling

Shaping

space shaping creates an organic flow through collaborative, social, and focus areas

Individual Workstations

Worker’s Corridor

Designated Team Spaces

Work Corridor

Interactive areas throughout the Worker’s corridor offer a variety of work configurations to choose from when in need of a break from individual workstations.

collaboration tables connect individual workspaces, allowing for focus or collaborative work.

social flex space 01 social flex space 02 designated team spaces

workstations

individual

Reception Home Office Lab Flex Space 01 Worker’s Corridor Work Cafe

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Worker’s Corridor

The Warehouse Project

may 2022

The Warehouse Project Renovation Project

This project gave students a chance to renovate and renew an area of The Nancy Cantor Warehouse to better serve its purpose as a design school. My assignment was the Environmental and Interior Design professor offices on the 6th floor.

Challenges.

There are many identifiable issues in these offices, but the main problems we found were Lack of Privacy, Poor Spatial Design, and The Secretary Effect

While all areas have issues, they vary in relevance by space. Storage

1 2 3 4

Secretary

good

2nd most open

poor light access

most enclosed space

most private • biggest office area

most professional area

poor light access

most enclosed space

• The

Effect •

lighting •

•

Exit

Lobby

1 2 3 4

Room

Area

Study Workroom

Conference Room

EDI Lounge

EDI Lounge

Previously Offices 3+4

This lounge provides a space for students to rest and take a break from the stresses of studio.

Study Workrooms

Previously Offices 2, 3, and Storage

These offices provide a quiet secure space to students, which is not found elsewhere in the warehouse.

Conference Room

Previously Office 1

This communal conference room allows for spatious and private meeting rooms to be accessible to students and professors.

Cork

Cork is used to control sound, and adds audio privacy to the meeting room.

The Warehouse Project

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South Side Communications Center

Community Service Project

Students split into groups to do a community redesign on South Side Communications Center, a community center near Syracuse University.

This design was presented to real clients, Syracuse University for funding, and included 4 months of continuous group work.

Walkthrough Video

Susan Gilmer-Hill, Lillian Cubbin, Emma Wasserman, Luke Emlet, Chris Rose

SIde Communications center

South

december 2022

The renovation of the Southside Communications Center aims to empower the community through creating a sense of pride, belonging and unity, reviving the community spirit that was formerly lost.

It will give back through amplifying and improving the resources provided like an environment, the SSCC will use it’s current surrounding resources to support itself.

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Sankofa Reproductive Hea th + Hea ng Center Vicki s Closet Bui ding Power for Commun ty Health Open Art Stud o Makerspace

Existing SSCC Uses

Design Intent : Reciprocity How Are We Doing It?

Are

WELLNESS ART L TERACY PRIVATE PUBL C Our plan allows for public gathering spaces and pr vate areas on each floor WIthin the SSCC ecosystem, the Art Health, and L teracy environments function separately Solutions: Design Concepts

What

We Doing?

Second Floor

M A W A I T N G A R E A U D I O S A N K O F A C L A S S S P A C E Pa n W T e Material Pallete Sankofa Storage nkofa Space Mother s Room W C Sta r 2 W Co e ng F o r ng Wa Cov r ng W C e Wa Co e n Wa Co e ng Pa nt S E C O N D F L O O R F O Y E R G A L L E R Y S P A C E S A N K O F A W A I T N G A R E A A R T S T U D I O S A N K O F A O F F I te Pa nt p storage V C K I ’ S C L O S E T S A N K O F A W A I T I N G A R E A

Sankofa Office Sankofa Storage Stair 1 Gal ery Space Art Stud o Art Storage Sankofa C ass Space Mother s Room W C Sankofa Wa ting Area Elevator Stair 2 W E N T R Y P R O J E C T O R R O O M + L O U N G E S S C C O F F I C E A R T S T U D I O S A N K O F A O F F I C E S A N K O F A C L A S S S P A C E S A N K O Pa nt Wa T e Sankofa Off ce Material Pallete Sankofa Storage Ga ery Space Art Stud o Art Storage Sankofa Class Space Mother s Room W C Sankofa Wait ng Area Wa C ve n F o n Wa Co e n Wa o n W Co e n W Co e n Pa n S E C O G A L L E R Y S P A C E S A N K O F A W A T I N G A R E A A R T S T U O S A N K O F A O F F C S A N K O F A C L A S S S P A C E econd Floor Pa n Wa T e Sankofa Office Material Pallete Sankofa Storage Stair 1 Space Art Studio age Sankofa Class Space Mother s Room W C Sankofa Wa ting Area E evator Sta r 2 Wa Cov r n F oo n Wa C ve n W Co n W C ve n Wa Co e ng Paint O O M + L O U N G E S S C C O F F I C E V I C K I ’ S C L O S E T O R F O Y E R G A L L E R Y S P A C E S A N K O F A W A I T N G A R E A A R T S T U D I O S A N K O F A O F F I C E S A N K O F A C L A S S S P A C E oor Paint W T a Material Pallete Sankofa Storage Sankofa C ass Space Mother s Room W C Sankofa Waiting Area Stair 2 W Cove n F oo n Wa Cov r ng W C Wa Cov r ng Wa Co e n Pa nt storage S S C C O F F I C E V I C K S C L O S E T G A L L E R Y S P A C E S A N K O F A W A I T I N G A R E A A R T S T U D I O S A N K O F A O F F I C E S A N K O F A C L A S S S P A C E SSCC Office First Floor Kitch Literacy Space Entry Elevator Projector + Lounge Space Vicki’s Closet Existing Ramp ce View full project

ERMA’S ISLAND may 2022

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ERMA’S ISLAND

Restaurant Ideation

Students were brought to Salt City Market, a cultural food stand market in Syracuse, and assigned a food stall to reimagine

. After visiting an empty site, students designed a two story restaurant to reimagine the food stalls in a bigger space.

Erma’s Island Process

Client: Latoya

Latoya migrated from Jamaica at age 19, determined to establish a better life.

When I talked to Latoya, she said she wanted Jamaican food to be ‘taken seriously’ and dreamed of a fine dining restaurant of her own, celebrating Traditional Jamaican cuisine

CLIENT GOALS:

CASUAL DINING fusion food

UPSCALE DINING

traditional and fusion food

DESIGN GOALS:

PARTI: RESPECT

center jamaican foods and foodways

ensure respect is given to a more relaxed culture and its’ upscale elements

studying culturally significant materials and colors helped form the color palette, materal pallete, and moodboard

moodboard + palettes

DESIGN CONCEPTS

• center jamaican foods and foodways

• use upscale jamaican materials

• establish street vendor and long term dining foodways

ensure respect is given to a more relaxed culture and its’ upscale elements

Respect Parti

Each piece gives up it’s central space, allowing room for someone else to occupy, borrowing from everyone else.

This creates a communally made focal point

bubble diagram

TRADITIONAL FINE DINING

High quality, traditionally made Gourmet Jamaican food served through various foodways

JAMAICAN FOODWAYS

Jamaican style of serving/eating food, including street vending and long Family meals

block diagrams

Second Floor

• upscale dining

• long term family dining centered

First Floor

• casual fusion dining

• ‘street’ vendors foodway

• intro to jamaican culture before upscale respected space

AmeriCAN FOODWAYS Kitchen Bathroom Entry

American style of serving/ eating food, including Small Groups and Facing Chairs

Fusion Vendors Street Vendors serve food by weaving through seating, each offering a different dish

Reggae Band

Reggae bands celebrate rastafarian culture, as well as intrigue outside syracuse

Fusion kitchen makes both traditional jamaican and Jamaicuse Fusion

Introduction to Jamaican culture through Syracuse Fusion

Making a Program and Bubble Diagram helped point out existnng attributes situate the program to the areas that serve them accordingly

Restricted Access

Public Access Protection

Fusion Vendors Fusion Vendors Reggae Band ENTRY Kitchen Traditional Fine Dining Traditional Fine Dining Traditional Fine Dining J.F. J.F. J.F. Traditional Fine Dining - American Foodways Traditional Fine Dining - American Foodways ENTRY Bathrooms Bathrooms Fusion Vendors Reggae Band ENTRY Bathrooms - American Foodways - American Foodways Reception ENTRY

Hearing Seeing/Learning

casual dining Level 1

Street Vendors are used as a wait staff on the first floor, presenting each table with a Fusion Food option and the story behind its’ making. This utilizes the community foodways of juamaican lunch culture

Live music is common on the lunch scene in Jamaica. The Wildcard space features live music, a balcony from the second floor to view down, and a plant wall that spans both floors.

Fusion Vendors wildcard: reggae band

allows for shorter lengtg American fine dining to coexist while centering longer and larger partied traditional Jamaican dining

banquette seating

Nature is very important to Jamaican culture, especially fine dining. Direct nature views are accessed through the skylight and wide windows, centering the traditional foodway with traditional views of nature