Frozen Music
Farmer Education Building is located in 1050 S Forest Mall, Tempe, and it was constructed in 1960s. Farmer Education Building has not register the historical building yet, but we treat it as a historical building. Hence, all of our design solution is based on the rule of historical building. Our goal is to re-design the whole third floor, and the courtyard. The original facade causes the lack of natural light, cutting the facade is the only solution ifor bringing natural light into interior space.As we said that we are treating this beautiful building as a historical building, so we have to find the order of Farmer Education Building before we cut the facade.
New Facade The order of the facade of Farmer Education Building is the piano black key board arrangement. Farmer Education Building is facing to Gammage and the Concert Hall, and they are composing the music atmosphere due to their location. Hence, we proved our guessing, and we start to design. We use translucent concrete to respect and to celebrate the old Farmer Education Building, the translucent concrete has a built-in LED light, so the new Farmer Education Building will glow at night time and it will bring the feeling of safety and vivid atmosphere to people who is walking in ASU at night time. It will also attract people into the building`s courtyart after they finished watching the show from Gammage. We designed a structure exclusive for the courtyard, and it is keeping the current circulation of the couryard with maximizing the using opportunities of courtyard. The structure also allows the faculty to host their event in it.
Library in Courtyard
Classroom
PHD`s Office
We truly believe that education can never stand without books, so we proposed the library in the courtyard and on the third floor. We start to innovate the classrooms, the faculty space, and the PHD`s office by re-arranging the space, and using the proper high efficient furniture. The furniture we used in the PHD`s office is sliding table, which satisfy both collaboration and individual working; the seats we used in the classrooms can be used as regular chair with back supporting, and it also can be used as a set of both chair and table. We introduced the latest technologies that can match education purppose, such as the laser projector, smart glass, smart light dimmer and smart light switch. We introduced the smart glass into PHD`s meeting room to achieve the privacy and the clarity. OFFICE
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DN CLASSROOM 616 SF
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3rd Floor Floor Plan With the View of Courtyard The corridor for the faculty brings a comfortable and private breathing space for them to breathe. The classrooms can be divided into two classrooms, and it can also be used as one large classroom. The re-design of PHD`s office gives three Skype rooms, and a high efficient working space with meeting room and lounge area. All the improvements are making people who learn and work to be productive in their fields.
View of the Exterior Wall of Library With Vegetation
Night View of Courtyard
INT 363: Spring 2016 Interior Design Studio III
The Public/Private Space in Courtyard
View From the 3rd Floor
Student: Meiqi Hu, Jixun Wen, Bijun Xu Instructor: Laura LeGuollon