Institutional Design Studio
Mixed-use Medical Facility During this senior-level studio course, students designed a mixed-use medical facility. The areas required in the project included an urgent care facility, a retail pharmacy, a café, a healing garden, and a specialty practice medical office of their choice. Topics presented in the course included through lecture, discussion, and project application included: […]
Retail Design Studio
Etsy Pop-up Shops & Subscription Box Kiosks For the first half of this studio design course, students selected a maker/seller from the online marketplace, Etsy. Following the established identity of their selected Etsy shop’s logo and product aesthetic, students generated a concept for a physical pop-up shop to represent the online store as a boutique […]
Residential Design Studio
Adaptive Reuse: Barn Conversion In this freshman studio, students converted an old barn on a historically significant property in Cambridge, MA, into a residence. The clients, a widowed professional musician, and their six-year-old child were seeking a fresh start through this renovation and relocation to the countryside. Topics covered through lectures, discussions, and project application […]
New Englad Aquarium VIP Suite Concepts
Visualization and Ideation Delineation In this ideation assignment, students employed a word association technique taught in class to generate and propose design detail concepts for a new “Members’ VIP Suite” at the New England Aquarium in Boston, MA. The project required elements for a sophisticated interior design inspired by and abstracted from the ocean, featuring […]
Color Pencil Renderings
Course: Visualization and Ideation Delineation For this rendering project, students applied knowledge learned in class about working with artists’ colored pencils, the effects of light and shadow, and reproducing materials and textures to create a “copycat” version of a professional photograph from a design publication. Colored Pencil Rendering: Living Area Colored Pencil Rendering: Living Area […]
Black and White Renderings
Course: Visualization and Ideation Delineation In this assignment, students created “copycat” renderings by selecting a color image from an interior design magazine and recreating it as a black-and-white rendering using only technical pens. Techniques taught and demonstrated in class, which students were required to apply, included inking techniques, line weights, hatching techniques to create a […]
Mixed Media Rendering
Course: Visualization and Ideation Delineation Students created this mixed-media rendering project by combining the techniques learned throughout the semester utilizing technical pens, colored pencils, and artist markers. In addition to employing these previously learned skills, the students applied knowledge gained while studying color theory earlier in the semester to assign a new color palette type […]