Course Description:

This capstone design studio focuses on the challenge of designing a sustainable contract interior. Working in teams, each group will be assigned a different contract project type including corporate, institutional, healthcare, hospitality, and retail.  This project is presented to a graduate faculty jury and industry specialists for evaluation. 

(The program for the spring 2012 semester included a corporate office space, a restaurant and a retail space)

 Educational Objectives:

• Competency in addressing how initial design strategies and concepts such as solar orientation, passive strategies, and internal space planning impacts interior environmental efficiencies and design development.
• Competency in the development of sustainable interior residential spaces, synthesizing traditional design considerations and green objectives.
• Competency in coordinating architectural, material, environmental, and decorative decisions that support the goal of sustainability.
• Familiarity of sustainable environmental control systems and strategies as they apply to residential environments.
• Competency in collaboration, consensus building, leadership, and team work, utilizing current methodologies and digital technologies to facilitate project collaboration and development.
• Understanding how sustainable approaches can be applied to as variety of non-residential environments, including corporate, institutional, healthcare, hospitality, and retail.

Drawings and renderings below were produced in Revit (BIM), Sketchup and 3D Max.

Studio Instructors:  May Julsuwan, LEED AP & Ethan Lu, AIA IDEC LEED AP

Project Team 1: Jessica M. Joanlanne, Francesca Mayer Martinelli and Laura Rothfuss

Project Team 2: Christa E. Cathers, Yun-Chi Jong and Nitya Krishnan

Project Team 3: Taruan R. Mabry, Rachel Lynne Woldman and Chetsi G. Shah

Project Team 4: Marianne Kozelka and Maria Rosa Villarreal

Final Review Presentations:  (Click on lower right fullscreen button to expand)