ZHISHENG TANG Interior Design
Interior Architecture Design Zhisheng Tang
ZHISHENG TANG PHONE | 1240.528.0062 EMAIL | tzs553537637@gmail.com ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY 79 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 DIRECTOR | Kathleen Valkuchak INSTRUCTOR | Leonarda Tamayo COURSE | Portfolio PAPER | Mohawh TYPEFACE | Roboto Slab, Ostrich Sans Rounded SOFTWARE | Photoshop / InDesign / Illustrator PHOTOGRAPHY | ZHISHENG - TANG /Alexandre lebasnier / Matteo Mora / Michael Schlegels PRINTER & BINDERY | Chum's Design & Print 582 Market Street #100, San Francisco, CA 94104 COPYRIGHT © 2017 ZHISHENG TANG All rights reserved. No part of this book maybe or reproduced in any be reproduced or transmitted in any form or any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without perior permission in writing from the publisher.
PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY Zhisheng Tang, an Interior Architecture and Design student at The Academy of Art University, San Francisco. He was born and grew up in Maanshan, China. He had job experience back home, but his passion in interior design brought his to San Francisco in 2012. Apart from his art degree, Michelle is quite proficient with various design softwares such as Photoshop, 3D Max, Revit, Auto CAD and In design. Also, he has proficiency differnet languages including English, Chinese, which helps his to relate to his clients. He style as an interior designer are influenced by his expansive travels in Europe and Asia where he got exposure to traditional and contemporary designs. As an interior designer, these cultures gave his inspiration and flexibility to apply different styles in his design. During his free time, Zhisheng enjoys exploring urban life, photography, fashion, dining out, socializing, and theatre.
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Design Process
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Comprehensive Design
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Residential Design
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Built Environment Design
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Giving Tree Market
National Geographic Society
Laurel Heights
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Not So Sweet Dessert House
Other Design Skteching Case Study Water Color
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Commercial Desgin
Giving Tree Market
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Concept
Tree Trunk
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The tree trunk is the part of a tree that connects the leafy crown with its roots. Roots absorb water and nutrients from the soil, which are then transported up the tree trunk in cells that act much like pipes. This allows the leaves to obtain water and nutrients that are necessary for the manufacture of food from light energy. The design will show tree trunk of absorb and transport to create the new branch growth. Which also relates to the demonstration kitchen ideas, this market will become to a new trunk, and this trunk will be extension of a lot of new tree branches to sending advocate balanced diet and healthy lifestyle for local communities.
Commercial Desgin
Design Process
ZhiSheng Tang Nanjing, China
The client envisioned the space to be an organic and healthy specialty store with different variety of food retail stores. This new marketplace will offer freshest fruit vegetables and seafood to satisfy guest’s healthy needs of the green, natural food. It’s transport organic and freshest foods from the natural, and the chefs obtain the food and creating dishes in front of customers. This market will create an amazing experience for customers, because this is not only a retail space provides healthy and organic foods for customers, also this market have a demonstration kitchen to educate people how to cook better and healthy food for themself.
Spring 2015 Instructor: Kathleen Valkuchak
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History The mission bay area is site in San francisco, for thousands of years more, this tidal bay remained a cove of calm, protected water. Native peoples came to take advantage of this bounty and began to settle the area. In 1849, at the start of the gold rush, Mission Bay was still a wide. From 1860 to 1910, the waters of Mission Bay grew smaller and smaller, until it was all but filled in as thousands of cubic yards of sand, rocks, and dirt and even debris from the 1906 earthquake was dumped there to create more land for the growing city. Eventually, Mission Bay was crisscrossed with tracks, as horse drawn vehicles, then railroad cars, were used to bring valuable cargo to and from the shipyards, warehouses, factories and foundries of the area, it’s become an industrial zone well into the 20th century. In the late 1990s, a master plan to revive and convert over 300 acres into a planned community was produced by the city. Known as the Mission Bay Project, it is the largest urban development initiated by San Francisco since the construction of Golden Gate Park in the late 1800s. Right now, Mission Bay has rapidly evolved in to a neighborhood of luxury condominiums, highend restaurants and retail, with a vibrant biotechnology, research, and business zone.
Accessibility The location is considered as a prime location where it is highly accessible. There are Caltrain stations that can connect people from bay area to San Francisco, Muni line: KT, F, T-Owl, S, 91 located few blocks away from the location. 3rd St, one of the biggest street in San Francisco is passing by this neighbor-hood. Freeway Line 280 is located 2 minutes away from apartment. Embarcadero is located 15 minutes away.
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Development Our first approach of camouflage is to use different levels of wooden tube to expose some shape. We came up with an idea to have a different size and heigh of wooden tube on the ceiling and floor and some other places in each area of the floorplan. Marble and wooden tube are our main material that we used to cover the space. Furniture that we chose has an organic shape to blend in with the space. However, we realized that this is not the best way to approach the concept. Along the process, we changed our design and simplify the whole design and come up with new style that has been developed from the same concept.
Bubble Diagrams
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Branding
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Materials
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Furniture Selectionn
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1. Enter 2. Bar Area 3. Coffee and Juice Bar 4. Retail Space 5. Check Out 6. Demonstration Kitchen 7. Restaurant 8. ADA Restroom 9 . Open Kitchen 10. Fridge 11. Pizza Ovan 12. Prepared Food 13. Wine Bar 14. Locker Room 15. Manager's Office
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Commercial Desgin | Giving Tree Market
Restaurant
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Coffee and Juice Bar
Check Out Area
Open Kitchen Area
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Prepared Food
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Retail Area 25
I tried to use some repetition of the design elements from dining area to the market area. We use dark color to give a modern aspect to the space and high contrast with the light of the wood material.
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Retail Area 27
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Wine Bar
In the wine cellar image below, I'm doing the same concept with the same material, however instead of doing nature with the wooden tube, wooden tube on the wall is used as the wine rack that will easily displayed the brand of the wine.
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DEMONSTRATION KITCHEN
Demonstration Kitchen
The design will be in spired by the way, the tree trunk absorbs and transports nutrients to create the new growth. This will relate to the demonstration kitchen in that, this market will become a new trunk, and this trunk will be an extension of a lot of new tree branches sending balanced diet and healthy lifestyle to local communities.
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In the restaurant area, their eyes will be drawn to the column that is disguised as a lighting sculpture made from reclaimed wood that is painted with low VOC paint. White paint is chosen as the best choice to cast the shadow of the sculpture on the day time. There will be 3 different types of seating provided in restaurant area. The design of this column is a representation of the complexity of urban lifestyle on San Francisco and how they share different lifestyle in a different neighborhood yet they are still located in the same city. This market will become a new trunk, and this trunk will be an extension of a lot of new tree branches sending balanced diet and healthy lifestyle to local communities.
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Comprehensive Design
National Geographic Society
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Concept
Gaia
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In this project I have to design a new West Coast headquarters for the National Geographic Society. The National Geographic Society is a global nonprofit organization committed to exploring and protecting our planet. Also, we all know that global warming, climate change, resource depletion and depletion of ozone layer are real and their impact on human and animal lives can be devastating. But, we cannot change the past. We need to take into account how we might live in harmony with the natural world around us, protecting it from damage and destruction.
Comprehensive Design
National Geographic Society
ZhiSheng Tang Nanjing, China
The concept for my design will be inspired by “Gaia”. In Greek mythology, Gaia was the great mother of all, and in modern times, some earth scientists use the term “Gaia” to mean the complete living planet itself, as a complex organism. I want this building and every one living in the building to maintain harmony, wholeness and balance within the environment. I will achieve this by creating a space that promotes offer expansive views, sometimes the connection is larger with doors that completely open up an interior space to an outdoor area. Spring 2017 Instructor: Kathleen Valkuchak
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Comprehensive Design | National Geographic Society
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History The was used at different points in its 230-year history to house soldiers from Spain and Mexico before it became a US military base. There are some fantastic Spanish style buildings in the park left over from the old military days. The building types range from officers' quarters and barracks to large, industrial warehouses, administrative headquarters, air hangars, major medical facilities, and stables. The oldest building in San Francisco, this is the original Presidio' s Commandants quarters, now used as Officers' Club.
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On October 1, 1994, it was transferred to the National Park Service, ending 219 years of military use and beginning its next phase of mixed commercial and public use. So, The Presidio of San Francisco represents one of the finest collections of military architecture in the country and reflects over 200 years of development under three different nations.
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" A t N a t i o n a l Geographic, we believe in the power of science, exploration and storytelling to change the world."
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The National Geographic Society started in Washington DC in 1888 as a small group of travelers and their patrons in the late Victorian Age, a time when European and American explorers were finding a strong audience at home for tales of adventure and foreign cultures. Shortly after its own founding, the Society started a magazine of its own, which covered a wide variety of world cultures and natural resources, with a particular emphasis on maps and high quality photography. The Society also sponsored the work of many major scientists Louis and Mary Leakey, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and Dian Fossey, just to name a few—and later on, provided funding for films and television shows. This dual emphasis on exploration and education has made them a household name, and the golden border of their flagship magazine is a design icon in itself. Their strong media division, now including the NatGeo TV channel, has continued to fund a wide range of scientific and philanthropic efforts around the world. The Society currently has a little under 2000 employees in various offices. Each year, this society funds more than 300 research, conservation, and exploration projects around the globe. There are four categories in which National Geographic focuses on, which are, Our Human Story, Critical Species, Our Living Planet, and New Frontiers Within each category, they explore, reveal, understand, and search for new information and knowledge that is invaluable to our species and planet as a whole. In the end, National Geographic believes in the power of science, exploration, education, and storytelling to change the world.
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Comprehensive Design | National Geographic Society
The Existing Building As are other buildings in the Presidio District, the historic architectural style of the building is Mission Revival. The building has a cement plaster exterior with a red clay tile roof. The building's structure is steel post and beam with composite deck flooring supported by lightweight steel joists. The building has two stories over a basement story. The total interior building area is 6600 square-feet per floor. The building has a modern, fully automatic sprinkler system.
Client Goals The National Geographic Society wishes to develop a mixed-use building that will house their West Coast office headquarters as well as a retail space for visitors, a public exhibit space for art/photography/educational exhibits, and a cafe.
Key Adjacencies
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Floor Plan
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Finish Floor Plan
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Second Floor
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Ceiling Plan
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Private Office
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Comprehensive Design | National Geographic Society
Exhibition Area
Coffee Kitchen Area
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Public Space (First Floor) As my concept is Gaia, so I want my floor plan can be much more easily connected in a manner that allows for a good flow that makes them feel like a continuous space. A completely open space may be visually more appealing, so, in the center of the space I have design a glass room opens to the spaces below and grow bamboo to creating another strong connection between spaces.
Cafe Area - First Area
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Comprehensive Design | National Geographic Society
Bamboo Area As my concept is Gaia, so I want my floor plan can be much more easily connected in a manner that allows for a good flow that makes them feel like a continuous space. A completely open space may be visually more appealing, so, in the center of the space I have design a glass room opens to the spaces below and grow bamboo to creating another strong connection between spaces.
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Working Area - Second Floor
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DEMONSTRATION KITCHEN
Working Area
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Comprehensive Design | National Geographic Society
Private Office - Second Floor
Business Space (Second Floor) When I design my business space, I try to design some traditional office setup, such as the private offices often worked on the perimeter, and the meeting room in the open middle area of the floor, I also make some new design to connect indoor and outdoor areas, such as, make some green line with cover soil around plants with small rocks to further secure the plants and to beautify.
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Reception Area - Second Floor
Space Plan I focus on creating long lines of sight, a design trick for making any space feel larger. Then add a lot of windows and glass wall to make my indoor space feel more connected to the outdoors and introduce more natural light to lit up a most space.
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Residential Design
Laurel Heights
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Concept
Ecosystem
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13 Wood Street is a three-story residential condominium building. In my design, The main concept of the building is the “Ecosystem”. I want this building and every one living in the building can maintain harmony, wholeness and balance within the environment. Also, In time, Nature heals all ills, this design have send my blessing for Jason’s daughter Aimee, I wish she can become better as time goes by.
Residential Design
Laurel Heights
ZhiSheng Tang Nanjing, China
Summer 2016 Instructor: Brook Yeagle
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Location 13 Wood Street is a three-story residential condominium building. The building is located to the south of the Presidio of San Francisco and east of the Richmond District. It is bordered by Geary Boulevard and the University of San Francisco campus to the south, Arguello Boulevard to the west, California Street to the north and Presidio Avenue to the east.
Climate Since it is surrounded on three sides by water, San Francisco's weather is strongly influenced by the cool currents of the Pacific Ocean, which moderate temperature swings and produce a remarkably mild year-round climate with little seasonal temperature variation. Fog is common during San Francisco summers.
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Floor Plan
Residential Design | Laurel Heights
First Floor Client Needs:
Materials and Furniture Selection
The 1st floor unit is a Garden studio that will be listed available to rent to as low-income housing, under a government-assisted rental housing program. A tenant will rent the 1st floor unit from Maria Mariotto. This unit will be rented through San Francisco’s Section and Rental Assistance Program for low-income tenants. It’s needs a master bedroom with a bathroom. Kitchen need a full size refrigerator, and pantry for dry goods.
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Residential Design | Laurel Heights
Second Floor
Client Needs: Jason is a single dad with twin girls, Chloe and Aimee. Jason works as a special education teacher for mild to moderate special needs students. Jason coaches little league and enjoys golf. Jason also hunts during deer and duck seasons. Chloe and Aimee are 12 years old. They share a bedroom. Chloe excels in schools and is active in sports. She plays on a traveling soccer team year around.
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Aimee has cerebral palsy, she uses a wheelchair for mobility and she’s visually impaired. However, she’s intelligent, speaks well, and communicates with the assistance of a sight/auditory assistive device. She has difficulties with fine motor skills. A therapist comes to the home to help Aimee about two times a week.
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Materials and Furniture Selection
Client Needs: Maria is 45 years old and a single mom. She lives together with her daughter Simona and her father Frank. Maria owns a business and primarily works from her home. At any time, she may have up to three employees work from inside her home, the 3rd floor unit, on various projects. Maria needs an office space for herself and up to 2 other employees with laptops. Maria has expressed interest in having a small container garden to grow her own herbs, tomatoes, or squash. Simona is 16 years old. Her bedroom needs a dressing table with vanity mirror and power outlet. Frank is 75 years old. He walks with a cane. Kneeling and stooping have become more difficult for him in recent years. Frank has glaucoma and has difficulty differentiating between colors with similar values. He needs good bedroom lighting and clear pathways.
Third Floor
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Level 1 Kitchen Interior Elevation
Level 1 Bathroom Elevation
Level 2 Guest Bathroom Elevation
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Level 2 Kitchen Interior Elevation
Level 3 Master Bathroom Elevation
Level 3 Kitchen Interior Elevation
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Third Floor Kitchen Aera
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Residential Design | Laurel Heights
First Floor Kitchen Aera
First Floor Hallway
Third Floor Master Bedroom
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First Floor The first floor apartment is designed with a River concept, ranging from muted azure to bold sapphire, blue can energize a space as well as promote well being and decrease stress. Tonal variations of blue add depth, producing spaces that feel very balanced. While still calming, become more stable and more readily associated with depth character, trust, integrity and honesty.
Interior Space
Living Room - First Floor
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Second Floor The second floor apartment is designed with a Mountains concept, the brown and pale blue color, can induce a feeling of naturalness and comfort to your home. Brown color is found very often in nature, it is the color of earth. In interior arrangements, brown can add depth and warmth. Pale blue can bring down blood pressure and slow respiration and heart rate, that can make people calming, relaxing and serene, I think this is better for therapist comes to the home to help Aimee.
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Third Floor The third floor apartment is designed with a Forest concept, Green is considered the most restful color for the eye. As Maria want to having a small container garden to grow her own herbs, tomatoes, also she need to working in the third floor everyday, the green color can create a calm and relaxing atmosphere in the space and soothing to the eye.
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The master bedroom creates the low key luxury style for a retired relax. As the third floor concept was "Forest", I used a lot of green in the space to create a calm and relaxing atmosphere.
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Built Environment Design
Not So Sweet Dessert House
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Concept
Sugar
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Sugar is a molecule composed of 12 atoms of carbon, 22 atoms of hydrogen, and 11 atoms of oxygen (C 12 H 22 O11 ). Like all compounds made from these three elements, sugar is a carbohydrate. It’s found naturally in most plants, but especially in sugarcane and sugar beets—hence their names. Sucrose is actually two simpler sugars stuck together: fructose and glucose. Also, sugar crystals have wonderfully distinctive crystal forms. Sugar under a microscope look a bit like hexagonal pillars that have fallen over.
Residential Design
Laurel Heights
ZhiSheng Tang Nanjing, China
Spring 2015 Instructor: Agustin Sanders
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Location The subject property is an approximately 7,600 square foot rectangular parcel at the southwest corner of Powell and Sutter Streets with approximately 76 feet of frontage on Powell and 100 feet of frontage on Sutter. The site is occupied by a four story over basement building constructed in 1913 that formerly housed the Press Club. During the early to mid 20th Century the upper floors of the building was home to the Press Club and as such included an assembly space and hotel rooms for reporters and performers working in town. The hotel and assembly uses terminated approximately 40 years ago and the space has remained primarily vacant since then. The sponsor proposes to maintain one hotel room in the building for use by the building owners and their family.
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East Elevation
North Elevation
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Elevation
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Dessert Area
A large polygon installation describes the front façade, through which ‘Not so sweet’ warm wooden and mint green interior can be seen. upon entering, customers encounter the main dining area and the dessert bar most interesting feature - a sugar-like spiral staircase enclosed by a wood and acrylic structure.
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Dinning Area
The stairwell leads to a Loft dining area and receive an up-close aerial view of the chef’s line. there are two dining area in the Loft space, the first area is a dessert corridor this zone is a quiet place with many egg chairs over here, other dining area can come over to taste dessert with your friends also can view of the chef’s line.
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Other Design | Case Study and Skteching
CASE STUDY: RESTAURANT
METREON CENTER 135 4th St San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 369-6000 shoppingmetreon.com
The Metreon Center is located at the center of San Francisco. It’s basically a food court that serves just about the same type of food as the Westfield food court attached to a movie theater, a target, and a rooftop event space. It opens daily from Sunday - Thursday 10:30 am – 8:30 pm, Friday - Saturday 10:30 am - 9:30 pm.
01. Branding The Metreon is a shopping center and food court located in downtown San Francisco at the corner of 4th Street and Mission Street. This building have four-story and 350,000 square foot (33,000 m²) is conveniently located in the South of Market area in downtown San Francisco, inside is a ticket booth offering admission to the latest IMAX and 3D movies. Also, Metreon overlooks Yerba Buena Gardens, The gardens itself is relaxing. Right now people can be come to here, enjoy the beautiful scenery outside the window and delicate food in the food court. I think the food options are affordable if you need a quick bite and it does make for a good meeting spot with friends and family. But everyday, at the lunch and dinner time, always have a lot of people come to this building to eat food. This make this building really crowd during that time.
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02. Design This metreon center building is a sustainable design with a green system. The metreon center building create with a translucent turquoise exterior and an interior spanning 350,000 square feet, the Metreon building was an architecturally astounding structure. Upon entering, you can find more than 20 food concessionaires and they have the commonality of the food court. The designer try to take advantage of as much natural daylight as possible, large windows, mirrors even the skylights. All these design is for bring more natural light into the space. Also, All the lighting was designed with provide maximum flexibility and control with a control system, this can help this building to save more energy and help the inside space seamlessly transition from day to night. The food court area have 300 or more seats, It’s universal seating, easily maintained, all the table and chair are created with wood.
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03. Design Proposal According to my observation, I think there are some design improvements can improving the user’s comfort feeling. I used to get lunch in this food court and I always feel walk is not convenient in some dining areas. In this building all the chairs can be moved have high flexibility. When there are just few guests, the dining area is looks tidy, clean and pretty neat place, everything is perfect. However, at meal time, a lot of people picked this place for eat, this is resulted dining area all be full. When people move the chairs, the chairs are making the walkway becoming smaller and the wheelchair is difficult to pass through the corridor. If we rotated the tables and chairs 90 degrees, people still have high flexibility for chairs, but chairs will be not affect the passage of other people, this is make a better user experience in the design.
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Other Design | Case Study and Skteching
SAN FRANCISCO COOKING SCHOOL CASE STUDY: Demonstration Kitchen
690 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 346-2665 sfcooking.com
San Francisco cooking school is an anchored institution for culinary and pastry arts education in San Francisco, this demonstration kitchen is located in 690 Van Ness Avenue. San Francisco cooking school is established in 2012. As of mid-2015, San Francisco Cooking School has well over 100 graduates.
01. Branding SFCS is a professional culinary school with the largest program of hands-on cooking classes in California for cooks at any level, this cooking school is founded in 2012, each classes limited to 14 students full participation and instructors include some great culinary talent and chefs in the Bay Area. For this demonstration kitchen have 5,000 sq. ft. Educational Culinary Center The facility is over 5,000 sq ft and includes two teaching kitchens, event space, and administrative areas for students and office. Kitchen amenities include three gas ranges stove tops, a large stock pot stove, four ovens, few electric griddle around the building, and many necessary cook and culinary wares.
02. Areas A center island: a center island is a space let teacher presentation and explanation of domestic cooking recipes or techniques to students. Storage area: If you want to make a cooking class you need have a dry storage and a cold storage area to preserving food. For example, Seafood should always be kept in the refrigerator or freezer until preparation time. Poultry and meat also need put in the refrigerator or freezer. Many items such as canned goods, baking supplies, grains, and cereals may be held safely in dry storage areas. Food Preparation area: The food preparation area has sinks for washing produce, cutting areas, students need table and kitchen tools to preparation foods. For example, section for sorting foods into batches, chopping vegetables, meats, mixing salad dressings. In this area student also can make some simple food, don’t need use the gas burners and exhaust hoods. Cooking area: a production area need to cover gas burners, exhaust hoods, ovens and steamers. Cooking area can be broken down into smaller sections like a baking station, grilling station, and frying station. Tools area: This area to store tools with similar functions together. Group and always return to the same place such items as flatware, juicer, blender, plastic containers with lids, large platters, bowls, pitchers, drink ware, pots and pans. This can help people easy to prep, cooking, and cleanup.
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03. Design Proposal
I believe San Francisco Cooking School is a great design for a demonstration kitchen. I only have some suggest for space design improvements that can be made to enhance the customers comfortable in this demonstration kitchen. That is about trash bin, a trash bin is an indispensable part for a kitchen. But, in this demonstration kitchen, I don’t find any trash bin near the center island, this is meaning students don’t have a place to dump it. If you have cooked before, you will know why a trash bin is important, when you want to handling of raw food such as: unprocessed meat, untreated fish, eggs or fruits and vegetables. Right now, if students want to disposal garbage, they need to take a trash bin into the aisle, but this is make other people inconvenient to walk through this place. So, my design improvement is adding few trash bins in the center island, and this space can accommodate one or two trash bin inside. Also, also have a several circular hole above the space, when people make any trash, they just need to put the trash into the circular. I think that’s very handy and useful and don’t need to take up walkway for put a trash bin.
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CASE STUDY: CIRCULATION
Nijiya Market 1737 Post St San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 563-1901 www.nijiya.com
Nijiya Market is a grocery store located in Japan town area, San Francisco. They sell everything from household goods, raw meats, to prepared foods. They have tons of pre-made sushi, Japanese food and Japanese curries ready to eat, as well as all the ingredients to make many kinds of sushi, sashimi and various rolls. They also have tons of pre-sliced meats for Korean BBQ style cooking.
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01. Functionality & scale
02. Design aesthetic
Nijiya Market is a commercial space, it provides customers with daily necessities, assortment of unique snacks and kinds of prepared food area. Prepared food area is most crowded area because, this area is on the unique entry right side, left side is for the drink area. Stepped forward is frozen foods and condiment. Meat, seafood area function is in the deepest in this market, people don’t have a separate entrance to enter these areas. Looking at the scale of the design, Nijiya Market is a medium size commercial space, but the interior design make the make the space feel small and enclosed, the single entrance is the most horrible design in this market.
The design of the Nijiya market have a given the look of Japanese style temple, the exterior is covered with structural columns, a tiled roof in the entrance of the market. The market advertising also can be seen stenciled on the glass storefront, a big logo is between with glass widow and tiled roof. The simplicity wood style of the exterior is really making the customers feeling nicer to look. Because this is tell everyone this market is a Japanese market, we want to make this wonderful Japanese taste known to the people of America. However, entering the store, people will be feel the crowd, the exterior is looks simplicity and unique Japanese flavor, the inside is completely different than outside, the single entrance is make people need to pushed or stepped on and once inside. They also stacked their products along the aisle with the storage cardboards, this is makes the small space more crowd. The interior uses simple materials and finishes, they have polished concrete and glass, the ceiling is partly covered with acoustical gypsum board with fluorescent recessed lighting, but some lightings is uncared, so can’t work properly, this is make some area insufficiency of light. Also, a lot of tile floor is broken and have stain above it. Overall, Nijiya market has a very successful Japanese style exterior design of the store, but the interior design needs many improvements.
Other Design | Case Study and Skteching
03. Organization of space The Nijiya market is a typical supermarket types of circulations, as the size of the store itself is not big, right now this store only have 2 entrances or exits, one of them is not to many people to used, because it’s behind the column and difficult to find it. People are mainly entering the space from the automatic inductive door of the crossroads. But these two doors are connection to the single entrance, also the counter area is on the left, so this is a worst circulation problematic, when there is a heavy traffic of people in the store. As of way finding, there is no clear label on the food sections on each aisle, the customers need to explore the whole store. However, due to the lack of products organization and space planning, customers often feel confused in their way finding to navigate through the whole space.
04. Propose Current Circulation
Proposed Circulation
Right now the single entrance and exit is the most heavy traffic areas around the store, As it is shown on the current circulation plan, the entrance traffic is overlap with the check out traffic, this is make that traffic really heavy. So, I suggest open a new door and separate the entrance and exit, this is can use some unused space and let people know have other door over there. Other proposal for the store is make a change for the fruit shelving table, now the fruit display is two square shelving table, this is waste a lot of space and unappealing to Nijiya store, if they can use a trapezoid shape shelving table to replace the old one, it would be nice to see and give a more organized look and an easier circulation around the store.
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CASE STUDY: CIRCULATION
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Trader Joe’s Market 1095 Hyde St San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 863-1292 www.traderjoes.com
CASE STUDY: WAYFINDING
Trader Joe’s Market is an American chain of specialty grocery stores, the first store named “Trader Joe’s” opened its doors in 1967, As of 2015, Trader Joe’s had 457 stores, approximately half of which are in California, this Trader joe’s is located in 1095 Hyde St.
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Trader Joe’s Market carries variety of groceries, customers can get fresh fruits, organic produces, imported foods, unusual frozen foods, fresh flowers, domestic and imported wine and beer, pantry staples and the like. Their customers’ targets are mainly people from the local and nearby area. Also, have some people drive their cars come to here for shopping, because it’s cheaper than other markets, you may get a cup of free coffee. They have five markets in San Francisco, this one is located in 1095 Hyde St in the Nob Hill. The busiest time for the store is evening and weekend, most people like to buy some salad for their dinner, also have many customers like to look for the bagged greens.
The exterior of Trader Joe’s Market was elegant and graceful, the exterior is covered with some tall glass window, simple font logo on the top of the market, the simplicity of the exterior can make a clean and elegant image for customers, and the material selection of Trader Joe’s Market interior gives the feeling of a modern industrial and farm look. The interior uses the simple finishes, polished concrete, and steel. Most of Trader Joe’s interior design has using the wood material and warm colors through out the space, because Trader Joe’s Market has a fresh and organic concept. The most fascinating aspect of Trader Joe’s Market is their advertising, they using the wood chalkboard and paints some colorful and interesting images to attract customers into their market.
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03. Design Proposal Looking through all the way finding techniques at the store, I think their already have some specific design for the signage, Trader Joe’s Market have use the different material and interesting images to direct the customers, this is really successful design of the wayfinding. But, they forget put the traditional board signs on each aisle, the customers will be leads to confusion to the customers. The traditional board also important for a market, it does can give information about what customers could find on each aisle. So, I suggest add few signboard on each aisle, also can add some big signage at the Trader Joe’s Market to help customers find some corner sections or important area of the market, such as customer service and check out counters.
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Atlassian 1098 Harrison St San Francisco, CA 94103 415 701 1110
CASE STUDY: OFFICE
Atlassian is an enterprise software company that develops products for software developers. One of the company’s major cultural foundations lies in “being open and transparent with its employees, customers and partners.”
01. Organizational Structure
Atlassian was a team-collaboration software maker for profit business with 650 employees by its San Francisco and Australia locations. The company was a publicly traded corporation, booked more than $100 million in orders in 2014 and is seeing annual revenue growth in the double digits. I think the for Atlassian, it’s new 42,000 square foot space in San francisco is reflects the company’s success. Also, as the client’s values open and transparent with its employees, clients, and partners. To build that idea into the space we can included some glass walled conference rooms and generous working space and take advantage of building’s natural light supply.
02. Regional and Cultural identity I didn’t find any information about this project respond to the local area, in terms its history and regional characteristics. Atlassian’s culture is founded on being open and transparent with its employees, also, as san francisco was an international city, so Atlassian in San Francisco was build with different different races, different colors, different faiths and different cultures, In San Francisco, where Atlassian employs 250 workers, includ 38 percent white, 10 percent black, 33 percent Asian and roughly 15 percent Latino.
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03. Human behavior I believe this design is absolutely succeed in reflecting the theories of human behavior, the space have founded on being open and transparent with its employees, clients, and partners, glass conference rooms reveal and invite collaboration and public space encourages teamwork and community building.
04. Insights I think Atlassian inspires a unforgettable workplace. For example, the existing trussed double height space of the warehouseinspired the design of a “Town Square�. Also, the natural material palette and the modernist spatial design. However, I think the open workspace was to open, the space being distracting and noisy. So, In my project I would like to make some change to fix it, such as use special material surfaces to absorb sound.
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