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ANGELICA HOELZLI Interior Design Portfolio
Angelica Hoelzli Virginia Tech ahoelzli@vt.edu 516.236.8002 angelicahoelzli.com
CONTENTS
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PULSE
Co-Working Office | Washington, DC Fall 2019 02
FUSION
Reinvented Soup Kitchen | Seattle, WA Fall 2018 03
ASCEND
Homeless Basic Needs Center | Asheville, NC Fall 2019 04
BLURRING THE LINES
Office/Student Study Space | Blacksburg, VA Spring 2019
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MARKER RENDERING Fall 2019
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SKETCHES
Study Abroad | Italy Summer 2019
01 PULSE CO-WORKING OFFICE Co-Working Office | Washington, DC
CONCEPT PULSE is a coworking space that promotes the collaboration of ideas between likeminded individuals through contraction and expansion. Ideas are consistently being pumped into the core of the structure to pump out shared methods of learning. Contraction and expansion in the floor plan encourages movement into collaborative areas from indivudal areas. Focus zones are where contraction occurs and collaborative zones are where expansion occurs. Contraction gives a tighter spatial environment and expansion gives a sense of relief and community - the two provide a spatial contrast between heads down work and collaborative work. When working in a group, ideas bounce off the members, accelerating production time and developing more complex ways of engineering. Similarly, a pulse accelerates when highly active. The zone with the most activity is the kitchen/ lounge. Here is where collaboration and crossing paths is highest since office members must pass this central point to get to a different zone of the space. The difference in blue and red flooring represent inactive versus active areas. The pulse is what drives the body to function, pumping blood throughout to give it life. Blood is blue before entering the heart and turns red as a result of the heart providing it with oxygen. Red areas represent the reaction to interactions - where inspiration through collaboration is driving individual growth.
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1. Reception Small reception desk, leading occupants to the drop in desks, the private offices or the center kitchen/lounge space. 2. “Pulse” Kitchen/Lounge space where the main corridor passes through. On either side of the main corridor, meeting and activity occurs and acts as the primary circulation center of the space. To reach one part of the office from another, occupants must pass through this center, where the contraction of those spaces pushes the user into the expansion of the pulse. 3. Drop-in Benching A clear grouping of individual desks where occupants can rent open desks per day. 4. Focus Work A heads down space contained by walls to prevent distractions to the occupant. Not providing doors, the space allows for an ease of flow into and out of the space to have clear desk availability. The absence of doors also balances the contained room to not feel claustrophobic. It is tucked away in a quiet section of the office so having no doors will not contribute to high sound level.
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5. Private Offices Rentable private offices frame this contraction area, providing offices with various layouts and a sense of privacy in this ‘corner’ of the office. 6. Private Space Phone booths and meeting pods are available at all times. The meeting pods are partially enclosed to create a small space to touchdown to meet privately and also block sightlines from the phone booths to the active pulse area without completely closing off the area. 7. Conference Room A rentable conference room and a conference room dedicated for Tech Startup use. They are divided using a retractable walls which can be folded back to create one open space for an event space, lecture room, or exercise room. 8. Tech Startup The Tech Startup is separated from the rest of the space to provide the private company with a personal space that easily accesses the pulse.
FLOOR PLAN AXONOMETRIC NTS
EXPANSION
CONTRACTION
DIAGRAM AXONOMETRIC NTS
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KITCHEN/LOUNGE
DROP-IN BENCHING
Drop-In Benching
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Kitchen Lounge
Acoustical Panels
Private Work
Tech Startup
Below The most easily accessible private areas are the phone booths and meeting pods. The meeting pods hinder sight lines flowing into the center expansion space to avoid distractions of passerbys without creating total seclusion. The pods are used for quick touchdown meetings that need a higher level of privacy but don’t need to reserve a private office.
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02 FUSION SOUP KITCHEN Restaurant | Seattle, WA
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Lounge Half Booth
Bar Seating
Booth Seating
Free Standing Tables Restrooms
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CONCEPT This soup kitchen is placed in Rainer Beach, a disadvantaged
neighborhood located in Seattle, Washington. Seattle is an area that is prone to high depression rates due to the gray skies and rain, reasonating year round seasonal depression. Through fusing the outside with the inside, an oasis is created for these disadvantaged families. The environment mimics outdoor natural phenomenons that occur on a sunny day, including shadows, textures and materials. The restaurant not only feeds the customers but also takes the individual away from the stress and sadness that exists outdoors - for free.
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The materials used have textures and colors that represent elements occurring outdoors. The exposed materials - wood, brick, concrete - create a sense of openness as if the occupant is in an open environmnet. Blue leather is used in the center booth seating area for ease of cleaning but is also used as a fabric wall behind the front half booth seating area. There, it is used as a sound absorbing element since tables are closer in proximity to each other. In this area the booth is made up of wood bench seating as if you’re sitting on a park bench. To create comfort in an outdoor element like a park bench, the booth is supported by back cushions. The custom wallpaper is an abstract representation of flower buds.
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BOOTH SEATING
Behr Premium Plus Jet Black Matte Interior Paint
Dyed Blue Leather
Pre-cast Concrete
Distressed Brick
Distressed Maple Hardwood Panels
Rebel Walls Custom Wallpaper
Dark Walnut Hardwood Sheet
Dark Walnut Hardwood Panels
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Below Whether the occupant is sitting in the booth area or in the free standing tables, the glass partitions give a sense of looking out of a window to a clear day.
BAR SEATING
The ceiling structure creates shadows that would occur in nature. Above the black framing there is a lighting fixture that contains small LED bulbs and is covered with a thin fabric to create diffused lighting which acts as sunlight. Some gaps in the structure contain wire netting, where faux greenery is hung to create shadows that feel as if you’re walking between trees. The drop lighting is meant to dull the contrast of the shadows to make it more comfortable for the eye.
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03 ASCEND HOMELESS CENTER Basic Needs Homeless Center | Asheville, NC Collaborative Project with Lila DeLarosa and Julia Sorenson
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RECEPTION
CONCEPT This basic needs center for the homeless is placed in the downtown of Asheville, NC, aiming to be a place of resources and reflection. Asheville, being a relatively progressive area in the conservative western region of North Carolina, is a hotspot for art, food and most significantly the Blue Ridge Mountains. People come from all over to hike and experience strenuous climbs to reach eye opening peaks. The shelters goal is to reflect the emotions of a hike to assist their guests in reaching that eye opening moment at the top. Experientially, the shelter works to ascend the mind for a sense of self achievement, giving them hope for a more comfortable life. The space prompts reflection that accompanies the journey without imposing that this is the final step or final destination - it is only the transitional stage.
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Redirect Refuel
Reflect
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The angular walls funnel users along an experiential path leading to a reflective space. This path provides clear sight lines to the reflecting pools and community spaces. The zones in the parti diagram are redirect, refuel, and reflect. These parts emulate three stages of a hike. Redirect moves users through the space as a trail would. The skylight lets in light as the clearing of trees would in nature. Refuel represents the intervals taken along a hike to rest. This includes self care, laundry and lounge spaces. Reflect emulates the peak of the hike, to an open area offering a sense of clarity and reflection. This space brings the users back to the outdoors in a comfortable setting to give relief from the unsheltered environment of the streets. FLOOR PLAN NTS
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This is done spatially through providing an angular funnel of movement. You enter the building to be greeted at the reception desk, where you don’t see whats ahead of you. From there, two routes are available - one being the more emergent route with showers, bathrooms and other self care spaces, and the other being more experiential guided by a skylight, where you’re being pushed to the community spaces and the outdoor reflection space.
MAIN CORRIDOR
Color and materiality choices are inspired by natural elements of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The showers are finished with high gloss acrylic for cleanibility and durability. Each individual shower includes a unique tile flooring material to represent diversity among users. Hand crafted wood elements are used to represent a sense of care and personalization.
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OUTDOOR SPACE
Above The outdoor experiential space is meant to act as a place of relief for the users. After funnelling them through the space, towards this ‘light at the end of the tunnel,’ they are reinstated back into the outdoors but in a safe environment contrasting with the unwelcoming life they live outside of the centers perimeters.
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04 BLURRING THE LINES OFFICE/COWORKING SPACE Office and Study Space | Bishop-Favrao Hall
CONCEPT Located on Virginia Tech’s campus, the fourth floor of BishopFavrao Hall is used by both students and faculty. This space reflects the overlap of learners and educators in Real Estate. The overlapping effect blurs the lines where hierarchy is in place so that everyone has their work space but there is a focus to learn as a whole rather than as an individual.
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Below The layering of primary colored glass and furiture creates a third secondary color, reflecting the impacts overlap can create.
PRESENTATION ROOMS
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Steel Wire Cables
Primary colors represent the different educational paths students take
Acoustical Panels
Secondary colors are created through transparent color overlap to represent the impacts of crossing paths with peers and faculty
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STUDENT WORK TABLES
Above This collaborative nook is surrounded by acoustical panels that are inspired by crossing paths on transit maps. Interactions may occur when the subway riders pass one another on their travel from point A to point B through interlocking paths. In this space, students and faculty have the opportunity to pass each other to be inspired or to learn something they would have otherwise never experienced without the overlap.
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1. 1. An open work space provides faculty with the
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privacy of their own desk with opportunities for convergency.
2. Student-faculty collaboration is provoked by
relaxed environments in the core of the floor plan where the two cross paths.
3. Advisors act as the bridge between students
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and the institution of Virginia Tech so they are placed at the core.
4. Student-student collaboration is provoked by
the use of collaborative spaces to overlap ideas since individuals have different minors/double majors.
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5. Various types of seating and enclosures allow for degrees of overlap between groups or individuals.
6. Practice presentation rooms invoke feedback from peers which fosters growth and self awareness in students work.
FLOOR PLAN NTS
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Below The lobby is an intersecting point where faculty and students have opportunity to cross paths. Student work is meant to be showcased on the walls for both student and faculty feedback and used as inspiration for new ideas to grow.
LOBBY SPACE
05 MARKER RENDERING
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06 SKETCHES Study Abroad | Italy
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