Hello, My name is Ashleigh Walton and this is [some of] my work, both academic and professional. In architecture, I am interested in creating places, not just buildings or towns. Places connect the user to spaces in an intimate and unique way. These projects all have elements of place; a thoughtfulness that extends from the design of specific details to the overall scope of the project. In all I do, I am interested in the whole design, from the conceptual and precedent sketches to the branding and graphics that tie the entire project together.
The Cornucopia Center The Cornucopia Conference Center and Hotel is a theoretical proposal for the city of St. Joseph, MI. The town has a vibrant old main street and is situated on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. The area around Lake Michigan, called the Fruit Belt for its unique agricultural climate, is an ideal setting for a venue focused on local food, agriculture, and culture. The intent of the project is a connection to food, growing, a local agriculture, and includes 150 rooms, conference rooms, and exhibition hall, restaurant, and culinary institute. The building sits on a bluff overlooking the St. Joseph River which feeds Lake Michigan.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Entry to the Cornucopia Center
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Welcoming Upon entering the Cornucopia Center, the idea of the place is immediately evident. The parking garage is robed in green, and rich wood paired with vibrant color meets you at the door. Meant to be a warm, inviting place for business or pleasure, the Cornucopia Center strives to create a welcoming environment for guests.
The Cornucopia Center Lobby
The Cornucopia Center Conference Rooms
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
The Cornucopia Center Exhibit Hall
A Living Design The exhibition hall of the Cornucopia Center features elevator and stair shaft walls literally living as green walls. The introduction of the life, the warm wood, and the glazing makes the linear exhibit hall a beautiful space to display anything in.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
The Process The process of creating the Cornucopia Center focused on its organization in all three dimensions, looking at it from the site to the intricacies of the wall sections. The design process was completely integrated, focusing on not only conceptual design, but design development with structural and HVAC considerations.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Integration The general layout of the Cornucopia Center needed to be studied in the vertical dimension as well as the horizontal to best understand vertical circulation, HVAC concerns, and spatial quality. The inner workings of the living roofs and curtain
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Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
The Cornucopia Market and Restaurant At the heart of the concept of the Cornucopia Center is food; its growth, production, and consumption. For that reason, the goal of the center was to have a place where agriculture and food collide. The Cornucopia Market was developed to be a restaurant where a guest could look over what was being grown and compare it to what was on his or her plate. There is a view into the kitchen from every angle of the dinning room, the transparency meant to connect the guest to all aspects of the dinning experience.
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Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
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Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Branding & Graphics To really bring the Cornucopia Market to life, it needed a branding scheme, something simple and clean that would work with the qualities of the overall Center as well as with the restaurant and culinary institute.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Exploring a Brand The brand of the Cornucopia Center was explored particularly in the Cornucopia Market Restaurant. Every detail from the biodegradable take out containers to the menu were studied to enhance the entire experience.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
View of the Cornucopia Center from M-139
The Landscape The entire site shares a parking lot with the existing Berrien County Courthouse and overlooks the St. Joesph River. In the design, the bluff is terraced down to the river and each level of the terrace includes plantings to support the restaurant as well as community plots. The terraces have ramps between so that the entire agricultural park is accessible for all.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Riverside Chapel The design of Riverside Chapel in Niles, MI focused on creating intimate spaces, from the Pastor’s office located in the clock tower to the prayer garden behind the tower, to the sunken reflection garden and pools between the proposed chapel and great hall; these spaces all create moments for people to inhabit.
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Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Special Spaces in the Chapel
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Unique Places The Riverside Chapel specializes in small moments, like the niches buried in the wall when you enter, a tactile experience where a person can run their fingers between the mortar lines of brick, or around the bright panels of the stained glass window; or like the pastor's prayer garden behind the clock tower, outside the entrance to his or her office with the koi pond or stone pathway. These small moments make the design unique and give the project something special. Seating Nooks
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
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Southbar Lake Home The Southbar Lake home is a cottage home built on Southbar Lake, an inlet of Lake Michigan near Empire, MI. The home is outside an area of the village known as the New Neighborhood, characterized by homes responding to the character and context of northern Michigan. The design focused on compact, traditional living with opportunities for special places like a family library off the master bedroom. The client wanted a home the responded to both the street and the lake inlet. Final Hand-Drafted Elevations
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Lakeside Artist Community The Lakeside Artist Community is a proposal for St. Joseph, MI. The ground floor is designed to be the town’s visitor center, while the second story is live/ work studio spaces for resident artists. St. Joseph has a strong artist community, and integrating that amenity with the town’s visitor’s center brings vibrancy to the small town.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Copperplate Row Houses The Copperplate Row House is a proposal for St. Joseph, MI. as a popular lakeside town with a strong traditional neighborhood center, more medium density housing projects like these two unit row houses, enables controlled yet desired community growth patterns.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
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Florida Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists Headquarters Relocation FCSDA HQ is a project I worked on with Little Diversified Architectural Consulting in Orlando. This project, currently under construction in Altamonte Springs, FL , houses offices for the administration of the Florida conference, their support staff, and resources for the local Seventh-Day Adventist Churches.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
The Principles The goals of the Conference were to have places of connectivity and community within their space, especially conference rooms for meetings, as well as an open workspace plan to allow for flexibility and growth in the future. The existing building has large clearstoried spaces that were initially used for furniture display. These spaces have been refurbished for conference rooms that are glass to allow for a special place for the conference rooms without crippling one of the most appealing features of the building in terms of light. The building is a large 80,000 SF footprint, and the light-wells from the clerestories enable light even to the center of the building. The quick sketches shown were done for the client to give them
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an idea of the spatial quality of the potential spaces.
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Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
The Planning The mission was to take the footprint of the existing building, gut it completely, and give it offices, open work stations, conference rooms, a bookstore, lobby, warehouse, and other programmatic elements. This rendition of the plan (not final) shows the development of the space.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Florida Hospital Medical Group Clinics These quick renderings done by hand and enhanced by Photoshop were to give an idea of the space for one of the Florida Hospital Medical Group (FHMG) Clinics. The client requested a separation between the children's waiting area and the primary waiting area.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
European Studies While studying abroad, I was able to study a large variety of buildings, spaces, and construction techniques. I was able to practice and hone my hand drawing skills to be reflect what I had seen and studied, taking everything from analytical evaluation of construction technique, to watercolor emphasizing the light in a space. I believe that travel teaches you to truly see and analyize; to be able to see a place or technique for what it is, and evaluate it based on that level of depth and analyisis.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com
My work as a designer is just beginning. As I explore the creation of places, details, branding, and all that ties a design together, I will learn, grow, and be able to apply my skills to teams and projects. I look forward to what the future holds for me and for the designs I work on.
Thank You.
Ashleigh Walton, Designer . 423.972.5562 . 2103 Addax Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 . www.awalton.com . walton.ashleigh@gmail.com