Design Portfolio by Dani (Welch) Gordon

INTERIOR DESIGN PORTFOLIO

HELLO, Every space is supported by evidence based design with a trained focus to detail. Each effort is executed with structured organization and acute detail to ethical design. Supported by a strong moral compass, universal design is implemented in each design to balance both functionality and virtuosity.

Dani Renee Gordon

Adaptability to perform different tasks aid in collaborating within a team, and excelling as an independant artisan. Most importantly, positivity inspires every decision. EMAIL dani.gordondesign@gmail.com PHONE 330.766.4307 https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-r-welch/ https://issuu.com/daniellewelch8

BACKGROUND EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Kent State University 2014 - 2018 Kent, OH B.A. in Interior Design CIDA Accredited BGSU 2012 - 2015 Bowling Green, OH Howland High School 2009 - 2012 Warren, OH College Prep

March 2021 - Curren t WD Partners | Conceptual + Design Development Architectural Staff Designer I GPD Group October 2018- Present Full-time Architectural Staff Designer on Education & Public Buildings team designing PK-12 Full-time Environments Designer collaborating with multiple facets at award-winning school buildings while collaborating with multiple facets at award-winning Architecture, Architecture, Engineering firm in Dublin, Ohio. Engineering and Planning and firm Design in Akron, Ohio.

• Execute design concepting, planning and occupancy studies with integration of OFCC requirements and

standards Joann Fabrics | Store Planning Team • Participate conceptual design and continue to provide full support through project completion July 2018 - inOctober 2018 • Prepare and write project specifications utilizing MasterSpec Full-time Interior Designer supporting store planning team in a corporate office setting at • Collaborate with other architects, engineers, and consultants • Provide construction administration reviewing headquarters located in Hudson, Ohio. submittals, RFIs, and overall project design guidance • Complete field reports and punch-list reviews of construction progress • Prepare and complete construction documentation The RCF Group | Workplace Solutions Design • Organize collaboration between multiple disciplines for Group specific project needs

Jan 2018 - May 2018 Part-time Interior Design October 2018 – March 2021 Intern at a furniture design group with specialized focus on delivering Environments Designer I WD Partners tailored workplace solutions through client-branded furniture selections located in Tremont, Full-time Environments Designer at Architecture, Engineering and Design firm in Dublin, Ohio. Ohio. • Standardized and streamlined design team strategies and programs for a global coffee retailer by

Wesex Corporation | Design-Build coordinating multiple facets of organizationArchitecture for efficiency Firm March 2017 - Jan 2018returning positive client relationship for a global coffee retailer • Assisted in reestablishing • Advised as Design Coordinator a global coffeeempowered retailer Full-time/part time Interior for Design Intern to take on additional responsibilities as • Cultivated a positive and enthusiastic approach to presenting concepts to both internal teams, and to clients the first interior designer at fledgling design-build firm in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania.

Table Of Contents

PROFESSIONAL WORK

INTERNSHIP WORK

SENIOR THESIS

DISASTER RELIEF CENTER

SENIOR LIVING

RETAIL | SEVENTH

RESTORATION | RESIDENTIAL

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) PhotoShop (design concepting) Revit (Construction Documentation)

pk-12 school TRIWAY LOCAL SCHOOLS Located in Wooster Ohio, Triway local schools teamed up with GPD Group to design a new school building that would provide a unified education experience for students from PK to their high school graduation. As an Architectural Staff Designer, responsibilities have included attending client meetings, executing redlines, providing design suggestions, and collaborating with multiple disciplines to aid in the success of this project.

*Note: the renderings and site plan were curated by the in-house illustration team with the design guidance of the architects

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) PhotoShop (design concepting) Revit (Construction Documentation)

WELLNESS FACILITY TRIWAY LOCAL SCHOOLS

Exceeding excellence in the Triway Local School district, GPD Group has a continued relationship with the district to design a facility that focuses on providing students a fun and safe space for after school pick-up. The Triway Wellness Facility will also be home to several board offices, a conference room, and state-ofthe-art training rooms located just north of the new PK-12 school campus. Currently in the design concepting phase, this project has utilized Revit BIM, BlueBeam, and Adobe Photoshop.

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) PhotoShop (design concepting) Revit (Construction Documentation)

WELLNESS Complex CLEARVIEW LOCAL SCHOOLS Home to the Clearview Clippers in Lorain, Ohio, Clearview Local School district hired GPD Group to improve the overall site of the Clippers’ football field with a new storage building, wellness complex, and track & fields. This Wellness Complex offers a truly unique experience for both the community and its students with improved ticketing and concessions, new multi-purpose rooms, training room with new lockers, large group restrooms, and a yoga pavilion. This facility overlooks a stunning view of a new football field, baseball and softball fields, and new dugouts.

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CLEARVIEW HIGH SCHOOL 4700 BROADWAY LORAIN, OHIO 44052

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10303 BRECKSVILLE ROAD BRECKSVILLE, OH 44141 (440)-546-1200 PHONE (440)-546-0400 FAX SCGFIELDS.COM

*Note: the renderings and site plan were curated by the in-house illustration team with the design guidance of the architects

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) PhotoShop (design concepting) Revit (Construction Documentation)

pk-5 school MASSILLON LOCAL SCHOOLS

Being short-listed with two other architecture firms, GPD Group assembled a small team to observe potential site locations and provide design solutions for each location for (2) new PK-5 schools for Massillon Local Schools. As an architectural staff designer on a team that consisted of a project manager, project architect, civil engineer, and rendering designer, this project demanded swift and impactful collaboration. The East location site consists of an L-shaped building with the intention of mirroring the existing L-shaped High School to encapsulate the overall campus for a uniform approach off the street.

*Note: the renderings and site plan were curated by the in-house illustration team with the design guidance of the architects

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) PhotoShop (design concepting) Revit (Construction Documentation)

pk-5 school MASSILLON LOCAL SCHOOLS

The West location is settled behind the existing middle school with trees and lamp posts collandes along the entry drive for a grand entry. Two academic wings are connected by a central hub of administration, student dining, visual arts, and physical education. Student drop-off was divided into two drop-off points; one for parents and one for busing, as to avoid any safety concerns or congested traffic patterns.

*Note: the renderings and site plan were curated by the in-house illustration team with the design guidance of the architects

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) PhotoShop (design concepting) Revit (Construction Documentation)

PK-5 School NORTH OLMSTEAD LOCAL SCHOOLS

Short-listed for another PK-5 school, a similarly small design team was constructed to observe a single site and provide the most efficient design solution. This building design focuses on core academic wings in an h-layout with the administration and the shared spaces separating the PK through first graders on the east side of the building from the second through fifth graders on the west side. Placing the pre-school on the most forward-facing part of the building allows for parents to drop-off and pick-up their children without interrupting learning, while positioning the youngest children in direct view of the administration team.

*Note: the renderings and site plan were curated by the in-house illustration team with the design guidance of the architects

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) Revit (Construction Documentation)

RESIDENTIAL NEW ENTERTAINMENT DECK

Located directly off a small lake in north-eastern ohio, this client wished to erect an entertainment deck that would have the capacity to host both swimmers and sports-enthusiast comrades. Both levels of the deck are designed to have a variety in seating with both the lake-view and televisions as the focal points. Each level has direct access from the adjacent house and a fire place, with only the lower level housing a bar and built-in grill area. Research on existing site and house conditions were required, followed with the design and construction documentation of the deck, finalized with permitting drawings.

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) Revit (Construction Documentation)

RESIDENTIAL GARAGE ADDITION

Home to a large family, this client requested a new garage with living quarters above, in addition to a renovation of their lower level for visiting family and friends. Tight property lines and conflicting roof ridge lines proved to create a challenge that ended with a unique aesthetic and happy client. Responsibilities of the project included research on existing site conditions, design and construction documentation, and guidance through permitting.

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) Revit (Construction Documentation)

RESIDENTIAL NEW CONSTRUCTION

Retiring to the Carolinas, the client wished for a review of construction documents from a residential design-build firm with an additional design of a pool cabana, and interior furniture plan.

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Programs

Bluebeam Revu (redlines/ sketches) Revit (Construction Documentation)

RESIDENTIAL HOME ADDITION

Looking to expand their beloved home, these clients commissioned the design and construction of an addition onto their existing ranch home. The overall design includes an two-anda-half car garage with an open concept living room and kitchen, accompanied with a storage room, mud room, and utility room on the first level that opens onto the backyard patio through the kitchen sliding doors. The second floor design includes a master bed suite and a double guestroom suite.

PROFESSIONAL WORK

GLOBAL COFFEE RETAILER LEAD DESIGNER OF 100+ STORES

While collaborating within a small design & AE team and acting as a design coordinator of multiple stores in various design phases simultaneously, each store is uniquely designed for the surrounding demographics while remaining true to the client brand standards whether the scope of work be minor to major renovations, or new builds.

INTERNSHIP WORK

LOCAL COFFEE RETAILER

LEAD DESIGNER OF 100+ STORES

As the company’s first interior designer on the design-build team, this local coffee retailer sought to relocate to an existing warehouse for an interactive retail space, coffee cupping experience, and a live coffee roaster display for a totally immersive retail and learning experience for customers.

AWARD WINNING

MIDTOWN GATEWAY CHALLENGE

To create a space with a building reuse that encourages community engagement with a minimum of two occupational uses for the entire city of Cleveland with the foundation of design skills that have been culminated over the past four years of Kent State’s Interior Design education.

SOLUTION

Through organic social interactions and a combination of engaging spaces, a unique sense of place in the rust-belt is established. Physically, Midtown Gateway is a pop-up shop retail center, but collectively the design pushes past that barrier as a destination spot.

TYPE

LENGTH

LOCATION

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Individual 7224 Euclid Ave Cleveland, OH

DELIVERABLES

• 15,000 SQF. minimum • at least two floors • gannt chart • time-sheet submissions • concept video • sketch model • research booklet • four 30x40 presentation boards • digital walk-through • construction documents

17 weeks

~50,000 SQF.

PROGRAMS Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Revit Excel

PATINA CONCEPT

An organic and additive sheen created by positive energy that inspires progressive reactions as a reaction to its environment.

PROJECT STATEMENT

Midtown, like an electron that is only a small piece of matter, reacts and patinas to add a new, but natural luster to the city of Cleveland, the matter, or the city of which all people are united.

THE MAIN SUSTAINABILITY GOAL FOR MIDTOWN GATEWAY, IS TO INTRODUCE VARIOUS POP-UP SHOPPING EXPERIENCES TO THE CITY OF CLEVELAND TO INSPIRE PERMANENT SHOPPING in other vacant buildings. Midtown Gateway serves as the ultimate gateway to a diverse, smart, flexible and versatile community center.

The integration of new bus stops on either end of the building support local bus transportation routes with community bulletins to give the public access to upcoming events and local business information. The green space surrounding the building is open for public use, and will occasionally sponsor social engagement activities and events. These events have a multi-purpose that will also raise donations to prevent gentrification in the community. On the second level, a rooftop community garden also serves a dual purpose where renters can sell their overflow of produce to the downstairs café. The main level café has the ability to transform into a soup kitchen for the homeless when needed.

SITE ANALYSIS

SPACE PLANNING Midtown Gateway is inspired by innovative design considerations in every brick that promotes a healthy and progressive community. Through organic social interactions and a combination of engaging spaces, a unique sense of place in the rust-belt is established. Physically, Midtown Gateway is a pop-up shop retail destination, but collectively the design pushes past that barrier as a destination spot. Accompanied with the retail aspect, the first level boasts a flexible event space can transition into conference areas for local programs. Although the green space that surrounds the proposed site will have food truck dining, a small sand-which and bar café will be the permanent food source on site to cater to a variety of after hour events and conferences. On the second level, a community rooftop gardening area will be accessible to local renters to grow their own produce. An additional side road leading into the vast, but transparent, parking lot will be a part of the environmental graphics to draw people into the space. The overall design of Midtown Gateway inspires growth at the community level, and economic standpoint on the foundation of bold designs and thorough research.

modular

pop-up shopping

PROJECT PANACEA CHALLENGE Design a disaster relief village that is modular, and meets the basic personal needs of impacted individuals during a crisis. The town center shall accommodate to the needs of both the impacted individuals and the response recovery teams.

SOLUTION Through human-based research, Panacea promotes a safe and comfortable community with rapid deployment and the flexibility to adopt innovations with ease.

TYPE

LENGTH

LOCATION

SQF.

DELIVERABLES

PROGRAMS

Individual Adaptable

• detailed research • concept • way-finding • high-level master plan • recovery village • renderings • two 30x40 presentation boards • research/project booklet

4 weeks Varies

Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Revit Excel

BIOMIMICRY THE FIREFLY

The smell of earth after it rains. The concept of petrichor is beautifully symbolic in two ways in relation to the Panacea. The first is the feeling. It is the natural aroma of the earth that welcomes the immediate sensation of familiarity and safety once the storm passes. The second is the restoration properties of the storm. It provides life in a variety of ways, including the perfect environment for Panacea’s biomimicry inspiration, the firefly.

PHASE ONE EMERGENCY SHELTER

Panacea consists of three phases in the disaster relief sector. Phase I begins with a rapid deployment emergency shelter. The name of this structure is coined from both its physical similarity with an egg, and the embryonic stage of the firefly. The longevity of both the firefly egg and this structure are only designed to accommodate impacted individuals for a few weeks.

Reus -able

Sustainable

PHASE TWO CORE SHELTER

The second phase of Panacea has a slower construction process than that of emergency shelter. The components are flat-packed and shipped to the site where they are then constructed by the disaster relief team, or the impacted individuals. The structure is designed to be built with ease by anyone, with or without construction experience. Like the larvae stage of the firefly, these core shelter are designed to house impacted individuals for years to come. Unlike the firefly, people are able to purchase these homes for indefinite use, or resale.

MODULAR

PET-FRIENDLY

PHASE THREE TOWN CENTER

The final phase consists of the assembling the modular units into a town center. It is here where impacted individuals and rescues are sheltered in the kennel. For individuals who are residing in phase I, the emergency shelter, there is a public restroom and showers provided. This phase can be both temporary like phase I, or more permanent like phase II. The town center offers an array of amenities for both the impacted individuals, and the relief team that make Panacea a safe, calming, and cultivating experience.

REBUILD

COMMUNITY

BEACON POINTE CHALLENGE Create a senior care community that promotes independence and a stigma-free, residential environment. The senior care community can be located anywhere in Scarborough, Main and shall provide flexibility for residents of varying cognitive levels.

SOLUTION Inspired by a college campus environment with a centralized hub, continuing educational programs, and a transgenerational community. A centralized hub offers an array of amenities that accommodate the aging community, offering independence for a fluid community life-style.

TYPE

LENGTH

LOCATION

SQF.

DELIVERABLES

PROGRAMS

Group

Scarborough, Maine • thorough research • concept • way-finding • programming • construction documents • digital presentation • two 30x40 presentation boards • research/ project booklet • FF&E package

11 weeks

65,000 SF Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Revit Excel

DESIGN INTENT

30 CAMPUS LIVING

Inspired by college campus living, Beacon Pointe utilizes surrounding resources of the area while creating a safe haven to return home to through a centralized main hub encompassed by beautiful green space equipped with a fishing pond. Beacon Pointe offers an array of living options to choose from to accommodate any family situation. The main hub portion of Beacon Pointe supports dependent living lifestyles, gym access, religious worship, classrooms for continuing education programs supported by local schools, restaurants, lounges, and a green roof.

SITE ANALYSIS

SPACE PLANNING The space planning aspires to accommodate an unparalleled environment for the aging community. Vital to its successful design, the site location is nestled in the wooden area of Gorham road. This site choice allows residents to maintain connections to the community with two schools in close proximity, a public library across the street, a shopping plaza adjacent to the village, and a plethora of health care selections within a ten-minute drive. Being nestled within the woods, also gives the residents a sense of privacy, noise cancellation, and an access to nature. With research based site design, the architectural layout of Beacon Pointe promotes a comfortable living environment with superb natural and artificial temperature, lighting, and acoustical elements. The overall layout of Beacon Pointe and the site location promotes future development and growth of additional buildings and environments, independence among residents, and community engagement. Welcome to Beacon Pointe, the only senior living community that truly feels like home.

Bio -Philic

campus Inspired

SEVENTH CHALLENGE Configure a cultural mobile retail unit to fit and transport by semi-truck. This mobile unit must expand from its transportation cuboid form into a functional retail space. Additionally, the culture must stretch beyond the western hemisphere. While encompassing all of these requirements, the retail unit should elevate the consumer experience while being informational of the culture.

SOLUTION Seventh is a mobile retail unit dedicated to the Buddhist religion. Here, students are immersed in both the culture of India and Buddha through mediation, tea, pastries and incense.

TYPE

LENGTH

LOCATION

SQF.

DELIVERABLES

PROGRAMS

Individual Kent, Ohio

• research • concept • branding • one 24x36 presentation board • research booklet

8 weeks

16,695 SF Photoshop InDesign Revit

BUDDHIST INDIA LAYERED

A simple foundation with a multi-layered construction of identity.

RESEARCH Seventh is a tea and meditation cultural unit for college students to immerse themselves in the Buddhist meditation and relax from the everyday stress triggers. From the Buddhist religion’s belief of meditation, the body consists of seven various chakras that one meditates to cleanse and open to elevate both their mind and body. The seventh chakra is the last chakra cleansed through meditation that is considered to be the most spiritual of the chakras. The seventh chakra is associated with the thousandpetal lotus along with the amethyst, selenite, and clear-quartz stones. The color palette consists of purples, grays, and whites pulled directly from the seventh chakras meditation stones. Typography is inspired from the illustrious hand-painted signs found in India.

DESIGN INTENT The first floor of this tea and meditation center can be accessed through either end of the structure by a small collapsible pine stair case. The left entrance is an immediate entrance to the tea counter and merchandise wall display. The right entrance is the secondary entrance that leads to the first floor seating area and green roof meditation area. The organic membrane that surrounds the kitchenette mimics the often cloudy Ohio skies and reflects the sun’s light. It also serves as additional seating on the first floor. The first floor is typically utilized for ordering from the tea counter, purchasing merchandise, and seating for casual conversation or studying. The vertical wing extended over the merchandise wall is comprised of vertical pine beams that allow for natural light to filter into the space below. Below the pine beams is a series of double paned windows encasing a solar panel film. The angle of the window allows for rain runoff to escape the from the furthest end of the structure Connecting the vertical wing to the primary structure is a round, metal element that allows to structure to pivot into a cuboid for easy transportation. The second floor and green roof area are typically for casual conversations, meditation, and the occasional yoga class.

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EN-ROUTE TO LOCATION

CUBOID FORM

SWIVEL EXTENSION

FLOOR PANELS LOWERED

RENDERINGS

self sustainable 43

Solar powered

SPRING VILLA CHALLENGE Research a building from the HABS document registry constructed in the nineteenth century and renovate the structure with the original home owner as the client.

SOLUTION The Spring Villa was home to William Penn Younge, a wealthy individual of the community. Younge documents his inspiration from the carpenter books of A.J. Downing for the original construction. For the renovation, the same books were used, but different passages were the inspiration. The renovation draws away from Younge’s version of a cottage, focusing more on a villa for a sophisticated, and classy wealthy home owner.

TYPE

LENGTH

LOCATION

SQF.

DELIVERABLES

PROGRAMS

Individual Opelika, Alabama • research • construction documentation • branding • one 24x36 presentation board • research booklet

8 weeks

1,748 SF Photoshop InDesign AutoCAD

INSPIRATION AJ DOWNING

Downing has published numerous carpenter books on distinguishing the different types of homes in the Gothic Revival style. The owner and architect, William Penn Younge, used Downing’s books as inspiration for the

DESIGN INTENT WALK THROUGH

Grandfather to the Gothic Revival, A.J. Downing referred to the first floor as the preliminary floor. Pointed-arch, stain-glass doors from the dining room and library open onto the veranda comprised of treated pine, which have been added in the renovation to accommodate for the southern heat. An open passageway to the separate kitchen building is located in the back end of the dining room, another element of Gothic Revival southern villas. The dining table holds a leaf to entertain up to twelve people for William Penn’s famous fish fries. In between the dining room and library, an enclosed porch has been included to escape the summer heat. The secondary floor, according to Downing, consisted of bedrooms, a sofa for guests to wait, and a dressing room. Floors consist of hardwood flooring with area rugs to delineate spaces. Beds are placed three feet from the wall for proper air circulation.

THE FINAL DESIGN OF THE SPRING VILLA STAYS TRUE TO ITS SOUTHERN GOTHIC REVIVAL ROOTS FIT FOR THE FAMOUS FISH FRIES OF WILLIAM PENN YOUNGE.

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