INTERIOR DESIGN PORTFOLIO WINTER / SPRING 2019
ERIN S COT T
BID , LEED GA
ERIN S COT T BID , LEED GA
+ 1.4 0 3.8 8 0. 76 3 3 e h . sc o t t 5 @ g m a i l .c o m
HELLO, My name is Erin Scott. I am a skilled designer, computer user, and artist. My strengths lie in the efficient, thorough, and accurate completion of projects. I am particularly interested in the integration of technology within the design process, and am eager to learn and apply new methods to create dynamic forms and compelling visual presentations. I have a fervent enthusiasm for art and architecture, and am excited to direct my passion toward thoughtful and innovative design. Outside of work, I enjoy reading, travel, rock climbing, and listening to podcasts. I am a trivia fanatic, and dream of designing impactful spaces all over the world.
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CONTENT FIRSTLY introduction 04 about 06
.01 FATHOM 5 07 living, sustainability
.02 BLIND 19 viewing, threshold
.03 COMMUNITY 29 gathering, context
.05 BAVARIAN INN 37 dining, diversify
.06 EXPLORATIONS 41 form, expression
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ABOUT a bout Education
Employment
Bachelor of Interior Design / 2015-19
Student interior designer: MTA | Urban Design Architecture Interior Design / 2018-present
Art History minor
Prepared accurate and engaging material across various phases of design, including client
Mount Royal University
presentations, brand submissions, concept packages, and working drawings in Revit, in order to advance projects efficiently and thoroughly. Carefully researched products and finishes to
University of Waterloo / 2011-12 English Literature major
ultimately assemble full FF&E specification documents for two hospitality projects, as well
Varsity women’s volleyball team
Awards Carolyn B Tavender Scholarship / 2018
as procuring preliminary and final finishes for health care and commercial projects. Learned and gained exposure to building construction on-site; performed attentive site verification, attended regular site meetings, and completed detailed deficiency reports to ensure proper coordination and execution of design. Worked both independently and as part of a small team to exceed the demand and high standards of a busy mid-size architecture and design firm.
Constance Mary Rymes Scholarship / 2018
Server + bartender: The Italian Farmhouse / 2013- 2018
Interior Design Program Advisory Committee
Embody a leadership role within a small team by teaching, making decisions, and delegating
Scholarship (Art History) / 2018 BILD Calgary Region scholarship / 2017 President’s honour roll / 2015-18 Jason Lang scholarship / 2015-17
Activities LEED Green Associate / 2018
tasks to achieve maximum efficiency. Solve challenges quickly and confidently, and sensitively manage customer conflict to optimize satisfaction and business reputation. Supply detailed product knowledge and provide appropriate recommendations to customers. Freelance interior designer : The Bavarian Inn / 2017 Collaborated with client to define needs and develop an updated design concept to maximize restaurant efficiency while improving customer experience. Established relationships with suppliers to increase knowledge of appropriate materials, and ultimately make informed, thoughtful, and responsible finish selections. Developed clear finish
U.S. Green Building Council
plans to guide contractor work. Adhered carefully to client’s tight budget and timeline.
Acoustic charette / 2018
Retail associate: Anthropologie / 2012-13
Work Nicer Coworking Student representative / 2016- 2018
Provided kind and insightful customer care to assist in selection of luxury apparel and furniture. Implemented effective loss prevention techniques to maintain the company’s financial interests.
Alberta Association of Architects
Student intern: Alberta Children’s Hospital - Diabetes, Endocrine, + Gynecology clinic / 2012
Treasurer / 2016- present
accurately and efficiently tracking patient diagnoses. Published comprehensive
Interior Design Student Society Event volunteer / 2016-18 Primarily it’s a Party Guest Speaker / 2015 Fundamentally Human Festival Refreshment volunteer / 2015 Tom Baker Cancer Centre Assistant coach / 2012 403 Selects Volleyball Club
Languages English / Native proficiency French / Working proficiency
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Built a modern, user-friendly digital program to replace paper records while and informative gynecology pamphlets to educate new patients. Performed literature searches to assist nurses with research studies.
Software Proficient
Actively Improving
AutoCAD InDesign Revit SketchUp Enscape V-Ray Rhinoceros Lightroom Grasshopper Photoshop Illustrator
FATHOM 5
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fathom 5:
mixed use academic year four
fathom 5
Fathom 5 is a compact-living residential complex that aims to democratize independent living to those seeking an economic, environmental, and socially sustainable lifestyle. A combination of private and public amenities creates vibrant social and comfortable living spaces, while engaging the public in an uncommon new configuration of residential life. In combination with Calgary’s high vacancy rates, the concept of fitting out vacant spaces downtown in order to increase population density in areas that are highly serviced by public transportation, as well as close to many workplaces, is a novel, experimental, and progressive way to approach residential living. Integration of public spaces within the dwelling environment serve as 'extensions of the home': opportunities to create social capital and for vibrant, livable communities to be born and flourish. The continued development of walkable communities in pre-established areas of mixed commercial and residential use is crucial in resisting the temptation to build outwards and unnecessarily consume land in a vast area such as Calgary. The massive vacancy rate downtown provides a shining opportunity to create mixed use communities and to re-purpose unused space. This project serves as a prototypical model of the possibilities of new urban residential life.
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Lounge Coworking Residential Shared residential Building core
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EXTENSIONS OF THE HOME 1
Residential zones are stacked to increase systems efficiency, due to the standardization of units. Each unit has an expansive glazed connection to the exterior, generally southfacing to provide a consistent and bright atmosphere. Each unit is separated by a partition providing a Sound Transmission Class rating of 68.
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Units surround and are adjacent to shared spaces that are available for use by all residents. The second level hosts a 'sharing library,' full of objects that could not reasonably fit in a compact dwelling: items that are used sparingly or occasionally, but are necessary to have access to nonetheless. Additional storage is also available on this level, as well as laundry facilities. The third level hosts a shared media space with lounge furniture and a home theatre. Also on this level is a large shared kitchen, dining, and living space for those wishing to throw a dinner party or have multiple guests.
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The coworking space is structured to offer different residential elements to further the concept of 'extensions of the home.' Seating is available in kitchen, living room, and dining room formats to offer a diversity of choice for the worker. Whether one works best at a kitchen island, on lounge furniture, or at a desk in solitude, each option is available. An auxiliary-style boardroom is present for group or media-based conferencing.
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An interconnected stair links the lounge and coworking spaces: spaces accessed by the general public. This aims to make the complex more approachable, and encouraging for non-residents to explore and engage with the available services. It also serves to increases traffic flow through the lounge, creating more recognizable faces and establishing a strong community. The lounge space is separated into two public areas: a casual cafe, and a lounge-like living room. This provides distinct spaces for users to occupy based on their level of interaction with the complex as a whole. Residential furniture is found in the lounge area to extend the feeling of the units upstairs and to include the public in the project's narrative.
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INSPIRING PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR How can compact living be implemented with psycho-social sustainability in order to reap benefits of environmental conservation and social capital? One of the primary goals of this project is to inspire proenvironmental behaviour via reductive and material-conscious design. While the units are intended to be comfortable and satisfy human need, they are also aimed to highlight frugal living as an attempt to influence behaviour. The units should feel like home, however they will also be simple, and clad in natural-looking materials to inspire environmental consciousness. Unit design should compel tenants to conserve resources, reduce consumption, and recycle waste, as occupant behaviour has shown to be the largest proponent of pro-environmental action in the built environment. While humility is the driving concept of residential space, a playful approach is added to the project’s extension spaces. This choice addresses livability. A spirited atmosphere establishes comfort for residents to utilize these spaces as their own, while being simultaneously approachable for users from the general public.
A TYPICAL UNIT / 1:50
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ANATOMY OF A UNIT Though units vary slightly to accommodate for diversity in the building envelope, each unit is comprised of modular elements joined to form cohesive and livable dwellings. Each unit has a transformable bed to maximize open living space, and remove the necessity for dedicated spaces for both a living room and bedroom. The kitchen and bathroom are connected, forming a block that can be expanded and reconfigured to suit each individual unit. Though uncommon, this combination of kitchen and bathroom is integrated to ultimately maximize modularity and open living space. Additionally, storage is integrated into many of the millwork components, including a sliding pantry and a pull-out shoe compartment.
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A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION Full fathom five thy father lies;
The project is eponymized after a line sung by the spirit, Ariel, in Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest . In her song, Ariel comforts a young Prince named Ferdinand that his father, who has recently drowned in a storm at sea, is not to be lamented in death. Instead, he is undergoing a ‘sea-change,’ the first known modern use of the word, which signifies a radical transformation as he becomes one with the Earth once more. While this transformation is perceived frightfully by the living, Ariel sings, it is in fact a beautiful process wherein one’s eyes become sea pearls, and one’s bones become coral: an elegant unity of man and nature. This song describes the merging of humankind and Earth by means of a dramatic change. Fathom 5 seeks to inspire dramatic change by design, namely, reducing the excesses of Western lifestyle. The idea of adopting the “rich and strange” as an outcome of this transformation is alluring and hopeful, which I hope inspires users to commit to a change in lifestyle that can at times seem daunting and futile.
Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1.2.538-568)
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coworking space
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lounge space
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TAKE A TOUR ! Use the QR codes to scan into a tour of the residential and coworking spaces. Arrows at the bottom of your screen can be used to move between spaces. The Google Cardboard icon allows for viewing with a virtual reality headset, if you have one available!
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BLIND
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blind:
art gallery academic year three
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BLIND IS AN ART GALLERY WHOSE CENTRAL PHILOSOPHY REVOLVES AROUND THE DESTABILIZATION OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIES. The gallery displays art in a variety of conditions - original, forged, printed, mass-produced - without any indication that might pre-determine a visitor's opinion. A discomforting confrontation of the human psyche and our perception of value, blind metaphorizes our quest for enlightenment, beauty, and truth through a space replete with strange and visceral geometry.
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grand gallery
auditorium
grand gallery
auditorium
back room
back room
staff room male washroom
staff room
female washroom
reception
main gallery
male washroom
female washroom
reception
main gallery
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ACCESSIBILITY IS A CRUCIAL COMPONENT OF THE GALLERY’S DESIGN. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IS REQUIRED BOTH PHILOSOPHICALLY AND PHYSICALLY.
Blind is a space about relationships: the relationship between light and dark, between truth and fiction, and between rationality and entropy. It is an environment sustained on the innate human desire for truth, manifested through curiosity, theatricality, and uncertainty.
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COMMUNITY
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community:
t o w n h a l l academic year three
The new community centre was designed not to continue serving its current needs, but rather to change the neighbourhood’s social landscape by offering thoughtful spaces that encourage gathering and connection. The neighbourhood structure of Sunalta is not naturally conducive to bringing its residents together and creating a community. The amenities that are provided generally cater to destination visitors rather than locals. Sunalta’s amenities may serve to benefit the community in an economic sense, but they do little for the neighbourhood’s social capital. As a by-product, Sunalta lacks the togetherness that turns neighbourhoods into communities.
This building is not interested in changing Sunalta’s standing or reputation within the city, but rather to showcase the important attributes of lower-income neighbourhoods. In providing restaurant and theatre amenities, the new community centre seeks to consider the role of the lower-income neighbourhood within society to create a thriving social facility that causes the community to flourish.
SUNALTA RESIDENTS ARE UNITED NEITHER IN THEIR AGE, THEIR INCOME, NOR THEIR ETHNICITY, BUT RATHER BY THE PLACE THEY CALL HOME. WHY NOT HAVE A PLACE TO CELEBRATE THIS SIMILARITY TO ALL?
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floor one
INTERIOR DESIGN & ART General Notes This drawing must not be scaled.
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This drawing is the exclusive property Consultants and must not be reprodu written consent.
This drawing must be read in conjunc Consultants' drawings, specifications schedules.
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ERIN SCOTT Scale
1:50 Date
2017-12-06
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BAVARIAN INN
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bavarian inn:
r e s t a u r a n t
professional w i n t e r 2017
Once presenting a single dining environment, the Bavarian Inn now hosts both a fun, contemporary lounge alongside a more formal, elegant dining room, offering guests a diverse experience.
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before
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explor a t i o n s
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ERIN S COT T BID , LEED GA