Emily Jones Interior Architecture 2016 - 2019
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Introduction
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HousingPlus
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Discovering Doris
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Pop-Up Study Spaces
Introduction
My experiences in architecture, interior architecture, and adaptive reuse have led to this series of selected work. These projects explore my passion for efficiency as well as the user experience and site specific design.
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HousingPlus HousingPlus is a project exploring mixed-use and mixed-income housing opportunities within the Providence, Rhode Island community. After the studio was completed, this projected was selected to be presented to the West Elmwood Housing Board.
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HousingPlus
Urban League | 246 Prairie Avenue Providence, RI
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Urban League Site Plan
Existing Building
Residential
This project began by examining multiple sites throughout the Providence community. The sites were selected for the class by a real estate group searching for potential locations to adapt into a mixed-use and mixed-income housing complex. After exploring all the sites, one was chosen for further exploration for potential design solutions. The building was previously home to the Urban League, a non-profit where local community members could gather and receive support for education and career counseling, as well as home services such as a food bank.
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Educational
The client’s need was to have at least 40 units that would be listed at market price or at a subsidized rent. The aim of the complex was to provide housing for single parents working towards receiving educational degrees. Besides housing, the client wished to have an early childhood education center on site.
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HousingPlus
Program Allocation Diagram
The diagram above was used to show how the existing structure could not fit all of the desired programs and the site would either need more floors added on top or new construction elsewhere on the site.
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Urban League Site Plan
Existing Building
Residential
The current Urban League Building is set back from the street and disengaged with the surrounding residential community. It felt out of place in context to the neighborhood where homes are built close to the street front.
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Educational
The design proposal was to construct housing closer to the sidewalk and street in order to reclaim the street front and have a similar language to the homes surrounding the site.
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HousingPlus
Diagram of Public Space vs. Private Residential Space on Site
The existing site would become home to a daycare, a minute-clinic, a gym, a cafe, a lecture hall, and a small food market (represented in the green). The new construction would be for the affordable housing (represented in the pink).
First Floor Plan Callout of Residential Units
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Perspective Section of a Townhome
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HousingPlus
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The potential renters of the space are single parents furthering their education, so a space to learn nearby was extremely important for the client. In every townhouse and on each floor, there are study rooms in order to provide easy-access for residents with a place to do work.
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Master Plan of Existing Building
The existing site would become home to a daycare, a minute clinic, a gym, a cafe, a lecture hall, and a small food market.
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Early-Child Care Center
Basketball Court Indoor Track
Lobby | Cafe
Gym
Minute Clinic
Grocery Store
Perspective View of Cafe and Lobby
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HousingPlus
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Discovering Doris
Rough Point in Newport, Rhode Island was Doris Duke’s family vacation home situated on the iconic Newport Cliff Walk. Towards the end of her life it became her permanent home. Rough Point is now a space to tour and experience the lavish lifestyle the Duke family enjoyed and the treasures they surrounded themselves with. Working with the Newport Restoration Foundation and professors from RISD, this project proposes an intervention to display Doris Duke’s extensive fashion collection that currently is on limited display.
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Discovering Doris
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Doris’s property, known as Rough Point, was landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted. The property is located along the Newport coast near downtown and other mansions that have been converted into house museums. This project worked with the NRF to re-imagine how the house museum could be organized as well as design a permanent exhibition space to display Doris’s extensive fashion collection, which currently is stored away from the public in the attic.
Site Plan
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Discovering Doris
Existing Master Plan
Proposed Master Plan
house museum staff space restrooms stairs | elevators storage exhibition
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Currently, the house tour is limited to the first floor, and Doris’s bedroom on the second floor. The west wing of the second floor is gallery space where the Newport Restoration Foundation will typically host two to three exhibitions each year. The east wing of the second floor is closed off to the public and is used as storage for furniture. The third floor is offices, empty rooms, and a storage room for Doris’s extensive fashion collection. The existing tour shows only half or less of the home. The new proposal requires the storage of the east wing on the second floor to be relocated to the basement, so the space can be adapted into an exhibition that will display Doris’s clothing. One of the project’s goals is to increase the amount of spaces visitors can access during a visit. With this design guest will now full access to the first and second floor.
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Intervention Proposal
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Discovering Doris
Accessories Case Diagram
This intervention is inspired by how people view articles of clothing while shopping: by category. The new exhibition space is designed in the east wing, where the rooms are transformed into the “shoe room”, the “accessories room”, the “everyday dress room”, the “outerwear room”, and the “evening gowns room”. In the final room of the east wing, it displays all of the elements combined together to display full outfits. The acrylic display cases have unique forms that derive from the items they are holding. The height of the display cases
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correlates to where the objects exist in life. For example, shoes are worn on the feet and are on the ground. The intervention is minimal to allow for the historical rooms to still be seen and appreciated by guests. The cases leave small traces on the site to avoid permanent damage.
Shoe Case Diagram
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Section A
Section B
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For this studio, there was an emphasis on creating a photo-model to capture a single view. Building the photo-model involved studying the existing space and capturing many photographs to allow for the accurate depiction of the current features. Each element was replicated at a one inch to one foot scale.
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Pop-Up Study Spaces This section previews the thesis work researched and produced while at RISD. The thesis explores learning spaces for high school students and how spatial qualities can help focus.
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Pop-Up Study Spaces
Intervention Life Cycle : Vacant, to Filled, to New Tenant
Pop-Up Study Spaces temporarily repurposes empty retail spaces into pop-up educational spaces. The intent of this thesis is to produce a kit that contains all of the needed pieces to easily assemble a self-regulated learning space inside any vacant storefront. By temporarily filling the voids, the intervention will help prevent a decrease in local businesses’ foot-traffic while also providing local high school students with a place to study. The constructed form can be replicated to accommodate the varying sizes of different interiors. The form will provide high school students with a new study environment that will control acoustical and visual distractions.
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Individual Unit
Group Unit
The design creates a form that organizes students into environments productive for single (1 student), partner (2 students), or group study (4-6 students). The kit includes pieces that create a frame that is connected and supported by rods and then covered with fleece fabric.
Partner Unit
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Pop-Up Study Spaces
Vacant Storefront in Lawrence, MA 2,200 Square Feet
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Vacant Storefront in Lowell, MA 800 Square Feet
Two vacant storefronts were selected as tester spaces for the design. Both sites are located in communities where an after-school study space would benefit the local educational community.
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Pop-Up Study Spaces
For easy assembly, the frame is held up as someone places the rods into the frame. Once the frame and the rods are connected, the stretch ceiling fabric snaps onto a base rod and covers around the rods, and is then snapped onto the opposite base rod. The sides are also snapped to the frame, leaving an opening on one side for a door.
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Exploded Axon : Single Study Space
Frame Assembly
Rod Connection to Frame
The frame pieces are made from extruded aluminum. The extrusions are made in sections that are then joined together to form the frame. The joint on the right reflects how the pieces are pushed together and then a rod is slid into the hole and holds the frame together. The units require the use of rods to support the fabric and frame. The rods sit in each hole and stay in place by latches that are pulled up when sliding a rod into place. Once in place, the rod latch clasps onto the rod.
There is a cutout in the frame pieces to be wired for electricity to accommodate the optional lighting element for the units. The fabric stretched over the unit is fleece to help dampen sound transmission between units. The layouts of the units is up to the kit orderer/user. The idea is that the students would have autonomy on the layout of the space. With the material choice of aluminum metal, the frame is quite light and easy to move around.
Electrical Plug-In
Embedded Lighting Element
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Pop-Up Study Spaces
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Emily Jones ejones@risd.edu 508.561.7077