INTERIOR DESIGN PORTFOLIO
Emily Henderson
My Design Inspiration and Personal Style I am inspired by nature and creating spaces that are practical, functional, and beautiful. By creating designs that are environmentally conscious, I want to help bring the natural world back into everyday life and preserve our natural resources. My personal style is classic. Using time-honored silhouettes, color palettes, and materials create spaces that are timeless. In my personal life animal rescue, gardening, reading travel books, and living a slow and sustainable lifestyle are all important to my personal ethos.
EMILY HENDERSON EMILY.A.HENDERSON@OKSTATE.EDU 405 • 397 • 8251
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ATHERTON HOTEL
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COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE
03
P.A.C.E.
04
UNIVERSITY COMMONS
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COMMERCIAL FURNITURE
Spring 2019 | Lighting Studio
Spring 2020 | Senior Studio
Fall 2019 | Commercial Studio
Fall 2017 | Capstone Studio
Summer 2019 | Steelcase Dealer Internship
01 THE ATHERTON Hospitality | Spring 2019
Situated on Oklahoma State University's campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma stands The Atherton. The redesign for this boutique hotel serves to bring the beauty and gradeur of Oklahoma's landscape into the interior. This design solution
seeks to reimagine the connection guests to
Oklahoma State University have with the surrounding scenery.
Inspiration from landscape art This design draws inspiration from the surrounding landscape by using images, themes, and color from local landscape art. The motif of this art creates a familiar and cohesive design that lets locals and visitors, alike, appreciate the unexpected grandeur of Stillwater's scenery.
Site
First Floor Plan
Lighting techniques such as uplighting, downlighting, daylight harvesting, and cove lighting create variety and highlight the focal points of the design.
Acoustical ceiling features provide much-needed privacy to this open space.
First Floor RCP
Reception
The reception space of this boutique hotel welcomes guests to Stillwater with a bright, open space complete with artistic renditions of Oklahoma's unique landscape. Plentiful seating that is configured thoughtfully gives guests to The Atherton room to lounge, relax, and converse with other patrons. Sundries | Art Gallery
Second Floor Plan
ADA Suite
Second Floor RCP
Presidential Suite
The Presidential Suite offers a premium option for patrons of The Atherton. Both thoughtfully curated and accessible for all users, this space serves to create an open, easily navigable option that lets guests connect, relax, live, and reset. Views from the spacious balcony connect guests to OSU's beautiful campus and Stillwater's exceptional landscape.
Connect Relax
Live Reset
Presidential Suite Floor Plan
02 COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE Senior Capstone | Spring 2020
This design serves to bring healthy, fresh produce to an underserved, urban community within a food desert by drawing inspiration from research in urban agriculture and urban park design. The design reimagines a historic building in the heart of Oklahoma City in order to cultivate a space that nourishes and connects a deserving community. With an expansive floor plan and rooftop garden, this design provides a restaurant, farmer's market, grocery store, as well as demonstration kitchens and classrooms for community members of all ages and ability.
Designing for Community This purpose for this design is to bring a community together and increase access to healthy living options for a deserving group. Inspiration for this design was drawn from nature and the desire to bring green space to the urban environment. Based on an outdoor farmer's market, this indoor space brings life back into a promising community.
Existing Facade
PARKING
Site The Nuway Building Oklahoma City, OK Underdeveloped area Built in 1919 77,109 sq. ft.
ENTRANCE
LOADING
ENTRANCE
PARKING LOADING
Site Plan
Floor Plan | First Floor
the market THE PERFORMANCE STAGE CHAMPIONS LOCAL ARTISTS
LAWN SPACE PROVIDES ANOTHER INFORMAL AND FLEXIBLE MEETING SPACE
VENDOR STALLS ALLOW FOR COMMUNITY INTERACTION
Space Planning | The Market
Rendering | The Market
TREE SPACE ALLOWS FOR MEMORABLE SENSORIAL EXPERIENCE WITH NATURE
WALKING PATHS LINK TRAILS TO THE "HUB"
PICNIC SPACE CREATES MEMORABLE GATHERING SPACE
THE COFFEE KIOSK CREATES A "HUB" THAT LINKS ACTIVITIES THROUGH SOCAIL GATHERING SPACE
Floor Plan | The Market
harvest grocers The design for Harvest Grocers goes against traditional grocery store planning in that it encourages purchasing staple products and produce, and eliminates heavily processed options that lack nutritional value.
GRAINS/SHELF STABLE
MEAT
DAIRY
PRODUCE
BAKERY/DELI EGGS
BULK
gathering table The Gathering Table is a restaurant that sources fresh produce from the Community Collective's rooftop garden in order to provide healthy meals that allow community members to gather around the table to connect.
Floor Plan| Gathering Table
Rendering | Gathering Table Side Dining
Rendering | Gathering Table Main Dining Floor Plan | Second Floor The second floor of the Community Collective provides space for a food pantry, classrooms, and the second level of the Gathering Table restaurant.
The food pantry offers fresh, healthy options and free-of-cost options for lowincome community members
Culinary classrooms promote healthy practices and brings the community together Classrooms encourage community improvement
TRESLLISING
Color Story
RAIN WATER HARVESTING RAISED BEDS HANDS-ON LEARNING SPACE
PROPOSED SOLAR PANEL SPACE
RAISED BEDS BREAK SEATING
COMPOSTING
Third Floor | Floor Plan Rooftop garden to supply produce to the grocery store, restaurant, and food pantry Based on various principles of permaculture and urban agriculture Contains a number of ecologically conscious processes Trellising Rain water harvesting Composting
Neutral, earthen tones help to reinforce the design's commitment to bring nature back to the urban environment and inspire stewardship
Space Planning
Rendering | Third Floor Garden Center
03 P.A.C.E. Large-Scale Commercial | Fall 2019
P.A.C.E. or Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly offers a long-term solution for care of older adults. The day program offers activities, medical care, and socialization. This design for the P.A.C.E. program in downtown Stillwater, Oklahoma focuses on "place attachment theory". By making use of how users attach to their space, this design solution serves to create a space where the participants of the program feel safe, protected, and valued.
Concept The objective for this design is to create a sanctuary for the older adult community in Stillwater that creates a comforting and inviting environment that establishes an easy transition for the older adults as they begin a new stage of their life. A sanctuary is defined as a place of refuge or safety. The space should feel natural and calming in order to reduce overstimulation and confusion. To give the space a feeling of familiarity for the participants within the space, the original building should be kept intact as much as possible.
Third Floor Plan
Mezzanine Floor Plan The Mezzanine's purpose is to provide rehab and activity spaces. The activity space is designed to offer art, pottery, and other stimulating creative endeavors. The large windows bring natural light into the space, lending to the element of "nature bonding". A calming color palette completes the space by providing a canvas for creation.
Activity Room
04 UNIVERSITY COMMONS Residential | Fall 2017
The University Commons dormitory is one of the newest additions to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. This design reimagines the space as modular, versatile, and configurable. This solution hopes to allow students to live and study in a space that works for them.
A Modular Concept Modular. Versatile. Comfortable. The dorm room design of University Commons at Oklahoma State University takes modular design to unprecedented places. The concrete peg-board style walls and custom furniture pieces allow each furniture piece to be placed wherever the user likes. This means versatility, customization, and personalization.
Multi-purpose storage chairs
Storage shelving with pegs
Height Adjustable Bed
Customizable stacking storage table
Versatile desk with pegs for configuration
Floor Plan
Living Art Living Art is a versatile and modular luminaire that serves to fit the user’s every lighting need. The integrated magnetic system allows for the cube lights to be connected in a variety of configurations. The 3D printed fixture is a working model of this unique and illuminating piece.
*Selected for exhibition as part of: “No tech to low tech to high tech! Luminaire designs inspire” at the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Enlighten Europe Conference, Barcelona, Spain, (Juried), November 7-9, 2018.
05 COMMERCIAL FURNITURE Internship | Summer 2019
In the summer of 2019 I completed a professional internship at a contract furniture dealership for one of the leading commercial
furniture
manufacturers.
Through
this
experience, I gained my proficiency in CET designer and knowledge of the entire product range of furniture and finishes. This internship also gave me experience working directly with clients to understand their needs. I found that understanding how commercial furniture is assembled, designed, and implemented in interior design has become essential knowledge to my design work.
FIRST PHYSICIANS The scope of this project was to space plan this large, corporate office space to include both furniture and finishes from the Steelcase product range.
OU TULSA The design for this space at The University of Oklahoma at Tulsa seeks to reimagine their graduate student den in the campus library. The scope of this project included space planning a variety of options for layout, furniture selection, and materials that work for graduate students' needs.
TULSA LEARNING ACADEMY The Tulsa Learning Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma seeks to redesign an existing classroom to fit various configurations of furniture selections from a commercial furniture manufacturer's education grant. The space needs to work for a number of teaching methods and learning preferences.