Eva Johnson design
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Education Cultural Commercial Research
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FSU Primary Health Education
An Educational Space for Interdisciplinary Healthcare
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Aquatic Enrichment:
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Building of Faith:
Community Development and the Tallahassee Aquarium
A Zoroastrian Shrine and Education Center
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Perceptions of Beauty:
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Bonsai and the Art of Display:
Commercial Office Design for a Growing Company
Retail Design Within a Grocery Store
Table of Contents
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Growth Encapsulated:
Independent Research of Bonsai and Interior Design 3
Education
FSU primary Health Education An Educational Space for Interdisciplinary Healthcare Learning Level: 4th Year, Studio 4 Square Footage: 40,000 sq. ft. Project Length: 3 months Revit, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator The FSU Primary Care Clinic provides quality care to the local community and a learning environment for medical and multidisciplinary students of FSU. The second floor of this facility, designed in this project, is dedicated to multiprofessional educational spaces. The ideal use of this space is broad and supportive of the dream that fully multidisciplinary care and education will provide the highest quality of care to patients. The design of this space fully supports this teaching environment to best uplift this ideal. Student spaces are made with flexible, collaborative work in mind. Modular open office furniture allows for rapid rearrangement of spaces. The space reduces unwanted noise while still facilitating an open sharing environment. It is energized with natural light and maintained by user controls. In this comfortable, collaborative environment, professionals will share and improve healthcare.
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Server Room
Electrical Room
Lounge Flexible Classroom
Custodial Room Faculty Copy Room Exam Room Simulaton Room
Faculty Break Room
Faculty Restrooms
Teaching Assistant Office Procedural Simulation Room
Faculty Offices
Student Study Space
Faculty Locker Rooms
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Observation Room
Classroom Equipment Storage
Accessible Restrooms
Behavioral Simulation Room
Student Break Room
Flexible Classroom
Breakout Learning Space
Bubble Flow Diagram Dividing the space by usage type allows for clear zones to be established. Showing these zones helps visualize potential distractions and noise, and also helps show areas where “interwoven� interdisciplinary interaction is likely to occur.
Located on a two-way mirror, the simulation exam room provides a valuable experience for students to observe practice scenarios.
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Simulation Exam Room
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Flexible Classroom Easy-to-reconfigure furniture allows this classroom to be used for formal lectures, discussions, or group work.
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Millwork Axonometric
Breakout Learning Space Outside the primary classroom, a flexible work area allows students to continue conversations out of class.
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Cultural
Aquatic Enrichment Community Development and the Tallahassee Aquarium Learning Level: 4th Year, Studio 4 Square Footage: 40,000 sq. ft. Project Length: 1 month Revit, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign With more storefronts closing each year communities have an opportunity to turn abandoned spaces into cultural assets. For this design a big box store was transformed specifically for the site’s community, Tallahassee, Florida. Examining the community exposed a need for affordable indoor environmental education. Taking advantage of the city’s adjacency to the Apalachicola river basin, the Gulf of Mexico, and other biodiversity hotspots the plans for the Tallahassee Aquarium were developed. The space is designed to foster environmental education for all ages through accessible planning. By providing employment, volunteer opportunities, and educational spaces the aquarium is a place for community engagement and inspiration.
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Bubble Flow Diagram
Ideation
This diagram illustrates the flow of visitors with solid arrows and staff access with dotted arrows.
Key design ideas were sketched to explore solutions: Immersive viewing, hands-on interaction, and exposure to career opportunities.
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Not to Scale A central path around the reef tank allows viewers to circulate and break off at the four major exhibit spaces, giving them choice in their own experience.
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Laboratory Perspective
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1. Group Entry 2. Ticketing 3. Lobby 4. Staff Circulation 5. Custodial Storage 6. Office Entry 7. Office Locker Room 8. Office 9. Office Storage 10. Server Room 11. Electrical Room 12. Office Restrooms 13. Office Break Room 14. Aquarium Technology and Water Management 15. Visitor Circulation 16. Reef Tank 17. Lagoon Organisms Touch Tank 18. Family Restrooms 19. Laboratory 20. Laboratory Storage 21. Technical Space 22. Local Organisms Touch Tank 23. Flexible Classroom and Conference Room 24. Classroom Storage 25. Restrooms
A window into the laboratory space makes the science of aquariums an exhibit itself.
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Aquatic Enrichment
Guest Path Staff Path
User Experience Perspective A brightly-lit staff walkway contrasts with the low lighting of the visitor experience. Having two circulation routes allows for the separation of these two experiences and needs.
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Reef Tank Perspective
A supervised touch tank allows visitors to engage firsthand with wildlife. Signage and volunteers both offer information about the organisms in the tank and the proper ways to engage with them.
Fish swimming overhead in the half-arch of the reef tank gives visitors an immersive experience.
Aquatic Enrichment
Touch Tank Perspective
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Building of Faith A Zoroastrian Shrine and Education Center Learning Level: 1st Year, Studio 1 Square Footage: 5,000 sq. ft. Project Length: 1 month Sketching, Hand Drafting, Hand Rendering For a Zoroastrian Shrine and pavilion the U.N. stakeholders were looking for a space that facilitates religious activity and educational opportunities. Working with the Zoroastrian faith also provided a valuable opportunity to practice listening, empathy, and research skills, all of which were necessary to uncover the specific needs and desires of the client. In a relatively small footprint zones were made for interaction with nature and elements of fire and water, vital portions of religious ceremony. Spaces for education, administrative work, and religious rites were also produced, providing an opportunity to work in a variety of finish and furniture specifications. Ramps were introduced in the space to explore spiritual paths, allowing users to ascend and emerge into the preferred spaces for mindfulness: the courtyard or the rear patio.
Ideation
Early process work explores three potential layouts, as well as the priest’s office, an outdoor meditation patio, and the ritual worship space.
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Entry
Not to Scale The floorplan shows how ramps were used to create movement through the space. A 10 foot projection, afforded by the program, was used to create a side entry.
Fire Feature
The entry passes a water feature and opens to a focal point, a fire feature, both of which are sacred symbols in the Zoroastrian faith. Brick and scored concrete are the primary materials shown, for their fire resistance and the religion’s preference for simple, unadorned materials.
Building of Faith
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Commercial
Growth Encapsulated Commercial Office Design for a Growing Company Learning Level: 3rd Year, Studio 3 Square Footage: 20,000 sq. ft. Project Length: 3 months Revit, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign Ripple, the plant-based food company, received a headquarters to support a growing workforce. Workstations and further amenities were provided for sixty-five employees, creating efficient surroundings for innovation. Sustainable design choices were prioritized to suit the company culture Research and precedent studies illuminated user needs and informed choices beyond the program. Facilitating for employee choice was a major factor among these findings, so additional grouping areas, head-down work zones, and casual sitting areas were added for secondary workstations. Including these options meets an individual’s desire for flexibility, and providing a primary desk allows main territories to be maintained for separate departments. Through extensive precedent research, careful layouts, and product specifications this workplace fosters healthy, productive work in an environment that is both innovative and flexible.
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Incidentally meet co-workers Move to nearby work areas Collaborate and Innovate!
Second Floor Bubble Flow Diagram
Circulation Hub Social areas, yellow, provide places to take breaks from the office environment. These areas of respite support casual workspaces, pink, and formal workspaces, green. Blue quiet zones give workers places to focus.
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Lobby Lighting Model A maquette was constructed to illustrate a potential lighting solution for the office lobby.
In the sociopetal plan strategy angled major pathways lead users to informal grouping spaces where employees can meet incidentally and collaborate (204 and 310). Office supply and coffee stations (213, 214, 306 and 307) draw users back to spaces where people can interact throughout the day. The lighting model demonstrates dynamic light use in a potential lobby layout. Cove lighting is used as an energetic guide past the reception desk into the main space. Uplighting on a textured glass wall references the company’s founding idea, that progress is made like ripples in water.
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Work Cafe Perspective The work cafe is open throughout the day. It serves as a secondary workstation and meeting place. The views and natural light are restorative to employees that may be in search of a boost.
This view of the second floor shows two breakout workrooms to the left, as well as three short-term enclaves for phone calls, brief focus work, or a moment of quiet respite. The inclusion of these spaces was based on office design research, which indicated higher employee satisfaction when their desire for choice was met through diverse work options.
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Second Floor Workspace Perspective
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Perceptions of Beauty Retail Design Within a Grocery Store Learning Level: 3rd Year, Studio 3 Square Footage: 1,000 sq. ft. Project Length: 1 month Revit, Sketching, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign
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Beauty products are on display in this piece for the Retail Design Institute’s 2019 Student Design Competition. Facing shrinking markets for brick-and-mortar storefronts, this competition explored the placement of high-end beauty products in a grocery store environment. A challenge was to maintain the prestige of the goods within the everyday environment. Working from the concept of the geode and beauty within, “Outside” becomes a high-end experience within a coarser shell. Products are displayed like jewelry in limited quantities and specialized casework to improve consumer perceptions of goods. Additionally, the interface of customers and technology allows for the selection of personalized products for each user. This curated experience allows for the individual attention to the client that emulates the original experience, but with a modernized twist.
Ideation
Early sketches explore the geological motif of the design. An early idea for the endcap explores lighting and custom casework.
Bubble Flow Diagram
Products that are consumed more quickly are placed at the center of the space to increase foot traffic and encourage impulse purchases.
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Interior View
Looking from the point-of-sale Outside is easy to distinguish from the aisles of the grocery store.
Interior Perspective
Inside the space bold graphics make navigation simple. Small coves let customers receive one-on-one digital consultations, a unique aspect of the space.
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Exterior Perspective
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Research
Bonsai and the Art of Display Independent Research of Bonsai and Interior Design Learning Level: 3rd Year Project Length: 3 months Revit, Sketching, Adobe InDesign
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In shops or museums, objects are intentionally displayed to appeal to or convey a message to viewers. Similarly, bonsai, artfully cultivated potted trees, are displayed in intentional environments to facilitate careful observation. Building on 10 years of experience with the hobby, bonsai displays were evaluated in different environments to trace elements of effective display design. Observations performed in the United States and Japan tracked the use of design and space planning fundamentals in creating an effective bonsai display. A design framework was composed from these observations to inform effective display techniques. The framework is written in a series of actionable design implications which are applied to the design of a sample display piece for retail goods, demonstrating the value of this framework in application. To demonstrate the framework’s impacts, a sample display piece was designed using the implications to guide every aspect, from the piece’s construction to its materials and styling. This research was funded by the Scot and Ina McNichols Undergraduate Research Award, and was presented as a poster at the President’s Showcase for Undergraduate Research Excellence on October 1st, 2019.
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Presenting and sharing knowledge applications
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Synthesizing and applying knowledge
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Building knowledge of display and bonsai
Research Process
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A display piece was designed drawing from the forms of a Japanese tokonoma. The framework guided all aspects of this piece, from proportions to materials.
Rendering
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Sketching
The sample display piece was modeled and rendered in Revit to best demonstrate the framework in a realistic setting.
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Contact Eva N. Johnson (321) 652-6767 enj15b@my.fsu.edu
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