boundless beyond

OUTSTANDING CAPSTONE AWA R D

the third lens

Course: IDES 411 4th year Interior Design Capstone Instructor: Kendra Ordia Semester: Spring 2020

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As both designers and humans we face many challenges evolving continuously from past to present. What do we do with our designs as they become a piece of the past? Adaptive reuse? How do we play a role in establishing community digitally and face-to-face? The Third Lens is meant to create a space that integrates diverse and communal co-adapted programs allowing the user to have a more useroriented experience. The program implemented with a modular system approach – built from an interior scale that attaches itself in a symbiotic manor to the architectural context. A small scale – mixeduse, interior urban network whose program is grounded within and extends out – forming a new building “face” – activating structure from its past to its new present – with pockets of community and socialization and a layering of public – semi-public – semi-private – and private space, in order to further integrate community both within the program and outwards into the urban network.