Reflections

Healthcare Design

A family shelter located in Downtown Phoenix, Reflections gives families privacy, personal space, and resources. The facility is also open to the public with a dining hall and food kitchen and a community health clinic open to families in the area. The first floor is open to the public, with the clinic, kitchen, daycare, and classroom available for community classes and mentorship programs. Reflections strives to help families care for themselves by offering resume, parenting, and tutoring classes. Upstairs, the residential area houses 10 families with three ADA rooms available. The residential zone also has a communal kitchen for families to use and promotes a neighboorhood community with a large common room.

Floor 1

Floor 2

The materiality of Reflections is family friendly, with easy to clean and long lasting materials. The lighter palette creates a welcoming environment, with reflective materials.

First Level-

Floorplan and RCP

The community dining hall is located on the first floor. Open to the public, the dining hall serves three meals a day with a commercial kitchen. The dining hall includes a food pantry accessible from the exterior of the building. Reflections community clinic offers healthcare to families. The clinic offers physical and mental healthcare for all ages, with two exam rooms and a couseling office available.

Second Level-

Floorplan and RCP

The community classrooms work as flexible multipurpose rooms. Parents can attend classes to learn more about parenting, taxes, cooking, and resume building. Children can attend daycare, tutoring, arts and crafts, and more. The resident lounge upstairs is the community space for Reflections residents. Entrance to the second floor requires a keycard. The lounge connects the family rooms and includes a kitchen and living spaces.

Lunar Void

Hospitality Design

Lunar Void is a fine dining experience and boutique hotel on the South East corner of 2nd Street and Garfield in Phoenix Arizona. The concept is derived from the idea of moon poison, and then takes George Melies “A Trip Around the Moon” and explores the idea of black holes being inside of moon craters. Lunar Void is a direct contrast to the open plethora of new and historic restaurants and hotels of Downtown Phoenix; with an unassuming exterior, guests enter into a must-know private and luxurious oasis. The restaurant Lunar is a retro-futuristic black hole, while Void, the hotel, explores the light that could be on the other side of a black hole. Guests are invited to be out of their comfort zones and explore the posibilities of the universe.

Embracing the unknown, guests will enjoy a menu of elegant and experimental seafood.

Through a cacophony of textures, guests will experience something new each time they dine: an overwhelming, refined chaos.

Guests will be adventurous night owls, looking for new experiences and willing to be pushed out of their comfort zones.

Using lighting in unexpected ways, guests can have a unique experience that is out of this world, while still being grounded with light touches of wood.

Void

Void dares to explore the unknown “other side” of a black hole. The inspiration for using avant-guarde design came from the Situationalists International, a social and political group of revolutionaries from the 60s whose goal was to disrupt capitalism with art and the celebration of the unpopular. Drafts of their architecture (pictured below), aimed to create a city where citizens chose the architecture and the purposes. By embracing the avant-guarde design, Void pushes the limits of hospitality design, combining known comfort with the uncomfortable unknown.

Custom-built booths line the North wall of the restaurant. With low ceilings above and high booth walls, guests feel like they are sitting in a pod.

Each seating area has a different mixture of materials, combined with the dark atmosphere, which creates an air of isolation for diners.

The circular moves of the bar and booth seating mimick the centralized location of the kitchen and restrooms. Three bars continues the theme of giving guests different views. The center bar is completely ADA and the first view into Lunar from the entrance.

Scale: 1/16” = 1

Inside Void, the lobby welcomes guests into an experience like no other. Guests stay in rooms on the first floor or take the circular elevator up to their rooms on the second floor.

Beds and storage are built into the rooms. Even on the other side of a black hole, guests will stilll have the comfort of their beds.

While Void has 9 rooms, it boasts 3 ADA rooms, and 4 suites. Each room has windows to the historic Downtown Phoenix district.

Scale: 1/16” = 1

Scale: 1/32” = 1

The lighting plan for Lunar is meant to be dark and uncomfortable. With no windos, guests will get most of their light from the lit table tops, with a starry night sky (hanging LEDs above a black skrim) above most of the dining hall. Outlining the starry night sky is an alcoved window and strip of LED lighting that provides the one uncontrolled light into the atmosphere. The bars will have dim pendant lighting. The mirrored hallway to the restrooms will glow with LED strips placed beneath the bottom of the mirrors. Void s public spaces will glow with round recessed canlights. Inside the guest rooms, there will be round LED downlights.

The unassuming stone exterior of the builings will fade away into the backgound of the Downtown Phoenix environment.

The only windows visible from the street are to Void s guest rooms. This keeps the mystery and environment alive inside the buildings.

With one centralized entrance and exit, guests enter into a round lobby through a revolving door. The darkly tinted door keeps the harsh sunlight from penetrating the ambience inside.

Electrivity

Instutitutional Design

Located in Tempe, Arizona in the Arizona State University (ASU) Innovation Corridor, Elevtivity is an ASU S.T.E.A.M. Gallery exhibit for students grades K-8. S.T.E.A.M. stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math, fitting Electrivity s concept of energy. The interactive exhibit uses motion sensors and digital walls to help the user navigate through the space. This kind of technology allows for the user to have a purpose in the space, to be the source of energy.

Exploration of energy waves using a wet coffee filter to configure the floorplan and relationship of each energy zone.

The exhibit begins with the Solar Energy zone. As students walk along the first curved wall, their sunny shadow follows them. As they move, their shadow interacts with the planting pot and house on the wall, growing a flower and lighting up the house.

The Solar Wall leads to the Inertia zone. Here there is a runway path in front of the wall. Motion sensors pick up the speed and movement of the user on the runway path, and the Newton s Balls begin to move.

The Mechanical Energy Zone is next. Users will interact with a digital wall, moving gears into place until they glow green. Once the gears are all green, the robot on the end will light up and speak to the students. The Inertia runway leads users to the Wind Energy zone. This zone utilizes motion sensors at a variety of heights to capture the movements of the K-8 users. The student s movement triggers the windmill on the wall to spin.

The exhibit ends with the Electrical Energy zone. The digital wall has a variety of electrical musical instruments, each with a wire color corresponding to a tile color. When users step on the correct tile in front of the instrument, the instrument plays its music.

“ The Woman with Cotton”

Latin American Design Collage Grete Stern- “Aborigenes del Gran Chaco”

This collage is based off the works of photographer Grete Stern, a German born artist. Stern and her husband relocated to Argentina in 1935. Grete Stern focused her photography on the indigenous people of Argentina, specifically women. Stern herself broke gender boundaries being a female photgrapher in the late 1940s, early 1950s. This inspired collage centers the woman with cotton in her hand. The surrounding women, multiplied and duplicated, all support her and love the Woman with Cotton. The infant and elderly woman separated by chairs at the bottom of the image represent the generations that make up the Indigenous population of Argentina.

Collages

These collages work to deliver the essence and inspiration of a space. By picking the main elements, the collage can then help to create an atmosphere that defines the big eye-catching features and the small details that bring interior spaces alive.

Hi there!

Thanks! -Lauren

I am currently a fourth-year Interior Design student at Arizona State University. When I’m not knee-deep in a design, I can be found singing anything from the newest Broadway hit to my favorite Billy Joel classic. I love being outdoors, and have been getting into hiking and gardening: I love the inspiration. I believe inspiration can be found anywhere. I try to focus on Human Connection in all of my projects and in every aspect of my life as well. Design is a silent infl uence in every connection.

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