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INTERIOR DESIGN PORTFOLIO
OLIVIA NORMAN ABOUT ME
I am an interior design student with a passion for creating spaces that are impactful for each & every kind of user. I love the challenge of the design field and how it is always pushing me to create better spaces for the future. While being a student of design and spending hours of time in studio, I do have other hobbies. I have a huge passion for blogging and creating lifestyle videos for my blog instagram. I also love to draw using many different kinds of media like pencil, marker and digital. I also plan to study abroad this summer of 2022 in Florence, Italy. I will be studing Itailian art, architecture and design through sketching and photograpghy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COLLISION COWORKING
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THE CHELSEA EYE
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PINTEREST SATELITE OFFICE
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SOUP KITCHEN: PIPELINE CAPITAL
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DIGITAL MARKER RENDERINGS
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COLLISION COWORKING FALL 2022 | Individual project Roanoke, Virginia
Collision is a coworking space located near downtown Roanoke. Roanoke is a city with many features but for this space, the building focuses on three main attractions, historical downtown, the train station and the Blue Ridge mountains. Each location serves as a hub for communication and collaboration so it makes sense to create a coworking environment inspired by these places.
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RENDERED FLOOR PLAN 1/8” = 1’
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 2
WAYFINDING TECHNIQUE
1. Check-in Desk 2. Lounge/ Lobby 3. Private Offices 4. Adjustable Benching 5. Business Center 6. Collaborative Lounge Space 7. Medium Conference Room 8. Administrative Office 9. Kitchen 10. Cafe style seating 11. Wheelchair Lift 12. ADA Gender Neutral Restroom
13. Conference Room / Yoga Studio for Tech Start Up Company 14. Tech Start Up Offices 15. Collaborative Lounge Space for Tech Start Up
In a coworking environment, the user might get intimidated or feel disconnected from the space because of the strangers that occupy it. So to help eliminate that issue, a wayfinding techinique was used in the flooring to assist the user get around the space.
PARTI DIAGRAM OF FLOOR PLAN SHOWS PATHS OF TRAVEL COLLIDING AND BECOMING ONE
TRANSITION SPACE CONFERENCE ROOM FOR TECH START UP COMPANY
This space was designed with multifuntional use in mind. For most of the time, it is used as a 12 seated conference room. Once a week it is transformed into a yoga studio to comply with WELL standards. Furniture for the meeting space was choosen with mobility and easy decontruction in mind. All chairs are stackable and the table can be flipped on its side and tucked away or taken out of the room.
Community Conference Room
SECTION 1/8” = 1’
Private Offices
Lobby/Check-in
Benching
Business Center
BENCHING PERSPECTIVE
LOUNGE AND CONFERENCE ROOM PERSPECTIVE
ARTWORK EXPLANATION All through out the building are pieces of work by Bonnie Mason. The paintings go well with the space because they reflect all three attractions that the building trys to highlight. It gives the space the perfect amount of color and creativity to balance out its neutral earthy tones and palette.
ELEVATION OF PRIVATE OFFICES
MATERIAL AND FF&E SPECIFICATION The space aims to emobdy all three features of Roanoke while still having a cohesive flow of materials. To represent historical downtown, red brick was used for all structural walls. Concrete was used in the flooring to reflect the industrial train station. The wood panelling and green paint were used to give a earthy tone to imitate the mountians and forests all around the city. Overall the building has a neutral color palette to emphasis the materials selected.
Red Brick Used on 12” walls
Concrete Used as wayfinding path
Fern by Hayworth
Arlo Lowback by Hightower
Light Oak Wood Paneling Used as main flooring
Poppy Chair by Hayworth
Green Paint Used as accent wall
Benching by Hayworth
THE CHELSEA EYE Fall 2021 | group project Chelsea, New York
Located in the heart of Manhattan, The Chelsea Eye is in close proximity to Chelsea pier, various art galleries, and Chelsea market which has pop up retail spaces for local artists and entrepreneurs. It is approximately a 0.2 mile walk from the High Line and a 0.8 mile walk from Pennsylvania Station, as well as surrounded by bus stops and metro stations which are all great means of transportation depending on where you want to go. New York City is a melting pot of all different cultures, artists, and talents, perfect for this textile artist to feel at home, as well as run a successful retail space.
RENDERED BY OLIVIA NORMAN
MY ROLE As a group of 4, my team and I worked together from begining to end. So we all had our hands in every aspect of the project. That being said my main roles were creating the concept, choosing furnings, specing the furniture with materials, placing materials into revit, making the material spacifications and making the retail space perspective.
INTITAL DIAGRAMMING BY OLIVIA NORMAN AND CARA BADALAMENTI
LEVEL 1 1. Street Entrance (Retail) 2. Open Storage 3. Back Office 4. Courtyard Entrance 5. Cash/Wrap 6. Maker Space 7. Open Storage 8. Storage Closet 9. Flex Space - Living Room 10. Kitchen 11. Guest Bathroom 12. Guest Closet 13. Guest Bedroom 14. 12- Person Dining 15. Utility Closet 16. Master Bathroom 17. Master Closet 18. Master Bedroom 19. Residential Entrance 20. Residential Patio 21. Courtyard Showroom 22. Courtyard Garden
LEVEL 1 FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1/8”=1’
RENDERED BY CARA BADALAMENTI
MAKER SPACE PERSPECTIVE
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC VIEW 45% Public, 45% Private, 10% Flex Space
RENDERED BY EMMA MURAY
RENDERED BY DANI MICHALOULOS
CONCEPT EXPLANATION The building is structured based on the Shaman’s Eye, a traditional symbol in the Navajo culture. This geometric pattern is popular and often represented throughout their woven textiles. The Shaman’s Eye consists of an outer diamond, representing the four directional corners of the world, an inner diamond representing a spiritual connection to the earth, and a central eye that holds all knowledge and future vision. This symbol helped influence the layout of our shipping containers while having the courtyard act as the central eye.
FLEX SPACE PERSPECTIVE
RENDERED BY DANI MICHALOULOS
DINING/ KITCHEN PERSPECTIVE
RENDERED BY CARA BADALAMENTI
SOUTH SECTION PERSPECTIVE
RENDERED BY CARA BADALAMENTI MATERIAL SPECIFICATION 1. Concrete 2. Wood Veneer Slats 3. Black Steel 4. Terracotta tiling 5. Teal Paint 6. Basket Weave flooring 7. Shipping Container 8. Brown Leather 9. Light Oak wood 10.Terracotta
SPECIFICATIONS BY OLIVIA NORMAN FURNITURE SPECIFICATION BY OLIVIA NORMAN AND EMMA MURAY
MUNA CHAIR By Gazzda
GEOMETRIC HEX LED PENDANT By DWR
CONTINENTAL SOFA
BREEZE SIDE TABLE
By Hightower
By Hightower
PINTEREST OFFICE Fall 2021 | individual project Washington, DC
The intent of this design is to take advantage of the curvature in the graphic design of the pinterest app itself. I wanted to use their new branding “endless flow” to help represent the space. So by creating “pods” throughout the space I was able to recreate the look of a scrolling pinterest board.
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LEVEL 2 FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1/8”= 1’
LEVEL 2 1. ada restrooms 2. it room 3. print lab 4. open collaborative space 5. mini lounge space 6. closed collaborative space
7. director’s office 8. small conference room 9. large conference room 10. lounge and kitchen 11. reception
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1. ELLIPSIS GREEN By Designtex 2. UNION RED By Designtex 3. BIRDSEYE BLUE By Designtex 4. LIGHT WOOD 5. WHITE BRICK
COLLABORATIVE SPACE PERSPECTIVE
ADA Restrooms
Private Offices
Working Pods
Kitchen/Dining
Reading Nook
SECTION SCALE: 1/8”=1’
DESIGN EXPLANATION When designing the Pinterest Satelite office, I knew from my research that the employers are creative people. They need an outlet to go to when they need a break or during their lunch hour. This lead me to design a little reading nook and lounge area with video game hookups.
READING NOOK PERSPECTIVE
CONFERENCE ROOM PERSPECTIVE
DINING/ LOUNGE PERSPECTIVE
PIPELINE CAPITAL Spring 2021 | individual project Richmond, Virginia
The intent of this design is to take advantage of Richmond cities industrial complex and the creativity of its well known wall art and turn it into a space that evokes a positive experience for the user. This space will act as the pipeline between the cities people and their needs. This will be done by way of colorblocking and using design elements/ principles like line, color, pattern, unity and movement. Using both the city infrastructure and the wall art will provide for some contrasting colors and shapes. I believe this will provide a space for the community to come and get a sense of comfort but also help foster creativity and motivation within themselves. It will be a space they have never seen before yet they live right around its core elements.
LEVEL 1 01 Main Entrance 02 Host Stand 03 Waiting Area 04 Community Seating 05 Group Seating 06 Private Seating 07 ADA Restroom 08 Kitchen Access 09 Emergency Exit 10 Waiter Stand LEVEL 1 FLOOR PLAN: NTS
LEVEL 2 11 Computer Desks 12 Lounge Area 13 Meeting/ Therapy Room
LEVEL 2 FLOOR PLAN: NTS
CONCEPT COLLAGES Taking imagery from my research and creating experiential collages in photoshop to help better explain my thought process and concept.
MEZZANINE PERSPECTIVE
DINING PERSPECTIVE
RENDERED SECTION: NTS
CELESTE ARMCHAIR
Modular Corner Sectional
SPARK SIDE CHAIR
EVERYWHERE TABLE
By Cédric Ragot
By Gus
By DWR
By DWR
MATERIAL SPECIFICATION Painted white brick Helps provide a blank canvas for the color blocking design. Terazzo Flooring Provides a pop of color on the floor and guides the consumer around the restaurant/mezzanine. Concrete Basic flooring that furthers the concept of the industrial setting.
Digitial Marker Renderings Spring 2022 | Free Time/ Hobby Used Procreate marker brushes to sketch and color each chair.
THANK YOU Mobile: (804) 337-0522 Email: Opn20@vt.edu LinkedIn: Olivia Norman