BEDROOM 107 SF LIVING / DINING 139 SF
Interior Design Projects CL. 8 SF
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Current CL. and recent 10 SF interior design:
KITCHEN 104 SF
CHA Offices Colonie, NY
ENTRY 94 SF
TLT. 54 SF
Lowell Street CL. Renovations 4 SF Maine Eye Center Portland, ME
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Region A Headquarters Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife GRAY, MAINE
New construction 7,200 sf Construction cost $1.3M Completed 2017 The new Region A headquarters for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife houses biologists and the Warden Service. The project weaves together public meeting areas, private offices and processing spaces, and secure law enforcement functions in a compact, cost effective plan. Designed with a rustic Maine aesthetic, the building is open to the public. The building is designed with a northern-Maine aesthetic inspired by hunting and fishing camps. Interior finishes include recycled wood and metal paneling, metal ceiliings, and rustic tile and wood flooring. LED fixtures with occupancy sensors help reduce energy costs and allow the building to function with varying daily occupancies. A post-occupancy survey shows that energy bills are down and office morale is up.
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Cafeteria and Classroom Addition Freeport High School FREEPORT, MAINE
Renovation/addition 30,000 sf Student body 540 Construction cost $14.6M Completed 2017 A new 2-story addition on the northwest side of the building houses a food court and kitchen as well as 7 new classrooms, a band room, and fitness and health rooms. New learning spaces— STEM classrooms, active learning classrooms, art and ceramics rooms, and learning labs in the library—accommodate evolving modern education practices. A new entrance, ADA accessibility updates, new flooring, bathrooms, and technology are also included.
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Newsroom Renovation Maine Today Media/Portland Press Herald SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE
Interior renovation 15,000 sf Construction cost $1.4M Completed 2017 Maine Today Media, in the midst of updating technology and consolidating staff locations, retained Lisa Whited of Workplace Transformation Facilitation to lead a process to re-envision their workplace organization. The client wanted to consolidate offices and move the newsroom and associated departments from One City Center in Portland to the former press hall on Gannett Drive in South Portland. PDT was brought in to collaborate on the renovation of this industrial building. The old presses filled a 3-story space with an industrial high-bay ceiling. The compact new presses fit in the lower floor, making room to infill the floor above. The new double-height editorial floor includes the newsroom, dining/break area, conference spaces, and audio and video production studios. All of the news staff, including the publisher, sit in the newsroom, where the desks are arranged to funnel news toward the editors in the center of the space. Large media screens are mounted on the walls. INTERIORS/FURNISHINGS
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The main newsroom is surprisingly quiet, but one large conference room, small focus and huddle rooms around the perimeter, and the video booth in the center provide private meeting spaces. The glass partitions around the conference rooms double as writing surfaces for presentations. The cafĂŠ, a former storage and work space that housed barrels of printing ink, was made inviting with limited intervention: oversized windows, color, lighting, a polished floor, and a variety of seating. Careful attention to graphics, signage, furnishings, and employee spaces has turned this industrial building into a welcoming and collaborative place to work.
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First- and Sixth-Floor Interior Renovation MEMIC PORTLAND, MAINE
Interior renovation Completed 2013 The client asked for a dramatic, elegant upgrade to the 1st and 6th floors. PDT’s interior designer replaced a dated color scheme with a more dramatic, higher-contrast, and reflective environment to bring a fresher, contemporary feel to this workplace. On the first floor, the renovation included the public lobby, staff entrance lobby, conference rooms, offices, bathrooms, the mail room, and the Safety Academy; on the sixth floor, open offices, break room, and conference room. In the front lobby new updated finishes and lighting make the space brighter, safer, and more welcoming. In the elevator lobby, a floating ceiling conceals new LED lighting and existing ductwork, while new flooring, wallcoverings, and decorative backlit resin panels with embedded twigs illuminate this formerly dark space.
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Lobby Renovation UNUM PORTLAND, MAINE
Interior renovation Completed 2016 Current fire code necessitated enclosing the open elevator lobbies, which led to an opportunity to emphasize the circulation cores using light as a focal point. On the high walls, PDT’s interior designer introduced a playful contemporary gesture, tracks of starbursts that emphasize the verticality of the space. The generous three-story volume invited a grand 12’-diameter LED light ring suspended from an existing skylight. The color palette, once beige with a travertine floor, was freshened up with a crisper white. Textured limestone walls at the elevators marry beautifully with the floor’s linear patterning. In the entrance lobby, a new custom adjustable sit-to-stand desk, with LED lighting above and textured stone behind, greets visitors with a modern aesthetic.
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Science Building Lobby Renovation University of Southern Maine PORTLAND, MAINE
Renovation Completed 2015 What began as a very straightforward light-touch renovation to USM’s 1970s-era Science Building became an opportunity to enliven a building that is frequented by students and campus vistors. Large-scale images were introduced to fill the walls over the benches where students gather to sit and study. Today’s visitors are used to having all kinds of images available at their fingertips, but here they are introduced to the dramatic, powerful detail of the sciences on a much larger graphic scale. The 10 x 10-foot images explode with color and provoke viewers to question what it is they are seeing. The 18-foot image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the Orion Nebula is the siren attracting visitors downstairs to the Southworth Planetarium.
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Portland Health Care Center Interiors Martin’s Point Health Care PORTLAND, MAINE
Furniture and finishes only Completed 2010 PDT’s interior designer, Suzanne Morin, designed the reception desk and chose a range of furnishings and finishes for the new Portland Health Care Center. Augmenting a palette chosen by the architect, Suzanne established a wayfinding system through the use of coordinated accent colors, textiles, and signage. Within a fresh, contemporary livingroom atmosphere, each waiting area offers a variety of seating options for patients’ needs. Taking advantage of the center’s spectacular historic site and ocean views, the owner decided on a coastal theme for the waiting areas. Suzanne assisted the owner and art consultant to find and procure prints and watercolors of Maine images by local artists. Examining rooms, the employee lounge, and patient education areas received contemporary, durable furnishings linked by color to the wayfinding system.
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Great Falls Elementary School GORHAM, MAINE
New construction on a new site 84,000 sf Grades pre-K–5, 550 students Consolidation of 2 schools Completed 2011 The academic classroom wing separates the student population into five small learning communities, three on the first floor and two on the second. The learning communities are oriented around the school library, which has access to a wide outdoor courtyard. The school library and the pre-k/kindergarten classrooms form the heart of the academic learning communities. Each learning community has its own “educational commons” for exploratory projects related to science, ecology, and the arts. The building consciously maximizes northern and southern orientation for daylight harvesting for all classroom areas. This high-performance school incorporates automatic daylighting controls, geothermal ground source heat pumps, solar hot water vacuum tubes for domestic hot water, CO2 on-demand ventilation, and a high-performance building envelope with air barrier system and extra insulation.
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Penobscot Judicial Center Furnishings BANGOR, MAINE
Furnishings selection and specifications Completed 2009 PDT’s interior designer Suzanne Morin handled the furnishings specs and contracts for the new judicial center. Working with the building architects and occupants, she determined furnishings needs, quantities, and quality levels. She allocated the furnishings budget for staff and public spaces, testing durability, coordinating colors and materials with building finishes, and overseeing installation. Her work included all freestanding furnishings, including office, conference, and courtroom furniture and fixed seating, systems furniture and storage for the clerk’s office, flexible and stackable furniture for jury assembly and deliberation rooms, and beautiful benches in the public lobbies.
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BEDROOM 107 SF LIVING / DINING 139 SF
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CL. 10 SF KITCHEN 104 SF ENTRY 94 SF
CL. 4 SF TLT. 54 SF
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