Sarah Sienna Towe
Interior Design Portfolio
“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic ‘right-brain’ thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t.” – Daniel Pink
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C ontent Commercial 1.1 Nokia Office
Hospitality 2.1 Crystal de Roche Hotel
Product Design 3.1 On Track
Addendum 4.1 Design Link 4.2 Winds of Change in the White City 4.3 Pincrest Lake 4.4 Roberta Marquez 4.5 Yoda
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COMMERCIAL
Nokia Office
Nokia is a leader in the fields of network infrastructure, location-based
technology and advanced technologies with a governance model designed to encourage innovation and growth. Their mission is to connect people to technology, to nature, and to other people. Finland is the home of both Nokia and Marimekko, both of which express the innate Finnish desire to connect people with these attributes. Marimekko prints will illustrate this and add a fun Mod flare to Nokia’s office. Nokia is composed of three parts: Nokia Networks, Nokia Technologies, and Here. These parts create departments that, while separate, still have flow between them to foster a creative culture. Biophilia is incorporated into the design in alignment with the goals of Nokia to connect people with the environment. This is achieved by incorporating the Marimekko prints and living plants in the office. Bringing nature into the office increases productivity and reduces stress. By taking care of Nokia employees, they retain talent crucial to success.
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Training/ Boardroom
Office Space Lobby
Server Core
Breakroom
Wellness Lecture
Common Kitchen
Cafe/Lounge
Office Space Copy
Small Meeting
Primary Core Proximity
Secondary Core Proximity Tertiary Core Proximity
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Game Room
Medium Meeting Small Meeting
Pantry
Office Space
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Each region of the building is color-coded to distinguish different departments of the building based on the make-up of the company.
TEKNION RESIDENT SYSTEM
Here BLUE COLOR SCHEME
Nokia Networks
Nokia Technologies
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Legend 1 - Lobby 2- Resident Seating 3- Touchdown 4- Collaboration 5- Game Room 6- Break Room 7- Lounge Space 8- Heads Down Space 9- Copy/Print 10- Cafe 11- Common Kitchen 12- Large Conference Room 13- Medium Conference Room 14- Small Conference Room 15- Mail/Copy 16- Wellness Room 17- Phone Room 18- Lecture Hall 19- Training/Boardroom 20- Product Playground
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LEGEND 1 - LOBBY 2 - RESIDENT 3 - TOUCHDOWN 4 - COLLABORATION 5 - GAME ROOM 6 - BREAK ROOM 7 - LOUNGE SPACE 8 - HEADS DOWN 9 - COPY/PRINT 10 - CAFE 11 - COMMON KITCHEN 12 - LARGE CONFERENCE ROOM 13 - MEDIUM CONFERENCE ROOM 14 - SMALL CONFERENCE ROOM 15 - MAIL/COPY 16 - WELLNESS ROOM 17 - PHONE ROOM 18 - LECTURE HALL 19 - TRAINING/BOARDROOM 20 - PRODUCT PLAYGROUND
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PERSPECTIVE VIEWPOINT
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ORANGE COLOR SCHEME
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NOKIA FLOOR PLAN SCALE 3/32” = 1’
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The Lobby welcomes guests to a playground for visitors to test products while they wait. Bernhardt: Facet Table, Orbit Chair, Shaw Contract: Color at Work Duotone 07436 Charcoal Cyan.
The workstations are clean and have adequate natural lighting and adjacency to flora to fulfill biophilic needs. Shaw Contract: Color at Work - Duotone 07375 Black Green, Bernhardt: Remy Lounge Chair, Teknion: Projek Task Chair.
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The cafe is warm and inviting, with orange prints as well as Unika Vaev pieces keeping the sound of the cafe from interrupting work. Marimekko prints, Shaw flooring, Bernhard ancillary, and Teknion workstations combine to create an energetic composition. Shaw Contract: Grain and Pigment (Orange, Yellow, Stone, Bone, Alloy), Color at Work Duotone 5T108 Charcoal Flame, Herman
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Miller: Bombo Stool, Bernhardt: Mitt Lounge Chair, Orbit Chair, Saarineen: Tulip Table
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HOSPITALITY
Cr ystal de Roche Located in the trendy Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, the Crystal de Roche hotel caters to the crowds with fresh tastes for the boutique hotel niche market. The hotel’s first floor includes the lobby, cafe, and a “small bites” bar and restaurant. The Basement pool is a seductive cave with a swim up bar and dance floor that showcases the design’s affinity for the use of crystals and other rock forms. The hotel includes four floors of rooms that are shaded by a facade made up of varying degrees of translucency and linticularity that distort the city and room views from the inside and out as if peering through crystals.
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Wallpaper: Derived 3D-Printed Light Fixture: from a macro-image of Derived from the molecular The Giant’s Causeway. structure of opal.
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3D-Printed Tile: Derived from The Giant’s Causeway.
Wallpaper: Derived from a micro-image of rock.
Facade: Derived from the molecular structure of opal.
These diagrams of the outside of the building illustrate the conditions of light and views for the upper floor windows. Using this analysis, the facade is organized to provide shade and distorted views where neccessary. This prevents voyers from peering into rooms, sun damage on the furniture and keeps heating and cooling costs down. This diagram of the facade illustrates the placement on the building’s side. This idea led to the iteration below, where the degrees of light and view allowance are shown darker for less view and light, and shown lighter for more light and views. These hexagonal openings are either
linticular,
lumisty,
clear,
frosted or opaque.
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The Crystal de Roche ground floor is comprised of a lobby, bar, cafe, and commercial kitchen. the band of hexagons depicted on the floor adjacent to the wall is illuminated and cuts through to the basement pool level. The lighting shown are 3D printed pendant lights which represent the molecular structure of opal, which is comprised of silicon dioxide spheres arranged in a hexagonal lattice. The shados cast from the light add an additional layer of the hexagonal motif.
The FF&E reflect the qualities and the geometry of rocks, crystal, and gems which adds a whimisical aire.
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Ground Floor
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LEGEND: 1. POOL 2. SWIM UP BAR 3. DJ / DANCE FLOOR 4. LOUNGE AREA 5. ADA BATHROOMS 6. SHOWER/GROTTO
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Hotel Basement Pool and Lounge
Section - Ground & Basement Floors
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HOTEL ROOM FLOOR 1 & 3
LEGEND: 1. CORE 2. GUEST ROOM 3. BATH ROOM
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Hotel Upper Floor - Hotel Rooms 1
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Hotel Upper Floor - Hotel Rooms 2
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PRODUCT DESIGN
On Track
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The On Track furniture system is designed to allow for the worksurface to move from seated to standing height at multiple intervals, due to the need for regular movement to increase productivity and improve health while working. Having these multiple heights allows for the user to put the worksurace at a comfortable seated or standing height based on their own ergonimic needs.
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Worksurface Track System
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Lycra Roof
Aluminum Framed Roof
Veneer
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Titanium Dioxide paint is used in personal branding applications. This paint is unique in it’s ability to clean the surrounding air, so using this paint improves the work environment. The paint works best with more surface area, which makes this furniture an ideal candidate for its use.
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ADDENDUM
D esign Link
Design Link in San Jose is in need of renovation to inspire the employees and encourage the company’s growth. This redesign of the office is a practice in Revit, where I have learned how to create construction documents that convey my design proposal for the company. By using the company’s logo and direction, this design meets the needs of the program while creating an inviting space that is both sensible and stylish with attributes like the mural seen at left.
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Pricing Plan
Break Room
Window Partition
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Door and Frame Type Schedule
Partition Plan
Reflected Ceiling Plan
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Finish Plan
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Elevations
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ADDENDUM
Winds of C hange in the White City
“The most marvelous exhibit of modern times, or ancient times has now just closed
successfully at Paris. Whatever you do is to be compared with that. If you equal it you have made a success, if you surpass it you have made a triumph, if you fall below it you be held responsible by the whole American people for having assumed what you are not equal to” – Chauncy Depew, U.S. Senator and President of the New York Railroad Company
This quote by Chauncy Depew serves as
point of pride also for the entire country. The
an example of the pressure architects
World’s Fair has a long-standing history of
Burnham and Root were under when designing
being known for great feats of architecture. When
the World’s Fair in Chicago just after the Paris
Prince Albert was tasked with The Great
Exhibition had unveiled the Eiffel Tower, which
Exhibition in 1850 by Queen Victoria, he chose
set the bar high for creating something
Joseph Paxton’s design for The Crystal Palace. A
monumental that would put Chicago on the
builder of greenhouses by trade, Paxton took this
map as a rival with New York in prominence.
knowledge to build what was essentially an iron
The challenge was greater even, since the
and glass greenhouse on a tremendous scale,
exhibition was to be on the 400th anniversary
using the resources of the industrial revolution.
of Columbus’ discovery of America and so this
When it was unveiled in 1851 it was a thing of
was a
awe, just as every World’s Fair needs to be.
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The Devil in the White City highlights the
planning and construction of two difficult building projects and the varied solutions to them, which are examples of the strides made in architecture, labor and social issues, and technology. Throughout the book, the author Erik Larson takes the time to explain to the reader the step by step details of the design and construction of both serial killer Dr. Holmes’ mansion, designed for discretely killing tenants, and the nowrenowned Chicago World’s Fair Exhibition at Jackson Park designed by Daniel Burnham, John Root, and Frederick Olmstead. He uses quotes, first-person, and third-person narratives to tell the reader of design ideas, implementation issues, and construction solutions. Many of these designs and solutions are reflections of inventions of the time or are catalysts for new inventions.
For example, the problem of how to build in the sandy water-logged “gumbo” ground of
Chicago and the solution by Root consisting of multiple layers of steel and cement for the footing of larger structures to prevent significant sinking, which keeps both the fair and Dr. Holmes’ structures afloat. Holmes’ mansion is at one point deemed unsafe because of the sinking footing, forcing him to explore new avenues, like Root’s design. Root had discovered this while building the Montak building. Load-bearing iron and steel framing of internal structures make taller buildings more possible than the traditional method of having the weight on the perimeter of the building. Burnham described Root in Chapter 2 as a genius, saying “I’ve never seen anyone like him in this respect; he would grow abstracted and silent and a far-away look would come into his eyes and the building was there before him. Every stone.” His design allowed for larger structures in need of this new footing; but larger also meant a need to get people up the floors which is where Elijah Graves Otis came in with the invention of the elevator. An invention more directly linked to the Chicago World’s Fair is the invention of spray paint. The decision to paint the all of park buildings white and in such short time lead to the painters attaching gas pipes to hoses with which they sprayed the paint. The main attraction that was meant to wow visitors was an invention from George Washington Gale Ferris, the Ferris Wheel stood 264 feet tall and was almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
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This attraction was a needed addition, as the architects needed something to rival The Eiffel Tower without actually building a tower or something else that would be redundant.
In Chicago at the time, many people were
flooding in in search of work, and finding that they could find it in construction as the city grew. The parallel story lines of Holmes and the fair show the problems and the strides in treatment of the labor force as well as the change in women’s lifestyles. “Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon the streets and to work under alien roofs.” With all of these people coming from across the country looking for work, they were in need of homes as well. That’s where Holmes came in, advertising jobs in his shops on the first floor of his mansion of horror and rooms with hidden body chutes and secret acid lined metal closets. Mainly, these were women who were initially entranced by his charm only later to find there was something not quite right about him. The beginning of the book points out this problem in a March 30, 1890 public warning in the help-wanted section of the Chicago Tribune by an officer of the First National Bank stating “... our growing conviction that no thoroughly honorable business-man who is the side of dotage ever advertises for a lady stenographer who is a blonde, is good-looking, is quite alone in the city, or will transmit her photograph. All such advertisements upon their face bear the marks of vulgarity, nor do we regard it safe for any lady to answer such unseemly utterances.”
Not just women were coming in of course, many men seeking work had found work in
construction with the city growing at such a tremendous rate. Problems persisted amongst the labor force like low wages and safety, high turnover rate and poor treatment. This is demonstrated in both the construction of Holmes’ mansion and in the construction of The White City (The World’s Fair Chicago). Holmes pays his men low wages and avoids payments by making up mistakes in workmanship to keep his costs low and keep a high turnover rate in order to conceal the true nature of the building’s horrors. Many of these problems are noted in the book as happening at Jackson Park and throughout the city. Protests and unions come from the troubles, creating better wages and working conditions that did not exist before the World’s Fair.
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In a story and a city that brings the horror of death and the fascination seen in things like the
unveiling of The Ferris Wheel, you end it satisfied that the Holmes’ reign of terror is over and that the World’s fair has left its mark on the history of the United States. For the reader who lives for intrigue and mystery, they have the story of Holmes. For the reader with a desire for highly descriptive writings on historical designs, they have Burnham, Root, and Olmstead. And for those who require both, those artistic or design-minded folks who love a good murder mystery, we have The Devil in the White City.
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ADDENDUM Pinecrest Lake
Acr ylic Painting - S epia Tone
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Rober ta Marquez Acr ylic Painting
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ADDENDUM
Yoda
Digital Painting
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Thank You
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