Whitney Roberts Interior Design Portfolio
Table of Contents 1. Resume and Biography 2. West Central Community Wellness Collaborative 3. Pulse Nightclub Memorial 4. International Corporate Office 5. WELL Building Institute Trade Show Booth 6. Movie Theatre to Restaurant Adaptive Reuse 7. Musician's Vacation Home 8. Photoshop Composite Sketch 9. Rug & Wallcovering Design 10. Creative Works
Whitney Roberts
2024 NE Terre View Drive Apt. #231, Pullman, WA. 99163 206-595-4206 whitney.roberts@wsu.edui
EXPERIENCE
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Starbucks, Kirkland/Pullman, Washington Shift Supervisor, September 2013-Present Awards: Partner of the Quarter I am currently a shift supervisor at the Pullman Starbucks location. I am responsible for taking customer drink orders, making drinks, maintaining store cleanliness, and closing the store in the evening.
Washington State University Raptor Club, Pullman, Washington Washington State University Veterinary Hospital August 2011-Present The WSU Raptor Club is a volunteer based club that gives injured, non-releasable birds of prey a second chance at life. As a member of the club, I have the privilege of handling the birds to give them fresh air and taking them on educational presentation. I also feed and clean the cages of some of the birds once a week.
Techsolve Environmental, Kenmore, Washington Janitorial Manager, June 2004-August 2015 425-402-8277 Supervisor: Larry Roberts I was the janitorial manager at this environmental consulting firm. My responsibilities include cleaning the entire office and managing the other janitorial staff. I also occasionally do some filing and scanning. American Girl Bistro, Lynnwood, Washington Hostess, May 2012-August 2012 Line Cook, April 2013-August 2013 425-412-2929 Supervisor: Scott Smith I was responsible for opening/closing the host stand, seating guests, making reservations, and opening/closing the cash register. As a line cook, I was responsible for preparing orders, preparing food for the week, and opening and closing the kitchen.
COMPUTER SKILLS
QUALITIES
EDUCATION
-InDesign
-Self-motivated -Very organized -Team player -On time and dependable -Great at taking directions -Personable -Problem solver -Love working with the public
Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Summer 2011 – Present Major in Interior Design Expected Graduation Spring 2018
-Photoshop -Revit -AutoCAD -SketchUp -Proficient with most Microsoft Office programs -Microsoft Word -Microsoft PowerPoint -Microsoft Excel
AWARDS Cougar Commitment Grant
Habitat for Humanity, Pullman, Washington September 2011-February 2012 During my sophomore fall semester, I had the privilege of building part of a house for the Palouse Habitat for Humanity. I not only was able to help a family in need, but also learned what it takes to build a house. During my sophomore spring semester, I had the privilege of designing an entire house for Habitat for Humanity. I was able to speak with the Palouse Habitat for Humanity team in order to design a house that fulfilled minimum requirements, specific needs, and desired improvements.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY I have always enjoyed putting puzzles together. I see design as the process of discovering and defining the various factors of a puzzle: user, space, function, aesthetics, budget, branding, etc. Each aspect has separate requirements, connections to other elements, and boundaries. Once the pieces have been delineated, it is the job of the designer to create a design that answers the issues of each of the pieces individually and as a unified group. I believe I bring a strong work ethic, critical thinking, a desire to help people, and a passion for aesthetics and organization skills to my design work that assists me in attending to the various needs of a design project while staying fcused on creating the bigger picture. Color can be used in a design both functionally and aesthetically. I see color as one of the most important ways to express the unique voice of a design concept. I am also very passionate and concerned with the environment and incorporating efficiency and green materials as well as biophilic elements within a space for the well being of the user as well as our planet. I have found that I learn best through a hands on approach and being part of a team that can critique and push the boundaries of my work.. I am interested in specializing in commercial office design or a firm that specializes in sustainable design both residential and commercial. They are careers that will always be around and necessary. Also, offices and homes should have beauty, not just what’s necessary. A room that puts you in a good atmosphere makes you want to get better.
What is the essence one tries to gain from a spa, restaurant, day care, or juice bar? In a mind-body fitness center, one tries to achieve peace and clairvoyance. One expects to feel the welcoming kindred spirit of a daycare. Fresh fruit and vegetables can be described as ripe and plump. Beneath the surface, the roots of vegetation nourish the plant. The West Central Community Wellness Collaborative will help patrons reach a state of zen in Clairvoyant mind-body fitness center, feel welcome in Kindred daycare, be refreshed by organic fresh juice in Plump, and be nourished by an all vegan menu in Roots. The West Central Community Wellness Collaborative is a large building located off West Summit Parkway in the West Central Neighborhood. This building will host four separate tenants operating under a Created Shared Value (CSV) system where each tenant benefits from the others. The West Central Neighborhood is a gentrification phase due largely to the Kendall Yards development, a vacated rail yard purchased for mixed-use, mixed density development. Located on the north bank of the Spokane River, West Central Neighborhood is within a short walking distance from downtown Spokane.
Program Summary Kindred Office Storage Closet Cube Storage Shelf Convertable Ballpit to Stage Pull-Down Tables Reception Outdoor Playground
Clairvoyant Offices Reception Locker Rooms Water Therapy Pool Light Therapy Rooms Yoga Studio Rooftop Outdoor Yoga Meditation Room Storage Closet Lounge
Plump Point of Sale Case Goods Retail Office Storage Lounge Seating Bar Seating
Roots Commercial Teaching Kitchen Bar Waiting Lounge Reception Office Employee Lounge Wait Staff Area Cold Storage
Kindred
Transitional Daycare to Event Space Kindred occupies the Northeast corner of the main level in the WCCW Collaborative building. They offer daycare Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 6:00pm. The space can be transitioned into a community space for lectures, meetings, small performances, or private rentals in the evenings and on weekends. Patrons can enter from the east entrance through the outdoor playground or from inside Clairvoyant fitness center. The L-shaped reception desk allows employees to check children in and out from both access points. The large fold down tables can be used for daycare purposes such as crafts and snacks as well as for evening or weekend meetings. They also can be folded up as storage and to create more space. The chairs can be stored within the framing of the cubical wall storage unit. A lid to the ball pit can be lowered to create a small stage for small performances and lectures.
Summit Gray
Sassy Green
Surfer
Stucco
Clairvoyant
Mind-Body Spa and Fitness Center Clairvoyant occupies the main and upper level of the WCCW Collaborative building. They offer indoor and outdoor yoga classes, guided meditation, water therapy, and light therapy. When guests visit Clairvoyant, they will ideally leave feeling relaxed and having reached a level of clairvoyance and peace both physically and mentally. Clairvoyant provides direct and easy access to Kindred Daycare for patrons with children. Guests can rent lockers in three locations: main level next to the ramp, second level indoor yoga studio, and in each respective locker room. Guests have the option of exiting through the pool area onto Plump’s outdoor patio for easy juice bar access.
Seaworthy
Cavern Clay
Summit Gray
Sassy Green
Plump
Organic Juice Bar
Plump occupies the Southeast corner of the main level in the WCCW Collaborative building. They offer organic, freshly blended or pressed juices or smoothies. Guests can either grab and go or sit and sip in the variety of seating including lounge, bar, booth, and outdoor. Plump employees have access to Roots’ vertical wheel garden, which will feature seasonal herbs, vegetables, or small fruits, for boost of flavor and freshness.
Summit Gray
Sassy Green
Quixotic Plum
Argos
Roots
Vegan Teaching Restaurant
Roots occupies the lower most level of the WCCW Collaborative building. They offer an exclusively vegan menu, a vegan bar, and cooking classes in their central, open kitchen. Patrons can sign up for weekly or specialty cooking classes during afternoons and early evenings. Classes are held in the main kitchen, which has a completely open view to the diners. Kitchen staff has access to the vertical garden wheel located next to the main staircase. The vertical garden wheel will feature seasonal herbs, vegetables, and small fruits for garnishes or small punches of flavor. Guests can enter the restaurant through the outdoor patio off the Centennial Trail or from the main level via a grand staircase and core elevator. Roots aspires to create an underground and rustic feeling like the roots of a tree providing essential and pure nutrients to its patrons.
Summit Gray
Sassy Green
Repose Gray
Sommelier
Pulse Nightclub Memorial On June 12, 2016, a security guard open fired in the Pulse Nightclub, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 and wounding 58 others. This horrific event is considered the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter as well as the deadliest attack against the LGBT community in United States history. It is also the deadliest terror attack in the United States since September 11, 2001. The goal of the memorial is to honor the lives of those lost in this tragic event. Each sphere, including the seating, represents one of the 49 in the hopes that their memory and spirit shine bright.
Case Study Research Architects of Air
Originally founded and designed by Alan Parkinson in the 1980s, Architects of air experiments with pneumatic sculpture and has evolved into inflatable plastic structures as a traveling art experience. Each space is referred to as a luminarium. Parkinson’s original intention was to stimulate a sense of awe and wonder in response to the beauty of light washing the plastic shapes. For the modern art pieces, each luminarium is a maze of paths and domes of light. Each dome ranges in size up to ten meters high. Each “pod� also allows guests to sit and relax within the sculpture itself. One luminarium is composed of approximately twenty elements that can be zipped together and moved from site to site. Architects of Air are currently touring seven different luminariums: Albesila, Katena, Arboria, Pentalum, Miracco, Mirazozo, and Amococo.
Experiential Research Pullman Cemetary, Pullman, Washington Cemeteries are where most find their final resting place, their new home. There is something about death and the honoring of the dead that goes hand in hand with the atmosphere of a cemetery. One senses and abides the unspoken rule of silence and respect. As I walked through the cemetery, I was careful to watch my step, and occasionally would wander through the rows of graves, some belonging to those who lived full lives to those that were cut short. Some headstones indicated a family burial site were only a few members had passed, like a 35-year-old father and his infant day-old son whose wife and mother had not yet passed. Even though a cemetery is a place for death, there is also a sense of peace and tranquility. The landscaping, both greenery and flowers, contribute to the sense of comfort and peace with the sound of their leaves in the wind and their scents flowing through the air. The cemetery also allowed time for self-reflection to contemplate and be thankful for the relationships and family still alive in my life.
Light Model Study Memorial Orb Concept Exploration For the glass sphere exploration, I combined a necklace jewelry box, glow stick bracelet connectors, colored tissue paper, colored sequins, clear glass marbles, and LED lights. Each sphere represents one color of the LGBT flag: Life (Red), Healing (Orange), Sunlight (Yellow), Nature (Green), Harmony/Peace (Blue), and Spirit (Purple). These six colors are integral to the design. Out of six light models, this light model emulated the effect I was going for best.
Square Feet: 2140 sq.ft. Seating Dimensions: 8’-0”W x 6’-0” H x 4’0” D Bench: 1’0” D x 3’0” H After crossing the threshold, guests walk down a long, black hallway meant to emulate the atmosphere and feel of a nightclub. After turning the corner, the space opens up with white walls washed with color; high, vaulted, and glass ceiling, and the aroma of fresh landscape. Guests of the memorial can walk around the varying shaped glass spheres or sit inside one of the six sliced colored spheres. The glass spheres are transparent and are illuminated by natural light during the day from the east and west windows and ceiling, and are illuminated at night by small LED lights at their base.
Exterior Elevations: North & South
Interior Elevations: North, East, South, West
International Corporate Office
An international technical company was looking to expand into a new country. The office is set in Beijing, China, five years in the future. Typical Chinese corporate offices are becoming a mixture of open and closed workspaces. This office attempts to create a balance between a productive work environment and a mental reprieve
Making the JOURNEY into the future in pursuit of happiness and good fortune requires patience for GROWTH, but will result in clarity of mind, confidence, and BALANCE. A place of BALANCE and harmony allows workers to feel more productive and increases business performance. Productive workers further the GROWTH of the business, furthering the company’s JOURNEY and placement in the future. As the world moves into the future, it is important to remember and learn from the past.
The ancient art of Penjing, Chinese bonsai, was a form of meditation for the elite. The intent of Penjing is to possibly discover something new while arranging rocks, dirt, and plants in the miniature landscape. Chinese meditation is for liberating the mind and allowing the mind to flow naturally. The purpose of Penjing is to capture the yin and yang, the spirit, of the depicted landscape. The allowance for flexible workspaces or a change in working environment will allow employees to be creative and let their ideas flow naturally as well as create an atmosphere of tranquility and unity. Since pollution is a very large issue that workers deal with and have to survive in every day, workers usually have live plants on their desks as well has humidifiers/dehumidifiers. Miniature landscapes will be featured throughout the office building where workers can either observe or experience and immerse themselves in.
Furthering the belief of yin and yang is the traditional belief of the Zodiac. Every animal has a symbolic meaning and order in the zodiac maintaining a yin and yang balance. The Five Elements fit closely with the zodiac. They are Earth, Wood, Fire, Metal, and Water. Each zodiac animals aligns with one of the five elements. The built environment affects the health and wellbeing of those who work in it. A well designed space can increase employee satisfaction, productivity, and collaboration. A unique way to incorporate the zodiac and the five elements is to use them as zone separations. For example, separating the five main spaces of the office into the five elements or naming conference rooms after animals of the zodiac and having the themes of the rooms reflect each animal in a modern way whether it be through color, imagery, experiencial graphic design, texture, or furniture design.
Floor Plan and Zoning The office is split into five zones based on the Chinese Five Elements: Earth, Water, Metal, Wood, and Fire. Each of the elements have a particular associated direction. Earth is Central, Water to the North, Metal to the West, Fire to the South, and Wood to the East.
Environmental Graphic Design To incorporate the Chinese Zodiac and Elements, the office will be divided into five separate zones, named after each of the five Chinese elements: Water, Wood, Metal, Earth, and Fire.
Mandarin for Earth Printed Branch Graphic
3Form Acrylic
Brushed Metal
Mandarin for Metal
Mandarin for Fire
Reclaimed Wood Panels Slit for Water feature Blue Glass Tiles Mandarin for Water Trough for Water Collection
Mandarin for Wood
Furniture, Fixture, & Equipment Earth
Wood
Metal
Finishes, Materials, Color Palettes Water
Fire
WELL Building Institute Trade Show Booth
The trade show booth is intended to be an inviting and visually attractive space that represents the International WELL Building Institute at the Living Future Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The booth design was a team project completed during the junior year of schooling. My teammate and I collaborated on the concept and booth layout. I designed the custom light fixture which hangs above the center of the booth as well as the custom reception desk. My teammate created the technical drawings in Revit. We collaborated on the final perspectives, supplimentary furniture choices, and wall and floor finishes.
The light fixture that hangs above the center of the exposition booth is intended to emulate the International WELL Building Institute’s logo. The seven curved shapes in the fixture represent the seven primary standards of the WELL Building Standard. The writing surface of the cusom reception desk is intended to lightly glow as an invitation for guests to stop at the booth. The center mat is a live moss mat, and the partition wall in the conferencing area is a living wall, both intended to emulate the WELL Standards of Comfort and Air.
Movie Theatre to Restaurant Adaptive Reuse The owner of Audian Theater located in Pullman, WA. wanted to transform the old movie theater into a restaurant and lounge that the community and students would want to use as a gathering place and to study in while still keeping the spirit and heart of it's original purpose as a movie theater. My teammate and I tried to create a variety of seating types: classic booths, table and chairs, bar seating, lounge areas, and a private party space on the second floor. We also decided to restore the existing theater stage to be used for live music as well as a hidden roll down screen for playing movies.
In order to become a successful third place (a space away from home, work, and school to gather) for Pullman, WA., the Audian Restaurant would provide lounge seating for conversation, booth/ table & chair seating for studying and eating, and bar seating and private VIP areas for evening events. The large commercial kitchen will have not only restaurant access, but private street access for deliveries and maintenance.
Musician's Vacation Home High, vaulted ceilings; views to the glittering lake and high mountains; seclusion from the mundane distractions of everyday life: these elements create the ideal escape for a guitar player needing space to write music. As the sun sets, the five figures in the open room glow soft yet vibrant blue and red transforming the space into a sanctuary to create. A model to scale was created to study the effects of the light within the space.
Photoshop Composite Sketch The chosen view for the rendering is based on a perspective from my Audian restaurant project. I started the drawing with a simple freehand sketch of the raised booth seating and bar perspective. I scaned my drawing into the computer and uploaded it into Adobe Photoshop. Using multiple layers, filters, and tools, I gave the space materiality and included people for scale. I also incorporated a custom rug and wallcovering I had designed for a previous project.
Rug & Wallcovering Design The intent of this project was to take inspiration from different periods of history and create a contemporary custom rug and wallcovering design. The time period I focused on was the Italian Renaissance. Because the Renaissance was very ornate and decorative, I tried to focus my designs on little details and simple shapes within the complex paintings, sketches, and architectural plans. The small details were enlarged to transform the Renaissance inspiration into a more contemporary design.
"Project for a Church"
by Leonardo Da Vinci Inspired by the plan sketches for a church by Leonardo Da Vinci, the design highlights the basic one and two demensional elements that comprise floor plans. The color schemes are primarily analogus and split complitment.
"Birth of Venus"
by Sandro Botticelli Inspired by the iconc painting "The Birth of Venus", the V shapes emulate the waves of the ocean while the primary color scheme was inspired by the colors of the shoreline. The other three color scheme options are primarily analogus.
Custom Wallcovering Drawing inspiration from both rug designs, I wanted this wallcovering to emulate the structure of the geometric rug design, while the color palette and blurred edges emulate the organic nature of the ombre ocean inspired rug. When tilated, the lines connect to create a larger pattern.
Sketches and Creative Work
Freehand Sketch of the Gate to Martin Stadium on WSU Campus
Tints and Shades
Freehand Sketch of Bryan Clock Tower on WSU Campus
Positive and Negative Space
Freehand Sketch of Terrell Library Dome on WSU Campus
Color Wheel