HIGH RISE PROJECT

Designing living space interior for one level of high-rise building
Location: Centre Pointe building on elm st downtown Greensboro, NC

Building perspective
Unit 3 bedrooms
Design area on 16 and 15 floor- orange area (entrance on 16 level floor)

CONCEPT

connect face to face

positive and negative

life in the museum

CLIENT INFORMATION:

CHAR AND MIKE (42 AND 45 YEARS OLD) THEY WORK AT MUSEUM (EDUCATOR, PROPERTY, MANAGER) NONE GRANDCHILD BUT THEY HAVE A BEAGLE. THEIR HABITS ARE SINGING AND FISHING. THEY LOVE TO WATCH TV SHOW

BROTHER & SISTER, LISTEN CLASSICAL AND POP MUSIC.THEY ARE SPECIAL LIKE TO DISCOVER GALLERY CULTURE. THEREFORE, THEY

REALLY WANT SPENT TIME FOR ART LESSONS.

SPACE ORGANIZATION:

SEPARATE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACE, (PUBLIC IS SPACE CONNECTING WITH ENTRANCE SECTION

PUBLIC: KITCHEN, DINING ROOM, LIVING ROOM, GUEST BEDROOM, RESTROOM AND LAUNDRY ROOM

PRIVATE SPACE: MASTER BEDROOM, SECOND BEDROOM, FAMILY ROOM,

STUDIO ROOM. (STUDIO ROOM ON SECOND FLOOR CONNECT WITH FAMILY ROOM BY STAIR.

STRATEGY FOR LIGHT, COLOR AND FURNISHING.

LIGHT:

FOCUS ON NATURE LIGHT (GLASS WALL),LIGHT FIXTURE

COLOR:

USING CONTRAST COLOR TO EXPRESS RELATIONSHIP OF FACE TO FACE AND FACE TO WHOLE SPACE

USING ONE BASIC HOT TONED FOR EACH SPACE TO EXPRESS WHOLE HOUSE SAPCE RELATIONSHIP

 FURNISHING:

USING CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE STYLE,

DINING ROOM & LIVING ROOM

DINING ROOM & KITCHEN

LIVING ROOM

STUDIO ROOM
STUDIO ROOM WAS DESIGNED WITH THE RED RECTANGLE COVER FROM WALL TO CEILING INTEND TO CATCH EYES ATTENTION TO OUTSIDE VIEW

FAMILY ROOM

FAMILY SPACE IS AN OPENING SPACE, WHICH CREATE CONNECTION FROM REST-SPACE TO ACTIVE SPACE (PRIVATE TO PUBLIC, PRIVATE TO STUDIO ROOM)

VIEW FROM FAMILY ROOM TO STAIR

MASTER BEDROOM

SECOND BEDROOM

GUEST BEDROOM

GUEST BEDROOM

FIFTEEN PROPERTIES - ALEXANDER

1- LEVEL OF SCALE: create balance side by side, face to face, face to whole

2- STRONG CENTER: public space – outside views movement

3-BOUNDARIES: using color to create the boundary for  public space (cover whole private space)

4- ALTERNATING REPETITION: the public ceiling and bar at  kitchen have the same shape. 

5- POSITIVE SPACE: living room wall and bedroom 2 wall have negative space to expressing how face connect to face to create an art

6. GOOD SHAPE: the shape of public ceiling intend to catch on eyes point to out side view

7- LOCAL SYMMETRIES: there is balance in using color on both side of living room walls

 8- DEEP INTERLOCK AND AMBIGUITY: face and face connect together 

9- CONTRAST: using contrast color, cool toned and hot toned color to present face and face interlocks together

10- ROUGHNESS: using curve line to  create an expressing point to nature views

11- GRADIENT: public is a strong center with curve line. There is other center (master bedroom) was develop by using curve shape

12- ECHOES: the curve shape in difference scale     

13- THE VOID: there are a little open space at stair section to create connection between family room and studio room 

14- SIMPLICITY AND INNER

Unit 2 bedrooms

Client information:  Philip & Martha (54&57 years old)

They work at library, one is computer and one is guru.

They married, have none child, take care a tiger cat

Their habits: 

                 - play games                    

                 - what TV (food & discover channel)                    

                 - listening radio

They like to communicate with friends at the library and church. They want to collect book (collection of 200 first edition books) 

CONCEPT

quiet and relaxed

nature view express within
eyes move to outside 

Blue areas are the first and second floor plan

Requirement for design: 2 bedrooms

Solution for whole house space, the first floor, there are spaces for living (kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, restroom, laundry) that will be more comfortable for regular activities in living space

Second floor are spaces for second bedroom and space for collection of book. Develop space for collection of books like a small library (reading area, bookshelf and store)

THE DESIGN FOCUS VIEW TO OUTSIDE. THEREFORE, LIVING ROOM AND THE TWO BEDROOMS WAS ORGANIZED CONNECT DIRECTLY TO NATURE.

MASTER BEDROOM HAVE TWO SIDES CONNECT WITH NATURE

USING LIBRARY SPACE CONNECTION TWO LEVEL FLOOR.

STRATEGY FOR COLOR, LIGHT, AND FURNISHING

COLOR:
THE WHOLE HOUSE SPACE WILL PRESENT QUIET SENSE AND RELAXING LIKE IN THE LIBRARY. SO, THE COLOR FINISH FOR WHOLE HOUSE SPACE IS TONED TO TONED COLOR. USING LIGHT COLOR AND THE COLOR WAS TRANSFERRED FROM TONED TO TONED COLOR AND LESS CONTRAST.

LIGHT:
BASIC WHOLE SPACE FOCUS TO USE NATURE LIGHT. GLASS WALL IS GOOD CONDITION TO USE NATURE LIGHT. LIGHT FIXTURE

FURNISHING:
CONTEMPORARY STYLE ORGANIZATION FURNITURE:

PUBLIC- MOVEMENT TO FOCUS ON OUTSIDE VIEW

PRIVATE- OPEN VIEW TO OUTSIDE

FIRST FLOOR

1 - LIVING ROOM

2 - KITCHEN

3 - DINING ROOM

4 - GUESS REST ROOM

5 - LAUNDRY ROOM

6 - MASTER BEDROOM

7 - MASTER RESTROOM

SECOND FLOOR

8 - LIBRARY ROOM

9 - STORE

10 - SECOND BEDROOM

11 - RESTROOM

DINING ROOM AND LIVING ROOM

 

LIBRARY ROOM

 

 FIFTEEN PROPERTIES - ALEXANDER

1- LEVEL OF SCALE: create balance side by side

2- STRONG CENTER: living room is basic sense to develop whole house space

3- BOUNDARIES: the vertical and horizontal are elements was organized for living room to create the boundary

for living room space

4- ALTERNATING REPETITION: the shape of furniture and detail were reused again and again in different scale

 5- POSITIVE SPACE: expressing faces connection (living room: wall-ceiling-wall shelf, master bed room’s wall)

6- good shape: rectangle shape

7- LOCAL SYMMETRIES: for each space were organized to create the even balance on both side (color or even furniture furnishing

for space) living room is an example (wall, ceiling and shelf connect

together)

 8- DEEP INTERLOCK AND AMBIGUITY

dining room join with kitchen and living room space

9- CONTRAST: using contrast color for library to express library is a sense of the house

10- ROUGHNESS: only using for lamp shape - create connection side to side (join of two direction - reading

section)

11- GRADIENT: living room and library are toe center

12- ECHOES: using rectangles to develop (detail furnishing)    

13- THE VOID: none

14- SIMPLICITY AND INNER CALM

the color for whole house space (toned to toned color)

15- NON-SEPARATENESS