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[CONTENTS]PROJECTING ARTS

2MM TO RECOVERY

STARTUP SHELL

EDWARDS DESIGNS

[PROJECTING ARTS]Arch 403 Community-Performing Arts Center Location: Salisbury, MD Spring 2014 Professor James Tillghman

This design originated from a community workshop that analyzed the needs of this thriving small town. My design focused on the need of a center for the community to gather and create the sense of community that the town had lost over the years.

Left: First initial concept drawing utilizing the small river nearby.

Right: Conceptual drawing of the building in the building set into the landscape and modifying the water edge for community recreation.

Third Floor containing a cafe and service offices.

Second Floor containing lobby andauditorium and northern entrance.

First Floor containing community gallery, pre-sentation space, workshop, backstage space, and lower entrances.

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Auditorium

Office

Entrance

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Backstage

Left: Site Plan and Site Diagrams.

Right: Concept Diagrams.

Eastern view of building and recreation area and landscape.

View into gallery/ presentation space showing designed green-wall and water connection.

Above: View into cafe / lounge area.

Below: View into auditorium / theater.

Building Section Green-wall Section Detail

[2MM TO RECOVERY]Arch 403 Drug Rehabilitation Facility Location: Harrison St & 22nd St Fall 2015 Professor Neeraj Bhatia

Above: Site location in Mission District.

Transparency diagram showing layers of visibili-ty into a unit.

Thermal layers diagram.

Flexibility of unit diagram.

Above: View into a typical unit overlooking a center courtyard.

Single UnitSection Cut Double Unit Double Unit Triple Unit Wall Section Detail

This project originated by analyzing the surrounding community and the power that a mural of paint had over a community. The 2mm of paint has a power of his-tory and sense of identity for the community. My design pushed this idea of thinness to create and individual sense of place and identity throughout the entire project. The constituency I chose was people seeking drug rehabilitation, an abundant community in the area that desired this need for identity. My design consisted of a set of layers that as would be translucent at the most public areas and opaque at the core individual living quarters. This design pushed the sense of community within the building to have the patients constantly visually reminded that they are not alone in their progress to sobriety. By designing this system as a series of movable “curtains” a guest could adjust their privacy as desired to being in a more public realm to seclusion.

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Ground Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Below Ground Parking Level

Entrance

Harrison St.

22nd st.

Treat Ave.

Entrance

Ground Floor Plan Detail

Above Right: View into large northern courtyard.

Lower Right: View from terrace at night, showing an example of a night time community gathering event.

The flexibility of the space allows for micro communities to form. This increased interaction would enable guests to be always interacting with their peers to help each other to a quicker recovery. Central courtyards allow for an inward focused community and provide semi-private spaces for guests to interact outdoors without the interaction of the public.

Interior courtyard areas provide a central space for relaxation and internal community engagement. This space can be flexible for therapy sessions and group events during the day. The increasing size terraces allow for constant visual reminders of the guests and staff. Units are placed against the smaller intimate courtyards while the larger courtyards have small varying size gathering areas for casual gathering or formal therapy sessions to occur. The large terraces are also flexible enough to allow a variety of scenarios to occur such as the shown movie night gathering, where a large screen would be lower from the roof and projected onto.

[STARTUP SHELL] Campus Student Organization Space Re-deign Location: University of Maryland Campus Fall 2015

Above: View into work / presentation area.

Below: View of lounge area, kitchenette, and loft area.

This Project was designed commissioned by a student group on the University of Maryland Campus. The group assists students with starting their own business and the design, production, and testing of their designs. The group had an existing space and was provided the opportunity to expand their facility out to multiple adjacent rooms within an exiting building in stages. Our design intended to assist with the planning of each expansion as well as provide the organization the proper creative environment to fa-cilitate product design development as well as host the organiza-tion’s own members and events within. These events include large group meetings and presentations. Our design provided neces-sary work fixed and movable work surfaces . Within was an open floor plan and large writing surfaces that doubled as a projection screen for presentations. The design also entailed the design of a lounge space supported by a kitchen and loft lounge/ storage area.

Ground Level

Loft Level

Expansion Sequence

Work / Presentation area

Kitchenette

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Lounge area

Loft lounge/storage area

[edwards | designs] Personal Designs Fall 2015 - Present

Fold-able Surface / Laundry Rack Prototype

Stackable Desk Pen/ Pencil Holder System Prototype

Desk Hutch Holder Prototypes

Single Desk Pen / Pencil Holder Prototype

Raised position creates design on wall. Lowered position provides surface and rack system.

Stacked System. Double and Single Holders.

Larger Folder / Paper OrganizerDistributed System.

KEITH EDWARDS