School: Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
Class: Interior Design ID 222 - Commercial Design
Instructor: Prof. Ronald Holbrook
Project: Design Office

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Elevation One

Elevation Two

Floor Plan

Reflected Ceiling Plan

Section Drawing

Sampling of Product Selections

 

This project involved creating a design for an interior design office. The space is on a typical floor of a recently built, suburban high-rise office building. Areas required in this office include:

• Office space for a senior design partner, a marketing partner, a project manager, a bookkeeper, and four junior designers.
• Reception area
• Break room
• Resource library
• Conference room
• Unisex restrooms
• File storage
• Storage areas
• Mail room / copy room

After a class trip to a local architectural/design firm, Prof. Holbrook asked that we give "soft" presentations, meaning, no design boards. The designers at the office we visited explained that doing design boards was time consuming and wasteful of samples and resources, so their practice was to make soft presentations of loose samples, typically arranged on a large flat tray. They explained that not only were these presentations less costly in terms of time and resources, but the soft presentations were also easier to transport, and actually brought the client into the design process: while the designers explained their ideas, the client would be handling the samples and paging through pictures, thus attaining a higher level of involvement than would otherwise occur.

The project requirements included a floor plan at ¼" scale, a reflected ceiling plan at ¼" scale, two elevations, a reception desk detail/section drawing, a finish schedule, a door schedule, and a loose collection of product selections. Clicking on the images below will take you to larger images. (The floor and ceiling plans are very large images.) I've included a sampling of my product selections here.