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ROOTED - THESIS PROJECT
Project Details:
Mount Royal University
Year: Fall 2024 - Winter 2025
Location: Downtown Core - Calgary
Building Type: Historic
Area: 929 sq.m
Subject: Space Planning & Accessibility
Project Description:
Rooted is created to improve young people’s mental and physical well-being by addressing the growing issue of loneliness in our world. This educational hub offers a welcoming and supportive environment where individuals can come together, build life skills to enhance their quality of life. Rooted serves as a gateway for nurturing the innate human need for connection, and individual growth.
Wildflowers symbolize resilience and growth, thriving in ever-changing environments, as is a metaphor for the space. The untamed yet purposeful nature of wildflowers will breathe new life into the old fire hall, capturing its essence and bringing each facet of the space to life.
02
BARROW COFFEE ROASTERS
Project Details:
Mount Royal University
Year: Fall - 2023
Location: East Village - Calgary
Building Type: Commercial
Area: 200 sq.m
Subject: Space Planning & Accessibility
Project Description:
Barrow Coffee Roasters is in a mixed-use building, supporting a theatre, social housing units, social programing, and a retail space. Barrow was selected as a café to occupy the space; their core values are built upon the same values as it neighbors being the relationships between its staff, customers, and partners. Transparency allows every person to be aware of the process’s barrow takes. This means understanding product sourcing, and what it means to the customers and the brand. This allows people to have a strong connection with Barrow. Each design decision made was based on the idea of enrichment: to enhance the quality of. People being organically enriched through conversation, meaning people from anywhere, of any ethnicity, and background can gather in a space to learn and share about knowledge and coffee.
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SADELMAGER & SPIRIT HILLS WINERY
Project Details:
Mount Royal University
Year: Winter - 2024
Location: River Front - Edmonton
Building Type: Commercial
Area: 100 sq.m
Subject: Space Planning
Project Description:
Experiences of first hand capturing of the ordinary and extraordinary moments of life from pieces designed for the soul, is the aging of timeless design. Across the layering of new interpretations for a SADELMAGER bag through generations to remain youthful, in the everyday, is the framework for which the journey of a soul at SADELMAGER can experience.
Each design decision made was based on the idea of humans and building transformation. The aging and natural transformation of people and places throughout life or a period of time is represented throughout the space.
Embracing the existing features of the building in a contemporary way not only revives the building’s interior but also adds to the message of transformation in the everyday that SADELMAGER strives to express.
04
CONNECT STUDIO
Project Details:
Mount Royal University
Year: Winter - 2023
Location: 8th Ave Place Calgary
Building Type: Commercial
Area: 500 sq.m
Subject: Space Planning
Project Description:
Connect Studio firm is intended to bring excitement to employees and clients. Connect Studio firm acts as a bridge between these two client groups to achieve their goals successfully. The experience of the people using the office space is to feel comfortable and improve wellness; biophilic design incorporating sounds, colours, and olfactory senses. Employees and clients can co-exist peacefully in this office. The floor plan brings excitement to work with endless possibilities and ideas for collaborating with the arts sector in Calgary.
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LULULEMON HEADQUARTERS
Project Details:
Lethbridge College
Year: Fall - 2021
Location: Toronto
Building Type: Commercial
Area: 825 sq.m
Subject: Space Planning
Project Description:
Lululemon athletica headquarters is designed to promote a healthy lifestyle. A healthy work environment where a person can feel rejuvenated, creative, connection to nature and have a sense of health and wellness. This environment promotes a healthy lifestyle that is carried in and out of the workplace. The office a positive environment, that employees want to come back to.
06
PETERSON KITCHEN
Project Details:
Lethbridge College
Year: Fall - 2021
Location: Coalhurst
Building Type: Residential
Area: 21 sq.m
Subject: Millwork, Modeling and Animation
Project Description:
The Peterson Kitchen was a class competition at Lethbridge College. A client interview completed in the initial stage was effective in understanding the functional and spatial goals for the client’s lifestyle. The kitchens redesign was heavily influenced by the clients need for circulation as cooking parties with friends and family would continue to be a reoccurring event, the leading factor for the redesign. After analyzing and conceptualizing, a center island with an attached table and seating space was found to be the most effective solution. An increase in storage, the second leading factor for the redesign, found that maximizing vertical space was the most effective solution.
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THE IVY
Project Details:
Lethbridge College
Year: Winter - 2021
Location: Lethbridge
Building Type: Residential
Area: 185 q.m
Subject: Space Planning and Detailing
Project Description:
The Ivy is a single family detached house designed during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, during a time with everyday being unpredictable. The Ivy is a new home designed for the new community of Sixmile. The family focused community is supported with a recently opened elementary school, and parks/playgrounds. The design intent is focused on people’s need for dependability. Each part of the home is designed to support a person in every stage of life; where a person can go through a daily unknown but have the home to depend on.
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THREE BEARS
Project Details:
Mount Royal University
Year: Fall - 2022
Building Type: Residential
Area: 195 sq.m
Subject: Hand Rendering
Project Description:
The intent of Three Bears dwelling is to enhance the user’s natural environment awareness. Similarly to a thriving forest, a person should experience the sensory environment of hearing water trickling down rocks in the distance, birds chirping, and the sound of falling leaves. Seeing a direct relationship with materials used is important as it helps a person create a deeper connection to the natural environment. Using wood that is locally sourced and native to the land, creates a sense of belonging and connection; the house is not invading or changing the environment around it. Natural ecosystems are referenced in furniture, wallpaper, and other accent pieces. When barriers are removed from the interior to exterior, a person’s appreciation of the natural world can be intensified.
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Hand Drawing
Project Details:
Lethbridge College
Year: Winter - 2021
Subject: Hand Sketching
Project Description:
Sketches are critical in the conceptual design process. Sketches help designers to effectively and efficiently determine if a design follows its concept. A strong understanding of the fundamentals of sketching allows designers to sketch to push the ideas further to discover what is possible.