Personal Corporate Experience...

So I recently have been getting a lot of interest in what my own personal experience has been in the field of Corporate design.  

Well as I explained in my very first post... I am currently a three year Chico State Interior Design transfer. At Chico State their overall focus in the major of ID, was a little about all types of design. They offer, Residential design courses, Hospitality courses, Corporate and Institutional Design courses, Lighting, Furniture courses, and more. So I have actually had a lot of experience in all of the design fields.  My interest in corporate design first sparked when I had taken Chico's Corporate and Institutional Design class last fall. The course description: IDES 453

Corporate and Institutional Design

3.0 Spring

Prerequisites: IDES 231, IDES 232, IDES 251.

Students design corporate offices and institutional spaces such as day-care centers and libraries. Practical issues such as compliance with building codes, sustainability, and use of modular furniture systems are addressed in relation to building types. 2.0 hours lecture, 2.0 hours activity. Special fee required; see the Class Schedule. Formerly ARTS 482. (000820)

So as our professor Kejeong first assigned our first project of the semester he assigned us a partner, to establish our own design of a Veterinary hospital. 

As we were given about 6 weeks to come up with the design we had to cut down what would normally be a year to a couple of years of a design process to 6 weeks. We began by going on a field trip to a veterinary hospital, to establish programming sheets for the overall building.  A program sheet is analysis of every room that is needed in a hospital with a list of what might be needed in that particular room.  Here Is one program sheet that I did for the reception room of the hospital. :

The next process we began was our brainstorming of our overall design feel of the design.  As we also researched other veterinary hospitals we found that a lot of older hospitals are very rundown and outdated. So we wanted to give our design a very modern, clean look.  With this, we then began to create the space by bubble diagramming all of the rooms, to make a good sense of a good overall flow of the space. With designing something like this, it is very important to have the right rooms next to each other and thought out properly.  After naming the hospital Paws and Claws, we then had a solid grasp of our floor plan.

Final Furniture Floor Plan: 

 RCP: Reflected Ceiling Floor Plan with Lighting Legend:

So as we then had our floor plan we began the interior aesthetic Design of the hospital.  We came up with our lighting fixtures, reception furniture, hospital tables for the animals, office desks and chairs, conference room furniture, paint colors, wall textures, the waterfall in the reception room design, and the flooring. Here are some of the final perspective drawings of the overall design of the hospital.

Concept Statement

            Paws and Claws Veterinarian Hospital was designed to be a Professional, “Green”, Modern, and Natural Environment.  Our goal was to provide our patients and animals with a very welcoming and calming experience.  We have chosen “Green” products to promote our clean and natural goal. We care about our patients, so we want to provide them with the best most possible care we can give them. We feel that having a great designed facility we can provide them with just that. 

Perspective of Reception Room: Waterfall Logo Wall 

Perspective 2 of Reception Room: 

Perspective of Treatment Room: 

Perspective of Conference Room: With Stone stacked Wall 

Perspective of Private Office Treatment Room: 

Project 2: 

For the very same class, we were then assigned a new project. The Project was a design for a CEO research company in Down town San Francisco ware it had to be founded on sustainable products.  So as we were assigned again with a new partner, we immediately began..  As for the same exact process from the last project we performed the same for this one.  One difference with this project form the last was that we had to use a recycled product to incorporate with our design…. So we began the process

With programming sheets:

Programing Sheet of the Collaborative Room 

Along with case studies: Which are other ideas of different products that other designers have used. 

Our Furnishes in the Agency:

Colors, Finishes, Materials

Flooring: Dessert Sand with Poly urethane glass covering 

Layer 1=Concrete ,Layer 2=moisture covering layer

Layer 3= Sand

Wall Finishes in Reception, Conference, Break Room: 3 Form Varia Ecoresin Walls

As its name implies, the choices of Varia Ecoresin® translucent resin panels are as diverse as your imagination. By allowing you to custom-select the color, pattern, texture, interlayer, and finish of your material, Varia Ecoresin transforms into the perfect medium for your translucent architectural application.

4 Layers= Color, Ecoresin, Organic Interlayer, Ecoresin

·      Within the Walls there are art pieces and recycled paper within the walls

http://www.3-form.com/materials-varia_ecoresin.php 
  

 Wall Finish for back Private Offices: Living Wall

  

Conference Room Custom Made Desk:  Crushed Glass

  

Trash To Treasure: Decorative pieces

This Picture below.... I made in Illustrator and Photoshop to show how we were going to use our trash to treasure... :) 

Our Trash to Treasure Drawing:

Furniture FLoor Plan of C4 Agency 

Elevation of C4:

Rendering of Lobby/Reception Area for C4 Agency 

Render Drawing of Collaboration Workplace Room: 

Render Drawing of CEO Office:

Rendering of Collaborative Boards: 

SKetch Up Drawings of Reception Desk and Lobby and Collaborative: 

As I look back on these projects I feel a great pride. I am very happy with our results and I can easily say that after getting an A in this class, this is where my first interest of corporate design first began. 

Along with this class, I knew I fell in love with this field when I began and finished my Internship down in Southern California.  At my intern at Environments Plus INC. as a intern designer I absolutely fell in love with it all.  I designed the layout and furniture space planning of many offices, conference rooms, Reception rooms, and more. I designed with large companies as well, such as BMW, Core logic, Easton Sports, Mazada, and more.  I worked with Auto Cad everyday along with system furniture systems.