Schematic design

  After working on a plan and doing changes over time, finally I came up with the floor plan that you can see below. As it shows in the plan one main entrance provided for all business components of the facility, and only the live/work space has separate entrance to have more security.

   The main lay out idea was encouraging the communication of different user groups. The main entrance opens to a shared spaces that serve as a connection between all areas and also as awaiting and gathering zone. Gallery space that moves through the whole building has glass walls in some parts and folding doors,  they all encourage visitors move into a space. Both restaurant and hair salon, also have a door for direct access to the gallery.

 Here I am showing the rendered reflected ceiling plan. There are three different ceiling types which include: gypsum ceiling, acoustical ceiling tile and glass ceiling tile that shows with color code in the plan.

These hand rendered shows the shematic design development of project.

                    Restaurant view

                    Hair salon view

                 Gallery view from the shared space


 

      

Plan development

   My general idea of having interlocking spaces developed by the concept of connecting all three facilities: hair salon, restaurant and live/work space through the gallery space. By having the gallery space that move through the whole facility and creates connection both visually and architecturally. Initial idea was to provide a shared space through the main entrance that is open to sky to provide more connection to nature and creating inviting environment for engaging community. But after some revision due to having less demolition in the building, I changed it to a gathering place with glass ceiling. These are some sketches that showing my thinking process for developing this idea.

Design concept

   Design concept for this ” LOCAL” mixed use facility is creating organic look in interior by the use of earthy color palette and natural colors. Use of nature pattern in materials and fabric to enhance the organic atmosphere, also make use of sustainable materials would be considered. Providing welcoming and calming atmosphere for people in different facility type  is the main goal of the project.  

 

   The idea is having interlocking spaces in which that all facilities are connected together. It can happen both in plan and in perspective. By adding some interlocking shapes in ceiling and flooring.

The concept convey the whole idea of having mixed use facility and non profit facility which is creating more connecting and interaction between different user group and community. The concept board below represent the main idea concept of the project which is having naturalistic look and interlocking spaces.

 I also, add some more details of the concept for each facility in these slides for further information.

 

Programming

Next step to design a project is programming. In this phase I started to create bubble diagrams for each facility based on the information that I gathered in my site observations and looking at some prototypical. Here I will share my sketchy bubble diagram for each facility.

 This diagram shows different spaces that requires for hair salon. Also the portion of each zone and their adjacency to each other defined by the use of different lines.

This  bubble diagram for restaurant depicts various spaces in restaurant whcih includes arrival, front of house and back of house.

 The last bubble diagram displays different space in live/work space.
 Combination of all these diagrams and applying them on the floor plan will help me to start developing the plan. This image below show the application of these bubble diagrams on the plan. After this process by choosing my concept direction I can further develop the plan.

Site analysis & Building orientation

As I mentioned before site located in 735 10th St NW, Atlanta, GA, 30318.
In order to gather some information about adjacent properties, pedestrian path, traffic pattern and natural characteristics I had two visited of the site. In the image below you can see some of the images that I took during my visit.

 

The map below shows the site analysis with the use of some diagrams.

By gathering all information from the site and having information about different facility types I decided to orient the building as it shows in the image below. This placement of the building in the site makes the best use of sunlight from north side and create required parking space for various businesses. Also, having a separate entrance for live/work space and providing enough security for this residential component of mixed use facility took into consideration. Another factor was having a loading deck for restaurant.