Precedent analysis

Part of this project is to look at some case studies and doing site visit to get a better grasp of designing project types that we are working on. I looked at four different case studies which included two hair salons, a restaurant and a live/work space.

Image 1. Founding farm restaurant, Washington, DC

Also, I went to the local hair salon and I did a site observation to conduct more information about the place type and different needs of hair salon.

Image 2. James Madison hair salon, Atlanta

However, we conducted interview. For interview part of our I interviewed employees who work in different locations of Paners care restaurant. Panera Cares is a nonprofit community based café that operates by Panera Bread foundation.

Image 3. Panera Care Cafe

 In my interview I tried to understand how a nonprofit restaurant operates and in that case I wanted to know how it is different in design from the Panera Bread. The concept was very interesting. Panera Care operation, design and menu is the same as Panera Bread. The only difference is that in Panera Care there is a donation bin next to cashier which you can donate money. For more information you can visit their website at: http://paneracares.org/

Image 1 retrieved from http://www.asid.org/bcdevelopment/case_studies/environment/Founding+Farmers.htm
Image 2 taken in site observation by the blogger
Image3 retrieved from http://paneracares.org/

 

Project details

To explain more about how each part of this facility work as a nonprofit I will give you more detail information about each component.

 Hair Salon

Hair salon partnered with Angle hair foundation (cranial hair prosthesis designed specifically for kids suffering from hair loss due to medical conditions) so people can donate money to this foundation when they receive a service. Also, it provides free classes for low income members of the Atlanta community.

Restaurant

Restaurant is a nonprofit eatery which is Unique in concept and operation.Profit will be donated to the different charitable organizations in community. The idea is support local farmers and engage people to the community. It also provides volunteer opportunity for people to work in a restaurant and in return receive free food.

Live/work space for artist

Live/work space for artists is a foundation that Partner with Atlanta contemporary art center. This foundation provides short term live/ work space for emerging artist in Atlanta area. Also, providing some workshops and free painting, sculpture and potter making classes in artist’s studio would benefit the community. The site is located in west side art Atlanta and there are so many art galleries and art spaces. The need of a living space for artist seems so accurate.

Site located in: 735 10th St NW, Atlanta,Georgia 30318

 

Introduction to project

 In studio IV interior design class we are working on the mixed-use community based/noon-profit project. For this mixed use project I chose four place types which include: Hair salon with non-profit twist, non-profit restaurant, nonprofit art gallery and live/work space for artist.

The aim of the project is to combine different kinds of facilities with different user groups in order to create dynamic community environment.
The combination of the hair salon, restaurant and live/work space will make the mixed-use facility active during various time of the day which will bring more security and sociable life to the neighborhood.

Mind mapping