Spring Studio Final Project

This project was to take an existing warehouse space, and convert it into studio apartments. Needless to say this project required volumes of drawings, diagrams, pictures, and charts to finish; far more than would be appropriate for this venue, thus the most salient examples were included in this post.


These two tables are the Materials and finishes schedule for my loft design. It is included in this instance with some of the process work due to the fact that materials consideration was a very important starting point for the development of my project.

These two charts are from The University of Oregan's solar research laboratory, they show the path the sun takes through the sky including elevation through the year. Sun exposure is a critical factor to consider needless to say. Especially since there were presentations where the orientation of the building as well as the sun exposure was presented incorrectly.
Given the nature of the cement floor, and massive square footage of gypsum wall space, acoustics of the space needed to be calculated to an acceptable range. The ceiling of my space is covered with acoustic tiles for this reason. This acoustics chart came from ATS Acoustics which provided the raw data needed to calculate the number of necessary tiles to provide adequate die-off time.

Loft Building Plan/ Lighting

The floorplan of the building has the apartments on the edges, to provide windows, while community spaces, art exhibition/venue space, workshops and studios, as well as storage are all kept on the interior where windows are not required by code.




This is documentation from an electrical engineer I consulted for help with the lighting. It provides the specifications for the floor lighting from the recessed lights in the ceiling. This information was very helpful in knowing exactly what kind of lights and how many would be needed for the appropriate foot candles dispersed across the floor.

Loft Orthographics

3D perspective of the space as designed. Note that some elements of the design including the walls of the loft as well as the stove vent were omitted for clarity.
Plan view of loft.

Section view of Loft.

Loft Renderings

View upon entering front door.

View from the living space to the kitchen, as well as the stairs.

Living space.

View looking down the stairs into the living space.

Reading nook incorporated into the stairs.

Master bathroom.

Loft.

View through the slat wall in the loft, overlooking the living space.