Salvation Army Select

Well, all of the hard work has paid off.  My retail studio has been working on a very cool, very rewarding project this semester.  I have to say for the first time I have really enjoyed 100% my studio.  I've worked for years with Habitat for Humantiy, Katrina Relief, etc. and I love doing projects that allow me to give back to the community.  Salvation Army Select was that kind of project and I LOVED it!!!  My studio helped in the final construction of the store as well as designing displays, the dressing room, and merchandising. 

Dressing Room

Dressing Room Lights....this was a long pain in the butt process to find a perfect light

Dressing Room doors

Men's end Display

Men's Jewelry Case

Women's Jewelry Display

What it looked like originally

What it looks like now

 

 

Women's Window Display:  The dress is made out of paper red sheilds.

 

The Station

Concept

Converge: To come together from different directions and meet at a specific point

From this I decided to look more closely at Greensboro's History.  I really enjoyed hearing about how it is the Gate City and thought that railroads really fit into my concept.  I found a lot of inspiration in Railroads and the point at which they converge and form a straight line towards their destination.

Railroads:  A means of Transportation from several areas, North and South, East and West.  Often meeting at a particular station to head in a different direction. 

At this point I started thinking about Branding for my store.  I came up with many ideas including:

Also names like Cross Roads or Xroads, etc.

Finally I decided on The Station:  I thought that this fit my concept will because a train station is a hub in which people from all different backgrounds, places, etc. Meet for even a split second upon going on their separate ways. 

Branding will be put on bags, receipts, store front, etc.

I then developed my floor plan and space planning. 

All the lines in the floor represent a curtain wall system.  This will consist of paneled walls of different sizes that can be put on and off the tracks.  This creates the opportunity to change the size of the space depending on what is needed for different exhibits, etc.  The idea however is that the front of the store would always be Retail, then Gallery, then Consultation space, then Collaboration studio. 

Beside these tracks would be Ledia Hess AG: Illuminating strip 64 LED lights that are recessed into the ground.

 

The inspiration for these lights came from a photo that I found of a train passing.

I then started developing spaces dealing with fixture display, merchandising, and the window display

This is my Cash Rep.  It's built of wood but it has a skin of aluminum on the exterior.  The Red stips in the rendering resemble lights that would be embedded in the squares.  Only so many of them would be on at one time to create a design.  Inspiration for this came from the picture below.

Top

Side

Back

This is how my merchandise would be displayed.  The center piece would be able to have things sitting on it as well as shelves.  Also their would be an opportunity for clothes to be hung in the gap on the shelves.  I apologize for the lack of merchandise in the rendering however I hope that this discription helped you to understand the space a little. 

This is the window display from the front.  The railroads would act as shelves to display merchandise.  The background are twisted chains 1/2" diameter.

As for Marketing I had the idea to draw Railroad tracks all throughout Greensboro leading to the Station.  They would be drawn with chalk and would have information about the Station and images of what they have in between the railroad tracks.

 

 

In Working Conditions

This is what I have so far in designing my Hatchery space.  I've dedided to combine my concept ideas: Twist and Converge.  They seem to kind of connect so i'm taking this idea and developing it into hopefully a very strong and conscious design.  I have not included lighting in my renderings however so far my lighting consists of track lighting for the ceiling the follows the lines of my train tracks

This is the floor plan for the 1st floor.  It includes spaces for the gallery, exhibit, consultation space, and collaboration space.  I've inserted curtain wall tracks the will look like train tracks in a city (see image below).  The walls will be panels that can be taken on and off of the track and stored in a storage area in the back of the space.  This will allow for the space to be very flexible.  Beside the tracks will be Ledia Hess AG Illuminating strips. The idea is that these lights will look like those pics that have trains flying by. 

 

 

This is what the space will look like with the certain panels I've decided to pull up.

This is the first space you will walk into, the gallery space.  The idea is that the cash rap above will be stationary.  It will be aluminum grids with inserts that have some lights on the inside.  Like the picture below but square inserts instead of circles.

This is also the gallery space.

 This is the exhibit space

This is my idea of the collaboration space.   I designed an 8' table for student to work to and installed some shelves for storage so far.

This is my idea for the consultation room.  I designed the table myself.

 

 

This is the upstairs.  I have an idea of making it a coffee/lounge space.  The bar was designed by me.  Obviously a lot is missing like chairs, desks, etc.

Those glass panels will essentially be like rolled screens.  They can be put up when it's nice out and they want to open the space.  The bar will extend to the deck area.  This will allow when all the panels are pulled up for the entire are to be one space.

This is the view from the outside deck looking in.  Once again tables and chairs will also be outside.

These are my color pallets with the images that inspired my design.