Second Year Interior Design Student, Brittany Privette was featured in the Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library Blog. To find more information out on the Furniture Library refer to their website at: www.furniturelibrary.com
Randolph Community College
One of the things I enjoy most about my profession is the opportunity to meet and work with the talented design students attending or graduating from design schools. Thankfully, we have the privilege to host interns several times each year. This is an opportunity for both the students to learn the “real world” of design, as well as educating us about the quality and caliber of education these students are receiving.
Randolph Community College is one of the schools from which we have been fortunate enough to host interns. The program at RCC is aggressive and fast-paced, earning them respect from their peers. According to the RCC website: “Our program is based on the foundations of the principles of sustainability with an equal representation of residential and commercial design. Course of study includes drafting and presentational drawings, textiles, product and furniture design, professional practice, and portfolio development.” This year, RCC is celebrating its 45th Anniversary making it the first Interior Design program in the state of North Carolina and one of the oldest design programs in the Southeast.
As any design student will tell you, design projects are one of the most important – and rewarding – components of design school, even if they are hypothetical. Over the 2012 summer students were given two bare shell side by side buildings as a mock project for the summer. The design intent was to turn one side into a Go Red Clinic and the other side into a new headquarters for the American Heart Association in Dallas, Texas.
Through this summer long exercise, students advanced their design knowledge on the following topics:
Space Planning
Building Codes
Commercial Furniture Manufacturers
Commercial Finish and Textile Manufacturers
Healthcare Design
Office Design
Programming, schematics and design development
Advanced AutoCAD, Sketch-Up and Podium renderings
Evidence Based & Sustainable Design
To complete this 7000 square foot project, students were given an adjacency matrix and strict furniture requirements. That information combined with Evidence-Based design articles about constructing healthy work environments provided the material they needed to create bubble diagrams, followed by block plans and finally floorplans. As with any intense, time-driven project, students quickly identified their strengths and weaknesses. One such student is second year Brittany Privette who learned that she was very talented at space planning. Brittany’s clever use of an odd-shaped space stood out to the RCC faculty as well as her peers. Not only did she appropriately and cleverly lay the space out, she also addressed the shared courtyard, a space that many inexperienced designers may overlook.
Brittany did an excellent job with her renderings of the American Heart Association lobby and workstation area conveying her understanding of space and the importance of branding.
RCC is an excellent program that is educating the future leaders of design. To learn more about their design curriculum visit: Randolph County Community College Interior Design Program
Christine Barbour is the founding partner of Barbour Spangle Design Group out of High Point, North Carolina. Awarded the prestigious ADAC Commercial Designer of the Year in 2010 along with numerous ASID awards, Christine works on a variety of projects across the United States. Her client list includes work for large retail brands, University and Elementary education, medical office facilities, retail stores, corporate offices, luxury residential and showroom displays. She has lectured in the southeast on design trends, the importance of merchandising and building a design business. Barbour authors the blog DESIGN LOFT 228 which routinely discusses the influence of fashion, technology, art, history and travel has on the design world.
Written by: Christine Barbour is an Allied member of ASID and WithIt. She is LEED accredited and volunteers her time for breast cancer awareness.
Randolph Community College
One of the things I enjoy most about my profession is the opportunity to meet and work with the talented design students attending or graduating from design schools. Thankfully, we have the privilege to host interns several times each year. This is an opportunity for both the students to learn the “real world” of design, as well as educating us about the quality and caliber of education these students are receiving.
Randolph Community College is one of the schools from which we have been fortunate enough to host interns. The program at RCC is aggressive and fast-paced, earning them respect from their peers. According to the RCC website: “Our program is based on the foundations of the principles of sustainability with an equal representation of residential and commercial design. Course of study includes drafting and presentational drawings, textiles, product and furniture design, professional practice, and portfolio development.” This year, RCC is celebrating its 45th Anniversary making it the first Interior Design program in the state of North Carolina and one of the oldest design programs in the Southeast.
As any design student will tell you, design projects are one of the most important – and rewarding – components of design school, even if they are hypothetical. Over the 2012 summer students were given two bare shell side by side buildings as a mock project for the summer. The design intent was to turn one side into a Go Red Clinic and the other side into a new headquarters for the American Heart Association in Dallas, Texas.
Through this summer long exercise, students advanced their design knowledge on the following topics:
Space Planning
Building Codes
Commercial Furniture Manufacturers
Commercial Finish and Textile Manufacturers
Healthcare Design
Office Design
Programming, schematics and design development
Advanced AutoCAD, Sketch-Up and Podium renderings
Evidence Based & Sustainable Design
To complete this 7000 square foot project, students were given an adjacency matrix and strict furniture requirements. That information combined with Evidence-Based design articles about constructing healthy work environments provided the material they needed to create bubble diagrams, followed by block plans and finally floorplans. As with any intense, time-driven project, students quickly identified their strengths and weaknesses. One such student is second year Brittany Privette who learned that she was very talented at space planning. Brittany’s clever use of an odd-shaped space stood out to the RCC faculty as well as her peers. Not only did she appropriately and cleverly lay the space out, she also addressed the shared courtyard, a space that many inexperienced designers may overlook.
Brittany did an excellent job with her renderings of the American Heart Association lobby and workstation area conveying her understanding of space and the importance of branding.
RCC is an excellent program that is educating the future leaders of design. To learn more about their design curriculum visit: Randolph County Community College Interior Design Program
Christine Barbour is the founding partner of Barbour Spangle Design Group out of High Point, North Carolina. Awarded the prestigious ADAC Commercial Designer of the Year in 2010 along with numerous ASID awards, Christine works on a variety of projects across the United States. Her client list includes work for large retail brands, University and Elementary education, medical office facilities, retail stores, corporate offices, luxury residential and showroom displays. She has lectured in the southeast on design trends, the importance of merchandising and building a design business. Barbour authors the blog DESIGN LOFT 228 which routinely discusses the influence of fashion, technology, art, history and travel has on the design world.
Written by: Christine Barbour is an Allied member of ASID and WithIt. She is LEED accredited and volunteers her time for breast cancer awareness.
Interior design describes a group of projects that involve turning an interior space into an "effective setting for the range of human activities" that are to take place there.
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