Studio IV

This QTR includes some projects that revolve around preservation and maintaining the historic value of existing structures. Right now we are starting our program for a house on Candler St. The existing offices off 85N are currently employing seven employees. We took a field trip to their offices to document our findings. Some of us took user interviews (as seen below), some of us documented measurements to study the conditions that were currently being worked in, and other notations as followed.

Here is a photograph of my class doing just that!

 (Above) Existing office space


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Our new location in Candler Park is substantially larger and has a lot of neat historic bones to it that provide for great work. This photograph below gives you an idea of what the home currently looks like.

Most of the load bearing walls run horizontally on the house allowing for a lot of transformation to the home. The CEO, Ryan Wiedmayer, requires a small bedroom/bathroom/kitchen suite for employees to have the opportunity to sleep on nights that prove to be too late to go home.

 (Above) Candler Park Home

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    Home from the street view

 View of the home from the back facade

 VIRGINA
HIGHLANDS
RESIDENCE

Today we had the opportunity to visit a home in Virginia Highlands that was renovated within the past five years. The home is misleading... From the front facade the home looks very appropriate and harmonious with the rest of the neighborhood. There is a distinct look that the Highlands have coined that each home almost unwritten-ly abides by (of course there are ordinances and zoning issues that come about). Butttt as you walk through the front doors of this charming 1929 Bungalow, you become aware of the entire home's renovation.

Now, with stark white interior walls and high windows and skylight, the home takes on a different attitude. It is definitely business in the front and party in the back on Candler St.

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For efficient working in our studio, the nine of us have divided into three groups of three. My group is currently working on the programming from the information we have collected. Here is a sneak of what the beginning phases of functionality, spacing, and necessity looks like on desk.