Urban Stem Flower Shop: Space Planning Final

It's the second round of finals for my Interior Design program and this one presented a great challenge, but definitely expanded our knowledge & expertise on a design presentation. 

Our task was to come up with an original retail concept, create a name & brand, design a retail store to accommodate the necessary tasks of the business, sketch up and grayscale each wall elevation & floor plan, create a concept board, and most importantly create an entire model from floor to ceiling in 1/4" scale to complete the look and design of our business. 

We were so lucky & were given the opportunity to partly chose who our design team members were. Amanda Egbert, Lindsay Robbins and I had not gotten to work together, and took up the opportunity right away. As soon as we received the assignment we went straight to work! 

Above is the final presentation with the concept board, model, and of course a touch of flowers.

Here is our concept board that I sketched, gray-scaled, and put together. It displays the exact look of each wall, the company logo & name, and on the right corner you can see the swatches of fabric and materials that will be used in the store.

Closer detailed look at the wall elevations and textile choices.

Above you can see the drafted floor plan that we based the model off of. After we decided how we wanted the store to work, and the flow of the customers & employees Lindsay and Amanda helped to sketch out the floor plan and two of the walls on Auto Cad so the parameters were laid out.

The entrance of the 1/4" model of the flower shop, Lindsay & Amanda did such an amazing job of capturing each and every detail. I was quite impressed!

Arial view of the "Urban Stem" Flower Shop

Here you can see the desk, work tables, and retail decorating spaces.

Along with the main structure of the model we had to incorporate the lighting. Here you can see through the glass ceiling, where each can light and pendant light was placed.

My wonderful group: Lindsay, Amanda, our instructor Carrie Anne and I.

A great finish to a semester of fun, learning and expanding our skills. We recently received our grades back and were elated to see a 100% Final Grade on our Flower Shop, Way to go Design Team! Thanks Carrie Anne, we'll miss you, have a great time in Connecticut.