In his capstone thesis project, David Bryan Antoine proposes a design for a high school befitting 21st Century values and realities. High Life High's design intends to reimagine the high school to empower modern students and encourage an open and inspiring learning environment.
More information can be found on the project blog here.
What happens when the Montessori Method is applied to a high school... in New Orleans?
A collaborative project between Mohawk Group and SCAD's Atlanta interior design department was initiated to repurpose an unused Midcentury building on Mohawk's Dalton, GA campus into their new design studio.
Mohawk describes the collaboration:
"The first round began as a class competition, with the winner’s project becoming what the class and Mohawk Group would focus on for the remainder of the quarter. The winning project was titled Light Lab, and in their final design vision, the students positioned Light Lab as "a prismatic laboratory of creation, where reflection ignites experimentation, where imagination drives innovation, and where collaboration is inherent, to inspire the greatest flooring products in the world."
The project consisted of intimate team-driven work within a constrained 10 week period, from conceptual design to a final design development package, including two presentations to the client and delivery of a design development drawing set. Establishing a dialogue with the client to achieve design goals was key to the success of the project.
Responsibilities included: Developing a consistent graphics and branding direction for the project, designing presentations to the client, including formulation of the project's language, and collaborating with team members during the evolution of the project design.
The final constructed design by Mohawk can be found here.
Additional press here.
Baoli is a day spa and activity center for elderly Indian-Americans in Atlanta. Two somewhat opposing design requirements – design for aging and design for Hindu culture – merge seamlessly in a facility deriving inspiration from ancient Hindu bathing architecture. Space planning and FF&E selections exceed the accessibility needs of elderly users. The project's hallmark component is an ADA-compliant lap pool on the second floor with portals at its base filtering aquatic light to the spa's lobby beneath.
With most of its retail locations franchised to various jewelers around the world, Rolex desired a cohesive retail design to effectively communicate its heritage and brand identity. Looking towards the history of Rolex in the Swiss Alps and the architecture of the luxury wristwatch, David Bryan Antoine designed a showcase space appropriate for Rolex's discerning customer. Interior form is extruded from the abstraction of the inside of a wristwatch. Materiality, utilizing Alpine hardwoods and matte bronze, invites customers to linger and lounge. Strategically placed skylights with dramatic acrylic icicle-like elements visually point downward to the encased diamond encrusted jewelry on the sales floor.
This 12,000 square foot project located in Atlanta's Invesco building embodies TBWA's metaphorical disruption into the Deep South with its first Atlanta office. The agency's culture, an homage to pirates and rebellion, informs a design concept for the space by satirizing traditional Southern architectural motifs while advancing open and accessible workplace design pioneered on the West Coast. Doric columns are bent and wound into sculpture; chain link fencing becomes a grand light fixture; while ornate plantation chandeliers are flipped upside down and encased in etched glass cubes to create an unexpected reception desk. Considerable research into both workplace design and historic Southern architecture created a dynamic and smart office space for tbwa\chiat\day.
Interiors rendered in Prismacolor marker and pencil.
