PORTFOLIO

KAITLYN LYDECKER

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OFFICE RENOVATION

This project required us to create a program and design solution for a co-work space located in St. Louis, Missouri. Through individual exploration of the meaning of work, documentation of individuals and groups at work, precedent studies helped guide the final design solution.

The first floor consists of a variety of meeting spaces and creates opportunity for interaction. The second floor has two individual offices, twenty four open office desks, as well as a lounge space.

COLLABORATION SPACE

KITCHEN / CAFE

RECEPTION

RESIDENTIAL RENOVATION

Hoffmanouse

The Hoffman House is located in the historic district of Fayetteville, Arkansas and was generously donated to the Fay Jones School of Architecture by Dr. Michael Hoffman.

The home was built in the late 1870’s and has been remodeled several times. My team’s goal was to renovate the home to its original character while updating

important aspects. This project required anticipation of the needs of an unidentified family, providing for diverse needs and allowing for potential

homeowners to imagine themselves living out their lives in this environment.

The retail area is a space to display perfumes and oils that the client can purchase off the shelf rather than designing a custom scent. It is centered between the lounge and consultation area. The lounge is less formal and accommodates clients who are waiting or flipping through product books. The materials chosen for this space are inspired by mid century modern elements. While the selections are contemporized, they speak to the ideas of a mid century modern space.

CONSULTATION

BAR

ENTRY

Lounge

Back Entry

RetailWindowDisplay

WindowDisplay

Bathroom

MechanicalStorage Production and Distribution

Office

Front Entry

Consultation

Bar

NCEILING CONCEPT

Noticing a scent, good or bad, interrupts the train of thought. The concept for this space expands upon this idea by creating an intervening element within the space, an interlude. The “interlude” breaks the structured grid that this mid centrury modern building provides. It is the intrusion of an organic shape into rectilinear grid.

The space is a direct reflection of the concept model. The interlude (retail space and bar) stands free of the structural columns allowing it to be its own experience.

EXTERIOR VIEW

RETAIL VIEW

CONCEPT MODEL

ANALYSIS DRAWING (ANALYTIQUE)

This collage provides a comparson between a buiding constructed during the past ten years and a work of high modern architecture. The goal of this project was to show how the building reflects,responds to, or rejects the legacy of modernity in earlier precedent-setting, twentieth-century architecture. The building I chose to analyze is the Dallas City Performance Hall located in the Arts District of Dallas, TX. The drawing displays its similarities to the concept of the German Pavillion, and the site of Rockefeller Center.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

FINE ARTS CENTER

WEST ELEVATION

LOBBY BRICK DETAIL

SECTION

FRONT ENTRY SKETCH

GROUND LEVEL FLOORPLAN

The historic Fine Arts Center located on the University of Arkansas campus was designed by world renound architect Edward Durrell Stone in 1954.

The project brief included renovating the existing building, as seen fit, as well as designing the addition of a black box theater to the site.

WORKSHOP

GALLERY

STAIR DETAIL

RECEPTION

RESTROOM

MATERIALS BOARD

“Don’t forget to play.” -Alvar Aalto