Pufferbelly Depot Final Project

Over the course of my spring semester at Washington State University I completed a project where I redesigned the old Pufferbelly Depot Train Station into a residential home, art studio and public gallery for my artist Kathy Hoiness and her husband. Throughout the project I had to design the space taking into consideration ADA requirements as well as designing for a visually impaired client. Because the building is on the historic registry I had to learn to take into consideration the limitations of changing the exterior and interior space, as I couldn't change doors or windows all that much and had to keep the historic ticket window located in the living room/ office space of the home.  The project helped me really get to know the entire space as I made 3-D models of the building and the rooms within it, as well as made multiple perspectives, interior and exterior elevations, an egress plan, a demolition plan, as well as a bench and fabric to coordinate with the project. My whole inspiration was based off of a rail road tie I found behind the Pufferbelly Depot.

This was my process board which included bubble matrix, adjacency matrix, a site plan, concept development sketches/ partis/ and my fabric module.  This was a very beneficial part of the overall project as you can see my project process and development of the space and how I used my inspiration within my design as I focused on the three main concepts of; foundation, timelessness and power. I found that his is a crucial board to have when presenting as it describes the project process and shows them your though process and inspiration object and how it was Incorporated in the bench and overall design. 

This board included a rendering of the Pufferbelly Depot Exterior as well as an exterior elevation of the Pufferbelly Depot's Exterior and a longitudinal section of the Pufferbelly Depot's interior.  The longitudinal section of the interior of the Pufferbelly Depot was a great learning experience for me as it was a new and challenging way of seeing the space and learning how to show what I had designed.

 This was my materials board which had a matrix showing the different material specifications as well as the different materials used throughout three rooms (two residential rooms and one commercial room).  Putting together this board taught me how to assemble materials together and in what formation to help make the more sense for the client.

 This board for my project had two different perspectives of the master bathroom and of the living room showing the historical ticket booth window wall.  This board also had two elevations of the guest bathroom as well as the laundry room.  My favorite part of this board was the furniture floor plan as you can see the different materials within the space that I had chosen as well as the different annotation explaining various aspects of the different rooms that you might not have known about unless I was there to explain in further detail. 

 

This was a perspective board of the art studio I designed for my artist Kathy Hoiness who does paintings and different sewing projects and one of the kitchen.  This board was particularly important to my learning over the course of the semester as it has proven I have the ability to portray my design ideas through perspectives as well as show my rendering skills and how they have improven.

 

 

 On this board I was able to show my egress plan and my demolition plan.  This was something new that I did not know how to do before.  I really enjoyed learning how to make a demolition plan as I was able to then portray my design, what changes I planned on making as well as show the different water walls I kept.  Also, the egress plan was a great learning experience as it showed me the different ADA requirements necessary as well as the major pathways throughout the space which directly related to my inspiration object of the railroad tie. 

 This was a board strictly dedicated to my exterior bench design.  It was also inspired my the same rail road tie as it represents the over shape of a train, the nail that split the rail road foundation and used the materials of steel from the nail and recycled rail road ties for the bench foundation.  This was a fun part of the semesters learning as it allowed me to be really creative in my design process.  My bench design was not only inspired by the rail road tie, but also by my artists design philosophy of how she wanted to make something out of nothing, which is essentially what I did as I took the nail from the rail road tie which is essentially nothing, and turned it into something- a bench.

 

 This was my three dimensional model of the Pufferbelly Depot which was hand crafted and rendered.  It allows people to further understand the space in 3-D.  This was a great challenge as it is to scale and was very time consuming.  Although it was very time consuming I think it was an essential part in my learningof truly understanding the space within and around the Pufferbelly Depot.



Overall, I learned a lot from this project, learning a new skill or further developing each skill on each board I worked on for the Pufferbelly Depot Project.