Saturday, October 20, 2007

Portfolio: Professional Practice - The Heights

The Heights: Condo/Retail Project
Project Role: Designer

The project is situated in the 'downtown' area of Grandview Heights, a suburb of Columbus. The project contains both retail (bottom floor) and condos on the remaining floors above. The client wished to create a building that utilized more traditional elements on the exterior, such as the mansard roof, bracket and cornice detail, quions, etc. However, the interiors are characterized with more modern elements, high ceilings, fixtures, appliances and finishes. Two challenging aspects of the project were the limited size of the site as well as the existing fabric of the area, where the buildings were predominately smaller in scale. The solutions to both problems came in the massing and articulation of the building and its features (i.e. glass projection, solid base and stepping back the condo portion, material choices).

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