Works from the Interior Design Department of the 2007 Senior Thesis Show.
Lois Weinthal
“The senior Interior Design final project started off as a reflection of what the students felt they had not addressed in previous design studios, being a project that grows out of the needs of a community. As a group, they considered a range of sites and upon researching demographics, economics and overall character, they chose to work with Fulton Mall in Brooklyn. Examples of student projects consisted of a Community Center, Bookstore, Transit Station, Educational and Retail. Their ability to collaborate shows the collegiality they have developed over their years at Parsons. Although their collaboration for this project took place through the research of the site, they chose to have areas of their individual projects overlap and share programs. This year, emphasis was placed on video and digital representation for their final projects. A little surprise we got at the exhibition opening was a DJ playing music representative of the overall studio atmosphere of the Interior Design students and the music heard at Fulton Mall on their site visits.”
Kate Ballou, I.A.C.R. Gallery
“This gallery space is designed for the artist who reside in the international Arts and Crafts Residency (IACR)… The main gallery space remains open and flexible for different resident artists to reconfigure the way their work is displayed. Panels can be installed or removed depending on the type of display that is desired. In comparison, the permanent aspects of the gallery are designed to function for openings as well as everyday visitors.”
Katherine Bragg, Bridge Street School
“In order to combat the problem of gentrification closing public schools, I am proposing a prototype that attempts to expand the function of the school building in a neighborhood, while also expanding the traditional approach to teaching school cirrulum.”
Laura Cheung
“Fulton Retail Playground aims to celebrate the urban street energy through promoting self expression, exploration and innovation of retail experiences. The thickening of the wall where different functions embed is designed to resemble facing storefronts along the streets of the outdoor mall. The proximity and abundance of this organized chaos creates a theatrical shopping experience that generates visual and physical dialogues for the exchanging of ideas, thus generating new trends."
David Du, Second World Night Club
Today when you go out to a night club, a lounge or a bar to escape stress, you often encounter more stress. I think it is due to the poorly laid out space, where the planning og circulation and design are not reflected in night spaces… As a New Yorker who goes out every weekend, I know exactly how it feels to come home four in the morning drunk and unsatisfied. Therefore, in my design, I have recognized these issues and desgined a night life space to relax and escape reality."
Ling-Zhi Hew, Fulton “Street Mall”
“This project proposes fostering immigrant entrepreneurship at an affordable and sustainable level, while enhancing Fulton Mall’s unique street culture. The proposal converts existing 15’ x 8’ x 8’ roll-off containers into three prototypes mobile retail stands: shop, eat, and style.”
Minji Kim, Books Beyond Café
“Books Beyond Café is a used bookstore, where people can enjoy coffee and snacks at a number of tables and couches… Building upon the idea of re-use, recycled materialas are implemented for interior finishes and furniture, making this book café distinct from others."
Marlene Mendez, Young Professionals Design Center
“The Young Professionals Design Center is dedicated to the learning experience. Fashion design, web design, architecture, video production, business administration, and college prep are the design programs that shape the space. With the importance of the student’s experience a primary concern, the workspaces are designed for both efficient production and then representation of work.”
Sarah Parr
“Ease and peace of mind when traveling around the city should be part of the public infrastructure yet it clearly hasn’t been given the attention it deserves…. My aim is to reinstate the loss of public amenities in an interior space. The Rest Stop Café provides a place for the pedestrian and the bicycle rider who is waiting or in transit.”
Paula Rodriguez
“This project not only demonstrates how an effective design can be created through observation, but re-instates the importance of creating spaces that encourage conversation. It seeks to offer a solution for a global concern and enlighten our society about the important and complex role of a immigrant, not only as laborer but as person rich with information, histories, and ideas as well as a good neighbor.”
Vasiliki Zannettis, Fulton Community Center
“My project is a community center with the goal to bring together the existing communities of the Fulton Mall area by educating each other in shared, interactive, and convertible space… the proposed center offers a recreational space, daycare, classrooms, dinning hall, fitness center, roof garden, and dance spaces, in order to collect the various uses of the Fulton Mall under one common roof.”
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