Interior Architecture Charette
Last fall, participants in the department-wide Interior Architecture charette worked in teams with intense focus to design spaces of refuge where students can retreat and regroup through meditation and contemplation. With the Fleet Library at RISD chosen as the site, the students were told that the space serves as an important community hub that would be perfect for a series of small, portable reflection rooms.
Eleven teams of Interior Architecture students—both grad and undergrad—responded to Nishimura’s prompt by working together to design and build models of proposed portable refuge spaces within the span of five days. At the end of their intense week, members of the campus community were invited to the Center for Integrative Technologies to examine the concept posters and 3D models and cast a vote for the winning proposal.
Photo by Alex Trajanov MDes 19
