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Members of the interior design and graphic arts department and of Food Services, judged designed submitted by four student teams on Oct. 16 for a competition designed to make Lakeside Café more spacious and environmentally friendly.
The chosen design, created by a team of interior design and graphic arts majors, was picked because “it showed innovation and an environment that would be distinct on campus,” said Chris Johnson, assistant professor in the hospitality, tourism, and family and consumer sciences department.
Johnson said that the four team-created designs submitted on Friday, whittled down from an earlier selection of 10, “were all good. They all have good design elements.”
However, Johnson also said that the winning design “did the best job of combining those elements,” which included creating additional seating and a more spacious area and also being environmentally sustainable by using materials safe for the environment.
The winning team was made up of Interior Design students Kristin Cox, Tonia Middleton, Martha Collins Penn and Ali Schultz and also graphic designers Matt Rodgers and Suzie Roupe.
“We wanted to give the clients something they were looking for,” said Penn, a senior. “We added elements that weren’t specified, but we felt that they would enjoy.”
Penn said that the group she was a part of “worked as a team” and that they had a concept from the beginning of the ideas process. She said they were also “able to split up to work on individual goals” before returning to group work to make a finished product.
Not only could the renovations for Lakeside Café make it a “better place for students,” but Johnson also said it had to make the building “a better place for employees to work,” which is why the winning design took the competition.
Suzy Lee, interior designer for Physical Plant and one of the judges for the competition, agreed with this assessment.
“What we liked about it was just the movement and flow of the floor plan,” said Lee. She said the consistency of the plan helped it win out over the others.
She also said the group’s plan presented “creative cohesion” and that the graphics meshed well with the design of the updated Lakeside.
The project arose from a meeting between Johnson and Monique Deserres of the department of environmental safety during the summer, said Johnson.
He said it was to “brainstorm ways for our students to be involved with sustainability.” The result was a project designed to recreate Lakeside Café and came to involve members of hotel and restaurant management, interior design, and graphic arts.
The original project began when 10 teams, made up of interior design and graphic arts majors, were tasked with creating designs for a future version of Lakeside Café.
Given the assignment on Sept. 11, it was due on Sept. 13 at 5 p.m.
The final presentation, on Oct. 16, showcased the final four teams selected, and included both power-point and poster-board presentations.
Not only were layouts of the facilities created, but renderings of Lakeside were shown, as well as pictures of potential materials to be used in the redesign.
“It’s nice to know this design could potentially be used on Georgia Southern’s campus, and we’re only students,” Penn said.
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