Portfolio 2026

PORTFOLIO

RESUME

WORK EXPERIENCE

OTJ (Intern) I Summer 2025 I Washington D.C

-Collaborated with a team of Interior Design and Architecture professionals on a range of design projects by preparing client deliverables, attending client meetings, choosing materials, updating Revit models, and fixing documents per markups.

Virginia Tech Dining Services (Chick-fil-A) I 2024-Present

-Worked in the front and back of house of Chick-fil-A while ensuring stations were cleaned, orders were kept up with, costumers were tended to, and machines were operating.

Regal Cinemas (Floor Staff) I 2021-2025

-Delivered efficient customer service while operating the cash register, preparing concession food, and maintaining clean and orderly theater spaces.

INVOLVEMENT / EXPERIENCES

Appalachian Service Project I 2023-2025

-Assisted on multiple construction sites to repair homes for families in the New River Valley Region contributing to safer, more stable housing conditions for local families through hands-on assistance with structural repairs, maintenance tasks, and site preparation.

IDEAS (Interior designers for Education and Sustainability) I 2023-Present

-Attended weekly lectures by design professionals.

Study Abroad Florence, Italy I Summer 2024

-Lived in Florence, Italy for one month while studying Italian design principles, gaining firsthand exposure to historic and contemporary design practices through site visits, coursework, and cultural immersion.

Newport News, VA, 23602 (757) 746-7184 Jadaw1034@gmail.com

HONORS & AWARDS

Overall Best Design (Haworth Furniture Studio Competition) 2025

Design Excellence Award (Virgina Tech School of Design) 2025

First Place at the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) 2024 Video Competition

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People's Choice Award at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) Day 2024 (Cohort of 36 received award)

Virginia Tech School of Design award for second year project “What’s Your Truth” 2024

Dean’s List: Fall 2022 - Spring 2025

SKILLS

-Adobe Creative Suites: (Photoshop,InDesign,Illustrator) -Sketchup

-Rhino -Revit -Twinmotion -Enscape -Sketching -Microsoft

-Bluebeam -AutoCAD

CONTENTS

University Library

STUDIO ECLIPSE Art Gallery

16

Shelter

TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS OTHER WORKS

24

28

32 01 02 03 04 05

01

ACADEMIC LIBRARY

TIME: SPRING 2025 , 6 WEEKS

LOCATION: PORTLAND, OREGON

SOFTWARE: REVIT, PHOTOSHOP, ENSCAPE

INDIVIDUAL

CONCEPT:

Nuclei is Oregon Tech’s science and technology library, conceived as a dynamic hub for research, collaboration, and discovery. At the center of the building is its core—a centralized zone that anchors the library’s activity. This space supports intellectual growth, while encouraging collective problem-solving, reflecting the essential role of a nucleus within a larger system.

Interactive zones throughout the library are designed to activate curiosity and support a wide range of learning experiences. These areas accommodate workshops, hands-on experimentation, digital exploration, and informal collaboration, creating an environment where ideas can develop.

HAWORTH SPONSORED STUDIO COMPETITION

Award Given: Best Overall Design Prize: Haworth - Fern Chair

LIBRARY RESEARCH

• Enriches a person’s life with more access to information

• Creates a common culture amongst inhabitants

• Increases someones strive for knowledge and the ability to create

How Can Evolution Occur? Support to Users

What Is Important To Users?

• Encourages students and faculty to collaborate

• Promotes critical thinking and effective communication

• Engagement increases through physical and virtual mediums

Acoustics

• Loud non acoustically treated spaces can cause elevated stress levels

• Human performance goes down when met with higher noise levels and lack of sound barriers

• Prolonged exposure to high sound levels can result in sickness, elevated blood pressure, and elevated heart rate

• Increases a student’s academic performance

• Results in more diligent work and research

• Student’s tend to have a higher career readiness

Using The Library Improves My Academic Performance

I Can Understand Lessons Better

Using The Library Helps Me Improve Personaly

• In a library setting occupant comfort and ability to focus is paramount, so incorporating acoustics is vital to the efficiency of the space

• Without acoustics in a library, inhabitants will be distracted, stressed, and uncomfortable, defeating the purpose and sustainability of the library

The Future Of Libraries

SPACE PLANNING

KEY PRINCIPLES SPACE PLANNING COLOR KEY

PROSPER:

The classroom, meeting rooms, and personal study areas allow students to excel not only in their studies but personally as well.

INNOVATE:

In the makerspace students are challenged to solve problems that develop their critical thinking and collaboration skills.

DISCOVER:

Students are encouraged to continually learn through physical and digital media while engaging with the community.

ENTRANCE

CAFE

RESTROOMS

PRINTING STATION

STAFF AREA

BOOK COLLECTION, LEARNING ZONE

SUPPORT SERVICES

COMPUTER ZONE

PRIVATE STUDY ROOMS

READING NOOK

MAKERSPACE

STUDY CORE

QUITE READING

MEETING ROOMS

CLASSROOM

FLOOR PLANS

The university café provides students with a welcoming environment to study, dine, and collaborate with peers. Acoustically, the space is enhanced with felt baffles suspended above the seating area to reduce ambient noise and create a calm, comfortable atmosphere for both students and staff. The service counter includes an accessible section designed at ADA-compliant height to ensure equitable use for all visitors. Additionally, the café menu is presented on a chalkboard wall, introducing a creative and dynamic visual element that reinforces the café’s inviting character.

MATERIALS

BAFFLES

Within the makerspace, students are invited to immerse themselves in the university’s second guiding principle: Innovate. This principle is expressed through an environment intentionally designed to support experimentation, collaboration, and hands-on exploration.

The third-floor classroom is where students actively engage with the university’s third guiding principle: Prosper. This principle encourages learners to strive for success, cultivate resilience, and pursue growth that extends beyond the boundaries of the classroom.

POP UP TRAINING TABLE

VERY SIDE STOOL

UPSIDE HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE TABLE

PLANES TRAINING TABLE

CONCEPT:

ART GALLERY

TIME: FALL 2025 , 5 WEEKS

LOCATION: BUFFALO, NEW YORK

SOFTWARE: REVIT, PHOTOSHOP, ENSCAPE

INDIVIDUAL

Studio E. uses the solar eclipse as a metaphor for the Rust Belt’s cyclical transformation—from a period of industrial radiance, through economic decline, to the renewed emergence of creative energy.

The gallery’s spatial and material strategies embody this progression. Layered lighting conditions, contrast, and deliberate transitions guide visitors through environments that echo the eclipse’s choreography.

NOMINATED TO SUMBIT TO COMPETITION

INSPIRATION

CLIENT IDENTITY

Emma and Andrew met at a small art school in New York and got married 4 years ago. They both have a shared love in the arts, but also celestial happenings such as solar eclipse’s, stargazing, and everything space. When the couple bought two adjoining, three-story brick row houses they knew this was the perfect opportunity to join their interests and create Studio Eclipse.

ART GALLERY GOALS

Gallery Space

• Exhibition space with moveable walls to accommodate various types of artwork

Reception desk (three lineal feet of countertop) and chair two-drawer file storage

• Display area for literature on upcoming events (approximately six square feet)

• Area for lectures and art presentations with flexible seating for 25, adjacent to kitchen area. Equipment for lectures: LCD and screen

• Closed storage for lecture seating and equipment (LCD and Screen), approximately 100 square feet

Kitchen

• Counter/table surfaces to serve as work top – minimum of five lineal feet

• Commercial ice maker (separate from refrigerator/freezer)

Executive office

• 12’x12’ or 144 square feet

Executive desk with return

• 15 feet lineal storage

BLOCKING DIAGRAMS BUILDING FRONT ELEVATION

The gallery is organized around the sequential phases of an eclipse, using shifting light conditions to define a series of spatial zones. As people move through the first floor, they pass through three transitional environments, each calibrated to progressively darker light levels. This gradient guides guests from bright, open areas into spaces of deepening shadow, reinforcing the eclipse metaphor while choreographing a sensory journey that heightens perception, anticipation, and emotional engagement.

ARTWORK

Daniel Mullen is an Amsterdam‑based contemporary artist known for his vibrant, meticulously constructed optical paintings that explore perception, spatial depth, and the interplay of color and geometry.

MATERIALS + FURNITURE

MATERIALS

CONCEPT

SURVIVAL SHELTER

TIME: SPRING 2024 , 5 WEEKS

LOCATION: PUNTARENAS, COSTA RICA

SOFTWARE: RHINO, MIDJOURNEY, RENDAIR, PHOTOSHOP, STABLE DIFFUSION GROUP (2 MEMBERS INCLUDING ME)

Echoes draws inspiration from the traditional cosmo house of the Bribri people, an indigenous group known for their deep connection with nature and the cosmos. This shelter is a modern interpretation of this cosmic dome, providing a place of refuge that aligns with the Bribri’s tranquil beliefs and relationship with the environment. It is a space that increases survival in adverse conditions but also promotes a way of life that is in tune with the natural world, echoing the Bribri’s culture for the earth and the cosmos.

CONCEPT IMAGERY

RESTROOMS

The objective of this project was to develop a comprehensive 3D model of a survival shelter and integrate artificial intelligence as a tool to advance the interior design process. The 3D model served as the foundational framework, allowing for accurate spatial studies. AI-generated imagery was then used to visualize potential atmospheres within the shelter.

Many of the AI outputs underwent a final refinement stage in Adobe Photoshop, where the generative fill feature was used to correct inconsistencies, enhance material realism, and align the visuals more closely with the intended design direction.

TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS

TIME: SPRING 2025 (CONSTRCUTION DOCUMENTS COURSE)

SOFTWARE: REVIT

INDIVIDUAL

OTHER WORKS