This portfolio showcases a variety of skills and experience gained throughout my schooling in the BAA Interior Design program at Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning.

1. Charissa Williams’
Design Portfolio

2. Conceptual Thinking Visual Connection Technical Representation Theory to Reality
Contents

3. Muskoka Cabin Project
Group Members: So Jung Yoo & Charissa Williams CAD by Charissa Williams
Date: 2008
Concept: Balance Between Contradictory Forces
Concept Statement: Female body balancing family and
career
The concept is portrayed through the separation of public and
private spaces. The public space is located on the lower, circu-
Conceptual Thinking
lar area of the space, meanwhile the private space is located
on the upper more linear area. The two spaces are connected
by a curved and slanted glass atrium. These three areas are
representing the everyday hectic lifestyle of the client through
the balancing of two important elements.

4. All of the public functions are located on the main level radiating outwards from the
core of the site (the living room). The living room space is a central focal entity that
visually connects the lower public area to the upper private space.
View from the kitchen to the warm
and open living room space.
Muskoka Cabin Project
CAD by Charissa Williams
Rendering by SoJung Yoo
Model by SoJung Yoo & Charissa Williams
Conceptual Thinking

5. All of the private areas are located on the second level, having a more
structured organization to enhance the relationship between the
View from the driveway to the
contradicting forces. Views down into the living room are amplified the in main entrance of the cabin. The
main hallway. central living room is
highlighted by the steel and
glass structural connection.
Muskoka Cabin Project
CAD by Charissa Williams
Rendering by SoJung Yoo
Model by SoJung Yoo & Charissa Williams
Conceptual Thinking

6. Group Members: So Jung Yoo, Aubrey Meinardi, Martina Graham, & Charissa Williams
Exterior Perspective by Charissa Williams
Date: Fall 2009
Concept: Breath
Project: Lyantonde, Uganda
Media: Pen, Marker, Pencil Crayon
Visual Connection

7. Queen Street
West: Retail
Shop
Visual Connection
Poster by Charissa Williams
Concept: Purification
Concept Statement: Purity in the Waterfall
Media: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Hand Drawn Vignettes

8. Queen Street West: Retail Shop
Visual Connection
Façade Elevation by Charissa Williams
Concept: Purification
Concept Statement: Purity in the Waterfall
Media: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

9. Humber Studio & Gallery Design
Visual Connection
Poster by Charissa Williams
Concept: Reconnection
Concept Statement: Reconnecting an isolated hub of learning to
the community and to the world
Media: Google SketchUP, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

10. Main angular entrance into space Design studio space with focal teaching space Focal teaching space
Main entrance into space & into connecting hallway Computer workstation
Secondary angular entrance into space
Humber Studio & Gallery Design Computer workstation area looking into studio
Visual Connection
Images by Charissa Williams
Concept: Reconnection
Concept Statement: Reconnecting an isolated hub of learning to
the community and to the world
Media: Google SketchUP

11. Focal Area
Inniskillin Winery Project
Group Members: So Jung Yoo, Martina Graham, Sukaina Ebrahim & Charissa Williams CAD by Charissa Williams
Date: December 2008 *NOTE: all drawings
are for viewing pur-
Concept: Crossing Borders poses only. Drawings
are not to noted
Technical Representation

12. *NOTE: all drawings are
for viewing purposes
only. Drawings are not
to noted scale size.
Inniskillin Winery Project
Technical Representation
CAD
by Charissa Williams
Rendering
by SoJung Yoo

13. Bar Detail
Scale: N/A
*NOTE: all drawings are
for viewing purposes
only. Drawings are not
to noted scale size.
Inniskillin Winery Project
Technical Representation
CAD
by Charissa Williams

14. *NOTE: all drawings are
for viewing purposes
only. Drawings are not
to noted scale size.
Inniskillin Winery Project
Technical Representation
CAD
by Charissa Williams

15. *NOTE: all drawings are
for viewing purposes
only. Drawings are not
to noted scale size.
Inniskillin Winery Project
Technical Representation
CAD
by Charissa Williams

16. *NOTE: all
drawings are
for viewing
purposes
only. Draw-
ings are not
Inniskillin Winery Project to noted
scale size.
Technical Representation
CAD
by Charissa Williams

17. Main programmatic requirements for this project included:
 A main broadcast area to replace the current conversational piece
(shown in the picture below).
 A new satellite area which would be utilized by quick news or weather
reports. The picture to the left shows the location of this proposed
space.
 An extra alternative one on one conversational area for more personal
interviews and discussions.
Cable 14 Set prior to design
and renovation.
Cable 14 Studio Design
By: Charissa Williams Pictures by Charissa Williams
Date: Summer 2009
Project Synopsis:
The goal of this project was to design a continuous mobile set. Pieces were
required to visually flow into one another with the ability to be separately adjusted,
removed, or reconfigured. Areas must portray a distinctly different atmosphere in order
Theory to Reality
to allow for variation in studio broadcasting locations. The "layer wall" was inspired by
the different communities that make up the greater city of Hamilton; the "wooden wave
wall" was inspired by the nearby lake- connecting Hamilton to other cities, such as
Toronto; and the "steel" grid was inspired by Hamilton as a Steel City.

18. Overall Floor Plan
Scale: N/A
Cable 14 Studio Design
CAD by Charissa Williams
Rendering by Charissa Williams
Pictures by Charissa Williams
Theory to Reality

19. Wave Wall Elevation
Scale: N/A
Cable 14 Studio Design
CAD by Charissa Williams
Rendering by Charissa Williams
Pictures by Charissa Williams
Theory to Reality

20. Metal Wall
Scale: N/A
Metal Wall Elevation
Scale: N/A
Cable 14 Studio Design
CAD by Charissa Williams
Rendering by Charissa Williams
Pictures by Charissa Williams
Theory to Reality

21. Charissa Williams
Junior Interior Designer
BAA Interior Design, ARIDO
charissanwilliams@hotmail.com
Thank You.