This document contains summaries of 4 design projects by Keith Edwards: 1. A community performing arts center in Salisbury, MD that focuses on gathering space and reconnecting the community. 2. A drug rehabilitation facility in San Francisco's Mission District that uses transparent "curtains" between private and public spaces to encourage community while respecting privacy. 3. A redesigned space for a University of Maryland student organization that assists with business startups, providing work and meeting areas as well as a lounge. 4. Personal design prototypes by Keith Edwards including a foldable laundry rack/surface, stackable desk organizers, and wall-mounted desk accessories.

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2. [CONTENTS]
PROJECTING ARTS
2MM TO RECOVERY
STARTUP SHELL
EDWARDS DESIGNS

3. [PROJECTING ARTS]
Arch 403
Community-Performing Arts Center
Location: Salisbury, MD
Spring 2014
Professor James Tillghman

4. This design originated from a community workshop that
analyzed the needs of this thriving small town. My design
focused on the need of a center for the community to
gather and create the sense of community that the town
had lost over the years.
Left: First initial concept drawing utilizing
the small river nearby.
Right: Conceptual drawing of the building
in the building set into the landscape and
modifying the water edge for community
recreation.
Third Floor containing a cafe and service
offices.
Second Floor containing lobby and
auditorium and northern entrance.
First Floor containing community gallery, pre-
sentation space, workshop, backstage space,
and lower entrances.
Cafe
Auditorium
Office
Entrance
Entrance
Entrance
Service
Entrance
Backstage
Left: Site Plan and Site Diagrams.
Right: Concept Diagrams.

5. Eastern view of building and recreation area and
landscape.
View into gallery/ presentation space showing designed
green-wall and water connection.
Above: View into cafe / lounge area.
Below: View into auditorium / theater.
Building Section Green-wall Section Detail

6. [2MM TO RECOVERY]
Arch 403
Drug Rehabilitation Facility
Location: Harrison St & 22nd St
Fall 2015
Professor Neeraj Bhatia

7. Above: Site location in Mission District.
Transparency diagram
showing layers of visibili-
ty into a unit.
Thermal layers
diagram.
Flexibility of unit diagram.
Above: View into a typical unit overlooking a center courtyard.
Single UnitSection Cut Double Unit Double Unit Triple Unit Wall Section Detail
This project originated by analyzing the surrounding
community and the power that a mural of paint had
over a community. The 2mm of paint has a power of his-
tory and sense of identity for the community. My design
pushed this idea of thinness to create and individual sense
of place and identity throughout the entire project. The
constituency Ichose waspeopleseekingdrugrehabilitation,
anabundantcommunityintheareathatdesiredthisneedfor
identity.Mydesignconsistedofasetoflayersthataswouldbe
translucent at the most public areas and opaque at the core
individual living quarters. This design pushed the sense of
communitywithinthebuildingtohavethepatientsconstantly
visually reminded that they are not alone in their
progress to sobriety. By designing this system as a series
of movable “curtains” a guest could adjust their privacy
as desired to being in a more public realm to seclusion.

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Ground Floor
Plan
Third Floor
Plan
Second Floor
Plan
Below Ground
Parking Level
Entrance
Harrison St.
22nd st.
Treat Ave.
Entrance
Ground Floor Plan Detail
Above Right: View into
large northern courtyard.
Lower Right: View from
terrace at night, showing
an example of a night
time community gathering
event.
The flexibility of the space allows for micro communities to
form. This increased interaction would enable guests to be
always interacting with their peers to help each other to
a quicker recovery. Central courtyards allow for an inward
focused community and provide semi-private spaces for guests
to interact outdoors without the interaction of the public.
Interior courtyard areas provide
a central space for relaxation and
internal community engagement.
This space can be flexible for
therapy sessions and group events
during the day. The increasing
size terraces allow for constant
visual reminders of the guests and
staff. Units are placed against
the smaller intimate courtyards
while the larger courtyards have
small varying size gathering
areas for casual gathering or formal
therapy sessions to occur.
The large terraces are also
flexible enough to allow a variety of
scenarios to occur such as the
shown movie night gathering,
where a large screen would be
lowerfromtheroofandprojectedonto.

9. [STARTUP SHELL]
Campus Student Organization Space
Re-deign
Location: University of Maryland Campus
Fall 2015

10. Above: View into work / presentation area.
Below: View of lounge area, kitchenette, and loft
area.
This Project was designed commissioned by a student group on
the University of Maryland Campus. The group assists students
with starting their own business and the design, production, and
testing of their designs. The group had an existing space and was
provided the opportunity to expand their facility out to multiple
adjacent rooms within an exiting building in stages. Our design
intended to assist with the planning of each expansion as well as
provide the organization the proper creative environment to fa-
cilitate product design development as well as host the organiza-
tion’s own members and events within. These events include large
group meetings and presentations. Our design provided neces-
sary work fixed and movable work surfaces . Within was an open
floor plan and large writing surfaces that doubled as a projection
screen for presentations. The design also entailed the design of a
lounge space supported by a kitchen and loft lounge/ storage area.
Ground Level
Loft Level
Expansion Sequence
Work / Presentation
area
Kitchenette
Entrance Entrance
Lounge area
Loft lounge/
storage area

11. [edwards | designs]
Personal Designs
Fall 2015 - Present

12. Fold-able Surface / Laundry Rack
Prototype
Stackable Desk Pen/ Pencil Holder
System Prototype
Desk Hutch Holder Prototypes
Single Desk Pen / Pencil Holder
Prototype
Raised position creates design on wall. Lowered position provides surface and rack
system.
Stacked System. Double and Single Holders.
Larger Folder / Paper OrganizerDistributed System.

13. KEITH EDWARDS