ELIZABETH DAKOTA SALLPORTFOLIO 2006 - PRESENT

REUSING AMERICA’S JUNKSPACESENIOR THESIS, RISD

WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND

With the end of World War II came the beginning of suburban sprawl. Ease

of Transport made it less imperative that people live in central locations, and

stricter and more segregated zoning increased distance between housing

and commercial space. “Main Street” as it were, was replaced with endless

strip malls and box stores, brought on by global consumerism and catering

to miles of housing development. It is a reality that the pervasiveness of sub-

urbia in America will no longer allow for one beating heart of a community.

Because the last several decades have left us with lifeless suburban sprawl,

it is imperative that we cultivate pockets of shared community experience

through the country’s bulldozed landscape littered with “Junkspace.” We

have the perfect opportunity to do this : with the recent economic crash and

the advent of e-commerce, brick-and-mortar chains are rapidly closing. We

are left with a plethora of empty boxes.

What make box stores and malls “junkspace” ? What makes “Main Street”

vibrant ? Where was community, culture, and a healthy lifestyle lost in the

transition from one to the other ? In this thesis I investigate reuse of the

prototypical box store and how architecture can play a part in marketing

activity, community, and a more local lifestyle to Suburbia instead of strictly

consumer products.

P O O L S E A T E R I E S Y O G A F A R M E R’S M A R K E T G A R D E N F A R M S

W A T E R L I G H T P L A N T I N G O P E N I N G S

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B A L D H I L L R O A D W A R W I C K, R H O D E I S L A N D

+ W A T E R + L I G H T + P L A N T S + O P E N I N G S

+ W A T E R + L I G H T + P L A N T S + O P E N I N G S + C O L U M N S + P R O P O R T I O N

+ W A T E R + L I G H T + P L A N T S + O P E N I N G S + C O L U M N S + P R O P O R T I O N + P R O G R A M

Insert vegetation on the interior

Bring pool / activity outside

Farm on the South Create entrance that

draws visitor in

Show greenery on exterior (denoting

interior

Bring in natural light/ activity energy saving

dependant

NF I R S T F L O O R S E C O N D F L O O R

P O O L V O L U M E P L A C E M E N T

T O P O G R A P H I C R E A C T I O N T O W A T E R

Skylights + solar panels

perforated screens

elevated lap pool + medetation platform

hydroponic farms + farmer’s market

juice bar / restaurant

slate floor (yoga + farmer’s market

grass / moss sloped floor

terrace farms

cascading kiddie pools

hot tubs

Living walls @ carved away exterior

aqua viynl covered chain linkfence, wrapping existing exterior

locker rooms

daylight

photovoltaic + solar thermal hybrid panels

lap pool surge tank, pool pumps, ozonation units, + electric

hydroponic garden

pool

terrace garden

vapor barrier

pool dehumidification units

skylights

rainwater harvesting from roof

Stand alone solar thermal panels

Buried rainwater storage

environmental systems

OLIVER + OAKESHOTEL DESIGN 12.12

The subject of this studio is a small, luxurious, urban hotel. While character, luxury, comfort, and beauty are very much within the purview of Interior Architecture, they are words that make smart designers uncomfortable. They seem subjective and somehow anti-intellectual. The studio will confront these traits—loosely gathered under the heading of decoration—head on. Historically, the char-acter of a space resided in ornament: carved paneling, coffering, vaulting, cabinetry, gilding, stone, bronze, parquet, and so on. But these elements were not just decorative, they were based in craftsmanship and construction: stone mantels are fireproof, casings allow adjacent materials to expand and contract at different rates, chair rails protect plaster. If these were the design elements that were manipulated to give spaces an appropriate character and sense of decorum, the studio will investigate the current equivalent.

garden level plan

basement planroof plan

ground floor plan

second floor plan

third floor plan

fourth floor plan

H O T E L E N T R A N C E

G U E S T R O O M S

R O O F G A R D E N S

G A R D E N L E V E L R E S T A U R A N T S

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF OZNARRATIVE MUSEUM STUDIO 05.12

For this studio we were given a real client - Willard Scott, owner of the world’s largest collection of Wizard of Oz goods in the world. He and his partner Tom Carol, had purchased a building and property on which to build The National Museum of Oz, in Camden, Maine.

My design premise began based on three things :1. The client’s original attachment to the story being a search for identity and belonging.2. The original book series and it’s popluarity.

The entrance was designed as a modest attachment to the current building, set in a very strict building code town. It was made to act as a book cover, setting the stage that the muse-um was to be a guided journey through these magical books, and a reveal of character identity.

Walls were made to mimic book pages thus allowing for multifunctional space and more display options.

This proposal was chosen among the top three in the studio for actual consideration of the museum’s final design.

One of the last rooms in the museum was designed to display some of the hundreds of set blueprints Willard owns.

HOMELESS SHELTER FURNITURE DESIGN-BUILD WOONSOCKET, RI 2011

This 6 week studio project asked teams of two students to design and build a to scale piece of furni-ture for a homeless shelter in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. This piece was meant to pay particular atten-tion to the needs of the population and to ways to dynamically change a rather drab and dry environment.

Partner Kate Sheahan and I looked at the traffic pat-terns of the public space in our unit, and determined what space was under-utilized without disrupt-ing current life patterns.

Once we identified a loca-tion, we determined that we wanted to bring a work envi-ronment into the current TV room + thruway space, and we began examining what shapes were most useful for the space and the purpose.

We also determined that we wanted some sort of shield to help divide the room into work / play, while bringing an artistic element into the lifeless space.

FREELANCE INTERIOR DESIGN 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

COMING SOON :: 3 BEDROOM, WEST VILLAGE5 BEDROOM HOME LONG BEACH ISLAND, NEW JERSEY

M O R E C O M I N G S O O N

CREATING AN ARCHIVEPHOTOGRAPHY COURSE 01.12

VRINDAVIN, INDIA

These series of photographs were taken in Vrindavan, India, a pilgrimage site for Hindis worldwide. Our photog-raphy class spent 3 weeks there photographing in a documentary, repetitive style--learning to “create an archive.”

B R O O M S

M O R N I N G C H A I

R E D + W H I T E T I L A K S

D O O R C U B B I E S

P O W E R

M O D E S O F T R A N S P O R T

W H I T E S A C S

O M B R E W A L L S

M A T T A C L A R K I N S P I R E D

C I R C L E T I L A K S

T I N Y S H R I N E S

P E O P L E A T W O R K

SUNDAY SUPPERS STYLINGFOOD + PROP STYLING 2010 - PRESENT

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

STYLED FOR THE MARTHA STEWART WEDDINGS BLOG.CONCEPT + STYLING : LIZZY SALL + KAREN MORDECHAI

ALL PHOTOS : KAREN MORDECHAI

STYLED FOR SUNDAY SUPPERS BLOG.CONCEPT + STYLING : LIZZY SALL + KAREN MORDECHAI

ALL PHOTOS : KAREN MORDECHAI

STYLED FOR SUNDAY SUPPERS BLOG BLOG.CONCEPT + STYLING : LIZZY SALL + KAREN MORDECHAI

ALL PHOTOS : KAREN MORDECHAI

STYLED FOR MARTHA STEWART LIVING.CONCEPT + STYLING : LIZZY SALL + KAREN MORDECHAI

ALL PHOTOS : KAREN MORDECHAI

STYLED FOR KINFOLK MAGAZINEWRITING : LIZZY SALL.

CONCEPT + STYLING : LIZZY SALL + KAREN MORDECHAIALL PHOTOS : KAREN MORDECHAI

DAKOTA MARTINWOMEN”S WEAR 2005 - 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Dakota Martin was a contemporary women’s line produced and sold out of New York city to boutiques nationwide and internation-ally. All design, fabric sourcing, production overseeing, mar-keting and wholesale, online, and trunk show sales was done by partners Lizzy Sall and Shannon Casey. Dakota Martin sold to a total of 500 stores and was in existence from 2005 to 2010, when the partners decid-ed to quietly close their doors.

This is a very small selection of various season’s designs.