Lisa Vander Meulen Portfolio Contact Information:
cell: 616.638.8947 e-mail: [email protected]
45,000 sq. ft. culinary school. Fine dining restaurant and supporting kitchens, retail, assorted teaching kitchens, demonstration areas and traditional classrooms.
Courses Restaurant
Courses Restaurant Guests are treated to food and service provided by culinary students.
Baker College CIM – The Sweet Spot Sales of specialty pastries and desserts created on site.
The Sweet Spot – Community Space
Rotunda and Central Staircase
CIM Central Rotunda
CIM – Teaching Kitchen (Skills Lab 1)
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CIM – Skills Lab 1
CIM – Skills Lab II
Note that all casework is stainless steel and freestanding. Floors are a slip-resistant heavy-duty sheet vinyl with welded seams.
Students at work
CIM – 3rd Floor Classroom Waiting Area & Library
CIM – 3rd floor Classroom
Modular doors can separate this classroom from two others, or can be opened up to create a larger space.
CIM – Demo/TV Kitchen During Installation
Note 3 heights of tables and chairs. Kitchen casework not yet installed . The original design called for poured concrete risers. These concrete risers were deleted as a cost savings and 3 different heights of furnishings used to create a tiered effect.
Baker College Welcome Center
Baker College Welcome Center
Potential student welcome and check in
Baker College Welcome Center
Lobby seating area
Nature Education Center LEED Gold Facility
LEED Gold Certified Building. Provided complete interior design services – finish , furniture specification, bid document development Coordinated sourcing of donated furnishings.
Hemlock Crossings Nature Education Center
Welcome Desk
Multi-purpose Room
Critter Den – Discovery Area
Critter Den – Aquarium
Critter Den – Animal Feeder Viewing Area
A LEED requirement is that materials originate within 500 miles of the site. Flooring is Morton Gneiss granite from Minnesota, local fieldstone, red pine logs and pine trim.
Classroom
Gift Shop and Library
Engineering Firm
Engineering firm with furnishings and finishes that support the company’s 24 hour operations and relate to it’s purpose – Civil Engineering/Bridge building
Clean lines and easily maintained finishes carry into public areas and private offices.
Furniture classics compliment clean lines of desking units.
Financial Services
Community Shores Grand Haven – Lobby Strong colors balance company’s corporate blue and contribute to the facility branding.
Community Shores Grand Haven – Teller Line. Finish palette and furnishings typicals were used for 2 additional branches to help establish corporate identity and branding.
Muskegon Chamber of Commerce
Visitor Welcome Area
Coffee/Gathering Area
Office Area
Law Office
Law Office – Waiting Area Horizontal reveals in built-in casework and fireplace were designed to line up exactly with reveals in furniture system.
Law Office- Casework/ Fireplace Detail
Cherry panels are touch-latch doors on coat closet and storage cabinet.
Law Office – Conference Room
Medical/Dental Office
Orthodontist Office – Waiting Area
Orthodontist Office – Operatory
Retail
Sweet Temptations In this candy/ice cream chain the whimsical chair fabric inspired the color palette and flooring design.