Architecture / Digital Experiences

Region 4 / Lobby Renovations

Region 4 Education Service Center2024 · Completed

Concept rendering of a bright atrium with timber ceiling elements and digital columns. — Conference-center lobby concept rendering.

Sunlight fills the renovated conference-center atrium, with tall digital display columns, a stair, and seating beneath skylights. — Completed conference-center lobby.

Rendering of timber slats continuing across an employee reception area. — Employee arrival concept rendering.

Original conference-center lobby with exposed columns and patterned flooring. — Before renovation: the conference-center lobby.

The original employee reception area with a red reception desk, purple seating, and an open upper-level balcony. — Before renovation: the employee reception area.

Two everyday thresholds reimagined as places of arrival, communication, and connection. Light, timber, integrated media, and a stronger reception presence give the existing lobbies a contemporary identity.

My contribution

I developed the concept and overall architectural direction for both lobby transformations, working with the existing building volumes and structural constraints to create warmer, more welcoming environments.

How can a design constraint become the defining experience?

A renewed conference-center arrival

From passageway to destination

At the McKinney Conference Center, the tall atrium and existing columns became the organizing elements of a new arrival experience. Timber, lighting, seating, and reception bring human scale to the volume.

Architecture as a communication surface

Integrated LED displays turn structural columns into changing surfaces for wayfinding, organizational messages, event information, and environmental content.

Rethinking the employee arrival

A continuous timber slat system wraps from wall to ceiling, organizing the employee reception zone. Linear lighting reinforces its geometry and gives the daily entrance a clear rhythm and identity.

Collaboration & credits

Practice: PBK.
Completed lobby photography: Region 4 Social Media.

Image credits

Completed conference-center lobby. — Photography: Region 4 Social Media.

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