Project: Frosted acrylic header. Ambient light helps lure first time visitors and students to this electronic touch screen kiosk. New and old construction totals 157,000 square foot, part of the historic ‘Lawn’. Now recognized as a World Heritage Site.
Client: McIntire School of Commerce
Designer: Gropen (scope did not include kiosk)
Project: Directory slats for tenants, at elevator. Dramatic spot and upwash lighting highlight .75” thick carved acrylic slats. Brushed metal stand off fasteners.
Client: Red Light Management
Designer: Formwork Architects
Project: Pedestrian directional signage. Freestanding. High gloss and strong color contrast with a historic brick environment to create a quiet but warm welcome to lecture series and symposia open to a mixed, but older audience.
Client: Miller Center for Public Affairs
Designer: Gropen
Project: Definition of entry and guide for pedestrians. Aluminum panel with screen-print graphics.
Client: Mitchell Matthews Architects
Designer: Mitchell Matthews Architects
Project: Directory in new construction. Student building. Multi-use. Four floors. Entrances on three levels. Paper inserts make updating easy.
Client: Averett University
Designer: Bagby Planning & Design and Gropen
Project: Interior signs in new construction. Student building. Multi-use. Four floors. Entrances on three levels. Paper inserts make updating easy.
Client: Averett University
Designer: Bagby Planning & Design and Gropen
Project: Pedestrian directional sign. Aid to locating smaller tenants from primary lobby. Large adaptive reuse office building. High gloss acrylic, polished edges. Back (sub) surface graphic. Blind mount to travertine lobby wall.
Client: Category 4
Designer: Gropen
Project: Creative, coordinated sign to guide users at large scale music venue. Municipal building.
Client: City of Charlottesville
Designer: Gropen
Project: Brushed clear anodized aluminum with vinyl copy. Bowed face. Aluminum mount.
Client: Signature Medical Spa
Designer: Gropen
Project: Small donor recognition panel used as way finding device. The only marker in use. Mounted on painted concrete block. At a private school for autistic children.
Client: Virginia Institute for Autism
Designer: Gropen
Sample of Production capabilities: Clear frosted acrylic, anodized aluminum for building signage.
Project: Office directional sign. Horizontally brushed aluminum with vinyl decoration.
Client: City of Charlottesville: Facilities Management
Designer: Gropen
Project: Office destination sign. Mixed vinyl decoration.
Client: City of Charlottesville: Facilities Management
Designer: Gropen
Project: Destination sign, in Moot Court Room. Additionally used for a backdrop for university wide webcast. Photo opportunity background for use with still photography.
Client: Washington and Lee School of Law
Designer: Gropen
Project: Corporate destination sign. Logo in conference area. Various treatments of aluminum utilized to distinguish logo colors.
Client: Intalgent
Designer: Logo interpreted by Gropen