palmer portfolio

Michael Palmer

iMage Architecture Film Archive

Florence, Italy

Table of Contents

ArtHab Homeless Art Facility

Los Angeles, California

Graphic Work

UCL Student Union

London, United Kingdom

Analysis of Alice Cook Houseby Kieran Timberlake Architects

Ithaca, New York

iMage Architecture Film Archive

Florence, Italy

This project, located in Florence, Italy, housed a private architecture film collection which served an international architectural audi-ence. The building is situated on the exit ramp of the Uffizi Gallery, and would serve as the primary exit to the museum, while expos-ing the work of iMage to the greater public. The project uses intersecting volumes to create dynamic interstitial spaces where public and private collide.

southern approach rendering

northern approach rendering

formal diagrams

FROM PIAZZA SIGNORIA

FROM UFFIZI

TO S.CROCE

TO A

RNO

TO D

UOMO

site plan

plan diagrams

site placement

interior renderings

sectional sketch

ground floor plan

program plan diagrams

second floor plan

first floor plan

PROJECTION

SER

VIC

E

RECEPTION

CIRCULATION

TEACHING

CIRCULATION

UFFIZI EXIT

BOO

KSTO

RE

CAFE

SER

VIC

E

ARCHIVE

VIDEO PRODUCTION

CIRCULATION

UFFIZI EXIT

ADM

INIS

TRAT

ION

SER

VIC

E

PIAZZA

University College London Student Union

London, United Kingdom

This project, located in Central London at the University College London, the third largest school in the UK, serves as a new gateway into the University as well as a new student union. The project serves as a unique new entry point while framing a view from the street of the historic Wilkins Building Dome using a massive elements around a large picture window. Additionally, the project creates a new urban street to link the street front to the interior quadrangles of the campus.

path and vision diagrams

rendered as from street

view of model from above

current entries to campus

site plan

site section

rear elevation

formal diagram study models

first floor plan

ground floor plan

BOOKSTORE

CAFE

A A

B

B

EXHIBITION

MECHANICAL

First Floor Plan (1:200)1m 5 20

2 10

A A

B

B

ArtHab Homeless Art Facility

Los Angeles, Californiaproject completed collaboratively with Matthew Wood

This project, located in Skid Row in Los Angeles, California, serves as a homeless rehabilitation center in the form of a combined residence and art therapy facility. The complex aims to foster the creative potential of the homeless community in skid row and using this to benefit both the users and the community as a whole. The project uses the formal elements of the existing industrial and residential complexes in Los Angeles and creates a new typology combining them.

F.S.

F.S.

project as located in site model

programmatic and volumetric model, with custom program icons

early rendering

skid row site plan

concept sketchcreativity mapping in Los Angeles and Skid Row

sectional perspective of entire complex

first floor plan

early section perspective

second floor plan typical housing floor plan

rendering of art buiilding

model of art building

concept montageoverall model render

Analysis of Alice Cook Houseby Kieran Timberlake Architects

Ithaca, New Yorkproject completed collaboratively with Alyson Canal, Sally Morrow and William Stattman

The Alice Cook House was the first of a series of housing buildings for Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in 2004 by Kieran Timberlake Archi-tects. For the Syracuse Advanced Building System Course, I worked collaboratively to analyze the building systems of the house, such as enclosure systems, structural systems, and environmental systems. Using various programs and working in a group, we ana-lyzed the building’s original inten-tions of prefabrication as well as the systems as they were built and installed.

simplified environmental systems diagram

composite enclosure, structure and mechanical axonometric

comparison of Alice Cook House to nearby Gothic Housing

structural and mechanical connection at joint

brick patterns of Kieran Timberlake and existing Gothics

ALICE H. COOKHOUSE

Graphic Work

In my architectural designs and other endeavors I often create distinct graphics that either aid in my project designs, provide for external visualization or simply as an art form. My self-teaching of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator at a young age have allowed me to explore the computer as a medium that can supplement sketching to strongly convey ideas, schemes and scenarios. This technique has allowed me to apply these visual techniques to other architectural drawing.

representation of two market typologies in Florence, Italy

logo for reddit.com/r/devils

poster for Architecture Student Organization Trip to Montreal

mock poster for Citizen Kane

icons for items in markets of Florence, Italy

Michael Palmerhttp://mcpalmer.info/mcpalmer@syr.edu(908) 812-1975

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