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Education

California College of the Arts

MArch 3, Architecture Graduate ProgramJuly 2009 to Present [3 year program] • Developed skills and thought processes crucial for success in the field of Architecture. • 3D design, model making, drawing, & exploring alternate methods of conveying/ exploring ideas.• Published at eVolo.us May 2011

CAD Teacher, San Diego, CA

Revit I and II January 2009 to March 2009• Basic drafting and 3D modeling through schedules, area details, callouts with detail components, importing and exporting to AutoCAD.

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metal SculptureFall 2000 to Winter 2005Minor in Science Illustration• Fundamentals in making techniques, 2D and 3D, in multiple medias, as well as developing conceptual thinking. • William H. & Susan B. Irwin Scholarship Grant Winner• Student Member of the Faculty Selection Committee

Experience

OBR Architecture June & July 2009

obrarchitecture.comOBR Architecture is a young & accomplishedArchitectural Firm in San Diego having opened its doors in 2008.Position: Graphic & 3D Design • 3D Design in Sketch up• Graphic Design in Photoshop/Illustrator.

Blue Motif Architecture July 2008 – July 2009

bluemotifarchitecture.comBlue Motif is an award winning Architectural firm in San Diego.Position: Presentation Design• Developed Proposal Strategies and Material for the new Cultural Center at UCSD with digital and print media.

Reside Inc./MAKE Fabrication|May 2008 - July 2009

makefabrication.wordpress.comReside Inc. is a branding corp. specializingin custom thematic signage and contracting.Position:Fabrication / Installation • Design and Fabrication of signage in metal, wood, Acrylic, glass, and other materials.• Welding (MIG and TIG), precision milling, and other machining of parts for installation.• Installation of signage and other custom products on commercial and private properties.

Software

• Rhino®• Grasshopper®• Revit®• Autocad®• Adobe® Illustrator®• Adobe® Photoshop® • Adobe® InDesign®• Adobe® Dreamweaver®• Adobe® Acrobat®• Microsoft® Office / Excel®• PC & MAC based operating systems

Fabrication Skills

• Precision Machining & Milling• MIG, TIG, Stick welding on Stainless Steel, Steel, Aluminum,and Bronze.• Bronze Casting: Mold making, Investment/Ceramic Shell, Pouring Metal, Refinishing, Patina, and Installation.• Casting: Resin, rubber, polyurethane, rockite, concrete fiberglass, plaster, wax, life casting, etc.• Mixed Media: woodworking, ceramic, acrylic & oil painting, water color, ink, graphite, etc.

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Saadiyat Island:Gateway to Abu Dhabi N View Approaching Underpass (North)

Exotic VariablesInstructor:Thom FauldersSpring 2011

CompressiveCompressive

LTL: Park Tower

Herzog & de Meuron, 1111

Plan DiagramParking Ramp Radius Study

Perspective DiagramProgramatic Expansion & Contraction

Museum ofthe Future& Restaurant

Real EstateOffices& Cafe

TouristBureau

TransportationHub & Cafe

Marina City

Precedent studies:

Foster + Partners: Masdar City

Abu Dhabi is a car culture. The vast distances between destinations, the extreme heat and sand storms, the quality of the existing public transportation systems, and the current low cost of petrol in the UAE make the automobile the default means of travel.

Compressive looks at this existing condition and more specifically, the car as a representation of human beings’ very worst and very best achievement. The way western society, and emerging societies around the world have implemented the automobile is both irresponsible and inexcusable. While the resources consumed to manufacture and operate the car are astounding, the personal freedom the car affords is something that every society should strive for (personal freedom, that is). The car is an integral component of our existing lifestyle, and one that will not fade without a reexamination of our entire public transportation system.

Compressive reexamines the interaction between the person and the car at various scales and questions the current understanding of the parking lot as a type of “service space.” It looks forward to a time when emissions will be reduced and people and cars may inhabit the same spaces comfortably given that safety, congestion, and the integration of various forms of transportation have been resolved. These “service spaces” that we call parking lots may eventually be seen as destinations in themselves.

Compressed Site Plan: *NTS

Gateway:View to Abu Dhabi (west)

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Uncompressed State Compression:Indicating Occupation

UncompressedState

Compression:Indicates Occupation

UncompressedState

Compression:Indicates Occupation

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Weight Based

Weight Based& Operational

Facade Operation& Pedestrian Pathways

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Transverse Section Sectional Model 1’=1/8”5’10’ 20’

By utilizing the car as another form of vertical transportation the building can begin to register occupation by the reacting to the weight of cars parked on various floors. By sectionally arranging the main programs of this mixed use tower, groups of up to 5 floors will actually begin to sag with the weight of cars based on program use at different times throughout the day. The dynamic façade system intensifies this condition by folding out and up when the floors compress allowing for increased ventilation throughout the parking area to counter act the greater number of cars. Whatever solar protection is lost by the folding façade is made up by the new condition of shorter floor-to-floor height of the surrounding parking ramps.

The compression is brought back to the scale of the human where the yellow pedestrian paths make their way from the parking spaces across the car ramps to the interior. When a car approaches a pedestrian path the road reacts locally to the car’s weight, causing an inverted speed bump and ensuring pedestrian safety.

This reaction to the weight of occupation allows the user an intuitive understanding of not only their own impact on the space, but the impact of the aggregated population surrounding them.

19th Floor Plan

5’10’ 20’

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section: north - south*NTSgeary street

post street

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hong kong: kawloon walled city: circa 1960

erosion of peace plaza exposing existing structure

hong kong: kawloon walled city: 1992

infrastructural truss utilizing existing structure

Studio 3Living in JapanTown - San Francisco

Fall 2010Instructors:C. Falliers& A. Sparks“We have no choice but to reformulate the dialectical constituents of the world, to determine more consciously the necessary links obtaining between place and production, between the ”what” and the “how.”... With the manifest exhaustion of non-renewable resources the techno-topic myth of unlimited progress becomes somewhat discredited and, at this juncture, the production of place returns us by way of economic limit not to architecture, but to the... [Heideggarian notion] of Blaukunst ... Since what is fatally tied to the relevant optimal sub-categories of production, not only those of built form itself, but also those structurally productive forces that implicitly shape the built environment as elements ofour relations to nature.”

- Kenneth Frampton

The erosion of the Peace Plaza at JapanTown enabled a more direct access between the existing sidewalk elevations at Post and Geary street using ADA ramp standards to influ-ence the path and location. This erosion also exposed the existing structural columns that could be exploited for new construction. This project explored parasitic architec-ture as the most extreme form of Critical Regionalism and the future of Car/Pedestrian interaction.

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section: east - west*NTS

1st Floor Plan*NTS

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section:north - south

section:east - west

geary street

post street

japan town:peace plaza

plan unit detail: 1st*NTS

2nd Floor

birds eye view north

view from integrated space

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BookStore

Ticketing

Plans 1-10 *NTS

Lobby

CoffeeBar

Receiving&Storage

The UrbanModel Galleries:

Secial ShowsAdmin.Offices

Permanent Collection

Archives

educationcenter

VirtualBlack Box

InstallationGallery

Library

ReadingRoom

Wind Turbines

Lecture Space

Roof Garden

LobbyCoffeeBar

The UrbanModel

Galleries:Special Shows

AdministrativeOffices

VirtualBlack Box

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Library ReadingRoom

Archiveseducationcenter

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MISSION

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Averaging Architecural Topography as it Traverses MA+C

Studio 2Museum of Architecture and the City: Architectural Topography

Spring 2010Instructor: T. Faulders

The architectural augmentation of topography throughout San Francisco, the “city of hills,” is a condition that a museum of architecture should communi-cate.

While this condition will continue to evolve with the built environment, the amplifi-cation is a product of code at the scale of the city, the neighborhood, the block, and the building.

The buildings surrounding the site in question step down from 40+ stories to 15+ stories (the specification for MA+C) & finally to the ground level of the plaza adjacent to our site & the Yerba Buena center across Mission Street. The existing flow of architectural topogra-phy cuts through the proposed volume of MA+C creating a novel condition of interior and exterior spaces.

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Apparatus to Experience

San FranciscoCirculaiton Diagrams: Following Up Around Void

Lobby BookStore

The UrbanModel

Galleries:Special Shows

AdministrativeOffices

VirtualBlack Box

InstallationGallery

ReadingRoom

Archives

educationcenter

North - South Longitudinal Section *NTS

Permanent Collection

Wind Turbines

Mechanical

LectureSpace &Roof Garden

View From the Plaza

View of Special Shows GallerySean Stillwe

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Idustrial Infill

Shoreline

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Model 1 & 2: Study of Stable and Unstable Ground Wooden Dowels and Laser Cut Plywood

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Studio 1Project 2

Fall 2009Instructors:J. L’Heureux& C. MarshInvestigations of ground conditions indicate locations of possible Architectural intervention on the Albany Bulb. An understanding of materiality and resulting ground stability was gained through site research, diagrams, and model making. Modeling was additionally used to explore three dimensional relationships between topsoil & vegetation (visible conditions), & the foundation of in-filled construction waste materials.

The Albany Bulb:Ground Materiality Influencing Stability: Micro ScaleDiagram By: Sean Stillwell & Gabe Guerriero

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Model 1 Elevation: West / EastModel 2 Elevation: South / North

Model 2 Elevation: East / West

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Bathymetry

Ground Stability in term of Liquefaction

Direction of Slope Grade & Intensity of Change

Systems LimitingIntervention

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Vegetation as aLimiting Volume

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Model 2 Site

The Albany Bulb:Determining Site Locations MArch

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Visual DigitalMedia 1Fall 2009instructor:A. SteinmullerAn exploration of representational techniques. Using Lebbeus Woods as an example, drawings of the Loisium Hotel in Langenlois, Austria were produced. By Lebbeus Woods By Lebbeus Woods

By Lebbeus Woods

Sectional Perspective: S.Stillwell

Sectional Perspective: S.Stillwell

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Structure: Force Flow Diagram

A0.2: Detail ThroughFacade

A0.1: Detail ThroughFacade Gangways

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3RD FLOOR PLAN: 1’=1/32”

TRANSVERSE SECTION: 1’ = 1/32”

ADVANCEDTECHNICAL SYSTEMS

Spring 2011 Instructor:J. MusselReproduction of Plans, Sections, Details, & Structural Analysis of the Leutschenbach School by Christian Kerez Architects in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Custom Fabrication:Steel WindowInserts

Core Tin Steel Plantersw/MAKE Fabrication

Stainless Steel InteriorCanopies w/Blue Motif Architecture

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Death &PoliteDinnerConver-sationSeniorShow ucsc

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The series “Patriotic From the Waist Down” is comprised of 3 cast bronze belt buckles. These works question the notion of patriotism and ones own relationship to it. Every symbol used can be interpreted differently with both positive and negative connotations depending on perspective.

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These works are the part of the series called “Best Intentions.” This body of work deals with the layering of individuals and the cultures they live in. As these layers interact they begin to break away, engulf, reveal, and conceal the layers both beneath and surrounding them.

Slurpy Lid Painting 1-4Supersoaker Sculpture 1 (2-4 N.S.)

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