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2nd Year Architecture Portfolio
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ICONICSimplicity + Projection
By Danny Travis
Curriculum Vitae
Work Experience Intern - Jordan Mozer & Associates May 2014 - August 2014
Organized and helped transition between new o�cesFabricated custom stair treds for new o�ce.
Fellow - Crosstree May 2014 - August 2014
Learned how to fabricate and manipulate metal welding, bending, steel types Designed, developed and made working prototype
Intern Architect - MGA Architects June 2011 - July 2013
Collaborate in the design and construction process of a variety of residential and commercial projects. Contribute from onset of a projects �eld measurement to designing and creating construction documents to completion.Prepare and submit drawings for zoning, planning, and client review.
Owner - Garden Brothers, LLC May 2001 - November 2011
Ran day to day operations building the business from three lawns on the block to 34 weekly lawns and various landscape projects from weeding and mulching to designing and coordinating full installations.Expanded weekly lawn service into surrounding cities and landscaping thoughout the metro Detroit area with at times four employees.
Marketed and communicated with customers and potential clients.
Created quotes, invoiced, ran payroll, recorded income and expenses.
Consultant - SHW Group November 2010 - March 2011
Worked with Detroit Public Schools in assessing
current building capacities and potential
occupancy of each school in the district.Catalogued and organized existing furniture for moving into new facilities.
Education Masters of Architecture Candidate August 2013-Present
University of Illinois at Chicago
GPA 3.68
Honors: Year End Show Selection
Fall 2013, Spring 2014*, Fall 2014
*Directors Choice Award Winner
Bachelors of Science in Architecture May 2010
University of Michigan - Taubman College of
Architecture and Urban Planning
Extracurriculars Community Design Work Detroit Bench - Helped design and create a bench for an apartment’s public lot “Kyle Bartell, Wayne State University Student, Creates Parks To Make Detroit More Walkable” -Hu�ngton Post Article Detroit By Design 2012: Detroit Riverfront Competition Help organize the international competition with the AIA Detroit Urban Pirorities Committee
Additional Skillset Pro�cient with Microsoft O�ce: PowerPoint, Word, Excel Adobe creative suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign Design Programs: Rhino, AutoCAD, Sketch-Up, Maya, Cinema 4D, Maxwell
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INDEX
CV..................................................................02
Fundamentals...........................................04
House Project................................................18
Creteur......................................................28
Myth..........................................................44
Lost In Found.................................................50
Objectified.................................................66
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Molly Hunker’s fellowship research during the 2013–2014 academic year has centered on
kitsch artifacts and their potential to recalibrate contemporary notions of atmosphere and
engagement. Hunker’s culminating fellowship project, Myth, focuses speci�cally on the
religious genre of the home shrine, re-imagining the richly decorative and kitsch assembly
through the lens of the architectural installation.
Myth uses the decorative prayer candle as the primary object-tradition through which to
explore how home shrines may provoke new understandings of visual and atmospheric
opulence in the architectural interior. Made with traditional candle-making techniques,
hundreds of handmade wax candles are suspended on embedded cotton wicks, accumulat-
ing to create a semi-enclosed chromaphilic space. While the overhead candles are geometri-
cally simple and clean, the candles closer to the ground are increasingly articulated with a
grotesque rustication captured during the transformation of the material from its liquid state
to its solid state. This rustication technique partners with a gradient of increasing color
saturation to engage with the traditional shrine organization that establishes a narrative
describing the change between heaven and earth.
Contemporary expressions of religious architecture tend to reinforce a clean, open-minded
spatial construct that leaves the spiritual narrative to be de�ned by each visitor’s imagination
and beliefs (however rich or bland those may be). Instead, Myth aims to establish a space of
greater emotional and spiritual resonance by employing familiar materials, crafts and even
smells present in more common devotional spaces.
MythMolly Hunker, 2013-2014 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow
Collaborators: Preston Welker, Samra Pecanin, Max Jarosz, Nichole
Tortorici, Jacob Comerci
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L o s t in F o u n d p la ys with the idea of architecture as
character and with character through its relationships
between program, interior spaces, exterior form and
facade. The overall form, three arches with the center
arch rotated, gives the architecture movement,
animalizing and animating the static shape. This new
characters façade then begins to add character
through the use of the collage. Its familiar forms:
arches, Roman columns and temple friezes; distort,
scale, overlap and interact to give the façade a simple
yet complex �gure. This begins to form the interior
spaces and confuse the reading between what is
simply �at aesthetic and what is volumetric within.
The interplay of what is simply exterior or interior
continues inside where the de�ned interior is
distorted through large volumes of space that feel as
if they are still part of the exterior. Other spaces play
more directly with the interaction of the façade’s
shapes. This constant shifting of interior/exterior, as
well as use of programmatic organization, allows
visitors to become more aware of the architecture
they inhabit and make new discoveries along the way.
Lost In FoundProfessor: Stewart Hicks
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KEEP WALKING
RESEMBLANCE:
Keep Walking resembles an elephant like creature with too many
legs.
FORMS:
Keep Walking is formed by three repeated arches.
STORY:
One can enter through one of the three large openings at the fig-
ures base. Once inside, the large arches continue upwards to the
spaces above. Each leg containing program, meet at the top to
create a large singular space, where the programs begin to mix.
These legs were
meant for walking!
+ + =
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PLAN 157
PLAN 2
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PLAN 359
Plan 2
Plan 1
Plan 3
SECTION A60
Plan 2
Plan 1
Plan 3
SECTION B61
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O b je c ti�ed examines the house in the age of
consumer culture. A shift from the house as a means
of creating an interior environment for its user, the
house has become a piece of storage for the amassed
collection of objects and possesions by its
inhabitants. The shift reverses architectures elements:
the wall, column, �oor and ceiling, into primary
elements for storage and allows for the objects
themselves to become the architecture. Objects
divide space, �lter light, and create privacy through
their aggregation in the house, even over�owing out
onto the landscape. In the center of it all, the cone of
silence allows reprieve for the houses inhabitants to
escape their own collection. Providing the primary
circulation from the front door to the back, the cone
and adjacent corridor are stripped of all objects and
decoration. It’s smooth white walls cut through the
ceiling looking upwards to the sky, escaping the
chaos around it.
Objecti�edProfessors: Penelope Dean & Grant Gibson
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Hanging CeilingSystem pulls down surface
Movement
Cut Site
Overall Form
Spaces from ObjectsHanging objects divide space
Pocket StorageWall becomes storage for small items
Stacking StructureStacked objects surround columns
Pile FloorFloor dips to provide storage for areas of object aggregation
LandscapeLifts dips and is cut, reacting to house access
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A-A
B-B
PLAN
SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”70
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SECTION A - ASCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”72
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ELEVATIONS
SCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”
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REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
SCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”
SECTION B - BSCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”
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