TAYLOR DANIEL Research & Practice
TAYLOR DANIEL
Creative designer with 6+ years’ experience in multiple design disciplines including architectural, interior, and graphic design. Responsible for production of innovative, high-quality designs, compelling visual presentations, and digital marketing work for clients as well as technical construction and shop drawings. Highly literate in digital programs including Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk products, Rendering programs, and 3D Modeling programs. Seeking to expand into additional experiences in graphic design, concept design, and Illustration.
WORK EXPERIENCE
SKILLS photoshop illustrator indesign lightroom premier lumion microsoft office rhinoceros sketchup autocad revit vray other skills
PROFILE
interior design digital imaging layout design marketing illustration visual presentations material boards physical modeling hand sketching digital illustration
Internships Rhotenberry Wellen Architects
Summer 2017
Assisted with the production of construction drawings, and built large-scale hand models for various residential projects, work with architects in the development of large scale plans and high end residential projects, assisted in developing design through sketches, electronic models, physical models, massing studies, and other visual formats, prepare and revise documentation in various architectural phases, assist in site analysis, research of concept, typology, and precedents.
WCA Design Studio
2018
Produced construction drawings for various commercial projects across all phases of design, redesigned firm’s BIM library, site visits, perform design, documentation, analysis and modeling tasks using appropriate software packages, prepare contracts and reports, specification documents, site surveys, and marketing design.
Studio Gang Architects
Summer 2018
Assisted in multiple project’s design and development phases, designed visual diagrams and project graphics in Adobe CC, created 3D models parametric modeling, and renderings, prepared technical tabulation documents, collaborated in national workshops, site visits, and design competitions.
Professional Experience GFF Architects Collaborated on design for a nonprofit project, coordinated with consultants and clients on various projects, participated in site surveys in the Church Studio, produced drawings from schematic design to construction, designed 3D modeling of interior instillations, compiled and presented material boards, visual renderings, and concept layouts for clients.
idGROUP Surveyed multiple sites in Texas, California, and Louisiana, designed and presented store layouts for big brands like Mattress Firm and T-Mobile, assisted in the production of interior drawings and presentations, designed material boards and visual representations for various clients, communicated design intent and strategy to clients, consulted clients on designs and implemented collaborative changes, created innovative solutions through team brainstorming and exploration.
Belshaw Mulholland Architects Designed multiple small and medium-scale projects, forming relationships and coordinating design decisions with consultants, engineers, and contractors on mixed use, multi-family projects. Designing across all phases from schematic design to construction documents for companies like United Properties and Lang, designed and presented various concept design and design development packages for clients, collaborated with client and team through the design process, assisted in marketing and branding with visual presentations using Adobe CC and 3D modeling programs.
EDUCATION Bachelor in Science of Architecture
Texas Tech University
Master of Architecture Certificate in Urban Design & Planning
Texas Tech University
Presidential Scholarship Mike Moss Endowment Dean’s List
Graduate Barrich Architectural Scholarship AIA Lubbock Endowment Graduate Grants
Dec 2016
Dec 2018
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS 50 Units in 50 Hours
Collaborative Studio with FAU Makenzie
Crop ‘08
TTU CoA Publication
Metropolitan America Exhiibition at Centre de Design
2021 AIA Dallas Build Awards People’s Choice
March 2018 Sao Paolo, Brazil
Dec 2018
Lubbock, Texas
2019
Ontario, Canada
2021
Dallas, Texas
RESEARCH & COLLABORATIONS Urban Studio
Summer 2016
Verona, Italy
Housing District Brazil Studio
Tamanduatei District, Sao Paulo, Brazil
e: ashleigh.t.daniel@gmail.com t: 214 364 3764
SKE Studio, Metropolitan America https://ksestudio.com/
March 2018 Fall 2018
PROJECTS Academic The Verona Lab Verona Italy Housing Line Sao Paulo, Brazil Metropolitan America Denver City, TX
Professional Soup Mobile Annex Dallas, TX Spring Valley Richardson, TX
PIAZETTA DE SANTA MARIA IN ORGANO
PIAZZA DEI SIGNORI
The Verona Lab Verona, Italy
The Verona Lab focuses on conditions of the urban city in the 21st century, especially cities that have a significant, historic heritage and now faces the transition to new urban conditions like Verona. The program operates as a form of design-based critical inquiry, emphasizing re-assessment as a multi-scale approach to the historic urban site (local, neighborhood, metropolitan, regional, and global scale) relative to questions of program, infrastructure, context, and cultural changes in order to project proposals as an innovative reflection of our current information society. Re-designing portions of existing structures with insertions for public use, and including the public space relative to the context. The architectural scale is integrated into the urban environment and various conditions. There is an emphasis on analysis of architectural and urban layers as it relates to transformation over time. The Verona Lab initiates with a reflection on the urban site, and how these transformational processes determine the quality of site conditions; interpretations of Veron’as past will facilitate projections of it’s future. Finally, the generation of formal and programmatic solutions based on strategic cultural and site analysis leads to the design of a new urban an architectural presence at several levels.
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Individual zones are scanned for qualities that define eac h zone. Activity, scale, crossings, edges, connectionc and levels. These individualized zones of interest are then hybridized from two-dimensional to three-dimensional diagrams in order to realize the inherent spacial qualities within the urban context and relations of each zone. The end result, the final hybridized form created from connections between zones, and integration into the site, generates three layers that result in a system of distinguished functionality for the progrommatic organization: transition, collective, and program.
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02 site cut into four zones by referencing existing context
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04 connect and reassemble different zones as systemmatic spaces with multiple potential programs
05 three layers create a system with distinguished functionality
Metropolitan America Denver City, TX Our Metropolitan America is the physical representation of oil production and energy. Aiming to create a utopia of the oil industry in West Texas , and takes it to a whole new level that capitalizes on economic gain for a town based on precedented research. The project gives an in depth analysis of the industrial energies and the scars they leave on the landscape. The analysis produces a palimpset which underlies the project. Oil production and energy seeks to represent the future of oil in a small town in Texas. The town returns economic gain back into the creation of a mountain of pleasurable programs that benefit the town and renewable resources.
The trip route commences by focusing on mapping the production and energy cources in the landscape of West Texas and New Mexico. Within this exploration, there are a few different conditions. Some towns illustrated a perforation of energy, shown in black, in the town’s fabric, while others kept it on the outskirts of city limits. If the town was created before energy was introduced, the energy does not pierce the border of the city limits, as shown on the drawings. Soon after analysis of these mappings, our focus shifts to oil production in the landscape.
1973 - TheArab Embargo is announced, creating gas lines, concerns about energy supplies and the beginning of a rise in crude oil prices from $4 a barrel to $25 a barrel by 1979, when the shah of Iran was overthrown, causing renewed turmoil in the oil markets.
121 USD 1948: The European Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan, helps war-torn Europe get access to petroleum imports.
Oil prices had remained above $25 early 1986, when they collapsed to sending shock waves through the Midland andTexas.
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1991 - Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait The Bush administration releases thirty-four million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve in anticipation of an oil shock, but contrary to predictions, oil prices drop from about $30 per barrel in September to less than $20 in Januar y.
142 USD 20XX - Future of WestTexas The future of oil will continue to increase as the years progress. Rent will begin to level out with the projection of the oil.
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1998 - Birth of the Super Majors Prices again sank to $10 a barrel, sending new shockwaves through the Midland economy and leading to the loss of thousands of jobs.
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2018 - Level out Oil The oil begins to level out.A boom will mostly like be in the near future.
The design commences through a series of density studies and research allowing us to find the ideal percentage of oil, shown in black, against the rest of the town - which comes to 30%. This percentage leads to a series of proposal options that explore arrangements based of those density studies. Proposal 01 explores a centered perforation of the city fabric. Proposal 02 explores a centered cluster of oil production in the town. Proposal 03 explores a periphery wall condition of oil The final iteration explores a combination of the two, creating an artificial mountain condition.
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Housing Line Sao Paulo, Brazil This advanced studio examines the redevelopment of urban industrial corridors for social housing. It problematizes how human migration co-evolves densly packed settlements and barren, underutilized sites across the Latin Global South, and in this case within the last of Sao Paulo’s industrial districts. The multiscalar analysis on these patterns aling five coupled sites at the margin of the Tamanduatei District - five favelas and five factory ruins - form the basis of the studio’s primary objective of putting low-income families at the front of Sao Paulo’s housing line. Displacement by way of corridor development is by no means endimic to Sao Paulo nor Latin America. Unique in the case of Sao Paulo is that existing and proposed development corridors parallel and industrial zone that has long supported a succession in the city’s oldest informal settlements, as well as a series of factory ruins that - taken together - form a corridor that is neither acknowledged nor privileged for improvements. No longer geared towards just economic development, the transformation of infrastructure must catalyze relationships that better connect the favelas and factories. This studio takes as a parti the notion of infrastructure coupling, and the potential of formal and informally-settled industrial sites to interact and reinforce one another, rather than just the outright displacement of the later, as is growing increasingly once again. Utilizing Global and Brazilian precedents as an analysis to create an urban strategy, the concept of obduracy that catalyzes malleability and calibration of phenomenon, activity, and program is generated. Static aggregates of historical preservation give basis to obdurate forms, which catalyze the manipulation of social housing and community programs as a tool of revitalization.
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ALCACER DO SAL HOUSING // global precedent study [Aires Mateus] Ashleigh Daniel | ARCH 5502
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SYNTHESIS // Alcacer do Sal Housing [Aires Mateus] Ashleigh Daniel | ARCH 5502
SYNTHESIS // Pedregulho Housing [Alfonso Eduardo Riedy] Ashleigh Daniel | ARCH 5502
The utilization of 3D parametric programs generates form relative to typologies found to be emergent within precedent studies. Commonality found between both the Global precedent and Brazilian precedent are three areas of public and private space: the unit aggregate, corridor of circulation, and courtyard of public space. Examining these attributes at multiple scales give insight to systems within social housing, and the larger informally settled corridor of the Tamanduatei District.
SoupMobile Church Annex Dallas, TX
SoupMobile developed their property at 2425 S. Good Latimer, Dallas 75215 as a Church Annex in South Dallas. This property is directly adjacent (South Side) of SoupMobile Church 2423 S. Good Latimer. The church is widely considered as the ‘home’ church for the homeless in Dallas. The new church annex building has a Worship space, church office and food pantry (which is part of the church’s mission). The Church Annex building retains the same ‘look’ and be architecturally compatible with the existing SoupMobile church. There are two buildings attached by an exterior covered area. The “intake” building has a small fixed seating area for Worship, church administrative space and a restroom. The second building has a food storage area, a break room for employees and a restroom. The combined square footage of the two building is between 1600-1800 SF. The structural system is wood framed with a slab on grade ground floor system. Site work includes sidewalks to the building entries, a metal fence, parking spots, and a small covered area. This project received a 2021 Peoples’ Choice Award from AIA Dallas.
Spring Valley
Richardson, TX Belshaw Mulholland Architects Spring Valley is a five level multi-family housing project located in Dallas, Texas. Focusing on texture and materiality, the project integrates horizontal bands, framed balconies, and plays with patterning. The project contains 375 units, two courtyards, and addresses context to the site through placement and design.
TAYLOR DANIEL Research & Practice