brendan taylor travel portfolio
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Park + Shop + Live
SCAD [Fall 2011] Studio project directed towards the new trend of redesigning parking structures. Located in downtown Austin, TX the parking garage was given three essential functions : Park, Shop, Live. The project soon developed towards the living function, while still incorporated the required +500 parking spaces. Living units were developed off a modular system stacked and shifted each level to create a more organic facade with direct views to the Colorado River.
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Re-imagine Detroit
SCAD [Fall 2012] Detroit By Design AIA competition in collaboration with Zack Callaway Collaborative urban design project focusing on redesigning a section of downtown Detroit. The project was to bring life back into a failing city through design. The concept began by looking back at to what built the city of Detroit? The Automobile. At first the vehicle became a luxury and the new way of transportation. People and vehicles shared the roads/pathways until vehicles began moving faster. Soon pedestrians were forces to the side while cars were given a clear and dominant path. The social interaction between the two was lost. This project focuses on bringing that interaction back . With the help of GM’s personal transportation unit, the EN-V, all forms of transportation can be created equal. This allows pedestrians, bikes, and PTU’s to socially interact on the same plan. This then transitions from the urban outdoors to the architecture around it. Buildings incorporate all modes of transportation and then grow into groups, then adapt to the city grid, and are then allowed to evolve and spread throughout the city bringing life and a new style of living custom to Detroit.
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Pedestrian = Personal Transportation Unit All forms of transportation treated equally
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Pier 5.5
SCAD [Thesis 2013] Thesis project focusing on cost effective, high density housing for the emerging professional. The concept was to provide affordable housing to new graduated by placing them in the heart of a downtown location. For this project the building is placed in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, MD. In this point of time 50% of students graduated are working a job the does not require a degree. Since most businesses are located in the most dense parts of the cite, residents have local access to multiple jobs in their desired field with no commute. In order to keep the living cost down the project utilizes high density architecture, utilizing space as efficiently as possible. Each room is design at 400 square feet to provide comfortable living space while keeping cost down. With built in storage and folding/collapsible furniture, no square foot of space is wasted.
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Section Perspective 2 Room Exploded Axon
Vegetation Geotextile Fabric Top Soil Polyurethane Drainage and Aeration System
Models Additional Work: Details, 3DS Max, SketchUP
Green Roof Detail
Roof Insulation Plywood Root Barrier Roofing Membrane Timber Decking Glu-lam Glu-lam Blocking
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ACH 223 CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE Professor Robert R. Lowe, III"
Brendan Taylor 10/26/09
Parapet Details
Removable Roof Model
Interior Shot of Model
Study Model
Sand Dune Model
Interior Rendering Night
Interior Rendering - Day
Exterior Rendering
Green Roof
Exterior Pathway Rendering
Interior Rendering
For more information, complete portfolio, and competition work visit:
http://issuu.com/bstaylor90