ICONIC
Simplicity + Projection
By Danny Travis
Curriculum Vitae C E W L
248.752.3436 dantravi@gmail.com dannytravis.com Chicago, IL
Work Experience Intern - Jordan Mozer & Associates May 2014 - August 2014 Organized and helped transition between new offices Fabricated custom stair treds for new office. 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 field measurement to designing and creating construction documents to completion. Prepare and submit drawings for zoning, planning, and client review. May 2001 - November 2011 Owner - Garden Brothers, LLC 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. 2
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 University of Michigan - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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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” -Huffington Post Article Detroit By Design 2012: Detroit Riverfront Competition Help organize the international competition with the AIA Detroit Urban Pirorities Committee
Additional Skillset Proficient with Microsoft Office: PowerPoint, Word, Excel Adobe creative suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign Design Programs: Rhino, AutoCAD, Sketch-Up, Maya, Cinema 4D, Maxwell
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 specifically 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, accumulating to create a semi-enclosed chromaphilic space. While the overhead candles are geometrically 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 defined 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.
Myth Molly Hunker, 2013-2014 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow Collaborators: Preston Welker, Samra Pecanin, Max Jarosz, Nichole Tortorici, Jacob Comerci 45
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L o s ti n F o u n d p l a 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 figure. This begins to form the interior spaces and confuse the reading between what is simply flat aesthetic and what is volumetric within. The interplay of what is simply exterior or interior continues inside where the defined 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 Found
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These legs were meant for walking!
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-
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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.
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O b j e c tified 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, floor and ceiling, into primary elements for storage and allows for the objects themselves to become the architecture. Objects divide space, filter light, and create privacy through their aggregation in the house, even overflowing 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.
Objectified
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Movement
Hanging Ceiling System pulls down surface
Spaces from Objects Hanging objects divide space
Pocket Storage Cut Site
Wall becomes storage for small items
Stacking Structure Stacked objects surround columns
Pile Floor Floor dips to provide storage for areas of object aggregation
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Landscape Lifts dips and is cut, reacting to house access
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PLAN SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0” 70
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SECTION A - A SCALE: 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”
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