Ellison Turpin Design Portfolio

Ellison Turpin Design Portfolio

Contents:

Urban Stalactites

Autonomous Islands: 2075

Tent Tower: Transitional Housing in Philadelphia

Comfort Station

Precious Core

Entropic Expanse

Datascape: Where Colors Play

Future Craft: KUKA Robot Clay Extrusion

Capturing the Streets of Paris

Professional Work: 2014-2017

Digitally Handmade

TEDxUVA: Make Your Own Path

Model Interior Perspective

Urban Stalactites

Fall 2017 Critic: Daniel Markiewicz Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA The ground beneath the courtyard swells to the point of bursting. Suddenly, the earth rises up, crawling along the brick scaffolding of the courtyard to investigate what is happening above. Liking what it sees, the veil begins to merge with the brick, and pull it into the unearthed chasm below. The veil now stretched too thin, tears and splits bringing light into the depths of the earth. At the edges, the veil pushes beyond its boundaries to invite wanderers off the street to explore what was once hidden from sight and mind. As the museum spills into the newly opened void, massive stalactites swell to accommodate their new purpose. Below the surface, these clustered stalactites cling to the ceiling anchoring the veil from leaving the earth to preserve slivers of the courtyard and attempting to leave some secrets still hidden.

Education

Exhibition

Open to Below

Archive

Floor Plan: Entry Level

Street Perspective Perspective 2

Aerial Perspective PennDesign | Fall 2017 | ARCH 501 Design Studio | critic: Daniel Markiewicz | student: Ellison Turpin

Aerial Perspective

Site Section

PennDesign | Fall 2017 | ARCH 501 Design Studio | critic: Daniel Markiewicz | student: Ellison Turpin

Education

Open to Below

Archive

Floor Plan: -1

Model Roofscape

Model Detail

Model Interior Perspective

Model Interior Perspective

Model Perspective

Interior Rendering Perspective 1

Model Detail

PennDesign | Fall 2017 | ARCH 501 Design Studio | critic: Daniel Markiewicz | student: Ell

Model Interior Perspective

Model RoofscapePerspective

Streetview Perspective

Autonomous Islands: 2075 “Fill In The Gap”: Phase 3

Spring 2018 Critic: Eduardo Rega Group Project: Georgina Jiang Phase 1, Megan Khunakridatikarn Phase 2 Philadelphia, PA After several decades of co-existence within Parkside, FIG has grown from a non-profit group into a cooperative design + build firm run through the residents of Parkside. In the year 2075, new legislation has been passed making it illegal to harvest raw materials for production, requiring any new construction to be made from recycled parts and composites. Despite these laws, the scale of production for FIG has expanded to provide specialized construction skills throughout Philadelphia in addition to the work with Parkside. With their roots based in recycling and refurbishing architectural elements, FIG thrives in this new economy.

This rise in income for the neighborhood brings new businesses in to the community and allow for the residents to speculate on the surrounding land effectively building a fortress of bourgeoisie restaurants and boutiques buffering Parkside from the ever-shifting tides of the market. Within the fortress, Parkside has once again become a thriving community where the resident’s various construction specialties have allowed for building experiments to fill in any remaining gaps and modify their spaces as their needs and desires change.

Beyond Parkside, additional autonomous islands have developed around Philadelphia to develop an exchange network of services in a sea of market-rate values.

Phase I

Phase II

Cut-Away Axonometric

Phase III

Site Axonometric

Site Section

Site Plan

Site Axon

Building Axon

Aerial Perspective

Roof Axon

Floor Plan: 1

Model - Phase 0

Floor Plan: 2

Model - Phase I

Model - Phase II

Model - Phase III

Facade Axon

Build Space Axon

Interior Perspective

Classroom Axon

Floor Plan: 3

Model Detail

Floor Plan: 4

Model Detail

Model Detail

Model Detail

Cut-Away Unit Perspective

Tent Tower: Transitional Housing in Philadelphia Fall 2018 Critic: Scott Erdy

A homeless person from the street seeks a place to rest from the heat of the sun or the chill of the wind. They find shelter under the eaves of the newest tower in North Philadelphia; except this tower invites them inside, offering shelter and services rather than relegating them back to the street.

This tower harbors a unique community of tent dwellers and those in transitional housing living together and sharing resources. Tent dwellers move in and out from the adjacent units with access to the kitchen, bathrooms, and lounge spaces. This community brings everyone up together offering a specialized support system of people who have gone through the same trials. As the transitional tenant moves on to permanent housing, the tent companion takes over the home they built together and invites in a new tent neighbor.

Construction Diagram

Streetview Perspective

Section Model Detail

Typical Floor Plan

Tower Section Diagram

Site Plan

Common Space Perspective

Tower Section Model

Tower Model

Model Collage

Comfort Station: Providing Showers for the Homeless Fall 2018 Critic: Scott Erdy

The city of Philadelphia currently has shelters throughout the city that are addressing basic needs of the homeless population. This mobile station will alleviate the pressures of access to showers by providing a unit that can be deployed to areas of need and plug in to the existing city water infrastructure. By providing this basic human neccessity this comfort station gives the homeless population a better chance of rebuilding their lives.

Model Collage

Model Collage

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Hatch Access Door / Connection to Existing Water Lines

2

Solar Thermal Collectors

3

Hydro Pressure Fed Pipes

4

Water Tank

5

In-Line Water Filter

6

“Dutch” Bio-Security System

7

Hatch Door / Internal Locking

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Raised Platform 2

Solar Thermal Water Heaters

Wet and Dry Zones

Pressure Fed Water Flow

Pressure Fed Water Flow

Facade Detail Render

Precious Core:

Spring 2019 Critic: Danielle Willems Partner: Rebeca Sanchez Through the analysis of the heavy, fast, and resilient, the human and machinic spaces clash to form impenetrable barriers against access. These protected cores move past each other preventing an understanding of the workings within and a mis-perception of the machinic as inhumane and void.

Integration of the machinic as vital to the comfort and flow of human space, spurs a new perception of the machinic as a space of infinite possibility.

Slicing through the building and piercing the human space, the data reveals itself.

Cut Away Axonometric

Facade Panel System Render

Interior Render

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

Level 6

Level 5

Level 4

Level 3

Level 2

Level 1

Building Section

Facade Model

Model Detail

Powder Print Facade Study

Facade Pattern Elevation

Facade Details

Facade Pattern Plan

Material Studies

3d Scans

3d Scans

Occupiable Roofscape Perspective

Entropic Expanse:

Fall 2019 Critic: Homa Farjadi Partner: Megan McGaffigan “[T]he history of the world’s architectural plans [is] the history of changing forms of civilization, as new segmentation of space is demanded by new forms of society” - Elements of Architecture, Rem Koolhaas We are testing the limits of the wall as the driver for understanding space and time. By exploring walls at the extremes of design (both the absence and overwhelming presence), we can understand how “human” behavior impacts perception of space. How does the design of walls create fluctuations in space from the orderly to the disorderly?

Building Plans

Concourse Level Render

Building Section

Building Systems

Model Perspectives

Entry Level Render

Building Sections

Animation Still

Where Colors Play:

Fall 2019 Tutors: Mattia Santi & Francesca Silvi Colors serve as a outlet for emotions that can inspire happiness, anger, melancholy, and love. By sampling the colors of famous paintings and reimagining their structures, I’ve created new configurations of these initial emotions. By advecting the sampled points in various directions, we are able to see “inside” the painting and begin to inhabit their essence. https://youtu.be/EsfcV5cN7Bg

Animation Still

Animation Stills

Detail of Component in System

Future Craft:

Fall 2019 Tutors: Dylan Wozniak-O’Connor & Patricia Mato Mora Colors serve as a outlet for emotions that can inspire happiness, anger, melancholy, and love. By sampling the colors of famous paintings and reimagining their structures, I’ve created new configurations of these initial emotions. By advecting the sampled points in various directions, we are able to see “inside” the painting and begin to inhabit their essence.

Robot Tool Setup

Speculative Stress Analysis

Print Process Photos

Detail from Collage

Capturing the Streets of Paris Summer 2018 Professor Annette Fierro

Throughout history photographs have been used to capture instances of time, with early photography unable to capture movement. With the use of photogrammatry I was able to document movement over time and begin to explore the 3d geometries that emerged as point cloud data. These explorations resulted in images that captured more than a single moment in time but the essence of these spaces and the life that inhabits them.

Detail from Collage

Detail from Collage

Texture Map Study

Texture Map Study

Detail of 4’x8’ Comprehensive Campus Model for Liberty University

Professional Work Sample: May 2014 - July 2017 VMDO Architects Charlottesville, VA

Whilte working with VMDO I had the opportunity to experience a range of projects and phases. I primarily worked in the Higher Education studio on graphics for proposals and conferences. I was the primary designer of several two person teams, developing projects from early concepts through construction documents. One of my early tasks was the 3d modeling and then fabrication of a large campus model that included the continual update of our projects and the evolving context.

ACUI Conference Renders of Liberty University Student Center

Liberty University Campus Plan

LU Student Center - Level 3

LU Student Center - Level 2

LU Student Center - Level 1

Proposal Render for ODU New Residence Hall

Student Room Studies

Proposal Renders

Selected Prints at Show

Digitally Handmade: Experiments in 3d Printing Began 2016, Ongoing Partner: Ben Lawson

Image of Several Prints

Texture Study

Form Study

Surface Study

Detail of Unassembled Panels

TEDxUVA: Make The Path

Spring 2015 Charlottesville, VA Team: Ben Lawson, Arisa Chentaphun, Austin Walker

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Detail View of Installed Panels

Detail Shadow Effect

Overall View of Completed Panels

Detail Completed Panels