ISAAC HOWLAND
Temple University | Tyler School of Art, Divsion of Architecture & Environmental Design
ISAAC HOWLAND Emerging Designer
ABOUT ME In my design education I have learned the power of the design process to collaboratively synthesize solutions for present needs and future issues. My goal is to gain work experience exploring the potentials of the built environment to achieve these solutions and better the human condition through architecture and a holistic consideration of urban, landscape, graphic, and product design.
EDUCATION
» Bachelor of Science in Architecture Class of 2017 Temple University / Philadelphia, PA Tyler School of Art, Division of Architecture & Environmental Design » GW. Carver High School of Engineering & Science
September 2009 - June 2013
WORK EXPERIENCE » Architectural Designer September 2017 - Present AMP Architecture / Brooklyn, NY » Drafting & preparation of drawing sets for NYC DOB submission » Construction Administration site visits » Client meetings » Freelance Architectural Designer August 2017 - July 2018 Milestone Architecture / New York, NY » 3D Modeling and exhibition design for digital conservation project » Production Internship May 2017 - July 2017 A.P. Keaton / Great Neck, NY » Solidworks modeling, quoting custom product displays and fixtures » Architecture Intern August 2016 - April 2017 Montieth Architecture / Philadelphia, PA » Surveying and project site analysis » Project documentation + construction drawings » Project Assistant June 2016 - October 2016 AIA Philadelphia / Philadelphia, PA » Managed social media channels, content creation & lead generation » Designed digital and printed press ads 2
SELECTED WORKS ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS page PIER 9 URBAN DESIGN & BUOYANCY MUSEUM 4-7 ARCH 4331 | FALL 2016 | Studio Critic: Gabriel Kaprielian
MOUNT LYKAION SITE DWELLING 8-11 ARCH 4332 | SPRING 2017 | Studio Critic: Ximena Valle
CENTER FOR INTERDSCIPLINARY RESEARCH OF THE PELOPONESE ARCH 4332 | SPRING 2017 | Studio Critic: Ximena Valle
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BAINBRIDGE JAZZ JUNCTION 16-19 ARCH 3232 | SPRING 2016 | Studio Critic: Chris Renn
CRAFTED OBJECTS BUNGEE BENCH 20-21 ARCH 3152 | SPRING 2017 | Professor Clifton Fordham
SPINOLUM | SCANNED FABRICATION LAMP 22-23 ARCH 4331 | FALL 2016 | Studio Critic: Gabriel Kaprielian
DESIGN FOUNDATIONS STAIR SURVEY & COREOGRAPHY STUDY 24-25 ARCH FOUNDATIONS 2221 | SPRING 2015 | Studio Critic: Eric Oskey
TOOL:SITE/ HAND:INTERVENTION 26-27 ARCH 1011 | SPRING 2014 | Studio Critic: Beth Emig
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Past, Present, Future Collage
PIER 9 URBAN DESIGN & BUOYANCY MUSEUM ARCH 4331 | FALL 2016 | Studio Critic: Gabriel Kaprielian
Sited on San Francisco’s Pier 9, the Buoyancy Museum & Labs conduct research focusing on innovative tactics of ecological restoration, as well as urban integration with nature and the Bay itself. The project preserves the structure of the prior building to act as a historical marker and symbolize the limited lifespan of infrastructure. The pier design envisions the implementation of floating devices to give the site resilience against sea level rise for 2040. The project imagines a unique approach to the improvement of resilience against nature’s forces, but also how we understand the origins of these environmental factors as well as their present and future implications. 4
View from Floating Structure
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Site Map
Site Line Analysis
Climate
Views
Urban Grid
Aggregate Differentiate
Site Morphology
The intial analysis and diagraming phase of the project was conducted in groups of two. Utilizing georeferenced mapping and regionally relevant imagery, collages were created to evoke a sense of the past, present and future ecological and urban conditions of the Bay Area. So called “site lines” were transposed on the pier 9 site to document climactic vectors and built context. Precedent study of relevant coastal developments was conducted, after which “site mash-ups” were created sourcing the built footprints of these precedent buildings as a means to yield formal suggestions of intervention.
Iterative Site Mash Ups
Proposed Siteplan 6
Offices Commercial Research Museum Circulation Sectional Collages
Program Diagram
After the urban design phase, a chosen building mass was to be developed into a greater level of architectural detail. The Buoyancy Museum was to fulfill the requirement of a Civic & Commercial building program, while the mass at the end of the pier was chosen for Residential by the other group member of the urban design phase.
Ground Floor 7
2nd Floor
MOUNT LYKAION SITE DWELLING ARCH 4332 | SPRING 2017 | Studio Critic: Ximena Valle
This 2-week project conceptualized a transiently occupied shelter as an amenity for a team of Greek archaeolohists. The project is sited adjacent to the Peloponnese Mount Lykaion, where the researchers spend time off in between work day dig sessions. It is intended to yield a sense of earthen intimacy and cooling down from their work day in the sun of the Peloponnese region.
Concept Study Models
Parti Diagram
Elevational Study Sketches
Concept Sketch
Sectional Study Sketches 8
Concept Development Plan Sketch
Perspectival Concept Sketch
Elevation Sketch 9
1 - Exterior Deck 2- Covered Entry 3- Living Room 4- Kitchen 5-Hearth/Study 6- Bedroom 7 - Bathroom Plan
Longitudinal Section 10
Approach Rendering
Transverse Section 11
CENTER FOR INTERDSCIPLINARY RESEARCH OF THE PELOPONESE ARCH 4332 | SPRING 2017 | Studio Critic: Ximena Valle
In follow-up to the site-dwelling, this project aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary team of archaeological and anthropological researchers in their day to day operations on various dig sites around Greece’s Mount Lykaion.
Approach Rendering
Conceptual Spatial Collages 12
Wind Analysis
Solar Analysis
Parti Study Model
Concept Development Section 13
Main Floor Plan
Basement Floor Plan
Gallery Level Floor Plan
Platia Section 14
Site Plan
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Transverse Section
Night Rendering
BAINBRIDGE JAZZ JUNCTION
ARCH 3232 | SPRING 2016 | Studio Critic: Chris Renn This project is situated on Philadelphia’s South Broad Street, also known as “Avenue of the Arts.” Using the cultural urban context of this area as a hub for performing arts, the site was proposed to house a jazz institute with a commercial component. A 10,000 sqft program and site were provided to conceive a Jazz Institute housing a large performance space, practice rooms, office space, and a jazz cafe. The Jazz junction aims to make the cultural presence of jazz in Philadelphia more accessible at an urban scale, and simultaneously create a building
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performance
audience
light
instrument
sound`
Broad Street
Qualitative Inspiration Imagery
Bainbridge Street Site Plan
Parti Sketches
Concept Development Elevations 17
Basement Floor Plan
1st Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
Lobby
Exhibition Space
Outdoor Seating
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3rd Floor Plan
Transverse Section
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Jazz Cafe Rendering
West Elevation
BUNGEE BENCH
ARCH 3152 | SPRING 2017 | Professor Clifton Fordham
A half semester long furniture making project where students were to create a chair with readily available materials and hardware. The design utilizes a tensile structural assembly with bungee cord, hence the name, being strung into two CNC-milled plywood profiles and secured with half-inch thick threaded rod, washers and end-nuts. The design was prototyped using medium density fiberboard before the profiles were refined and bungee cord spacing re-configured. The chair can seat an adult weighing up to 220 pounds.
Exploded Axonometric
MDF Prototype Model 20
Photographs After 1 Year of Use 21
Bolt & Bungee Weave Detail
Clay Model
SPINOLUM | SCANNED FABRICATION LAMP ARCH 4331 | FALL 2016 | Studio Critic: Gabriel Kaprielian
Lamp design derived from 3D scanned clay model to capture haptic stage of design. The form was inspired by oceanic animals, specifically starfish, taxonomically called spinuloside, thus inspiring the title.
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Mesh-Mixer
Lighting Inspiration 23
Rhinoceros
Formal Inspiration
123DMake
Finished Product
STAIR SURVEY & COREOGRAPHY STUDY
Coreography Drawing Side Elevation
ARCH 2221 | SPRING 2015 | Studio Critic: Eric Oskey
This foundations project included survey, draw and 3D modelling stairs before performing, observing and recording a “coreography� (yoga poses) during the ascent. Orthographic drawings of the stair were followed by the motion study drawings derived from the coreography. Culminating with the contact drawing analyzing the human physical response to the stairs in the users hands and feet. 24
Stair Survey
Coreography Drawing Rear Elevation 25
Contact Drawing
Motion Study Drawing
TOOL:SITE/ HAND:INTERVENTION ARCH 1011 | SPRING 2014 | Studio Critic: Beth Emig
This project led to the plotting of points, kinematic mapping, volumetric negotiation of movement, and eventual physical modeling of the action. The various phases of the project develop an ability to transition from physical interaction, to quantifiable data, to digital representation, culminating with the physical reinterpretation of a designated action. 26
Photomontage
Final Physical Model
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Motion Polysurface
Polysurface Contours
CONTACT
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