MALIK JOHNSON-WILLIAMS Architectural Design Portfolio
MALIK JOHNSON-WILLIAMS Architectural Designer
malikjejw@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/malikjohnsonwilliams www.issuu.com/malikjohnsonwilliams https://ter.ps/mjwvideo
TABLE OF CONTENT Personal Profile The re ACT Project Peña Station Next Takoma Park Birdwalk Center of Innovation Ext. 1409 Finlyandski Vorota Wheaton Art Collective
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ABOUT ME... I am an emerging professional on the path to becoming a licensed architect. My background in design and sustainability informs my creative but mindful approach to design. Furthermore, I am fueled by my passion for social justice and community development. I consider myself as a ‘forever student’, eager to both build on my academic foundation in architecture, and stay in tune with the latest in sustainable design. My problem solving ability has contributed to my most recent success at the University of Maryland, where I led a team to a national victory in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition.
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EXPERIENCES
EDUCATION
AFFILIATIONS
Planning & Design Technician, The Neighborhood Design Center 2019-Present
Master of Architecture & Master of Community Planning University of Maryland College Park, Maryland Spring 2019
Potomac Valley Architecture Foundation 2018-Present
Design Intern, Torti Gallas + Partners Summer 2018 Graduate Assistant School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation 2016-2018 • Student Woodshop Manager • Teaching Assistant: Structures I & II Deputy Project Architect, The reACT Project 2016-2017 Design Intern Maryland-National Capital Park And Planning Commission 2016 Community Assistant UMD Department of Resident Life 2015-2016 Resident Assistant UMD Department of Resident Life 2013-2015 Research Assistant Nation Center for Smart Growth Research & Education Spring 2014
Bachelor of Science in Architecture w/ Minor in Sustainability Studies University of Maryland College Park, Maryland Spring 2016
ACHIEVEMENTS Alpha Rho Chi Medal Recipient 2019 - Alpha Ro Chi Alumni Chapter Award Recipient 2019 - School of Architecture Second Place Overall 2017 - US DOE Solar Decathlon Second Place in Innovation 2017 -US DOE Solar Decathlon Customer Service Award 2016 - Department of Resident Life
INTERESTS
American Institute of Architecture Students 2017-Present Tau Sigma Delta 2017-Present National Organization of Minority Architects 2015-Present
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES AutoCAD Revit Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Lumion MS Office SketchUp Sefaira Tally OSHA Certified 3D Printing
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The reACT Project:
2017 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition reACT (resilient Adaptive Climate Technology) represents a new paradigm for housing, one built on a regenerative model of sustainability, able to serve diverse communities, and be integrated with diverse natural ecosystems. The concepts, processes and technologies demonstrated in reACT are applicable to wide range of scales, densities and formal configurations. The prototype is built upon providing a common ‘DNA’ for not just one house, but an entire range of community of buildings. Regenerative design principles (responsiveness, flexibility, and adaptability) guided the architectural design process used to give rise to this prototype; recognizing that local climate, individual choice and culture influence the specific forms employed in the design of the reACT prototype, advanced for this competition.
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1. Wall concept sketch 2. Exterior view at competition 3. Concept sketch series
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TRADITIONAL PRINCIPLES & CONTEMPORARY LIVING Our initial target market was represented by a young Nanticoke Indian couple starting a family in Denver, CO. Despite this requirement of the competition, our design was not limited to any specific Native American Tribe or vernacular tradition, but rather addresses the deeper traditional cultural values that seek balance and harmony with nature. We believed that to build a truly sustainable future, these are the values that must be adopted by mainstream culture as well, and reACT is designed to help foster that shift to a broader market.
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Peña Station Next
ARCH700: Urban Design Studio VII This studio addressed problems and theories concentrating on urbanism and urban design techniques. Branching from our experiences with diverse sustainable building technologies in the Solar Decathlon competition, we attempted to transpose and transfer these insights onto the proposed development plan for Peña Station Next light rail development area in Denver, CO. The philosophy behind this studio is that much of the diverse sustainable architecture content at the center of the Solar Decathlon is relevant to urban scale and deserves the same level of creativity, enthusiasm, and personal initiative at every level of design. In summary, the proposed master plan is for a five block, mixed-use transit oriented development. Each block functions as specialized district, with distinct systems as well as architectural expression. The nature of each district links of the four primary elements of the traditional Native American medicine wheel: earth, water, fire and air. The fifth element, family or community, is represented by a civic park at east end of the site.
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A NEW VISION FOR DENVER Our vision for Peña Station is of a self-sufficient, sustainable community like no other. The latest in sustainable design and technology come together here in the suburbs of Denver to create. Within this project, modern technology such as anaerobic digester, photo-catalytic cement, aquaponics, geothermal wells are complemented by passive urban design strategies such as passive solar design, vertical green farms, rain gardens, and Bernoullian forms. 1. View from elevated walkway 2. View from micro-park 3. Site sections series 4. Morphology diagram
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Takoma Park Birdwalk ARCH460: Site Analysis and Design Paper streets are planned roads that were never built; they exist as city-owned public rights-of-way and in this respect, can be considered part of a city’s public infrastructure network. In Takoma Park, Maryland paper streets exist in the 21st century as wooded or patchy areas informally absorbed into residential properties, or they remain as unbuilt, nonspecific areas used for paths, natural areas, and occasionally, dumping.
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In Takoma Park, paper streets are often neglected and called to the attention of city planners when they become a maintenance headache or a threat to public safety. The city of Takoma Park wanted to know the full number and placement of their paper streets with the hopes of connecting these undeveloped spaces and changing them from a negative externality into a community amenity. This project was meant to structure
conversations, site analysis, and design interventions of limited scope around a series of critical topics in the larger conversation about architecture, site, landscape, and urbanism in the 21st century.
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This paper street is located along the borderline of Takoma Park and Prince George’s County, Maryland. While its original intention was to serve as a service road for the various commercial buildings along New Hampshire Avenue, it now remains, overgrown, unconnected, and a site for dumping. What little street that does exists currently trails off into a small island of forest. This grove of trees is then bordered along the north edge by low density residential neighborhoods. Notably, from the commercial edge to the residential neighborhoods there are considerable changes in topography (+50 ft in some places).
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The design process for this project began with extensive research, including site visits and meetings with local officials. Working at various scales (from human to regional), students were then tasked to use GIS software to craft maps that synthesized their findings.
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DESIGN AGENDA PLAN & SECTION: community orthonogly observa�on trail
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Arch 460 Site Analysis and Design Professor VanderGoot Malik Johnson-Williams Located at the crossing of Sheridan Street and Sligo Creek Road is the Takoma Park Community Birdwalk. This new trail not only serves as a physical 12/12/2016 Dra� 4
connec�on between the residen�al and the commerical zones along New Hampshire Avenue, but also a symbolic link between residents of Takoma
Park and nature. Bird the length of trail. These colorful pieces of only floa�ng art provide home to resident and, Located at the crossing of houses Sheridan built Streetby andlocal Sligoresidents Creek Roadline is Takoma Park Community Birdwalk. This new trail not servespublic as a physical connec�on between the residenor migra�ng bird species. The Birdwalk brings the ci�zens the Takoma Park closer to of their avian neighbors more than ever before. �al and the commercial zones along New Hampshire Avenue, but it is of a symbolic link between residents Takoma Park and local bird popula�ons. Bird houses built by local
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Early on in the design process, a clear objective for this project became to design a intervention that would heighten the security and function of the paper street with minor disruption to the existing landscape. Community surveys conducted by Takoma Park officials indicate that most residents have a uniquely strong appreciation for all of the trees within the city. From this research, the idea for a community “birdwalk”, which protects the cities beloved trees by highlighting the region’s avian residents, was born. A simple intervention overall, the project proposes the installation of a new boardwalk-like path and footbridge that connects the residential neighborhood to the commercial edge. Along this path, avian friendly lighting features, benches, and community constructed bird houses create a welcoming sense of place for both the feathered & flightless residents of Takoma Park.
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DESIGN AGENDA SECTION: Detail through Birdwalk
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Fort McHenry: Center for Innovation Architecture Design Studio IV
The objective of this project was to design a complete environment for public engagement devoted to the exhibition of creative and experimental products and artifacts on the Baltimore waterfront. The Baltimore Waterfront Institute is an active cultural institution dedicated to the connection between the creative process of making and exhibition. The interaction of the building with landscape and waterfront edge design conditions, including best practice resilience strategies for sea level rise, will all have a significant impact on the effective engagement of the building to the public realm. It is conceived of as an exhibition and maker space that has the flexibility to offer both the local community and the city a venue for the exhibition of the creative, technological and cultural artifacts of the present and the future. The program for the Institute contains both exhibition, education, making and community spaces. As such it will play a significant role in both the immediate Community context, and the broader City context. This Institute will become a principal element in the promotion of Baltimore as a vital and creative urban environment, and highlight the role that the waterfront has played in the commercial, industrial and cultural success of the City over its long history.
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A CITY FOR MAKING Our design process began with a in-depth analysis of the Baltimore waterfront economy. Next in the masterplan design phase we were tasked to synthesize our analysis to propose a vision of how the temporal and physical conditions that have defined the human and cultural condition on the Patapsco waterfront may be brought forward into speculative environments of the future. In this exercise we explored and speculating on the nature of community building on a local, regional and possibly international scale of interaction.
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Expanding upon our master plan proposal, the Fort McHenry International Innovation Center (IIC) bridges Baltimore’s new urban destination with it existing waterfront. The IIC’s presence along the waterfront acts as a gateway and destination for the local and the international community. It is located at the intersection of one Port McHenry’s main pedestrian canal ways and its waterfront promenade. The center’s location on the waterfront edge establishes it as the threshold between the urban fabric and the natural landscape.
1. Process sketch collage 2. Bird’s eye view of site 3. View from waterfront 4. West Elevation
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DESIGNING FOR INNOVATION The International Innovation Center functions as a vehicle for the integrated design process. People, resources and ideas are assembled in the central atrium. Here members of the local community can dialogue with international professionals about issues of water quality. These conversations are the launching point for the technological research and development that takes place in the IIC’s creation wing. Next, the adjacent waterfront landscape serves as living laboratory to test the latest innovations in water technology. After thorough testing, the modern technologies return to main exhibition hall at the heart of the design. The great hall acts as a public forum where new technologies can be evaluated by both professionals and the community. The discussions held in this space fuel the continuing the innovation process and the knowledge produced is used to educate the international community about the issues of water quality. 1. View from assembly hall 2. View from maker lab 3. View from institute 4. Section through assembly hall 5. Floor plans 6. Longitudinal section 28
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Ext. 1409
Architecture Design Studio IV Located in one of the most active areas of Washington, Extension 1409 is a vision of a vibrant project inhabited by culturally diverse individuals and families. Residents and visitors are attracted by the active street life along 14th Street and the rich cultural history of D.C.’s Logan Circle. This theoretical project explores urban design that welcomes and responds to various tangible and Intangible factors. The goal of this six week project was to create a design that balanced the many competing aspects of the proposed site, while also improving upon the existing context.
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SITE ANALYSIS Using a combination of site photographs, hand sketching, satellite imaging, and reading of the city’s building’s zoning code, student’s prepared a visual site analysis package. Some of the images are shown here. The project site is an existing lot at the intersection of 14th Street SW and Rhode Island Avenue NW – one block away from the history neighborhood of Logan Circle. Due to is location along 14th Street, special overlay zoning encouraged that design proposals that incorporate program uses that activate the street 12 or more hours of the day.
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The overall concept for this apartment was to create a balance between the seemingly conflicting nature of this site. The dichotomy of the site is represented in the form of two towers (one regular and one skewed). While each is independently identifiable in its own right, the center community zone stitches the two buildings together. On the ground floor, the central corridor acts as an extension of the urban fabric and extends the buildings operation into the night. On the residential floors, residents circulate through the central community spaces located at the intersection of both towers. Additionally, from these community spaces residents are allowed views both down to 14th as well as the interior courtyard.
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Finlyandski Vorota
2018 Summer Design Studio in Russia In July and August 2018, 35 students from the University of Maryland, the Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and the Saint Petersburg Higher School of Economics participated in a collaborative urban redevelopment studio. American and Russian students of architecture, urban planning, real estate, historic preservation, geography, data analytics, and social sciences worked in six collaborative teams with guidance from American and Russian professors to create a proposal for the redevelopment plan for a 52-acre former industrial site. Finlyandskie Vorota is a 11-phase project spanning 47 years of development. The financing combines public and private investment. By beginning with the publicly funded improvements at Lenin Square, the virtuous cycle of development will spur private investment that will yield returns in the form of taxes on the value added to the site. For more information visit this link: https://ter.ps/icu
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A HISTORIC DISTRICT... Located to the northeast of Saint Petersburg’s historic city center and on the banks of the Neva River, the focus area features the Fynlyandskiy Railway Station, the notorious prison complex the Crosses, and other historically protected buildings. The final master plan, entitled the Finlyandskie Vorota (Finland Gateway), establishes six focus sites within the larger master plan. 1. Site analysis diagram 2. Existing site context 3. The Terraces Park 4. FinkArt neighborhood 5. Bridge Park neighborhood
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The Terraces updates Lenin Square into a modern, green public gathering space that reaches the Neva waterfront via a path under a major six-lane highway. The Finkart Creation Station transforms into the heart of the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture and strengthens community ties. Designed with historic preservation and adaptive reuse in mind, the Crosses re-purposes the existing prison buildings and converts them into a hotel and student housing. The neighboring Bridgepark adds offices and commercial uses. Given that the Finlyandskiy Station will play a critical role in the development of this area and the city in the coming decades, the New Finland Vokzal (Station) will be over-hauled with updated rail connections, pedestrian circulation, and retail and hotel uses. Improved public spaces and transit, combined with economic development, will spur residential growth. Further residential uses will be added in later phases at the Homes on the Hill.
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INSPIRING A NEW GENERATION Once a infamous prison, the Crosses at Finlyandskie Vorota now stands at the epicenter of the city’s growing IT sector. Located south of the city’s newest tech business center, the Crosses bridges the gap between research and practice. The Crosses promotes a healthy, green and engaging environment; is a center for innovators to work on groundbreaking ideas; is a living-learning laboratory where students and professionals learn from experiences; and a playground for collaboration and creativity.
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The existing campus facilities have been adaptively re-purposed into a new research university focusing on bio-medical technology. The addition of classrooms, research libraries, collaborative laboratories provide opportunities for students and faculty to collaborate on innovative ideas. Along with the new learning spaces, high quality student housing, a new business hotel, and a conference center have also been proposed.
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URBAN [dis]CONNECT: URBAN COHOUSING AS A SOLUTION TO SOCIAL ISOLATION Master’s Thesis
This thesis begins with a simple question: how often do we feel alone? Scholars from around the world have identified the loneliness epidemic as one the greatest threats to modern public health. As early as the 1930’s, collective living movements, such as cohousing, were founded as an response to the collapse of communal values. While the cohousing movement has grown in popularity, the typology has remained historically suburban. Using the Wheaton Art Collective as case study, this thesis modern urban living and presents a new typology for collective housing.
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A MULTICULTURAL METROPOLIS The location of this thesis is Wheaton, Maryland, USA. Wheaton is home to over 48,000 residents and is one of the fastest urbanizing areas in the state. Wheaton also has the distinction of being state’s few designated art & entertainment districts. Known for its rich cultural history, in 2018, among Maryland’s 518 incorporated cities, towns, and CDPs, Wheaton ranked 11th in terms of diversity. The proposed design is located at 10195 Georgia Avenue, the former location of the Fitzgerald auto dealership. The site measures around 2.1 acres and has an FAR of 4.0. The location serves a transition point between Wheaton’s growing urban core and the surrounding residential area. The site is bordered on three sides by road: Georgia Avenue to the west, Prichard Road to the north, and Amherst to the east. From west to east, the grade across the site drops nearly 25 feet.
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THE WHEATON ART COLLECTIVE The Wheaton Art Collective is the cities new hub for arts and culture. It is a center the various communities within and around the city to gather, share and create. It exceeds the conventions of traditional multifamily blocks by creating a creating a space for diverse communities to collaborate, learn, and grow without sacrificing the elements that make them unique. This new way of urban living is example of how modern buildings can not only be environmentally, or economically sustainable, but socially sustainable as well. 1. Aerial view 2. View from transit center 3. Section through courtyard 4. Compound site plan 5. Section through high-rise
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At the street level, storefronts are filled with shops, restaurants, artist galleries and office spaces. At the center of this mosaic community is the outdoor plaza. Circulation, building program, and even unit design are each grounded by the significance of this new civic space. Taking advantage of the changing grade along the street, the public space tiers down to meet the grade along the residential street. This tiering always additional spaces such as a digital media library, artist studios, a community multipurpose room, and parking to neatly tuck below the building.
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Within each building , various distinct social spaces allow the scale of interaction to be paired down to the appropriate size. Building floors are clustered in pairs to create smaller sub-communities of 10 - 20 units. Within each of these subcommunities, the two floors unified by a common house, or shared community space. Common houses serve as the primary gathering space for residents of this sub-community and are used regularly for community dinners, celebrations, as well as informal gatherings. In addition the common house, each cluster has a variety of outdoor gather spaces including roof top gardens and communal patios. Another unique space within the WAC, are the creative cubes that overlook the courtyard. These spaces are unprogrammed social spaces that are available to residents to adapt to their needs. These highly flexible spaces allow for smaller groups to gather, collaborate, and share their creative ideas. 1. View from Upper Plaza 2. View of Lower Courtyard 3. High-rise Typology 4. Mid-rise Typology 5. Low-rise Typology 51
MALIK JOHNSON-WILLIAMS Architectural Designer
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MALIK JOHNSON-WILLIAMS Architectural Design Portfolio