Marshall Morgan | Full-Length 2023 Architecture Portfolio

contact

marshallmorgan139@gmail.com

+1 (817)235-6258

Portfolio:

https://issuu.com/marshallm139

education

University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Architecture 2023

GPA: 3.8012

Awarded College Scholar

work experience

Jacobs | Architectural Designer

May 2022 - April 2023

- Supported senior architects in producing accurate and detailed architectural drawings for institutional projects with the University of Texas at Austin, using AutoCAD and Revit software.

- Assisted project managers in preparing comprehensive project schedules and agendas for both virtual and in-person client meetings, ensuring meticulous project documentation.

- Conducted weekly on-site visits to monitor construction progress, proactively addressing any design-related issues and ensuring adherence to quality standards.

Haddon + Cowan Architects Collaborative | Intern

June 2021 - January 2022

- Produced detailed architectural drawings for various local commercial and residential projects using AutoCAD software.

- Collaborated closely with project Architects to brainstorm ideas and solve design challenges; performed duties as assigned.

- Facilitated on-campus renovations in direct collaboration with UT Austin, conducting site visits and ensuring smooth project execution

skills academic experience

Revit, AutoCAD

Rhinoceros, Grasshopper

Enscape, Lumion

Adobe:

- Illustrator

- InDesign

- Photoshop

Model Making:

- Handmade

- Laser Cutter

- 3D Printing

- Wood shop

The Reverie | Advanced Design Studio

Spring 2022

- Conducted extensive research on over 100 New York City luxury condominium floor plans, identifying idiosyncrasies and analyzing marketing strategies.

- Engaged in research-focused meetings with condominium stakeholders, including architects, builders, developers, and marketing teams to gain insight into their roles.

- Implemented a parametric Grasshopper script to develop a fracturing structural system, pushing the boundaries of design innovation and efficiency.

TSBVI Blind Living Addition | Advanced Design: Comprehensive Studio

Fall 2021

- Collaborated closely with the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired to understand the specific needs and aspirations of the visually impaired community.

- Produced comprehensive architectural documentation, including MEP and structural components, to ensure functional and sustainable design solutions.

- Demonstrated empathy and inclusivity by creating tactile drawings and representations tailored to enhance the experience of visually impaired individuals.

involvement + awards

Design Excellence Recipient

Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Undergraduate Architecture Student Council

Fall 2018 - Spring 2023

Intramural Volleyball Finalist

2020 - 2021, 2022 - 2023

the reverie

spring 2022 | design excellence recipient | collaboration with Anisha Kamat

The design of The Reverie began with a radical construction system that takes the ordinary method of widening a column towards the base and fractures it. Rather than thick, obtrusive columns that disrupt and disturb, the delicate columns in this tower fracture and multiply, compelling you to rethink what defines a room and how to navigate in and around them.

Where typical walls are definitively rigid, these walls dance around columns and furniture. Unbounded by normative room planning, walls grow from the floor and ceiling, creating a new level of freedom in interior expression. Just like a Dali painting, surfaces and furniture become sculptural; objects occupying space in an abstract landscape.

dysfunction catalogue

The modern tower is a complex combination of systems that are impossible to coordinate due to their extensive scale. These include a robust structural system and circulation core, heating and cooling, and return & supply ductwork. Eventually, due to the overlap of everyday construction techniques with antiquated room layouts, there are bound to be conflicts between all these systems. These modern conflicts become surreal in their own right, but unfortunately dysfunctional.

an exquisite corpse

THE REVERIE

puzzling assemblies

spring 2023 | design excellence recipient | collaboration with Tyler Koraleski

An inescapable reality of realizing buildings is the assembly of parts, true from the scale of a handrail to a building's massing. Puzzling Assemblies began by using complex 3-dimensional puzzles to explore an assembly that defies immediate understanding, provoking intense engagement with the nuances of their geometric qualities.

Following an investigation of the dialogue between these parts and their assembly, these geometries assumed building-scale, upsetting the typical method of moving from large to small. Here disassembly became an agent for exploring sectional relationships.

AI image generation

"interlocking", "operating", "rotation", "cylinder"

3D translation

copper composite PLA, finished with outdoor primer

DUO-CENTRIC

assembly instructions

Tyler Koraleski, Jacob Levy, Marshall Morgan Puzzling Assemblies | UTSOA

As the object began to disassemble, the impact that the methods of disassembly would have on the site became apparent. As the object descended, revolved, and expanded into the site, these geometries carved into the ground, nestling themselves in the landscape.

Although most of the original pieces were reoriented horizontally, the piece entitled the "crown" remained in a vertical orientation, creating tension between plan and section and marrying the groundscape with its new foreign object.

development - plan

The building is organized along the northsouth axes with key galleries flanking the entry threshold as well as the central lobby space. Circulation along this axis alternates between compression and expansion as one is thrust into the "heart".

This central double-height atrium is enveloped and disguised by the surrounding pieces , and simultaneously houses a grand spiral staircase that serves as the connection device between indoor and outdoor, above and below.

section model

copper composite PLA and white PLA sanded to a smooth finish

dallas high speed rail station

fall 2022 | design excellence recipient | collaboration with Ryan Fagrie

This intervention for a high-speed rail station fragments the vernacular train shed to evoke its historical formal language, while bringing clarity to a notoriously disorienting typology. As an experiment in navigation, the station's design maximizes agency for the visually-impaired user. Circulation was established by laying out an explicit tactile path that organizes space along an intended trajectory. Only after navigation was resolved were the doublecatenary masonry vaults placed, defining program and creating a series of discrete experiences. With the capacity to multiply as the station expands, the system of vaults are oriented based on respective program. The variation in scale and daylighting for each vault allows users to rely on more than just vision to navigate.

formal operations

The entry vaults were splayed to facilitate two separate experiences: one for those who show up two minutes before their train leaves where there is a clear path to the platform, and a separate experience for those who show up early, where a conscious decision is made to turn away from the platforms, engaging with the program vaults.

section A-A

section B-B

station plan

The tactile path remains as a unifying tool to guide navigation. Junctions are minimized for clarity and serve as identifiable landmarks.

texas school for the blind addition

fall 2021 | Comprehensive Studio | collaboration with Genesis Gadberry

This studio introduces and examines the entire design process, from site studies and schematic design, to final construction documents, working closely with the local Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired to create a mixed-use/residential addition to their campus.

Initial site visits and program studies highlighted the unique community of blind students that would utilize this facility, As this project is designed to provide housing for students exiting the school, extensive research was conducted to understand the nuances of visually-impaired life. Additionally, this project is located on a prominent corner in the neighborhood so the final design creates an intersection point for the local community to engage with the school.

mass timber structure

This project is also an investigation into mass timber as a structural system. Concrete panels comprise a majority of the exterior walls with the exception being when the roof of wooden slats curve to meet the ground. With mass timber as a device to facilitate this formal move, the overall materiality of the project can be experienced through touch.

curved wall/roof detail

roof drain detail

floor to wall connection detail

flat roof detail

foundation detail

curved wall base detail

model images

tactile experience

Even conventional drawings such as wall sections were built at a manageable scale so that students of the school would be able to grasp the design of the project.

alpine centerresearch

spring 2021

Initial program study investigated the needs of glaciology and archaeology workers who will be conducting research within the difficult climate and terrain of the Tyrolean Alps. The final project is a dual research center analyzing the effect of the anthropocene. Similar to the dual focus on glaciology and archaeology, there is a simultaneous focus on the past and future, considering the vernacular of Tyrol as well as the continual erosion of the surrounding landscape.

transverse site section

longitudinal site section

site analysis

facility plan

building sections

section A-3

section A-2

section A-1

sliding slabs: robotic fabrication

spring 2022 | collaboration with Tyler Koraleski

This project served as an exploration into the capabilities of the KUKA robot in material fabrication. The path and rotation of the robot arm was coded using Grasshopper to machine a system of diagonal grooves that would allow pieces to interlock with one another. After production, exercises were conducted with the fabricated pieces to imagine an architectural environment with the machined forms.

fabrication assembly

architectural exploration