Portfolio.
Selected Works
2022-2023
Trevor Orgill Carnegie Mellon University University of New Mexico
San Pu Loi Work Shop
San Pu Loi, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2023
Located within a rapidly urbanizing village in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The San Pu Loi Workshop utilizes circular economies of recycled building materials throughout the village to aid residents in the expansion of their personal homes. Leveraging the neighboring recycling plant for materials and Wat Tha Thum Temple as a center for collective knowledge in the village, the workshop aims to preserve Lan Na building construction techniques through the material expansion of villagers’ homes.
Situated within a multigenerational compound, the home and workshop acts as a case study for the expandable home through temporality and material exploration. The home separates building materials in layers by life cycle to allow for incremental expansion and renovation of building components through a kit of parts system that could be self constructed through communal labor practices. Using materials with the longest lifespan as a central anchor for expansion, renewable materials like bamboo are sourced locally then replaced incrementally with dimensional lumber and heirloom beams/columns passed down and circulated throughout the surrounding villages.
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Bottem Enclosed
Rooms + Shading Additions
Expansion of Grandma Boon Reuang’s Compound Expansion of Grandma Boon Reuang’s Compound:
Expansion of Grandma Boon Reuang’s Compound:
5 6 Common Expansion Sequence Traditional Lan Na Joinery Traditional Lan Na Joinery Contemporary Lan Na Joinery Brick + Plaster Foundation Floor System Layed in Gaps Sub Structure Roof, Skin + Bamboo Extension Strategies of Expansion
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Sursum Corda Leaning Towers
Sursum Corda, Washington DC, United States
Collaboration with Parth Dainit
Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2023
Located in the Sursum Corda neighborhood of Washington DC, the Leaning Towers is a mixed use midrise building. Designed around principles of passive design, energy performance, light equity and modular construction using cross laminated timber. Units face south along a single loaded corridor terracing backward and forward on opposite sides of the building to provide passive shading throughout the year. Constructed modularly between CLT shear walls, small openings are cut to combine spaces into different unit types. Larger openings connect circulation and amenity spaces throughout the north side of the building. The porosity of the parallel CLT shear walls allows the buildings shared spaces to step with the units unconstrained by normative structural grids while maximizing northern light exposure.
Through the use of daylight and energy simulation unit assemblies and building orientation are designed to maximize passive design principles and thermal efficiency. Wrapping along the south facade of the building is a railing and operable shading screen system made of corten steel to complement the soft matte green terracotta cladding and offset the surrounding modernist gray context.
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16 SE Yearly Solar Exposure NW Yearly Sun Exposure Spacial Daylight Autonomy 82.5% 3” CONC. SLAB 5 PLY CLT PANEL FLOOR 1/2” ACCOUSTIC SOUND BOARD STEEL MESH BALC. 3/4” TERRA COTTA PANEL 2 BLOCKING 5 PLY CLT PANEL WALL 6” MINERAL WOOL INSULATION STEEL CHANNEL 1” GYPSUM BOARD Anual Sun Exposure 36.5% 15
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SLIDING DOOR ASSEMBLY
SHADING PANEL RAIL ASSEMBLY
DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS ARGON
SHADING SCREEN SUB FRAME
INSULATION 3 in
STIMPLED CORTEN STEEL SLIDING
SHADE SCREEN STEEL SUPPORT BRACKET
3” CONC. SLAB
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Homewood Urban Grow
Homewood, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1:3 Interventions on shared site with Anna Soryal, Hrushikesh Shah and Priyanka Thakur Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2022
Working through the scope of relocalizing global food systems to address wicked problems of food deserts and food scarcity within Homewood and surrounding neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Acting as one of three interventions on site to implement growing systems back into underserved communities while connecting to affordable housing. Located along the M.L.K Jr bus way and a bus depot, Urban Grow re characters infrastructure used for redlining to promote equal access to food across the city. Homewood Urban Grow utilizes a high capacity vertical aquaponic growing system to address scale of production to yield fish produce and vegetables to feed 3,800 people throughout the year. H.U.G utilizes waste from raising fish as an input for growing aquaponics and outdoor gardening to create a regenerative energy cycle.
Urban Grow uses fish waste as a fertilizer to drive the creation and maintenance of green spaces throughout the site and uses a green roof on the building to address a lack of public spaces within the community through the form of an eco park. Imagining a new typology of warehouse as a pedagogical factory to invite the community and residents to reclaim participation on where their food comes from as well as what they eat.
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Skeleton House
Seattle, Washington
University of New Mexico, Fall 2022
Located in Downtown Seattle, in the year 2060, the Skeleton house is an architecture school imagined through the leveraging of emerging building techniques and technologies. Serving as an example of what contemporary buildings of the future could look like and how its users might inhabit and interact within the space to inspire future generations of students to evolve design alongside technological innovations.
Through the use of additive concrete 3d printing to allow for the affordable creation of complex form aids the Skeleton House in reintegrating organic shapes back into the hard angles of the modern city. Integrating smart technologies like smart glass to reimage how students can display and present work allows for deprogramming and informality of spatial interaction.
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Ribbon Pavilion
New York, New York
Terra X Terra Computational Design Competition 2021
The Ribbon Pavilion is a design proposal for the Terra X Terra computational design competition. Designed for disassembly, the form is constructed through steel poly arced surfaces that are subdivided into five pieces. Connected together using round steel pipes each ribbon gets progressively wider and rotates its orientation. Conceptually designed through the scope of gradients every design decision expands and contracts throughout the pavilion.
Constructed with a perforated double skinned system, the exterior skin of each ribbon has triangular perforations with a ring of LED lights facing the interior. The inside skin is comprised of larger triangular panels held off of the surface by steel tubes, allowing for the reflection and diffusion of light throughout the pavilion. Chairs were designed to compliment the pavilion and reflect the design language.
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Public House
Winery
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Baker Architecture + Design Work sample
Paseo and Kimmick
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Decker/Perich/Sabatini Work sample
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