MICHAEL MAXWELL HALFON ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
CONTENTS
Resume
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Representation laboratory
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Historical building preservation studio
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Architecture design studio
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Technological evaluation and project design
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Internship Atelier Forte
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Web design
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MICHAEL-MAXWELL HALFON C.so Buenos Aires 75, 20124 Milano +39 320 097 99 89 michaelmaxwellhalfon@gmail.com
Work Experience
Summer 2013 Atelier Forte, Milan Intern Producing iron and wood crafts Art installation Summer 2012 Studio Minerbi, Milan Intern Producing autocad drawings Art installation 2006 - 2007 Fabbrica Moda spa , Rome Sales assistant Serving customers Inventory
RESUME
Education
Bachelors Degree in Architecture Science Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 2008 - 2013 Intensive English Program Geos Institute, Boston (USA), 2007 - 2008 Linguistic studies diploma, 2002 - 2007 Istituto Nazareth, Rome
Technical skills
Autocad, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat, Rhino, Revit, Google Sketchup, Artlantis, Archicad, Microsoft Office, Drafting, Model-making, Welding.
Foreign languages
Italian (mothertongue), English, Spanish.
Interests
Kickboxing, jogging, reading, play
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PORTFOLIO
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REPRESENTATION LABORATORY I’ve attended this course during the first year of university. The goal of the course was to teach how to represent buildings in architecture. Among the numerous drawings produced during the course, I’ve selected the Lafayette Park townhouses project (Detroit) by Mies Van Der Rohe.
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Situated at the eastern edge of downtown Detroit, Lafayette Park constitutes the world’s largest collection of buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe. The townhouses represent the typical features of Mies Van Der Rohe’s aesthetic. The townhouses are identical, two-story bars arranged perpendicular and parallel to each other. Viewed from above, the configuration reads as rigid and regularized. Mies placed the kitchen and living areas on the first level of each townhouse, with the bedrooms located above.
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REPRESENTATION LABORATORY
Plan and the elevations of the townhouses.
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A perspective of the building.
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REPRESENTATION LABORATORY
HISTORICAL BUILDING PRESERVATION STUDIO This course was about the preservation of Prinetti Palace in Merate, a small town in Italy. The objective was to analyze the material decomposition of the palace. The course was divided into two parts: the material analyses of the front of the building and the analysis of an internal room.
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Graphic design of the facade of the building.
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Superficial material analyses of the building facade.
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Degradation of the facade materials.
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Sketches of the space inside the room using the trilateration technique.
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Drawing of the room’s pavement and some photos of how the pavement actually looks.
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Sketches of the door and the window of the room.
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ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO The assignment was to project an art gallery in Brescia, Italy. The building has two floors and one sub-level plus a terrace. The building develops a continuous path that starts and ends at the same place without letting the walkers pass through the same room. In fact, on the roof there is an external staircase that closes the path of the building.
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PLAN
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LEVEL 0
LEVEL 1
The building path starts from the east area of the ground floor. The first area is the ticket office. The path continues through the art gallery, characterized by double height intervals.
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LEVEL 2
ROOF
The roof represents the point from where it is possible to admire the landscape of Brescia.The roof closes the path started two floors below by taking the stairs that brings you directly to the ground floor.
LEVEL -1
Level -1 is accessible from the stairs on the ground floor. In this level there are placed a bar area, a bookshop and a storage area.
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SECTION A-A
SOUTH ELEVATION
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SECTION B-B
SECTION C-C
WEST ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
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3D RENDERINGS These 3D renderings show the urban context in which the project is set. The art gallery has a deep relation with the surroundings. It maintains the same height of the nearby buildings, avoiding the disruption of the historical urban context in which it is placed.
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3D RENDERINGS
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These renderings show how the interior of the Art Gallery appears. Picture 1 shows the ticket office at the entrance of the building. Picture 2 shows the double height space on the first floor. Picture 3 represents the internal hallway on the second floor. The last picture represents the east area of the second floor.
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3D RENDERINGS
This is a cross section of the art gallery that shows all the architectonic elements that compose the building.
ROOF
LEVEL 2
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 0
LEVEL -1
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO
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TECHNOLOGICAL EVALUATION AND PROJECT DESIGN The goal of this course is to re-elaborate a famous building (Sapper House by Marco Zanuso in Musso, Italy) according to the construction laws of Milan. I’ve included maps, fronts, sections and architectual details of the house.
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GROUND FLOOR
Sapper House was designed by Arch. Marco Zanuso and was built in 1973. The house has two floors for a total of 250 m2 organized in an “L” shape. The two elements composing the ‘L’ are arranged as two independent units combined together. The longest element is the parent’s sector, the shortest element is the children’s sector. A particularity of this house is its fuctional inversion: the parent’s sector has the bedroom upstairs and the living room downstairs; the children’s bedrooms are downstairs and the living room upstairs.
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FIRST FLOOR
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SECTION A-A
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SECTION B-B
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1720
280
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250 475
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560
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595
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NORTH-WEST ELEVATION
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SOUTH-EAST ELEVATION
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Construction details of the floor and the wall.
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Construction details of the stairs.
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INTERNSHIP - ATELIER FORTE I interned at Atelier Forte a studio of architecture/art in Milan. During my apprenticeship I’ve assisted in the building of many art installations around Italy. The atelier favors manual work and only two materials are used: wood and iron. I’ve selected for this portfolio some of the works completed during my apprenticeship: a skeleton phoenix sculpture, an art installation in Turin (Italy), an iron coat hanger, and an iron arrow.
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The phoenix skeleton is a sculpture entirely made by iron. It measures 200 x 118 x 94 cm.
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This coat hanger is composed by a sequence of horses juxtaposed. It is made with iron.
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The iron arrow. At its extremity there is a welded screw in order to screw it into the wall.
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It represents Sleipnir, the horse of Odin. This installation was made in Turin, Italy.
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This sculpture is a horse shaped seat, and it is entirely made by wood. It measures 90 x 40 x 40 cm.
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WEB DESIGN In this section I want to show a web design work that I have done in the past few months. The web design field has become a recent interest of mine, and I feel like this is going to be a branch of knowledge that I’ll continue to study and deepen along with architecture.
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This is a website I made for a fashion designer. The pictures show the HTML/CSS architecture of the website. To make this website I used Adobe Dreamweaver.
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thank you for viewing my portfolio
Michael-Maxwell Halfon C.so Buenos Aires 75, 20124 Milano +39 320 097 99 89 michaelmaxwellhalfon@gmail.com
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