MICHELLE YATES D E S I G N P O RT F O L I O
MICHELLE YATES michellekyates@gmail.com 206.718.4226
EDUCATION 09. 2013 - Present
Master of Architecture Candidate University of Washington, Seattle WA Honors: Tau Sigma Delta, Honor’s Society of Architecture and Allied Arts
08.2015 - 12. 2015
Architecture Exchange Studies KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
09. 2008 - 05. 2012
Bachelor of Art, Major: Art Studio Colorado College, Colorado Springs Honors: Departmental distinction, cum laude, Dean’s list, Brooks Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 09.2016 - 12. 2016
Graduate Student Assistant Instructor, Arch 200: Introduction to Drawing College of the Built Environment, University of Washington, Seattle • Prepared workshops related to hand and digital drawing techniques • Led class and individual critiques
05.2015 - 08. 2016
Graduate Student Assistant Instructor, Arch 100 Studio: Intro to Architecture College of the Built Environment, University of Washington, Seattle • Prepared lectures, walking tours, and workshops • Provided independent desk critiques with students
03.2016 - 08. 2016
Graduate Student Assistant, Storefront Studio College of the Built Environment, University of Washington, Seattle • Maintained and updated the studio website • Assembled and edited the graphic and text content for the studio book
05. 2014 - 09. 2014
Architecture Intern CollinsWoerman • Used Revit to complete tasks for commercial projects • Designed a project design book for the Urban Union office building • Constructed a presentation model of the Osage Nation Community Center
04. 2013
Post-Graduate Guest Lecturer Colorado College • Awarded a stipend to travel to Colorado College for a formal presentation on sculptural work • Guest reviewer for an introductory sculpture class
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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 06.2016 - Present
‘Map the Square’ Team Member The Young Architects Forum, Seattle • Participated in the design, planning, and fabrication of the Map the Square project for the 2016 Seattle Design Festival
06.2016-09.2016
‘This is What an Architect Looks Like’ Team Member Women in Design, Seattle • Participated in the fabrication of the “This is What an Architect Looks Like” design installation for the 2016 Seattle Design Festival
08. 2015
Drawing Instructor The Young Architects Forum, Seattle Co-lead introductory week-long architectural drawing classes
08.2012 - Present
Youth Programs Volunteer Seattle Architecture Foundation • Lead youth design workshops and facilitated conversations with participants concerning urban issues, sustainability and architecture
09.2014 - 06.2015
Student Council Representative College of the Built Environment, University of Washington, Seattle • Acted as a liaison between the architecture graduate students and the Dean’s Office • Met monthly with the other student representatives on the council to discuss strategies for greater interdepartmental collaboration within the college
02.2011 - 05. 2012
Student Representative Colorado College Design Review Board, Colorado Springs • One of two student members on the campus Design Review Board • Reviewed new and proposed campus design projects • Researched and presented a report on issues associated with current campus signage
SOFTWARE SKILLS 2D Drawing 3D Modeling Revit Rhinoceros Sketch-up Diva
Rendering Vray
Graphics Photoshop Illustrator InDesign 3
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Dualities
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City to Sea
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Lens Focus
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Soe Ker Tie House
A recreation center for changing Redmond 路 2016
Reimagining the Marion Street Bridge 路 2015
A Naturum for the Swedish North 路 2015
A Techtonic Study 路 2015 4
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Observational Sketches
Independent drawing · 2012 - 2016
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Sculptural Installation Undergraduate thesis · 2012
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Community Projects
Seattle Design Festival · 2016
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DUALITIES Redmond Recreation Center Designed for the city parks and recreation department, the Redmond Recreation Center reflects the conflicting demands of privacy and inclusion, inward contemplation and social engagement, and monumentality and intimacy.
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ARCH 503 | DUALITIES | SRDAR
The social activities orient outward to visually engage the street and park space, while quieter program focuses inward toward an elevated courtyard. This courtyard acts as the contemplative outdoor counterpoint to the energetic sundeck and park below.
Organizing volumes
Internal & External Orientation
Gymnasium
Classrooms, Studios, & Administration
The city is planning for greater density and walkability while increasing use of mass-transit and cycling. The recreation center contributes to this vision by holding the street-wall edge on its northern end, creating a pedestrian-oriented through-block connection between 83rd and 85th Streets, and opening up its atrium space as a public living room to the city. The entry atrium acts as an indoor extension of the street opening to both the bustling 161st Avenue and the Redmond Transit Center. Here users can socialize while they wait for a bus to nearby Seattle, sit and enjoy a warm beverage from the Corner Coffee Shop, or take a moment to read up on health tips while their child splashes through a swimming lesson.
Weights & Fitness
Running Track
Pools
Program Organization
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Recreation Pool
161 AVENUE NE
Second Floor Courtyard
MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL
SUN DECK
THE EDGE SKATE PARK
TRANSIT CENTER
Site Plan 0’
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50’
NE 83RD STREET
ARCH 503 | DUALITIES | SRDAR
“THE EDGE” SKATE PARK
Site Strategies
Holding the street edge
Pedestrian oriented through-block connection
Extending the public path inside
Pool deck responds to the solar access
Looking from the skatepark toward the sun deck
Rec Pool
Lap Pool
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Structural Organization
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ARCH 503 | DUALITIES | SRDAR
Welded tube steel truss
Pipe cut by summer sun angles
Resulting module
Steel solar screen
Stacking of modules
Developing the Sunscreen
Aluminum mullions
Low-E Triple glazing
Screen made from arrayed modules
Wall Assembly
The large steel braced frame contributes to the building’s lateral system while supporting the cantilevered running track wrapping around the second floor. A steel screen attaches to this frame preventing direct sunlight from entering into the building during the warmer months. The screen is made of arrayed oculi, which are shaped by the angle of the sun between March and September. 11
City to Sea Reimagining the Marion Street Corridor to define Seattle’s Relationship to Puget Sound
NATIONAL WEATHER COLLECTION STATION OBSERVATION DECK
FLOATING TEMPORARY TIE-UP
98’
18’ TOWER
SECTION A LOOKING NORTH
ELLIOTT BAY TOWER
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98’
ACCESS TO FERRY
8’
12’
6’
CYCLE TRACK
12’
10’
PICK-UP/ DROP-OFF
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SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC
10’
22’
10’
NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC
The City to Sea design scheme focuses on strengthening the relationship between Downtown Seattle and the larger regional landscape through the development of the Marion Street Corridor between 1st Avenue and the Colman ferry dock. This focuses on a twopronged approach involving the structure of the Marion Street bridge opening up to the larger landscape and drawing elements of the new waterfront plan east into Downtown. The two independent structural systems of the bridge relates to the dueling spatial experiences of the site; one relating to the urban environment and the other relating to the expansive regional and natural environment. The bridge is supported in compression by regularly spaced columns, expressed below the path, as it marches from 1st Avenue toward the waterfront. This path is punctuated by platforms suspended in tension from towers . The differing structural language is expressed above the pedestrian bridge opening up to the sky and drawing in the natural landscape. MICHELLE YATES
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BAINBRIDGE FERRY
ELLIOT BAY A
FLOATING PLATFORM SMALL BOAT TIE-UP D
ELLIOTT BAY TOWER
OBSERVATION DECK WEATHER CENTER D
WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES COLMAN DOCK
MARION STREET PLAN
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ARCH 502 | CITY TO SEA | MCLAREN
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COLMAN TOWER
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MADISON STREET
1ST AVENUE
ALASKAN WAY
MARITIME BUILDING
FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING HOMELAND SECURITY
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ALASKAN TOWER
MARION STREET
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POST ALLEY TOWER TOP POT
COLMAN BUILDING
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South side of Marion Street looking west
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ARCH 502 | CITY TO SEA | MCLAREN
SECTION B LOOKING WEST
ALASKAN TOWER
SECTION C LOOKING WEST
COLMAN TOWER
City to Sea draws many of the design elements of the Seattle waterfront proposal up into the city along Marion Street. This includes eliminating one lane of parking to accommodate a more generous sidewalk. This encourages more activity and pedestrian movement on the street level. Seating, plantings and a designated bike lane contribute to the energy and vitality of the street. Vertical circulation is incorporated into each of the tower elements providing greater access to the Marion Street Bridge on the north side of the street. MICHELLE YATES
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ELLIOTT BAY TOWER PROGRAM
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WEATHER DATA COLLECTION
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CROW’S NEST
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ELEVATOR
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FLOATING TEMPORARY TIE-UP DOCK
VIEWING PLATFORM WEATHER & SHIPPING DATA PROJECTED ON FACADE
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SECTION D LOOKING WEST
ELLIOTT BAY TOWER
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ARCH 502 | CITY TO SEA | MCLAREN
Paddler’s view looking southeast
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LENS FOCUS A Naturum for the Swedish North
SITE SECTION & PLAN
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KTH UNIVERSITY | GULLSTROM HUGHES & MEROM
Site Challenges
Exposure and limited flexibility
Lack of reference to scale
Strategies
Series of curated views
Inside and outside viewing niches
Human scale
A primary crossroads for migrating reindeer, Flatruet, Sweden is defined by an expansive and dramatic landscape. So severe is this area, plants
remain extremely low and few trees dot the landscape. The Lens Focus Naturum educates visitors on the local area’s culture and physical
surroundings. It also serves as a place of shelter for hikers and snow-
shoers. The architecture of the building curates views for the visitor to
emphasize different aspects of the landscape such as the horizontality of
the plateau and towering heights of the mountains beyond. 21
Plan
South Elevation
Section looking north
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KTH UNIVERSITY | GULLSTROM HUGHES & MEROM
View from exhibit space looking south through viewing niche
Section looking west
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SOE KER TIE HOUSE ARCH 570 | University of Washington | Spring 2015 Jim Nicholls, Senior Lecturer TEAM: Buddy Burkhalter Stephanie Ferrell Christopher Morris Keegan Raleigh Michelle Yates Edwin Yip
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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | SOE KER TIE HOUSE - TYIN | NICHOLLS
The Soe Ker Tie Houses, deigned by TYIN Tengestrue Architects, are a collection of sleeping huts for Karen refugees in Noh Bo,Tak, Thailand. The project relies primarily on local materials and bolted connections to ensure precision and strength.
Our team of six students chose the Soe Ker Tie Houses as a precedent study for our Design Development class. We produced a half-scale model of the one of the sleeping huts and displayed it along side five other models in Gould Court at the University of Washington.
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OBSERVATIONAL SKETCHES
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OBSERVATIONAL SKETCHES | INDEPENDENT WORK
I use sketching from observation as a strategy for understanding the built environment. I enjoy examining a variety of scales in my sketchbook from zoomed-in views of architectural details to a larger urban understanding of the relationship between buildings, streets, and landscape.
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OBSERVATIONAL SKETCHES | INDEPENDENT WORK
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Untitled
Trace paper forms applied to opaque and translucent surfaces 8’ X 5’
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ART STUDIO THESIS | COLORADO COLLEGE | JOHNSON
SCULPTURAL INSTALLATIONS This body of work explores how forms made from everyday objects can suggest animation and growth. Each installation investigates the relationship between the individual and population. Research on barnacles, fungi, and other natural aggregates informed the organization of these installations.
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These installations are representative of a larger body of work developed over six months culminating in a week long solo exhibition at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. This work informed and inspired my continued interest in human populations in urban environments.
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ART STUDIO THESIS | COLORADO COLLEGE | JOHNSON
Gentile Competition
Laminated magazine pages 7’ X 6’
Density
Book pages 3’ X 3’
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COMMUNITY PROJECTS Map the Square, 2016 Seattle Design Festival
Select a tag
Mark needed intervention
The Map the Square installation sought public input on the physical design changes needed to transform Pioneer Square into a unified, lively and attractive urban district. The project invited community members to identify areas in need of change by answering the following two questions by physically leaving markers in the neighborhood. 1. What physical elements would you like to see in Pioneer Square? 2. Where should these design elements be located? Responses were aggregated and displayed digitally using social media and on a physical map in Pioneer Square’s A-Gallery. Young Architects Forum Team: Tya Abe Jacqui Aiello Maribel Barba Jesse Chapman Rob Deane Jessica Hardin TJ Hoving
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Joseph Knight Grace Lounsbury Carl Leighty Arti Patel Brittany Porter Shannon Payton Yes Segura Samira Yasmin Michelle Yates
MAP THE SQUARE | YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM
Interventions recorded in A-Gallery
This is What an Architect Looks Like, 2016 Seattle Design Festival Displayed at the 2016 Seattle Design Festival Block Party, this installation is a matching game aimed a showing children that anyone can be an architect. Photos of current designers are arranged on the right panel, while their childhood photos are on the left. Participants are asked to match the designer with their corresponding childhood photo in the center.
Women in Design Team: Jennifer Caldwell Catherine Calvert Michelle Couture Cheryl Jacobs Kokila Lochan THIS IS WHAT AN ARCHITECT LOOKS LIKE, WOMEN IN DESIGN
Emma Nowinski Briana Peretti Cynthia Talley Erin Wark Mary Wyllie Michelle Yates
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