Michelle Leila Shadan UNDERGRADUATE PORTFOLIO
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Michelle Leila Shadan E: michelleshadan@gmail.com P: 760.216.2155 Web: michelleshadan.com Issue: Michelle Shadan
Work Experience
Education Bachelors Degree of Architecture
Genlser LA Architecture Intern/ Los Angeles, CA / 2016 .Knowledge of construction documentation .Schematic design development .Leadership in developing and presenting intern project
Caroline Dooley Architect
California Polytechnic State University Pomona Aug 2012- June 2017
Study Abroad California State University Florence, Italy Aug 2014- June 2015
Architecture Intern/ Carlsbad, CA / 2016
LPA
.Versatile in architecture disciplines .Attending site visits and conduction client meetings .Working with city department .Hand drafting .BIM modeling for client project
Architecture Intern/ San Diego, CA / 2012 .Construction Site Visits and Meeting minutes .Material Inventory .Completed RFIs
Skills
BESS Conference 2013
Spring 2013 Presentation of sustainable energy systems
Jonathon Club Competition Downtown Los Angeles Garage facade design proposal
Publicity
Team lead for on campus club Designing and organization of presentations, attire, and branding.
Rhino V-ray
English
Autodesk Revit Autodesk Autocad Adobe Photoshop
German
Adobe Indesign
Swiss German
Excel GIS Grasshoper
Teaching Aid
Assisting students in use of digital modeling, rendering in Rhino and Vray
Bike Shelter Competition Top 5 winning Design
Featured in Cal Poly ENV Projects of the Year 2013 Featured in Cal Poly ENV Projects of the Year 2017
Adobe Illustrator
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Awards and Activities
Italian
Spanish
Projects Roadside Architecture The Arby’s
Observation Facility O’Neil Reservation
Pasadena Housing Artist’s Community Supporting Urban Plazas Pershing Square, Los Angeles
Anatomy and Movement Comme des Garcons Ideogram Workshop co. Polytechnic Milano
Paesaggio Interiore Mixed residential and Commercial
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Adaptive Re-use Arby’s
Huntington Beach, CA The pervasiveness and consistency of the architecture of drive thru restaurants in Southern California, has had a great effect of the region over the last 75 years. Feeding the increasingly mobile America, the fast food culture of what was once considered “glamorous” has become “standard” and the sites are treated as a disposable commodity. Through the analysis of Arby’s brand identity and architectural vocabulary, the idea of readapting to preserve what was originally the home of the “delicious roast beef sandwich” is strongly driven
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by its three distinct architectural features: The 40ft neon sign, the Conestoga wagon roof, and the arbitrary outdoor seating. Each one serving as a part of the “authentic Arby’s experience” are preserved in what we call “Frankensteins”. Newly adaptable buildings were these ingredients have been repainted, deleted and reassembled to serve under a different name. As a new Starbucks, Dry-cleaning service, or a Mosque, these functioning archetypes abandon the sign, but keep what we know and therefore Arby’s continues to be recognized.
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Through the creating of separate proscenium stages, the flexible seating is dictated by the set up of these different stages that crop Arby’s and create a new setting for each scene. The seating controls the viewers perspective, just as seating in a run way either segments your view, the play is happening all over but is only seen in fragments by the viewer.
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The idea of cropping indicates fragmentation, pieces that all work together to create an Authentic Arby’s experience. When Arby’s becomes the stage, its architecture begins to tell the story of different American play writes all in response to the spaces that we once knew to serve us delicious food, now serve us a taste of a different kind of American culture. The Arby’s theater now produces the Arby’s story of “Death of a Salesman”.
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Ambiguous
Kitchen
Garage
Garden
(Their light is out. Well before they have finished speaking, Willy’s form is dimly seen below in the darkened kitchen. He opens the refrigerator, searches in there, and takes out a bottle of milk. The apartment houses are fading out, and the entire house and surroundings become covered with leaves. Music insinuates itself as the leaves appear.)
(Light rises on the kitchen. Willy, talking, shuts the refrigerator door and comes downstage to the kitchen table. He pours milk into a glass. He is totally immersed in himself, smiling faintly.)
(Willy is gradually addressing — physically — a point offstage, speaking through the wall of the kitchen, and his voice has been rising in volume to that of a normal conversation.)
(Young Biff and Young Happy appear from the direction Willy was addressing. Happy carries rags and a pail of water. Biff, wearing a sweater with a block »S«, carries a football.)
(Bernard enters in knickers. He is younger than Biff, earnest and loyal, a worried boy).
(Linda enters as of old, a ribbon in her hair, carrying a basket of washing.)
(Biff goes through wall-line of kitchen to doorway at back and calls down):
(They move through the wall into the kitchen)
(They move onto the forestage.)
(Willy moves to the edge of the stage. Linda goes into the kitchen and starts to dam stockings.)
Stage Layout ACT ONE Arby’s production “Death of a Salesman” is put to the test.
(From the darkness is heard the laughter of a woman. Willy doesn’t turn to it, but it continues through Linda’s lines.) (Music is heard as behind a screen, to the left of the house; The Woman, dimly seen, is dressing.)
(The laughter is loud now, and he moves into a brightening area at the left, where The Woman has come from behind the scrim and is standing, putting on her hat, looking into a »mirror« and laughing.)
(The Woman bursts out laughing, and Linda’s laughter blends in. The Woman disappears into the dark. Now the area at the kitchen table brightens. Linda is sitting where she was at the kitchen table, but now is mending a pair of her silk stockings.) (The Woman’s laugh is heard.)
WILLY (exploding at her): There’s nothing the matter with him! You want him to be a worm like Bernard? He’s got spirit, personality
(As he speaks, Linda, almost in tears, exits into the living room. Willy is alone in the kitchen, wilting and staring. The leaves are gone. It is night again, and the apartment houses look down from behind.)
(Happy in pajamas has come down the stairs; Willy suddenly becomes aware of Happy’s presence.)
(Charley has appeared in the doorway. He is a large man, slow of speech, laconic, immovable. In all he says, despite what he says, there is pity, and, now, trepidation. He has a robe over pajamas, slippers on his feet. He enters the kitchen.)
(They are playing. Pause.)
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Each scene is directed in complete response to the architecture.
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O’Niel R
Research Facility San Onofre, CA
The O’Neil Observation Facility is a project dedicated to building a physical and visual relationship to the site. Located in Orange County, the O’Neil Regional Park is dedicated to preserving 4,500 acres of in the Trabuco and Live Oak Canyons. The research facility is designed to imitate the
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ever-changing state of its surroundings. Just as the facility is meant to encourage students to learn and respect the environment, the architecture also builds that relationship by learning and reacting to its surroundings through morphing its natural presence.
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The shape of the facade creates a field Condition that interrupts, distorts, and then Continues the natural state of its surroundings.
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Section B
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Pasadena Housing
Mixed Use Residential Pasadena, CA
This mixed use residential neighborhood is a community that supports local artists, collectors, and visitors. Due to its proximity to the Pasadena art district, the site includes live/work and two bedroom apartments that have a flexible program allowing for
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temporary and permanent studio and display spaces. The complex is designed to allow the public to enter the complex using the two main “streets” from which the artist’s work is visible to the public. The entire site is designed to hold events and has the flexibility to hold art shows for the community.
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Site: Cordova Blvd. Pasadena, California
Pasadena Playhouse District (1.5 miles from site)
Pasadena Museum of California Art (.5 miles from site) Art Center College of Design (4.4 miles from site)
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25’ 5”
COMMUNITY CENTER 663 SQFT
COMMUNITY GALLERY
MULTIPURPOSE
26’
-PUBLIC GALLERY -PRIVATE GYM PRIVATE MULITPURPOSE ROOM
GYM 25’ 5”
OFFICE
First Floor
COMMUNITY CENTER 663 SQFT
COMMUNITY GALLERY
MULTIPURPOSE
GYM OFFICE KITCHEN
DINGING ROOM/ DISPLAY ROOM
First Floor
BEDROOM
25’
25’
WASHER/DRYER
25’
KITCHEN
BED
Second Floor KITCHEN
LIVING ROOM
WASHER/DRYER 20’ 5”
BATH
25’
25’
LIVING ROOM
WASHER/DRYER
20’ 5”
KITCHEN BATH
20’ 5” BED
PUBLIC ENTERACE
20’ 5”
KITCHEN
LIVINGROOM
20’ 5”
20’ 5”PRIVATE
BEDROOM
20’ 5”
DISPLAY AREA
ENTERACE
BALCONY
PUBLIC ENTERACE
Second Floor
Third Floor
KITCHEN
OFFICE
LIVINGROOM
25’
16’11”
20’ 5”
First Floor
BEDROOM
KITCHEN PRIVATE ENTERACE
OFFICE
DISPLAY AREA BALCONY LIVINGROOM
First Floor
PRIVATE ENTERACE
Second Floor DISPLAY AREA
KITCHEN
OFFICE LIVINGROOM
PRIVATE ENTERACE
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DISPLAY AREA
Third Floor
25’
UNIT THREE 1315 SQFT - LIVEWORK/ ONE BEDROOM - PUBLIC OFFICE -SEMI- PRIVATE BALCONY
Second Floor 25’
OFFICE
16’11”
First Floor
25’
UNIT THREE 1315 SQFT
BEDROOM
LIVING ROOM
First Floor
-ONE BEDROOM - ADA ACCESSABLE ON BOTTOM FLOOR
Second Floor BATH
BED
BEDROOM
UNIT TWO 1250 SQFT
BEDROOM
30’
25’
WASHER/DRYER
Open Display and Kitchen
KITCHEN
LIVING ROOM
BATH
LIVING ROOM
LIVING ROOM
Isolated Display Space
KITCHEN
WASHER/ DRYER
WASHER/ DRYER
LIVING ROOM
25’
DINGING ROOM/ DISPLAY ROOM
KITCHEN
DINGING ROOM/ DISPLAY ROOM
BATH
First Floor
-ONE BEDROOM - ADA ACCESSABLE ON BOTTOM FLOOR
KITCHEN
Private Apartment
Open Display and Kitchen
WASHER/ DRYER
BEDROOM
BED
DINGING ROOM/ DISPLAY ROOM
STUDIO SPACE
WASHER/ DRYER
25’
LIVING ROOM
UNIT TWO 1250 SQFT
- LIVEWORK/ ONE BEDROOM - PUBLIC OFFICE -SEMI- PRIVATE BALCONY
Second Floor
30’
- TWO BEDROOM - PUBLIC USE DISPLAY ROOM
BATH
KITCHEN
BEDROOM
DINGING ROOM/ DISPLAY ROOM
First Floor
BEDROOM
Isolated Display Space
BEDROOM
UNITE ONE 1298 SQFT
LIVING ROOM
LIVING ROOM
BEDROOM
30’
25’
WASHER/ DRYER
WASHER/ DRYER
LIVING ROOM
25’
KITCHEN
DINGING ROOM/ DISPLAY ROOM
KITCHEN
DINGING ROOM/ DISPLAY ROOM
WASHER/ DRYER
STUDIO SPACE
WASHER/ DRYER LIVING ROOM
KITCHEN
DINGING ROOM/ DISPLAY ROOM
30’
- TWO BEDROOM - PUBLIC USE DISPLAY ROOM
25’
BEDROOM
-PUBLIC GALLERY -PRIVATE GYM PRIVATE MULITPURPOSE ROOM UNITE ONE 1298 SQFT
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25’
Private Apartment
Private
Each resident may display their art Individually. The Community Gallery is an additional display as well as a studio space that is always open to the public.
Semi Public
Only the designated display rooms are open to the public for viewing.
Public
The movable partition walls within each unit allow for a continuous flow through the entire complex.
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Supporting Urban Plazas Gensler Intern Project
Pershing Square, Los Angeles., CA Supporting urban Plaza is a project directed by the city of Los Angeles through Gensler in LA. This project is based on the winning design from a competition held in 2016 with which the team, Agence Ter, designed a flat carpet leveling out the existing Pershing Square to create a flexible and comfortable space. Through it’s lack of attention, Pershing Square, although the oldest, is many times forgotten and blocked from its surrounding context with high walls and steps, creating a visual and physical blockade from the rest of the city. The first step is to break the box by blurring the boundary of the Agence Ter design into the surrounding hard-scape. The juxtaposition between hard-scape and soft scape were the most important and we created a strategy to create a new heart in LA by creating an experience that continued the square around the corner. Our design is meant to strengthen the Agence
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Ter design and add to this idea of the “urban carpet”. The grid blends the fabric into the neighborhood. It is the constraint though with the garden, street, and stores all merge. The grid is meant to extended, hybridize, and blend the softscape with the hard-scape creating a seamless transition from city to park. The modules work as diversely functioning parklets that allow for congregation and the extension of existing stores into the street. The corners are out main areas of conversation. These are the key components for the park to be registered from different approaching angels.
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Anatomy
Comme de Garcons Analyzing body behavior in response to the suite of Huate Couture Designed by Rei Kawakubo for the Autumn/ Winter show 2016-17. ​ An analysis of how the model responds to the context of the runway and the article she is wearing. First, understand pattern, and structure through material: 7 rows of different floral patterns of silk. The model becomes a battery to the craft. Through the breakdown of the model’s movement, we see how the suite hinders/ advances the subject. Every step, every angle is choreographed.
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Charrette Workshop
California State University Firenze and Polytechnic University Milan Firenze, Italy
Ines Paulot, Emmanuelle Bruhat, Shree Ravichandran, and Michelle Shadan A workshop taught by Fabio Alessandro Fusco The ideogram is a fragmented drawing representing a city and serves as a concept to create an urban landscape. From the ideogram we derived a landscape of Islands based on Rem Koolhaas, “Green Archipelago”. The ideogram was interpreted as a cropped version of a much larger setting in which the cities have the ability to develop, to grow, and to serve as a “city upon a hill”; a setting serving as an example for whatever may happen.
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Belfiore
Commercial and Residential Project Florence, IT
A project co-produced by Katarina Kushin, Courtney Sluder, and Michelle Shadan Paessagio Interiore: Occurs when two programs overlap and become a medium between interior and exterior spaces. This extension of nature encourages social interactions and offers an enrichment to the community lifestyle, paving the way for the future of Florence. Viale Belfiore is a mixed use development near the city center of Florence, Italy. Located on a busy intersection close to Norman Foster’s proposed high speed rail, the area has the potential to turn an abandoned construction site into a community space that connects both residential and city visitors.
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The program integrates a large shopping center, a hotel, residential units, offices, an amphitheater, and restaurant. The project is called “Paessagio Interiore” in response to the interstitial spaces weaving both interior and exterior spaces together. he project connects directly to the streets and brings the T beauty of the Florence streets indoors. The extension of nature into the curated space is designed to enrich the community lifestyle of residents and businessmen alike and to encourage social interaction between the many people who come to enjoy, live, or work in the beautiful city.
Current Site Nature overcoming Man Intervension
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Inner landscape
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