Work to Date Michael Taylor / B.Comm, M.Arch
EDUCATION
2009-2013
Master of Architecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. % Received 2011 AIBC Scholarship for Academic Achievement. % Skilled with Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino, SketchUp, Vectorworks, and AutoCad. % Experienced with Grasshopper, Maya, Flash + Final Cut Pro.
01/2011-05/2011 2003-2007
Visiting Student, The Architectural Association, London, UK. Bachelor of Commerce, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. % Received Entrance Honours with Merit.
EMPLOYMENT
% Major in International Business Strategy, Minor in Art History. 12/2005-07/2006
International Studies, The Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, DK.
04/2012-08/2012
Intern Architect, Büro Ole Scheeren, Beijing, CN. % Contributed to the schematic design of a tower complex in Singapore. % Worked with local model makers and consultants to test design options.
01/2012-04/2012
Instructor, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. % Lead the 18 student undergraduate seminar ‘Thinking By Design’. % Coached students through small-scale design projects.
06/2011-12/2011
Intern Architect, Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen, DK. % Produced competition submission material for towers in Caojiadu. % Developed schematic drawings, presentation model, website diagrams and renders for a residential commission in Sønderborg. % Lead conceptual development, contributed local insight, and assisted with a rezoning presentation for residential tower in Vancouver. % Created presentation and marketing material for prequalifications and request for proposals on behalf of the business development team.
06/2010-08/2010
Design/Build Team, Köbberling + Kaltawasser, Vancouver, BC. % Assisted in the creation of a 5:1 bulldozer for a public art piece. % Established a system of base-units with the material being used, enabling more efficient assembly.
01/2009-08/2009
Sales Executive, Capital Economics, Toronto, ON. % Helped to establish the British company’s first international office.
% Initiated a business development plan and direct marketing campaign for the firm’s new business regions in North America. % Coached prospective clients in the investments & banking industry on how to utilize the company’s research effectively. 05/2007-10/2008
Account Manager, Xerox Canada, Toronto, ON. % Managed business development for West-end Toronto. % Developed database systems to organize clientele information, improving customer relations and efficiency in revenue generation.
EXPERIENCE
% Executed market research to create specific marketing communications.
10/2011
Lecturer/City Guide, The Architectural Association, London, UK. % Lead a tour of Copenhagen’s Ørestad region, discussing its economic development, sustainable planning, and notable architecture.
02/2011-04/2011
Set Designer, Ted X Goodenough College, London, UK. % Sourced building materials and assisted with fabrication.
05/2010-Present
President, Archus Student Society, Vancouver, BC. % Represent the student body in faculty interviews and on admission committees. % Coordinate events with the executive team to foster community amongst the schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning.
07/2010-Present
Student Representative, AIBC Intern Committee, Vancouver, BC. % Represent Canadian students who are prospective or current interns in British Columbia.
09/2009-Present
Contributor, Student Blog Project, Archinect.com % Recruited to represent UBC on the international website by creating a personal and comprehensive discourse of the events, lectures and projects occurring within the Architecture School.
09/2008-02/2009
Volunteer, Architecture for Humanity, Toronto, ON. % Contributed in planning the ongoing lecture series. % Aided with initiatives to raise money for the organization and awareness of the chapter within Toronto.
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The Mowachaht, a band within the Nuchalnuuth Nations, has its reserve in Gold River, BC with land claims in Yuquot on the far west coast of Vancouver Island. In Yuquot, a shrine of wood carvings was erected on Jewitt Island in the Late 1700’s. After 100 years of western explorers visiting Yuquot the shrine was sold by a band leader in financial trouble. The shrine has since been stored at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1996 the Mowachaht leaders officially requested that it be repatriated. The purpose of this project was to speculate how the process of repatriation could be catalytic for new models of activity on Yuquot. With the shrine returned to its home, how could a generation of Mowachaht youth be engaged with their heritage as master craftsmen? How could this stimulate economic activity and provide an opportunity for the next generation?
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A Catalytic Building Process Initial Building Phase
Conceptual design phase Schematic design phase Digital design phase
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Trades/Services
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Manufacturing
Ongoing tourist attraction Value-add forestry activities
Export Products
Traditional & innovated craft sales
Negotiations
Newly accredited carpentry team
Traditional & contemporary carpentry distribution
Negotiations hosted in new facility Arrival of the Shrine in Yuquot
Reclaiming
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Housing
Digital design seminars
Digital fabrication seminars
Construction site training Technician training
Inter-community apprenticeships Accredited trades programs
Education Conservation
Traditional Practices
Site work Construction
Newly accredited construction team
Community based design team
Tourism
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Sustainability seminars Sustainable material acquisition Community led craft innovation sessions
Community debates
Community celebration and elders discussions
Craft and Resources Seminars
Mowachaht cultural event
I investigated the ways that crafting had been passed down from one generation to the next and how the physical movement of the shrine exacerbated or ameilorated its aleination from the Mowachaht people. I used these narrative drawings and this hypothetical timeline to construct an argument for a digital fabrication facility on Yuquot. A building that housed contemporary methods of crafting alongside the shrine, to invigorate Mowachaht youth. To prevent a cathartic repatriation process, the building would be constructed using the CNC machine it would house. So, its monocoque design and construction will serve as training for the value-added forestry and craft industry that it would eventually be a facility for.
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This project is set in Cheorwon, the only county on the Korean peninsula severed by the De Militarized Zone, diminishing the potential of its Geumwha Valley to be efficiently farmed. However, its adjacency to the naturalized DMZ has created an ad-hoc nature reserve for migratory birds, a popular tourist destination, and a premium market for the rice grown here which is now seen as being organic.
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In April, a third nuclear device was detonated by an increasingly belligerent and insular North Korea, while South Korea continued on its threedecade trend as the fastest growing economy in the world. Regardless of this polarization, reunification continues to be pursued. To further this agenda, the peninsula’s extreme economic disparity must be ameliorated using models that push hard currency north and engage the North’s labour force. With Cheorwon county at the nexus of a fertile agricultural valley, unspoiled lowland habitat, a cluster of tourist sites, and the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, this area has the potential to host a model of cross border economic cooperation that can be catalytic for economic and social progress within the Korean peninsula.
My project proposes a special economic zone for rice production at the intersection of the agricultural valley and the DMZ. The unfarmed areas of the DMZ have the potential to enable access for North Korean Farmers into the South Korean market. By leveraging the traditional farming methods of North Koreans: manual land preparation, no pesticides and hand threshing, against a burgeoning market for ‘organic’ rice in South Korea, my scheme subverts use of the void border space to increase the buying power of North Korean farmers.
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With the Landscape organized in strips of adjacent infrastructure the need for architecture arises at thier intersection: where farmer roads must cross the riparian zone, tourist paths, and military surveillance roads. This intersection is microcosm of the greater condition: the crossing of the Geumwha Valley with the DMZ, creating a condition in which architecture can be deployed as an allegorical solution to the border issue in Cheorwon. The architecture is based on the need to bridge. Layering circulation in section creates a vertical set of adjacencies: a stacked border condition, that is blurred by the undulating surface geometry.
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The scheme for this facility empowers its architecture with an agency to organize a miniaturized DMZ: It reveals the spatial consequences of the already existing and extrememly surreal adjacencies. By redefining in section boundaries that are typically fixed in plan, the problem of confronting military, agriculture, tourism, and nature with one another becomes necessarily architectural.
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The architecture is revelatory for the set of uncanny juxtapositions that exist within the DMZ and confronts some of the economic issues of reunification. It engages both of these as generative factors for architectural form.