Selected Works
SERAPHIN MICHAEL MILLON Fall 2016
ABOUT Résumé p. 4
ACADEMIC WORKS Allegory Through Architecture p. 6
Barcelona in Transformation p. 8
The Deck p. 16
Trolly Barn p. 24
PERSONAL INTEREST Model making p. 30
Photography p. 40
RÉSUMÉ EMAIL
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PHONE (864) 704-5116 WEB
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ABOUT Born in the South, raised on the road. Avid equestrian, outdoorsman, and traveler. Passionate about architecture, graphic design, and chasing the next new experience. Dedicated worker and always smiling. EDUCATION 2014-present
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
Clemson, South Carolina
Graduate School of Architecture Masters in Architecture, expected 2017 GPA: 3.5 / 4.0 Fall 2016
CLEMSON DESIGN CENTER IN CHARLESTON
Charleston, South Carolina
Architectural Graphics Architectural History and Theory III Design Studio V Internship GPA: 3.4 Spring 2016
BARCELONA ARCHITECTURE CENTER
Barcelona, Spain
Architectural History Research Field Studies in Architecture Design Studio IV Environmental Systems GPA: 4.0 2013, 2015
DANISH INSTITUTE FOR STUDY ABROAD Design Studio I & II Field Studies I & II European Urban Design Theories Innovation Through Design Thinking 20th and 21st Century Danish Architecture Danish Architectural Theory
Copenhagen, Denmark
Summer 2011
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Ithica, New York
Introduction to Architecture Studio Introduction to Architecture Lecture WOFFORD COLLEGE 2010-2014
Spartanburg, South Carolina
B.S. in Business and Economics GPA: 3.3 Dean’s List SKILLS DIGITAL
ANALOG
Autodesk AutoCad
Model making
Google Sketchup
Wood Working
Adobe Photoshop
Sketching
Adobe Illustrator
Drafting
Adobe Indesign
RAPID PROTOTYPING
Autodesk Revit
Laser Cutting
Rhinocerous
3D Printing
Kerkythea
CNC Routing
Mac OS Windows OS
EXPERIENCE 2011
JCREW Sales Associate
Saluda, North Carolina
On floor sales associate, designed clothes layout, in charge of window displays. 2012-2014
REMAX Assistant to Broker In Charge
Greenville, South Carolina
Updated design and maintainted website, developed and maintained facebook page, photographed and measured homes to be listed, listed properties online. 2016
BEAU CLOWNEY ARCHITECTS Architectural Intern Assistant to principal, marked and drew plans, met with clients, checked ongoing projects.
Charleston, South Carolina
Allegory Through Architecture
Spring 2014 Design studio 2 Instructor Junichi Satoh
This project was centered on the meaning of the allegory of the cave; a short story which is presented by the main character in Plato’s Republic. The allegory of the cave comments on the role of education in our society as well as an individuals willingness to seek knowledge and truth. The themes as well as the three part natrriative of the story inspired a multi-puropse educational tower housing a classroom, study area, and research offices.
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GROUP STUDY In the begining of the allegory the prisoners are held in the cave. The cave is dark and all the prisoners can see is shadows made by the fire. These are shadows made by represenations of real things. Although these images are distorted by the fire, the prisoners believe them to be real. This room is dark, the windows are small and difficult to see out of. Here individuals learn from eachother and believe what they see and hear from their peers rather than learning directly from a primary source.
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INDEPENDENT STUDY Withn the second part of the story a prisoner is released from the cave and goes into the light. In the prisioners journy he goes from the dark to the light and realizes the shadows are not realities but images presented in their place. The light represents reality, knowledge, and knowledge within the allegory. The second room in the educational tower is comprised of individual study nooks. Here individuals learn from source of true knowledge. In this room the windws are larger and allow light to fill the space.
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RESEARCH The third phase of the allegory is comprised of discussion of a return journey. The character in the story wants to return to the cave and bring the rest of the prisioners to the light, teach and show them that the shadows are false representations of reality. This level of the tower is comprised of three glass research rooms with overly large windows, flooded by light. Once this level of the tower is reached the user has gone beyond learning the truth and has begun to seek out the truth and new knowledge on their own. The return journey is made on the exterior staircase, while the journey and destination are the same, the user has attained a new level of knowlege and thmself are not the same.
Barcelona in Transformation The Farm to Table Marketplace aims to supply local produce made by the community FOR the community. This project combines a fresh food market with a park, student housing, as well as a vertical farming system. The ground plane houses the open public space within the lot. The markets are divided and seperated across the park to encourage individuals to wander and discover diferent parts of the site. The park is located in a part of the city where the Eixample plan developed by Cerda clashes with a more antique road cutting across the city. The site has a custom sidewalk pattern inspired by the clashing of circulatory grids on site. The ground floor is covered in trees and plant life to make this a comfortable and enjoyable place to spend time outside in the hot summer months. As the building grows vertically the levels begin to shift back and forth alligning with these clashing grids. This allows the buildings to share structural members as well as stairway circulation while providing ample room for outdoor elevated farming and indoor student housing. The farming aspect of this project is meant to be a community building aspect where student and locals alike can come and lend a hand in producing the food that will eventually be served at their own dinner table. The student housing is arranged along lightwells that bring light and air to the farming levels in between. These rooms are set up to to be extremely dynamic, to support the sleeping and studio needs of the art students at the BAU design school. Within this project materiality was a very important consideration. The market halls as well as student dormitory spaces were to be constructed with Polycarbonate and glass walls to appear as light and transparent as possible within the park space and to also lend a hand in keeping this park illuminated and safe at night, these buildings appearing as hanging lanterns. To combat privacy concerns within the living space, studnet bedrooms are drawn within the core of the space and given a clever half privacy glass system within the rooms. Tall trees that fill the inner courtyards keep wandering eyes from the park level out of the private living spaces within the project. Deep occupiable window bays within the shared living spaces extend the living space into the cannopy, while giving students a small nook to inhabit on their own or with friends outside of their bedroom.
Chaos within order This site map was developed to investigate the imperfections in the Eixample grid plan. While within the matrix, Barcelona can seem like one crisp perfectly square block after another, to the keen eye, the city has many cut throughs and alley ways that deserve attention. This investigation of the bastardization of Cerda’s Eixample plan lead to the sidewalk pattern that dominates the site, as well as the overall massing of the buildings and their location within the site.
Existing circulation
Avenues of Travel
Park Space
Intended Circulation
Polycarbonate and Glass wall Polycarbonate was chosen for the exterior wall because it is opaque. This allows for privacy on the interior of the building while allowing light to penetrate the buildings skin durring day and night. With light deep in the space durring sunlight hours there would be a minimum need for artificial lighting. At night the effect is reversed, the artificial light from within permiates into the park space, the appartment units appearing as hanging lanterns in the night, and making the park a safe place to occupy at night.
Occupiable Window Occupiable windows take advantage of the thick walls to extend the living space through the wall and over the surrounding park space. This takes advantage of dead space such as hallways and engages them as places to sit and stay. These windows are different shapes and sizes and function as window seats, day beds, and even a place to stand and drink your moring coffee.
Interior lightwell This lightwell on the interior of the building brings light to both the bedrooms and farming levels deep within the building. Bedrooms face eachother along the interior lightwell. To insure privacy the rooms have privacy glass along half of the room where the bed is located, the floor plans are reversed so these panels line up. This way it is unlikely to see into the room across the lightwell. On farming levels nets span from floor to ceiling so vertical growth can utilize the light from this lightwell.
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Air Space With such a warm enviornment a double translucent facade is difficult. A generous air space is left to accumulate and evacuate heat. This space is vented above and below to employ the chimney effect; the heated space draws cooler air from below, evacuating warm air through vents in the ceiling. Structural elements are located in this space aligning with seams in the polycarbonate and glass.
Structural Stairwell Buildings share structure along their intersections. This method is employed to minimalize visible structure and give the buildings a floating appearance.This way the buildings can also share circulatory elements such as stairs and elevators. These structural cores create a dynamic living space aligning with both circulatory grids identified on site. Inhabitants in every level of the building constantly encounter the grid that inspired the project.
Eixample Block The site is located along Peter IV which cuts diagionally across the city, shaving off a corner of the site. This along with the foot path that runs perpendicular to it create an overlapping circulatory grid on the site, which greatly influenced the project. Buildings align with this grid and spread themself throughout the site to encourage wandering throught the park. Large trees occupy the open plaza spaces to provide shade to both the buildings and park space below. These trees help with privacy in the apartments above. The sidewalk pattern unifies the new buildings with those that existed before within the site. This drawing shows the park space as well as the market level.
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These plans and sections on the opposite page illustrate the alternating housing and farming levels that stack to make the vertical massing of the project.
The Deck Fall 2016 Design studio 4 Instructor Ulrike Heini, David Franco
The Deck is a muli-use parking garage that acts as a hub between the heart of downtown Clemson and its campus. The building spans a large elevation change, and would serve as a bridge between these two highly trafficked areas. The building is meant to counteract parking and expansion issues in downtown Clemson, while bringing income to its patrons. Through carefully planned circulation and split use floor plans the open air structure houses retail, dining, a rooftop park and event space, and parking. Due to its site on a ridge that runs through campus, the building has fantastic views and would be a hightly desired tailgating location. The building is set up to take the traditional elements of a downtown and stack them vertically over seven floors. The buildings massing is a result of carefully studied and documented paths of foot as well as vehicle traffic, and doubles back on itself, creating privacy and weather protection. Ceiling heights respond to the activity happening inside resulting in an uneven staggering of floors, this allows copious amounts of light and air into the pedestrian floors and conserves space in vehicular floors. Floor plates move in and out like drawers in all directions creating indoor and oitdoor spaces that can be enjoyed in all weather and give views in all directions over campus. The building would idealy be full of activity and support student life on campus.
Instructions:
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CAUTION: Objects may shift during this step.
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The Trolly Barn Fall 2016 Design studio 5 Instructor Ray Huff This project utilizes adaptive reuse with two interventions. The existing garage building is used as open artist studios. There is the interjection of a cafe as well as an apartment building added to it, bookending the project. In an effort to increase foot traffic and bring revenue to the site a cafe is added at the front of the site. This interjection improves visibility and creates a threshold to the park beyond. cafe structure is interjected into the face of the building merging the architectural styles into one. This will immediately inform passersby that an intervention has been made and invite individuals to explore the site. The existing building is used as artist studio spaces. Each bay houses a separate studio with large glass doors allowing a visual connection between the artist studios and the park beyond bolstering the connectivity between the creative culture and the existing community. To block the site from the highway and to create an interior park space, there is a building placed at the back of the site which houses four unique programmatic elements. The existing stage has been relocated to become the axial destination of the park and the ground floor interaction of this building with the site. The building also houses a flex gallery and event space, as well as micro apartments above for the artists. The apartments are laid out to keep a visual connection with the site to improve safety and visibility in the park space. The buildings protective skin allows shelter and privacy as well as visibility. Perforated metal skin allows for differing levels or privacy and visibility depending on the spacing of perforations in the metal.
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PANEL C HAS A CLOSE SPACING TO ALLOW FOR THE PASSAGE OF LIGHT AS WELL AS VISIBILITY OUT OF THE BUILDING. THESE PANELS ARE USED AGAINST WINDOWS AND IN EXTERIOR SPACES IN THE BUILDING.
PANEL B IS THE DEFAULT. THIS PANEL IS USED AGAINST THE WALLS OF THE BUILDING AND IN PLACES THAT NEED A MODERATE DEGREE OF PRIVACY.
PANEL A HAS A DISTANCED SPACING TO THE PERFORATIONS TO ALLOW FOR MORE PRIVACY. THIS PANEL IS USED IN PARTS OF THE BUILDING THAT CALL FOR A LEVEL OF PROTECTION AS WELL AS AT THE BASE OF THE BUILDING TO COVER THE RAISED PLATFORM AND TO ALLOW FOR FLOOD WATERS TO FREELY FLOW AWAY FROM THE BUILDING.
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CREATIVE STUDIO SPACE
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THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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TEGEL AIRPORT Berlin I 2016
BREAK IN THE STORM Amsterdam I 2016
WOODLAND CHAPEL I GUNNAR ASPLUND Stockholm I 2015
RUSH HOUR Paris I 2016
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL I PETER EISENMAN Berlin I 2015
UNITÉ D'HABITATION I LE CORBUSIER Berlin I 2016
SJÖTORGET KINDERGARTEN Stockholm I 2016