Undergraduate Portfolio by MWillhoit96

Michael Willhoit

Undergraduate Portfolio

House for a Chef

Garden Pavilion

The Character of a Park

Waves and Skins

Light in the Tunnel

Philadelphia Media Intersection Center

Frankford Galleria

House for a Chef: Bringing the Outdoors In Fall 2017, 3rd Year

The driving design principles behind the tectonics of transformation, layering and rhythm. The clients are two families, both expecting children and both with careers as chefs. Therefore, a large commercial kitchen was necessary. Instead of a traditional restaurant, the kitchen and 300 sq.ft. busiess are used as a classroom and reception room. The split-levelling of the house serves to divide the space between the more private Rodman Street facade and the more public South Street.

Facade Procession

REFRIG

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REFRIG

Up DRY

DRY DISH

DISH

Up OVEN

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Floor Plans

1523

South Elevation

1521

3 R

1 B

Section Perspective

Floor and Facade Diagrams

1521

1523

North Elevation

Transverse & Longitudinal Sections

Interior Renders

Model Photos

Elevation

Nature Print Concepts

Buckeye Garden Pavillion: Floral Forms Reinterpreted Spring 2016, 1st Year

Designed and presented in Spring 2016 as a final project for Visual Literacy I. The process involved choosing a leaf or flower found around the campus of Temple University, pressing the leaf onto bristol, and sketching concepts and ideas in the margins. The final concept model was created by rationalizing features found within the buckeye leaf and its stem structure. The open-sided pavillion covers overhead, while allowing diffuse light in. Each support pillar is crowned with a red detail , reminiscent of the red buds of the plant. 7

Plan

Axonometric

Model Photos

Site Section Cuts

Light and Shadow Sketch

The Character of a Park: Promenade Through a Cloud Fall 2016, 2nd Year

From figure-ground studies to a model composition, The Character of a Park explored nature and its relation to architecture. The topography of a 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; site within High School Park in Elkins Park, PA was measured and surveyed. The data collected from the site was then used to generate a model in Rhino 3D. The final model consisted of a cardboard base made from the site sections, paper index cards, and dowel rods to support the model.

Overlay Diagram

Park Section

Model Section

Base Model

Propagation

Module Diagram

Photo Vignette

Final Model

Photo Vignettes

Wave and Skin Plan

Waves and Skins:

An Early Foray into Parametrics Spring 2017, 2nd Year

This semester-long project saw the generation of three different yet integrated projects, culminating in a final abstracted form. A model of a digitallydesigned waveform was created using intersecting, interlocking laser-cut pieces. Finally, the process ended with a group effort to create an intricate 3D printed skin to rest upon the model, inspired byt the initial patterns. This project served to educate us about new concepts in fabrication and design, testing the translation from digital to physical, and learning from them, as well as creating interesting parallels between seemingly separate processes. 13

Exploded Axon- Wave

Model Photos

Exploded Axon- Final Model

Skin Model & Render

Light and Shadow:

Patterns were created in illustrator from existing photographs and laser cut. These laser cut pieces were set against foamcore and exposed to a single source of light, creating depth and shadow.

Light in the Tunnel: Sculpting Choreography Spring 2017, 2nd Year

This semester length project involved measuring and modelling a staircase, followed by designing a re-interpreting said straircase, using a montage of human choreography as the catalyst. The guiding philosophy behind this model is the carving out of a solid object, with human motion as the cutting force. The resulting model was a cavernous, atmospheric enclosure, receiving light from a single aperture that intersected the model from top to bottom.

Model Photos

Photo Vignettes

Process:

From human contact, to choreography, to the vision of a design based on the interpretation of the choreography.

Massing Diagram -Base and overhand combine to create enclosure around staircase.

Concrete Steel

M a t e r i a l

Philadelphia Media Intersection Center: Activating the Art Scene Spring 2018, 3rd Year

The Media Intersection Center sits on the corner of 18th and Spruce, South of Rittenhouse Square. The single A-shaped mass hovers lightly above the ground, touching the ground at the points of towering canted columns, elevating and tethering the galleries above. two massive 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tall galleries sit on the north and south ends of the West facade, hosting massive sculptural works. Down below grade, a sunken courtyard sits at the west, with an opening into a full black box theater for all manner of performance. 21

Solar Panels

Metal Mesh

Process Models & Materials

Thermal Glass

B o a r d

Final Model

Plans

23 Elevations

Frankford Galleria: A Creative, Connected Community Fall 2018, 4th Year For AIA Competition, placed 2nd

This Senior Living Center sits slong the bust Frankford Avenue in Kensington, Philadelphia. This complex is mixed-use, offering independent and assisted living, market-rate living, office, library, a makerspace, and retail space. It sits in front of a large public plaza, with a raised courtyard facing Frankford as well, just south of York Street. The draw of Frankford Galleria is that it allows seniors to maintain their sense of belonging, connectivity, and community, but providing them with a contemporary take on a familiar form, the row house. 25

Bird’s Eye View and Site Plan

Phase 3:Reuse and Construction

Scale: 400’ = 1”

Re-zoning key blocks along Frankford will spur redevelopment along the avenue. Structurally safe large industrial structures will be adaptively reused while small, vacant

MR Residential

Co-Working Common Areas (Gym, Arts) Library Cafe

Assissted Living Independent Living Nursing/ Admin/ Housekeeping Trash/ Mechanical

Daycare Makerspace Retail

Frankford Galleria

Corner Commons Palmer Towers Garden Market West Garden Market East Artist’s Retreat Piazza East

By placing seniors at the center, this mixed-use complex in the parks district hosts senior living, residential, retail, makerspaces, and office space to create a vibrant, active community along the Avenue. Senior citizens will interact with people of all ages in the comfort of a public plaza and raised “grove” in the courtyard of the Galleria. Connection to the neighbrhood becomes easy when locals and visitors have a hub to gather around.

Piazza West

The Foundry Hackett Plaza

Above: Street Render Below: Site Plans

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Belgrade & Crease Scale: 32’ = 1”

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