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MICHAEL ORLANDOUNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIOCAL POLY STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO

Target Superstore|S.L.O, California|August 2013 – currentSales Floor Associate, Cashier, Bicycle Builder

Meridian’s Restaurant|Lincoln, California|Jul ‘07 - Aug ‘10 & Aug ‘11 - Sep ’12Serving Assistant, Chief Expeditor

Max's Restaurant|Auburn, California|Aug 2010 to Aug 2011Server

p.(916) 316-9834 e. [email protected]. 1506 Antrim Ct Roseville, CA 95747

ContentsA Pause in Berkeley 01

Performing [Art] 04

The Armadillo 08

Bloodline 11

Breaking Boundaries 16

JAG 18

BERKELEY PAUSE2nd Year. Winter 2013

A mind and body wellness center that removes one from the active city lifestyle and provides experiences of pause in and out of the building

ContextThe simple geometric rectangle fits the context of urban environment

ExtrusionCreates livable space

PushingCreates a more dynamic and lighter feel to the form

StackingIllustrates a hierarchy of levels ranging from public to private up the building

Rotating into siteStrong relationship to site. Spaces of movement and pause are created on the building

Rotating out of siteBuilding is given it’s own indentity. Shifting of these floor plates creates indoor and outdoor places for movement and pause.

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First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan Third Floor Plan Fourth Floor Plan

1. Check-In2. Sales3. Cafe4. Dining5. Kitchen6. Place of Pause7. Office8. Conference Room9. Public Bathrrom10. M. Bathroom11. W. Bathroom 12. Storage13. Yoga Studio #114. Massage rooms15. Place of Pause

16. Housing Unit x 1017. Vegitative roof18. Skylit Collection space19. Yoga Studio #220. Meditation Space21. Place of Pause

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Floor Plans 1-2 Floor Plans 3-4

Section Street Approach

The dark teal compliments the various colors and shades of the wood

and represents the artfulness of the bay area

“Architecture can’t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn’t real.”

-Frank Stella

Axis Programming Extrusion to a rhythmic composition Transform Skin is pulled from building to reveal inside

Transforming moment

PERFORMING [ART]

3rd Year. Fall 2013

This performing arts center in Santa Monica performs as and art in itself with its ability to transform and adapt to the variety of arts, the enrivorment and human interaction

Form Finding

Rotating Stage

Retracting Roof

Folding Skin

Expoloded Axon Private Spaces

Structure

Circulation

Glass

Facade Structure

Perforated Skin

Physical Transforming

Multi-Purpose Center

Community Hub for Performing Ars

4th StreetColora

do Stre

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Sears Building

Lightrail Terminal

Freeway

New Mall

Lobby Perspective

Detail

Site Plan

Equip. storage

O�ce

Bar/Patio

Womens

Mens

+ Seating

20’ Elevation Cut Plan 30’ Elevation Cut Plan

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F. Dressing/Lockers

Rehearsal/ Makeup

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6’ Elevation Cut Plan

Mech.

Stage

Egress

Delivery

Trash

Stor.

Lobby

Tix

Retail

Cafe

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Hydraulic Seating

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“I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.”

-Frank Gehry

THE ARMADILLODigital FabricationFall 2013

The Armadillo is a 4ft hanging inhabitable structure that is illuminated in darkness. It’s skin is designed off an overlapping double shell system where the light source between the two can bounce light in and out of the space

Overall Form

Vortex composition

Modualated form

Bulge out for more spatial experience

Final Form

ModulesConcept

Module Diagram

Outter Layer

Light Source

Inner LayerBridge Flap

Bridge

Ribs

Outside

Inside

Fullly Inhabited Full scale fabrication

“My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.”

-Richard Rogers

BLOODLINE3rd Year. Winter/Spring 2014

ACSA National Steel Design Competition

Allentown, PA is one of the fastest growing cities in Pennsylvania, however the subpar means of transit into the city leaves it almost tourist-less. Alike, the city center does not really offer anything to make people wnat to travel to Allentown. Bloodline is a revival project that brings back to life the continental railways system that was closed decades ago. The city itself has plans to construct as multi-use Hockey area as a means of tourist attraction. This mixed-use railway hub acts as the main bloodline to the new heart and soul of the city’s downtown area.

Thriving city in need of Revival Sub-par means of transit leaves city disconnected Master plans to build multi-use arena, which will act as the city’s new heart

Mixed-use railway hub will act as main bloodline to the heart

Axis Movement Bloodline

Heart

Bloodline

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

-Samuel Mockbee

BREAKING BOUNDARIES

5 day team design charette

Traditional Mass

Stretch and Rotate

Break the box

Expose Program

Breaking all boundaries

The hot house collaboration space pierces through the building, interrupting the perceived organization of the program and becoming a portal for observation, interaction, and education.

Section

Site Plan

By dissolving the barriers between different disciplines, between building and landscape, and between school and community, this the Learn By Doing Commons furthers opportunities for learning, gathering, and collaborating, become an epic invitation to all of the community and breaking down the boundary between Cal Poly and the rest of the world.

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

-Frank Lloyd Wright

Rules Base Shape Morphing Shift Rules Final Module

JAG

Digital FabricationTeam project3rd Year. Spring 2014

The design is based off a single module that is mirrored only one time. Together the two can be arranged in various different ways creating variant densities about the wall. The design incorporates parametric rules that can be optimized for environmental performance.

Surface mill head

Profile 1

Profile 2

Set of rules based on horizontal and vertical running bond

Solar Radiation

Initial Tesselationstudies

MoldPalm Springs487 kWh/m^2

Facade Profile

San Luis Obispo429 kWh/m^2

Redding409 kWh/m^2

3 distinct locations of California are studied. Each requires different amounts of daylighting and solar radiateiion throughout the year. Total radiations are reported for the month of June.

Redding, CA

Palm Springs, CA

SLO, CA

Low Density Pattern

High Density Pattern

Full scale fabrication