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Design PortfolioTodd Illy

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Shelter from the Storm

The Harvest Restaurant Center

Capitol Hill Affordable Housing

Landscape Remodel Exercise For Gould Hall

Play Pavilion For El Centro De La Raza

An Acoustic Transformable Space

Marine Sciences Building Seismic Remodel

Design Manufacturing

Capitol Hill Site Abstract Sculpture

Hand Drawings

Photographic Composition Gallery

The Capitol Hill Wellness Center

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Section facing North EastSouthElevation

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Perspective Facing Service Space

Section facing North EastSouthElevation

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Perspective Facing Service Space

SHELTER FROM THE STORMArch 300 Design Studio Fall 2009 Instructor: Douglas Zuberbuhler

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Section facing North EastSouthElevation

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Perspective Facing Service Space

The goal of this project was to design a shelter to be placed within the context of Cleveland Memorial Park. The structure was designed for two groups of people; activity staff which would remain at the structure for short stints of time in order to be available to the second group, which consisted of middle school to high school aged youths performing camping activities. Taking on a threshold archetype, the shelter acts as a gateway and midpoint along a journey. It is constructed by using a simple wooden bypass system. Restrictions were placed on the project in order to support the idea of roughing it; neither glass nor walls in the standard sense were allowed to be used. It is meant to age and have minimal impact on its environment. All Interior furniture is structurally integrated within the main structure.

Section facing North EastSouthElevation

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Perspective Facing Service Space Concept Sketch

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PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION GALLERY Arch 301 Design Studio Winter 2010 Instructor: Jennifer Dee

South Elevation

Front Entry

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Basement Floor Workshop

1st Floor Gallery

2nd Floor Offices

2nd Floor Office Space

Section Facing West

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Gallery

Early Concepts

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This project was inspired by the compositional work of Scott Mutter. Within each of his works, he combines several images, blurring where one image begins and another one ends, in order to present a larger idea. Each comes from black and white film, and is made by hand without digital tools. This project holds three functions, a main gallery space, upper office space, and a workshop below. Much like the photographs that inspired the design, the building itself is a composition designed to incorporate ideas from other spaces into each other as one space becomes another. All spaces are physically separated but visually connected.

Photographic Inspirations

By Scott Mutter

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The Capitol Hill Wellness CenterArch 302 Design Studio Spring 2010 Instructor: Brian McLaren

Early Concept Elevation

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Perspective of the Cafe looking West

Perspective of the Cafe looking East

General Exercise Space looking East

General Exercise Space looking West

Early Concept Sketch

The Capitol Hill Wellness Center revolved around physical, mental, and spiritual preservation. The proj-ect features multipurpose rooms, exorcise spaces, a café and offices for the staff. The project would be constructed of an expressed steel frame with elevated slabs hung within the frame to create various rooms. The building is then wrapped in glass and brick. Transparency throughout would allow users of the space to see other users, as well as demonstrate the va-riety of activities available to them. By encouraging variety the project also encourages a balanced approach to wellness. The design process started as a 2d montage exploring site con-text, this then evolved into a series of 3d abstract forms until eventually the building’s program was developed.

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Section looking South

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HEALTH CLUB and WELLNESS CENTER 10TH AVE. IN SEATTLE05/06/10Todd Illy

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The Steel, Brick, and Flora restaurant

Outside dining and café

Mezzanine bar

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THE HARVEST RESTAURANT CENTERArch 400 Design Studio Fall 2010 Instructor: Judith Swain

This project is a celebration of food; eating it, cooking it, and harvesting it. There are three parts to this project. The first part, is a large restaurant featuring a banquet room, a mezzanine bar, and a semi open kitchen. It is constructed of an expressive steel frame with brick in fill. The restaurant is aptly named Steel, Brick, and Flora. It features framed views of Seattle’s Discovery Park. The second, part is an agricultural center which houses two classrooms, offices, and a cottage for a caretaker and their family. The construction of this facility reflects the construction of the restaurant. However, the scope and purpose of this building is large enough to stand on its own. It is a symbol of how your food gets to the kitchen. The third component is the landscape itself which is covered with plots full of various crop types and fruit trees. The landscape also holds a green house and terraced gardens.

Site plan (zoomed in)

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Bird’s eye view

Caretaker’s cottage Early restaurant concept sketch

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Restaurant main floor

Restaurant mezzanine bar

Agricultural center 2nd floor

Agricultural center 1st floor

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CAPITOL HILL AFFORDABLE HOUSINGArch 401 Design Studio Winter 2011 Instructor: Sharon Sutton

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Early Concept Model

3rd Floor

CAPITOL HILL AFFORDABLE HOUSINGArch 401 Design Studio Winter 2011 Instructor: Sharon Sutton

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Interior Light Well Perspective

South Elevation

East Side

Designed with a focus on density stemming from a modular living unit, and overlaid with ideas about private urban green spaces, natural ventilation, and natural lighting. Materials were chosen based on a need for durability and low maintenance, as well as for structural expression. It is placed within a transit and retail oriented community. The complex is made up of one bedroom, two bedrooms, and studio apartments, with amenities such as roof gardens and an indoor/outdoor community room. Ground floor planning revolved around creating a visually porous space that allowed for transparency between the café, transit, and retail spaces. The Central light well, created as an alternative to the standard lit hallway, was meant to assist in lighting and ventilation as well as create a more communal feeling throughout the building, visibly linking individual units to each other, the community room, and roof top activity. This project is part of a larger project to organize a block around affordable housing, retail, and community services. The courtyard features a public performance space, food, and a farmers market.

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West Elevation

Early Concept Sketch

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The site for this exercise started out bare and simple. The space was seldom used for occupation because there was no implied desired destina-tion, making it much like an empty room. The goal of this exorcise was to make the space more complex, attract attention, and give it a destination which would encourage visitors to spend more time at the location. Trees are placed within the space that rise above the concrete side-walk, and embracing the building and filling up vacant space. They also add a dynamic aspect of a canopy ceiling that will change with the seasons. A desti-nation is added in the form of benches that encourage conversation and of-fer privacy through use of strategically placed shrubbery that block views from the windows behind and limits the viewing angle of those from above. It is meant to be a relaxing place that allows for contemplation.

L Arch 322 Intro to Planting DesignInstructor: Iain Robertson Spring 2010

LANDSCAPE REMODEL

EXERCISE FOR GOULD HALL

Meeting Area

View from the East

Meeting Area Sketch The Blank Slate

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Design Build Studio is an 11 week long course invested in performing small projects for our local Seattle community. Funding for materials is provided by outside grants and all labor is performed by student volunteers. Major design takes place over a two week period and the construction last the remainder of the time. Our team was 18 design-builders strong. Each of us contributed to the design of the project and the end result was a synthesis of all of our ideas. Below are some of my personal sketches. They are a small sample of the many sketches produced by the team. The scope of this project called for covered play areas, play furniture, a community circle, and landscape design. The structure features concrete footings, aluminum columns, wood framing, and a plastic based roof to shed the rain. There is also extensive use of mosaic to add playful color throughout the project. In the end, the kids loved it, and that made it all worth it!

PLAY PAVILLION FOR EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ARCH 404 Design Build StudioInstructor: Steve Badanes Spring 2011

After Construction

Before Construction During

DuringOpening Day

Concept Sketch Concept SketchThe Team

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This was a team project, both myself and my teammate worked on overall layout, he worked on the reflection direction aspects of sound, and I worked on the reverberation aspects. The assignment was to design a small auditorium space that could be optimized for both speech and music. The problem being that each type of sound source requires a different optimal reverberation time. The solution was to add operable sound conditioning panels. When the panels are pulled out, sound would be more crisp and clear, and space for speech would be created. When the panels are pushed in, the room would experience longer reverberation times and would become a space for music. Because this is a theoretical space, calculations where used to determine room performance aspects. We played with ideas of various material choices and their amount usage until we got our desired performance values. From there we took the square footage of required absorptive and reflective materials and distributed them accordingly.

AN ACOUSTIC TRANSFORMABLE SPACE Arch 436 Building AcousticsInstructor: Dean HeerwagenSpring 2011

Transformed for music

Transformed for speech

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Overhead viewConcept sketch

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Like many aging campuses in newly classified high risk seismic activity regions, the University of Washington has several older buildings now in need of structural upgrades. As part of an assignment within a structural reuse course, each student was to pick one of these campus buildings and design a way to strengthen the building in case of a seismic event. The order of operations went as follows: First, analyze the existing structural system capacity. Next, examine how and where the system was deficient and by how much. In this case, additive measures were used to compensate for deficiencies. In this building, the existing 1st story walls were not strong enough to take the expected seismic loads, nor were they vertically continuous to allow for load transfer from upper floors to lower floors. New walls were added and are seen below in red within the bottom two images. These walls were placed in a way that they would not interfere with existing program needs. Visual improvements were not a focus of this project. This class also taught a wider range of structural solutions, including bracing, and attempted to address the discussion as to what extent it is proper to visually modify a historical structure.

MARINE SCIENCES BUILDING SEISMIC REMODELArch 498 Structural Reuse Summer 2011

The Marine Sciences Building on campus

3rd floor plan

Longitudinal section analysis of available shear walls and soft stories

Longer section showing placement of new shear walls (In Red)

Shorter section showing placement of new shear walls (in red)

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MILLED SURFACE TILE

This project was about experimenting with the act of machining molds which were meant to be used to mass produce standard parts. In this case, there was no set purpose for the part after its production so each student was free to explore whatever shape they liked. I chose to use the image of an animal in order to explore the accuracies of the technology. The image of the horse was first found using Google, then the background was photoshoped out. Afterwards the image was brought into Rhino. Defining contours of the image were manually traced and raised in order to give the surface a 3d dimension. The digital model was then prepped in Mastercam and loaded into a router. The tile was milled out of foam and using a flat bit. The result is to the right.

DESIGN MANUFACTURINGArch 498 Intructor: Kimo Griggs Fall 2010

CAMERA CASE PROJECT

This project was about the act of printing objects for use. The technology is still in its infancy due to the expense it still takes to produce products. Our assignment was to pick an everyday object and make a shell for it. Here the dimensions of a camera were taken using a digital arm. The information was then stored in Rhino and was used to form a 3d model of the camera and create a shell for it. After the digital model was checked for clean surfaces, the case was literally printed using a 3d printer which uses a plastic to form the shape and a breakaway wax as a place holder material. The result is to the right.

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CAPITOL HILL SITE

ABSTRACT SKULPTURE

Concept Sketches

The Transformation Stages

The goal of this project was to abstractly represent a site within Capitol Hill. The site itself was built up over time and in layers, it is surrounded with both the vibrant activity of music and food, and also what is now retired storage and manufacturing facilities. There is an aspect of chaos and planning in pieces without considering a larger picture. Yet it all seems to fit together. It is imagined that the block at one time looked unified with the use of a consistent design style. As time passed and ownership of lots began to switch hands, new buildings were erected with seemingly different and independent ideas in mind about what they should look like. Despite this, we still attach that Capitol Hill feeling to the block, or perhaps how that feeling is defined and manifest also changes with time. This is a dynamic expanding piece that one can physically interact with. All connections are points of movement. Through movement, unpredictable forms arise from the layers that the pieces form. When the process is complete the end product still in some way resembles the first. The metal represents the structure of the object, it holds everything together and provides a system for movement, it represents that Capitol Hill feeling. The Wooden modules are semi-independent pieces, and they represent individuals following their own aspirations.

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HAND DRAWINGS

Free Hand Pencil

Photograph used as anatomy guide

Charcoal

Self portrait using a mirror

Pencil Perspective

Taken at Free Way Park

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Free Hand Pencil

Photographs used as anatomy guides

Charcoal

Model study

Pencil Perspective

Taken at Free Way Park

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