trey mcmillon | architecture & graphic design portfolio

T R E Y M c M I L L O NArchitecture & Graphic Design Portfolio

Fall 2010 - Spring 2015

Villa Savoye Wallpaperarch 4417 with professor jude leblanc

2016 United States Olympic Diving Team Trials Bid Proposalgeorgia tech campus recreation center

10th Anniversarygeorgia tech campus recreation center

T-Shirts Designalpha nu chapter of theta chi fraternity

Chapel of the Resurrection at The Woodland Cemetery Analysisarch 3011 with professor jude leblanc

Spring 2013 - Summer 2014 Program Guidesgeorgia tech campus recreation center

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Spring 2014atlanta, ga

Fall 2013atlanta, ga


Fall 2013 - Fall 2014atlanta, ga


Spring 2013 - Fall 2014atlanta, ga

U.S. Federal Courthousearch 4012 with professor athanassios economou

Sustainability Innovation Research Centerarch 4011 with professor michael gamble

Gerhard Richter Galleryarch 3011 with professor jude leblanc

Oxford College of Emory University Media Centerarch 3011 with professor jude leblanc

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlantaarch 2012 wiith professors daniel baerlecken & katie johnson

Spring 2015greenville, sc



Fall 2012oxford, ga

Spring 2012atlanta, ga

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C O N T E N T SSelected Works

Fall 2010 - Spring 2015

T R E Y M c M I L L O [email protected]

706.974.060

E D U C AT I O N

Graphic DesignIllustratorInDesignPhotoshopSketching

Web DesignDreamweaverFlashHTML/CSSMuse

MultimediaAfter EffectsAuditionEncorePremier

BIMAutoCAD RevitRhino 3DSketchUp

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Bachelor of Science in ArchitectureGeorgia Institute of Technology

Candidate for Master of ArchitectureVirginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

August 2010 - May 2015atlanta, ga

August 2015 - May 2017blacksburg, va

Autodesk Revit Draftsmanheritage select homes

Built 3D models of residential homes from AutoCAD draftsSolved issues with wiring & plumbing in remodeling projectsInvestigated three dimensional models to offer unique solutions

May 2013 - August 2013atlanta, ga

Marketing & Graphic Design Internthrive insights, llc.

Developed logos & iconography for startup app - ThryverComposed branding guide with marketing & graphics teamEvaluated & tested app as target user


Graphic Designergeorgia tech campus recreation center

Interior Design Interncortland partners

Designed primary advertising for recreation programs & eventsFacilitated communication between CRC & student bodyDirected design of semesterly editorials such as program guide

Provided design insight for multi-family community rennovationsEstablished and implemented company standards for CAD drawingProduced comprehensive interior drawings for construction

October 2012 -May 2015atlanta, ga


T R E Y M c M I L L O [email protected]

706.974.0606

American Institute of Architecture Students

Student Alumni Association

2011 - Presentatlanta, ga

2010 - 2015atlanta, ga

AC T I V I T I E S

Georgia Tech Greek Week T-Shirt Design Competition1st place design

2013atlanta, ga

AWA R D S

Theta Chi Fraternityexecutive commitee

Georgia Tech Greek Week Executive Boardtechnology chair

Georgia Tech Greek Lifepeer educator

Served on executive committee as secretary of Alpha Nu chapterOptimized adminstrative records such as contact info & meeting attendanceOperated as historian, special events chair, & t-shirts chair

Programmed and managed Greek Week websiteOversaw technology committee in documenting eventsImproved social media relations through Facebook & Twitter

Introduced new members to Greek Life programInformed new members about campus safety & Greek Life policiesOffered outlet for questions or concerns about Greek community



2012atlanta, ga

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Hugh Barrett Coyle Scholarshipundergraduate architecture scholarship

2014atlanta, ga

A key aspect in designing a federal courthouse is that the organization of, and presentation of space, must be inherently just. The integrity of the justice system is lost if the design of its federal buildings do not reflect the same sense of democracy that the system represents. My goal was to portray this democracy, almost in a literal way. There is a clear hierarchy among public corridors and lobbies, restricted offices, secure holding cells, and courtrooms in use by all of the above. But within those categories, equality is the defining factor in portraying to the average citizen that the U.S. government is being as fair and just as it can be.

The overarching themes to this design is need to be commanding without overpowering and the focus on the public experience. The area of downtown Greenville, SC that the site is located in is a low profile area. The county courthouse across the street is only three stories tall and the bank next to it is only a few more than that. Anything too tall would have seemed out of place and brought too much unwarranted attention towards it. In that same regard, an overpowering structure would have been off-putting to the public. Visitors needed to feel welcomed and in control of the space.

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U . S . F E D E R A L C O U R T H O U S E

ARCH 4012 with Professor Athanassios EconomouGreenville, SC

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courthouse modules

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basementexploded axonometric program breakdown

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S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y I N N O VAT I O N

R E S E A R C H C E N T E RARCH 4011 with Professor Michael Gamble

Atlanta, GA

The Sustainability Innovation Research Center is a planned live-learn community project for the campus of Georgia Tech. The driving factor behind the project was to create a connection between the Technology & Innovation Corridor (Ferst Drive) and the future Eco-Commons, a permanent multi-purpose designed with runoff performance, tree, canopy and woodland coverage in mind.

The massing was developed through a series of Boolean operations to create a courtyard-style separation of program. This allowed for the ground floor traversed easily and created natural apertures for the facade. The program gets more private as one travels vertically through the building. Public spaces such as an auditorium, cafe, gallery, and classrooms are on the lower levels while student suites and faculty apartments are on the upper levels. The louver system on the southern facade mimics this public-to-private design language. Wooden slats fold inwards towards the ground to allow for passage.

The cast-in-place concrete operates under a planar structural system. There are fourteen student units. These are suite-style and capable of housing four students each. In addition, there are four faculty apartments in order to better facilitate the live-learn aspect. These are single units and feature large balconies.

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auditorium, fitness center, faculty apartments

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gallery, studio, multimedia center, library, student suites

G E R H A R D R I C H T E R G A L L E RYARCH 3011 with Professor Jude LeBlanc

Atlanta, GA

Gardens and museums have a long history. The Richter Gallery, located on a site between 10th Street and Peachtree Place introduces a public garden across from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The idea was to draw visitors in through the strong, slightly off-center axis and lead them up to the second and third floors by use of an elevator directly along the main line of procession. The glass elevator at the rear of the building presents a strong focal point for anyone passing the building from the front or the back.

Another focal point is the large cantilever, an “object oating in space,” that allows for an impressive view of the city. The large north-facing window also creates naturally lighting without causing directly sunlight to any interior spaces. The line of trees in the lawn creates a dialectic that rhymes with the roof of the museum. A library also serves the museum on the rst oor, as well as a small cafe.

The massing of the building was designed as overlapping and intersecting ‘L’s to best move people though the galleries. After entering the lobby, visitors are encouraged to move directly to the elevator, made evident by the strong linear axis through the window on the opposite side. The elevator and stairs are both treated as objects within the space. The stairs counter the axiality on the right side by creating a tall mass that runs straight through the top of the second floor. The third oor, the Richter Gallery, acts as a mezzanine that ends just short of the window on the north face.

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Two specific Gerhard Richter pieces were chosen to inhabit the gallery: ‘7 Standing Panes’ (2002) & ‘11 Panes’ (2004).

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OX F O R D C O L L E G E O F E M O RY U N I V E R S I T Y

M E D I A C E N T E RARCH 3011 with Professor Jude LeBlanc

Atlanta, GA

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Emory College was charted on December 10, 1836 when Georgia Methodist expanded their educational program. In 1837, 1452 acres of land were purchased one mile north of Covington, Georgia, on which to build the college. Dr. Ignatius Few become the first elected president of the college on December 8, 1837, nearly one year after the charter was established. Phi Gamma Hall was constructed in 1851, and stands today as the oldest remaining structure on campus.

The Emory University Media Center is to be located at the western end of the central quad. It is situated between the Phi Gamma Hall and the Emory Chapel, two one-story, Greek revival buildings. Behind the site is a forested nature preserve that features several historic landmarks and outdoor classrooms. The university has a no-net tree loss policy, and the city of Oxford has been an award-winning member of the national Tree City USA program for over a decade.

The concept for the site was to alter the typical courtyard building in a way that allowed the building to be centrifugally focused rather than centripetally focused. By creating a almost cubic mass and strategically adding to and subtracting from it, the space is able to draw visitors into the building while still providing an experience of being in an outdoor space.

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Movement through the interior of the building. Visitors are introduced via the corridor at the front entrance and can circulate freely.

Movement through quad compared to movement though central courtyard space. Both incorporate masses that reach outward and draw visitors towards the interior. Typically a courtyard is more regulated, whereas the Emory Media Center varies the spacing of the rooms.

Movement through the exterior of the building. Several outdoor spaces emphasize the notion of being strongly connected to the surrounding nature.

The roof slopes in towards the skylight to provide structural support for the massive span. The first level floor plan heavily determined the footprint of the second level floor plan.

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F E D E R A L R E S E R V E B A N K O F AT L A N TAARCH 2012 with Professors Daniel Baeerlecken & Katie Johnson

designed in collaboration with Christopher HunterAtlanta, GA

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Textile-based patterns were the basis for this studio. The process began with understanding the mathematical principals behind plaiting and experimenting with a number of materials. From there, applications to the facade of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta could be tested.

The interweaving structure of plaiting corresponds to the systematic duality of the Federal Reserve Banks a privately-owned, government regulated, federal establishment. Structurally, the diagonal strands provide for a rigid system which may correlate to the necessity of the bank to remain financially stable. Timber “strands” seemingly grow upward from the ground and gradually make their way to the top of the building.

New plaited surfaces are constructed and then interlocked with one another to recreate the defining enclosure. Due to the fluctuating nature of twill pattern new spaces emerge along the surface and at the corners. Highlights of a new surface draw attention to the reconnected program These changes create a new visible interest in the structure of the Federal Reserve banking system.

By moving the circulation to the interstitial space between the public and private areas a clearer line can be delineated between the two programmatic areas.

The bi-modal nature of this space also for a circulation method structured around moving upward along one axis, while move downward along another axis.

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V I L L A S AV OY E WA L L PA P E R

ARCH 4417 with Professor Jude LeBlancAtlanta, GA

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In ARCH 4417, Furnishing Buildings, we were challenged to design a wallpaper pattern that explored representation, abstraction, indexical recording, space, time, and light.

The design was to fit in to the context of a canon work of architecture in a way that enhanced the original work. I chose Villa Savoye as a starting point and sought to highlight the connection to nature as well as the geometries of the project.

Beginning with a rigid, triangular grid, nodes were shifted in order to distort the shapes. From here, simple colors were applied. For Villa Savoye, greens and blacks were chosen to mimic the trees outside and to contrast the white concrete. Switching the fill colors to gradients created a three dimensional effect that adds depth and movement to the pattern.

The most difficult problem to solve for was the scale at which to present the wallpaper. Too small and the pattern gets lost in a mess of color. Too large and the space becomes too abstract and loses the connection to the windows. The solution was to find a balance that meshed well with the size of the leaf structures seen through the windows.

The project behaved as both an architecture and graphic design problem. The wallpaper needed to be visually pleasing alone while indexically representing the architectural space. The result was able to strike a balance between the two.

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Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Centerwith Sara Warner

Atlanta, GA

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In the fall of 2013 the Campus Recreation Center (CRC) began the process of bidding to host the 2016 US Olympic Diving Team Trials in Atlanta. 2016 would mark the 20 year anniversary of Atlanta hosting the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. I, along with Sara Warner, launched a marketing campaign to promote the city’s interested in hosting the trials as well as new branding for the CRC to coincide with the selections committee’s visits. Sara handled much of the marketing strategy while I focused on the design aspects.

The marketing campaign launched with the design of several physical flyers and digital flyers that were distributed around the CRC and the Georgia Tech campus. As the committee narrowed the number of cities, marketing expanded to the Greater Atlanta area. Billboards were displayed around the city featuring the design to the left.

Social media also supported the marketing campaign. ‘#ATLDiving2016’ began trending on Twitter and photos of major businesses holding signs in support of the CRC hosting the trials. The selection committee narrowed the choices down to Atlanta and Indianapolis, ultimately choosing Indianapolis.

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1 0 T H A N N I V E R S A RYGeorgia Tech Campus Recreation Center

Atlanta, GA

In 2014 the Campus Recreation Center celebrated it’s 10th anniversary of serving students at Georgia Tech. I was charged with developing a logo to commemorate the achievement as well as designing the 10th Anniversary Strategic Impact Report.

The goal with the 10th anniversary was to celebrate the previous ten years while looking forward to the next ten. The concept of using a circle in the logo was an early decision and made it to a number of the options I put forward. It represented the fullness of the first ten years and the continuation of the CRC in to the next ten or twenty years down the road.

T- S H I R T D E S I G NAlpha Nu Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity

Atlanta, GA

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For the year of 2014 I held the position of T-Shirt Chair for the Alpha Nu Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity. While holding this position I designed 15+ shirts for a number of events including rush, date nights, formals, and brotherhood retreats.

With this experience I was able to practice a number of different styles as well as begin a basic understanding of advertising and brand strategy. As a member of the executive committee of the fraternity I understood the direction that Theta Chi was moving in and was able to utilize our t-shirt designs, a primary method of advertising to campus, as a method to create a tone about the event.

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ARCH 3011 with Professor Jude LeBlancAtlanta, GA

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As an introduction to the Gerhard Richter Gallery and Oxford College of Emory University Media Center, students researched a precedent based in merging architecture and landscape. The booklet includes images, maps, diagrams, and type to analyze and explore the chapel and surrounding cemetery. While it is primarily a precedent study project, it is also a experiment in typography, layout, and book-making.

S P R I N G 2 0 1 3 - S U M M E R 2 0 1 4 P R O G R A M G U I D E SGeorgia Tech Campus Recreation Center

Atlanta, GA

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