Mike Taylor B.A.S. M. Archemail: mdbtaylo@gmail.comphone: 226-747-5262

3 Contents | Mike Taylor 2011

Contents

Dentist Office Interior 5

Wong House 9

Mt. Dennis Transit Facility 13

MaRS Laboratory 17

Canadian Biennale 19

Porta Maggiore 23

Library of Collective Human Memory 27

Attitude Adjustment 31

Flying Buttresses 35

Short Film: Brain Damage 37

4

Initial Concept Image

Image of Completed Project

5 Dentist Office Interior | Mike Taylor 2011

Dentist Office InteriorToronto, Ontario · April to August · 2007

Firm: Bortolotto Design Architect Inc.

Principal: Tania Bortolotto

Tasks: Presentation drawings, schematic design, design development, millwork and detail packages, request for proposals, portfolio updating.

Working closely with Tania Bortolotto (Principal), I was responsible for designing an interior tenant fit-up at a cosmetic dental office. I was involved in the project at its inception. First I was required to make preliminary measurements at the site located at Yonge and Eglinton in Toronto, Ontario. Next a series of presentation documents and schematic design drawings were presented to the client with ideas for how the design concept would be developed and implemented. Once preliminary design was completed, the next phase of the project involved creating a design development package for architectural interiors including millwork for the reception desk, dental cabinetry as well as storage for samples. Lighting specifications and fixture selection was completed under the guidance of Jerry Lin.

Under the supervision of Tania Bortolotto (Principal), I was able to complete the design development package and coordinate mechanical and electrical engineering drawings with the architectural drawings.

The major feature wall in the office was to be a metal mesh fabric hung on an curved steel frame. The location for this feature wall was behind the reception desk at the entrance of the dental office.

(Half-size set of working drawings available at request.)

6

Floor Plan

Reception Desk Millwork

7 Dentist Office Interior | Mike Taylor 2011

Interior Details

Dental Cabinet Millwork

6

Site Plan

Exterior View of Slate Roof

7 Wong House | Mike Taylor 2011

Wong HouseKing City, Ontario · January to August · 2007

Firm: Bortolotto Design Architect Inc.

Principal: Tania Bortolotto

Tasks: Presentation drawings, schematic design, design development.

The design for Wong House was commissioned in the summer of 2007. Under the supervision of Tania Bortolotto (Principal), I created presentation drawings, a digital model of the project as well as a physical model of the site for testing project iterations. The presentation drawings show the all slate roof-wall at the front of the house that acts as a privacy barrier from the major road adjacent to the property. As the project was further developed, I helped the design team in creating the design development drawings.

8

East Elevation

South Elevation

9 Wong House | Mike Taylor 2011

West Elevation

Main Floor Plan

10

Fare Vault Drawings

Fare Vault Details

11 Mt. Dennis Transit Facility | Mike Taylor 2011

Mt. Dennis Transit FacilityToronto, Ontario · September to December · 2005

Firm: Toronto Transit Commission

Supervisor: Ian Trites

Tasks: Assisting in the design development of Mt. Dennis transit facility including millwork drawings and a wayfinding/safety signage package.

I worked closely with Head Project Manager Ian Trites to develop furniture millwork drawings and wayfinding signage details at the new Mt. Dennis Transit Facility in Toronto, Ontario. I designed a fare vault rack that would store the fare vaults from TTC buses and street cars. This furniture had to be strong enough to support the weight from the change and fare vaults themselves. I worked with the structural engineer to ensure a safe design composed of hollow steel sections.

The signage planning and details were done under the supervision of Harrison Harrison (Safety Signage and Wayfinding). These were newly designed signs to be installed at the new Mt. Dennis Transit facility.

(Half-size set of working drawings available at request.)

12

Mobile Display Board

Display Board

13 Mt. Dennis Transit Facility | Mike Taylor 2011

Signage Details

Signage Details

14

Exterior View

East Elevation Showing Fins

15 MaRS Laboratory | Mike Taylor 2011

MaRS Laboratoryundisclosed location · January to April · 2008

Firm: B+H Architects

Principal: Patrick Fejér

Supervisor: Frank Portelli

Tasks: Presentation drawings, schematic design, digital modelling.

Lead by Patrick Fejér (Principal) and under the supervision of Frank Portelli (Associate), the design team developed a project for a large-scale developer is an undisclosed location. Initially created as a master plan, the project was developed further. This was one of the major buildings on that plan. For this project I was required to assist in the generation of schematic design and presentation drawings as well as digital modelling of the facade iterations.

Presented is an iteration of the building that was created during the schematic design phase of the project. This iteration explored the use of exterior fins as an architectural device to break up the form of the facade.

16

Exterior Aerial View From River

Exterior View of North Facade at Night

17 Canadian Biennale | Mike Taylor 2011

Canadian BiennaleCambridge, Ontario · Studio Year 4 · 2008

Professor: Andrew Levitt

Project Length: 3 months

Objective: Design a museum pavilion to house the Canadian Biennale situated at the river’s edge in Cambridge, Ontario.

Acting as a mediator between the river, city paths and sidewalks, the building serves as a connector within the urban fabric of the city of Cambridge. Multiple types of arts and entertainment can be facilitated within building and its public space ranging from open-air art exhibits to in-house theatrical endeavours. The pavilion frames an outdoor public space between the river edge and two building volumes creating high-energy pedestrian zones within the urban framework.

The entrance is located at the south end of the pavilion and begins with a grand foyer and single stairway delineating the entrance to the gallery spaces. When discerning the nature of the “Canadian” pavilion, thoughts of landscapes and outdoor spaces prevailed. Open airy fields, the boreal forest, and the tundra’s of the north. The galleries have been outfitted to transcribe these qualities of landscape into architectural space through the manipulation of light, sound and touch. Each gallery space has a distinct characteristic within the hierarchy of Canadian natural settings.

18

Second Floor

Main Floor

N

N

19 Canadian Biennale | Mike Taylor 2011

West Elevation

North-South Section Looking East

North Elevation

West-East Section Looking North

20

Ascent into Library

View Looking Under Library

21 Porta Maggiore | Mike Taylor 2011

Porta MaggioreRome, Italy · Studio Year 4 · 2007

Professor: Lorenzo Pignatti

Project Length: 6 weeks

Objective: Design a hybrid building structure along the aqueduct at the entrance of Porta Maggiore.

Each of the gates of Rome represent their respective portals into the eternal city. Situated just southeast of Porta Maggiore, the site remains part of the Terrain vague, a space that is unused and uninhabited; separated by major city roads. The project has three major goals. One, to mediate the connection between the site and the existing city; two, to connect the new built form with the ancient wall of the aqueduct; three, to create public spaces that bring pedestrians to the site re-energizing the area in terms of commerce and population.

To mediate the connection between the site and the city, a continual framework of urban spaces forms an expansive fabric that spans the length of the site. Buildings then begin to perforate through this fabric creating new spaces beneath, above or adjacent to the landscape.

By a careful use of building connections and details, buildings on the site respond to the condition of the ancient wall. The project leaves voids for the pedestrian to view the wall through the frame of the built form.

The hard surface of the public piazza serves to separate the roadways with the intention of bringing pedestrian energies throughout the site. At the north end is a food market, at the south end an artisan market where studio space serves as craft exhibition space.

22

View from Theatre Toward City Gates

Floor Cutout Revealing Aqueduct

23 Porta Maggiore | Mike Taylor 2011

Passageway Under Studio Pavilion

Interior View of Library

24

Threshold Space

Entrance Pavilion

25 Library of Collective Human Memory | Mike Taylor 2011

Library of Collective Human MemoryToronto, Ontario · Graduate Studio · 2008

Professor: Val Rynnimeri

Project Length: 8 Weeks

Objective: Design a house to outline your thesis intentions.

The purpose of the thesis was to explore the possible alternate systems how one could treat a non-religious individual in regard to funerary rites and the methods, rituals, and architectural spaces responsible. This proposal served to simultaneously celebrate and delete existence while refraining from exemplifying religious influence. The space commemorates the memory of the individual/collective by representing the dead through the implementation and exhibition of documented written/digitized memory and experience.

A singular entity representing the mass collaboration of human existence will serve to form the collective memory of our dead. The architecture that manifests itself in the shadow of this methodology will support and enhance the ability of the structure to maintain a viable alternative to the cemetery memorial. Technology in the realm of responsive architecture, data storage collection and categorization, and interactive display will be at the forefront of the ideology behind the thesis of the architectural space. The architecture itself exists as an armature for the storage and display of the collective memory of the dead.

The method of the thesis was to explore the possibilities of a library of collective human memory. In place of a sprawling landscape of the low pedestrian density-carrying cemetery, a condensed version would exist in which the collective memory of the dead is captured in a single built form. This built form could exist within

26

Meditation Space Toward Exit

Meditation Space Toward Entrance

27 Library of Collective Human Memory | Mike Taylor 2011

the urban fabric of any city and serve as the collective memory of every person who had ever existed there. It has the ability to act simultaneously as an urban artifact and a locus for the metropolis. It would be a communal knowledge auditorium, a museum city of memoirs.

This idea of representing the dead by built memorial is to be extrapolated to the current state of technology in the areas of collective research, communal video representation, photographic representation, and publicly accessible journal articles/literature. The headstone becomes transmogrified into a digital representation of information as that connects the user to the dead. It acts as a contributing effect of zeitgeist experience, a diary of the city and all its inhabitants inhabiting a public space accessible to all.

28

Isometric

Exterior Perspective

29 Attitude Adjustment | Mike Taylor 2011

Attitude AdjustmentCambridge, Ontario · Graduate Elective · 2010

Professor: Lloyd Hunt

Project Length: 2 Weeks

Objective: Design a pavilion for a horse statue of your choosing. Include contract documentation and specifications.

Situated at the scenic coast of the Pacific ocean in Oregon, Attitude Adjustment is a pavilion for a the bronze horse statue of the same moniker. This project was completed for a graduate elective course ARCH 652: Specifications. Three items were selected for the specifications course. Two randomly selected; these are bituminous damproofing and grading soil. The last item was selected by the team of two students, this was Marine grade plywood. A combination of creative ingenuity and design talent were required to complete an aesthetically appealing design that fulfilled the requirements of the course project.

Inlcuded in the documentation was a contract documents package and schematic design images to show the design intent. Not shown are the specifications for each of the three materials.

30

A2Drawing No.

Project No. 001

Checked by:

MTDrawn by:

MT

Date: 01/28/09

Scale:

Drawing Title:

Project Name:

Project Architects:

Check & verify all dimensions before proceeding with work.Do not scale drawings.

Revision No. Description Date

NOTES:

1) ISSUED FOR TENDER 01/28/09

DMMT Architects

Attitude Adjustment

Site Plan

1:300

3000

3000

3700

3000

19320

25310

67500

1500

0

2978

023

780

3122

5

2437

0

3035

0

3862

5 2735

030

00

3700

1828

0

2260

0

2655

0

32500

A41

A3

A5

1

1

Plan

Interior Perspective at Ramp

31 Attitude Adjustment | Mike Taylor 2011

A6Drawing No.

Project No. 001

Checked by:

DMDrawn by:

DM

Date: 01/28/09

Scale:

Drawing Title:

Project Name:

Project Architects:

Check & verify all dimensions before proceeding with work.Do not scale drawings.

Revision No. Description Date

NOTES:

1) ISSUED FOR TENDER 01/28/09

DMMT Architects

Attitude Adjustment

Details

1:10

Elevation

Details

32

Team Picture

Design Iterations

33 Flying Buttresses | Mike Taylor 2011

Flying ButtressesIntramural Soccer · May-August · 2009

The intramural soccer team at the Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge needed a logo. The director of the school of architecture in Waterloo is Rick Haldenby. This is the creation of the logo and the team jerseys.

An original photo was taken from a photo library and traced using a tablet. I created a vector image in Illustrator and exported the file to AutoCad. From here, the file was used to laser cut a millboard stencil. Fabric paint was then applied through the stencil.

34

Video Capture from Opening Sequence

Video Capture from Opening Sequence

35 Short Film - Brain Damage | Mike Taylor 2011

Short Film: Brain DamageCambridge, Ontario · Graduate Studies · 2008

Professor: Terri Meyer-Boake

Project Length: 2 Weeks

Objective: Using software of your choice, create a short film in the style of a music video.

The song chosen was Brain Damage/Eclipse by Pink Floyd. The film was originally shot and edited using Final Cut Pro HD. This film sequence was then loaded into flash and the entire sequence was rotoscoped; the process whereby each individual frame is redrawn using a tablet. The process took roughly one week to draw two thousand frames. Due to the stress of drawing this many images, the film is somewhat incomplete, however, to view the film in its current state, go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gFubBsdTh4

This work was also displayed during the “Project Review” exhibit in the Cambridge Galleries in Cambridge, Ontario.