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Michael Palmer
iMage Architecture Film Archive
Florence, Italy
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ArtHab Homeless Art Facility
Los Angeles, California
Graphic Work
UCL Student Union
London, United Kingdom
Analysis of Alice Cook Houseby Kieran Timberlake Architects
Ithaca, New York
iMage Architecture Film Archive
Florence, Italy
This project, located in Florence, Italy, housed a private architecture film collection which served an international architectural audi-ence. The building is situated on the exit ramp of the Uffizi Gallery, and would serve as the primary exit to the museum, while expos-ing the work of iMage to the greater public. The project uses intersecting volumes to create dynamic interstitial spaces where public and private collide.
southern approach rendering
northern approach rendering
formal diagrams
FROM PIAZZA SIGNORIA
FROM UFFIZI
TO S.CROCE
TO A
RNO
TO D
UOMO
site plan
plan diagrams
site placement
interior renderings
sectional sketch
ground floor plan
program plan diagrams
second floor plan
first floor plan
PROJECTION
SER
VIC
E
RECEPTION
CIRCULATION
TEACHING
CIRCULATION
UFFIZI EXIT
BOO
KSTO
RE
CAFE
SER
VIC
E
ARCHIVE
VIDEO PRODUCTION
CIRCULATION
UFFIZI EXIT
ADM
INIS
TRAT
ION
SER
VIC
E
PIAZZA
University College London Student Union
London, United Kingdom
This project, located in Central London at the University College London, the third largest school in the UK, serves as a new gateway into the University as well as a new student union. The project serves as a unique new entry point while framing a view from the street of the historic Wilkins Building Dome using a massive elements around a large picture window. Additionally, the project creates a new urban street to link the street front to the interior quadrangles of the campus.
path and vision diagrams
rendered as from street
view of model from above
current entries to campus
site plan
site section
rear elevation
formal diagram study models
first floor plan
ground floor plan
BOOKSTORE
CAFE
A A
B
B
EXHIBITION
MECHANICAL
First Floor Plan (1:200)1m 5 20
2 10
A A
B
B
ArtHab Homeless Art Facility
Los Angeles, Californiaproject completed collaboratively with Matthew Wood
This project, located in Skid Row in Los Angeles, California, serves as a homeless rehabilitation center in the form of a combined residence and art therapy facility. The complex aims to foster the creative potential of the homeless community in skid row and using this to benefit both the users and the community as a whole. The project uses the formal elements of the existing industrial and residential complexes in Los Angeles and creates a new typology combining them.
F.S.
F.S.
project as located in site model
programmatic and volumetric model, with custom program icons
early rendering
skid row site plan
concept sketchcreativity mapping in Los Angeles and Skid Row
sectional perspective of entire complex
first floor plan
early section perspective
second floor plan typical housing floor plan
rendering of art buiilding
model of art building
concept montageoverall model render
Analysis of Alice Cook Houseby Kieran Timberlake Architects
Ithaca, New Yorkproject completed collaboratively with Alyson Canal, Sally Morrow and William Stattman
The Alice Cook House was the first of a series of housing buildings for Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in 2004 by Kieran Timberlake Archi-tects. For the Syracuse Advanced Building System Course, I worked collaboratively to analyze the building systems of the house, such as enclosure systems, structural systems, and environmental systems. Using various programs and working in a group, we ana-lyzed the building’s original inten-tions of prefabrication as well as the systems as they were built and installed.
simplified environmental systems diagram
composite enclosure, structure and mechanical axonometric
comparison of Alice Cook House to nearby Gothic Housing
structural and mechanical connection at joint
brick patterns of Kieran Timberlake and existing Gothics
ALICE H. COOKHOUSE
Graphic Work
In my architectural designs and other endeavors I often create distinct graphics that either aid in my project designs, provide for external visualization or simply as an art form. My self-teaching of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator at a young age have allowed me to explore the computer as a medium that can supplement sketching to strongly convey ideas, schemes and scenarios. This technique has allowed me to apply these visual techniques to other architectural drawing.
representation of two market typologies in Florence, Italy
logo for reddit.com/r/devils
poster for Architecture Student Organization Trip to Montreal
mock poster for Citizen Kane
icons for items in markets of Florence, Italy
Michael Palmerhttp://mcpalmer.info/[email protected](908) 812-1975
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