Braeden Martel Selected Works 2020

Braeden Martel Selected Works

I am currently a fourth year student at the McEwen School of Architecture in Sudbury, ON. Born in a small, northern town, I moved to Sudbury to pursue my interest in architecture. I enjoy placing myself in situations that force me to grow and am always seeking opportunities to learn from skilled and passionate individuals. In my free time I enjoy awkwardly photographing building details, spending too much time outdoors, and obsessively trying to produce the best cup of coffee possible.

Braeden Martel 1 705 920 3723 8-120 Larch Street Sudbury, ON P3E 1C2

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Work Experience •Create architectural drawings for record and for tender.

•Work closely with architect throughout design processes.

•Create and manage online presence through social media + content creation.

Designer | Yallowega Belanger Salach Architecture May 2019 - currently

Designer | Formid February 2018 - September 2018

•Design + draw under licensed architect.

•Create graphics, branding, crowdfunding campaign, and social media management.

Co-Op Intern | Vision Build Inc. May 2017 - August 2017

•Trained under veteran carpenter/cabinet maker on small craft to large furniture.

•Worked from drawings to construct custom millwork.

Architectural Photographer Freelance

•Photographing local architectural projects for respective firms

Education McEwen School of Architecture Sudbury, ON | 2016 - to date

Bachelor of Architectural Studies (B.A.S.) Candidate. Dean’s Honours List.

Laurentian University Sudbury, ON | 2014 - 2016

Four academic terms spent studying various fields of education.

Volunteer Experience Co-founder | TheTelegraph.ca September 2018 - Present

• Founded a website for McEwen Arch.

Students • Designed and produced articles + graphics

Designer | NOSA August 2016 - August 2017

• Aided the local OAA chapter in the design, build and documentation of the installation for Up Here Festival

Mentor | Lasalle Secondary School • Mentored the robotics team while 2014 & 2015 FIRST Robotics Seasons balancing University education and employment

Interests Woodworking Film & Editing

Photography Model Making

Coffee Graphic Design

Table of Contents

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A Tempered Junction

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Brewery Art Gallery

Nested Mountain Library

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Ramsey Lake Ice Station

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Bergen Wood Festival

Jaajokki Light Sculptures

Bentwood Studies

A Tempered Junction Mass Timber Mixed Use Development Studio Project w/ Sarah Wetteskind Year 4 Skills

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Exploded structural isometric drawing.

A tempered junction aims to return residential diversity to the downtown core by providing residential buildings designed for the contemporary family. The built interventions serves as a mediating threshold between an industrial railyard and the downtown core. The site, flanked by the prominent street and restrictive railway features a plan for an elgin greenway. The site design used the elgin greenway as an opporunity for raised “backayrds� providing scales of privacy to the residents, imperative to family living. The CPR station at the core of the site is bookended by a temporary market that also serves as an open-air sports facility and a sliding hill, encouraging public interaction with the site.

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Top: south elevation of residential + market buildings.

Middle: longitudinal market section + residential cross section.

Bottom: north elevation of market + residential buildings.

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A series of detailed massing models were created at a scale of 1:300 that fit into the shared class site model. The models represent the five building interventions designed for the longitudinal site. The models were composed of hand-cut basswood, laser-cut end-grain douglas fir, and sculpted solid douglas fir. The residential buildings are unique in that a sheet of douglas fir was created so that the end-grain blocks would represent each suite within the building. The laser cutter was used to create the exterior openings for the residential buildings, adding depth and texture.

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The entire site design model shown inserted into shared site model

Market Building Model

Residential Building Models

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Facade views of phyiscal models

Perspective View of Site Model

Open-air Arena + Temporary Market Model

Brewery Art Gallery Individual Studio Project Adaptive Reuse Year 3 Skills

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Right: floor plans with site features of the brewery art gallery.

Early 20th century breweries were designed based on the gravity-fed process of brewing beer. As the brewing process evolved, so did the architecture, resulting in a composition of multiple smaller and specialized buildings. The concep for this project was to re-establish a circulation at the human scale and taking advantage of the breweries unique scale to display industrial-scale artworks. The brewery and its individual buildings would then be stitched together through one circulatory design gesture.

study of the human scale in industrial spaces

Section Revealing Circulation Facing West

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Exploded Isometric Double-Section + Facade The drawing is exploded twice to expose the complexity and scale of the building. The dark ribbon represents the human circulation through the building that connects the unique perspectives offerred by the design.

A 1:50 section model was prepared to represent the spatial qualities of one portion of the building. The main entrance and vertical circulation were represented to bring forth the importance of verticality to the brewery process and to express the added circulation which stitches the building together.

A lookout is found protruding from the top of the building, providing a new perspective of the city. The model is made from continuous-grain douglas fir, steam-bent basswood, and fixed to a solid red cedar base.

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Exterior Perspective of Sectional Model

Interior Perspective of Sectional Model

Nested Mountain Library Individual Studio Project Year 2 Skills

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Below: Building floor plan drawn using Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Careful site analysis encouraged a fractured library approach to emphasize the site’s assets. The stilted library attracts users and provides an unseen view of the entire park while it’s stilted nests provide unprecedented reading rooms scattered around the site.

Each nest was sculpted to provide a unique perspective of the sites features.

From the trails at Rotary Park a building and it’s accompanying “nests� are seen emerging from the mountainside. A stilted library acts as an intersection in the trails acting as the sole destination prolonging users stay in the park.

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Left: Exterior perspective render, Communicating main library building and it’s relation to the scattered “reading nests” throughout the landscape. Drawn using Rhino, V-Ray, and Photoshop.

Below: Building cross-section with immediate site context drawn using Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

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Left: Three building elevations complete with immediate site context drawn using Rhinoceros, Revit, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

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Photos of Physical Model

Ramsey Lake Ice Station Group Design + Build Studio Year 1 Skills

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The ice stations design and scale allowed for new experiences as one approached the structure.

From afar, the horizon is interrupted by a tall wooden ribbon, then on approach the fold invites one in to finally experience a moment of verticality through the oculus.

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Photos of Physical Model

Photos of Built Structure

From this, the group decided to create a ribbon of wood curving in plan and folding in on itself to provide an opening. The 2x2 members were left 98% untouched and tied together using twine to allow for re-use.

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The design process began with the challenge of using only 2x2 lumber in a sustainable fashion.

The site provided an incredible horizon, the group wanted to break that horizon line and encourage the skaters to look up into the sky.

Photos of Built Structure

Jaajokki Light Sculptures Award: People’s Choice Award Group of 3 | Design + Build Built Competition Proposal Skills

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Proposed for the second annual Nuit Blanche at the McEwen School of Architecture, these light sculptures were designed to attract users to a normally dark area of the school. Textured acrylic sheets were exposed to heat and manually bent into shape creating a selfsupporting sculpture. Bends were made to create moments within the sculpture allowing for new discoveries as one explored the sculptures. The installation was named Jaajoki which means “frozen river� in Finnish, due to the sculptures resemblance to ice.

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Photos of Built Installation

Bergen Wood Festival Group of 3 Design + Build International Competition Skills

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Left: Installation construction drawing with scale person drawn using Rhinoceros, Revit, Illustrator, and Photoshop for competition proposal.

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Photo of Built Installation

A group of 6 students were selected to represent the McEwen School of Architecture at the Bergen International Wood Festival in Norway.

The 6 students broke into two groups to create two separate wood installations. The installation “Canopy� was designed using a simple system of repeating polygons which would then be increasingly altered to create a undulating ribbon of wood.

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Photos of Built Installation

Limited to 2x2’s, the group created a curve in plan using simple techniques. Canopy flowed up from the ground providing a bench for sitting and laying. The undulating ribbon peaked and dipped to create nooks for sitting

Bent Wood Studies Independent Research Skills

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Aurora Borealis First Year Studio Project

Interest in wood bending began during a first year studio project. The task was to take a mostly 2D object, and with a simple technique make it 3D, then create a spatial piece. Thin pieces of basswood were cut into parallelograms, then soaked in hot water and bent into unique curves. The curves were then fastened together with a thin bead of glue, creating a light and spatial ribbon of wood. The piece sat lightly, and with the lightest touch would begin to shake and “dance� as the piece reacted to the applied force, finally finding its balance and coming to a rest.

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Bentwood Music Pavilion First Year Studio Project

Sited on a greenway opposite to a proposed arts centre and the downtown core, curved panels emerge from the ground creating an expressionist space for music. The curved panels joining to form one space was inspired by music which is composed of multiple notes creating one song. The pavilions small maximum footprint encouraged one half of the structure to be opened up allowing for a new footprint to be determined by the reach of the music.

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Left: model shown opening up.

Right: section drawing and exterior perspective of physical model.

Double-Bent Canoe Paddle Second Year Studio Project

This canoe paddle was designed and fabricated in a second year studio course. The piece is made of layered thin pieces of black cherry and white ash hardwoods. Double-bent canoe paddles allow a more efficient paddle stroke. To achieve this paddle, a unique technique of full-length glue-lamination was employed, allowing the layers of the canoe paddle to reveal themselves as the shaft sculpted down into the blade.

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Diagrid Lattice Structure Third Year Surpervisor: Prof. Mark Baechler

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This independent study explores the material properties of cedar strips toward an understanding of the spatial potential of the material when applied to a bent lattice structure. A series of wooden strip offcuts were saved during the construction of a wood drying pavilion. Through the exploration of woods bending abilities, a series of three transportable units were constructed. The project represents the current state of this ongoing research project and offers a design for a lightweight diagrid structure that expands and contracts to enclose an architectural space.

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Thank you for taking the time to review my portfolio of selected works from my undergraduate studies.

I appreciate your consideration.

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