Damon Stich | Portfolio 2015

Damon Stich

Portfolio of Architectural Work

Resume Contact: Permanent Address: School Address: Phone: E-mail: LinkedIn:

9125 Riech Lane, Cantrall, IL 62625 903 W Nevada Street #301, Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 361-8159 stich2@illinois.edu www.linkedin.com/in/DamonStich

Employment:

Education:

Office of the Illinois State Treasurer Summer Intern June - August 2013 and June-August 2014 Engaged the public to educate them about the ICash program

Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies Unversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Projected May 2016

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Stagehand September 2012 - present Prepares stage for performances with lights and set pieces

Athens High School Athens, IL Completed May 26, 2012

Skills:

Awards:

Design:

Rendering:

AutoCAD Autodesk Revit SketchUp Rhinocerous

Adobe Photoshop Brazil for Rhino

Winner: Illinois School of Architecture Make Series Project: Inflated Canopy Spring 2015

Other: Microsoft Office Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign

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References available by request

Table of Contents Design Work:

Other Work:

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Design Analysis

Chicago, Illinois Architecture 374 Professor Andrea Melgarejo de Berry 10 weeks (current studio project)

Church of Santa Maria in Araceli Architecture 414 Professor Heather Hyde-Minor, PhD 1 week

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Whirl Fabrication

Visual Arts

Central Illinois Architecture 373 Professor Fang Xu, PhD 7 weeks

Multiple Media Coursework and Extracurricular

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Facets + Rails Downtown Champaign, IL Architecture 374 Professor Andrea Melgarejo de Berry 2.5 weeks

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Photography

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Inflated Canopy Temple Hoyne Buell Hall Courtyard 611 Loredo Taft Drive, Champaign, IL 2 weeks (ongoing installation)

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Undulating Studio Central Illinois Architecture 373 Professor Fang Xu, PhD 4 weeks

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Cover Image: "Psychology Building" 603 E Daniel St., Champaign, IL Digital Photo- May 6, 2014

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Sustainability

Shading:

Stack Ventilation:

Green Roof: 5

Whirl Fabrication

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Production: the act of producing; creation; manufacture It is this definition from which my design comes from: the similarity of producing a performance in a theater to producing something in a factory. The performance space and all the production spaces in this theater bear the utilitarian look of a space for manufacture. They lack any decoration so as to not get in the way of pre-show preparations and to not distract the audience from the performance itself.

The most basic materials (concrete, glass, metal, and wood) are familiar to visitors of the space and will not attract their focus. The shape of the building comes from the mechanical gear and is symbolic of how the production crew must function smoothly as a whole to present that day's spectacle.

The centrally located performance space relates to the rotational axis of the gear and is symbolic of how every aspect of the building revolves around the performance.

Rotational Circulation:

Gear Inspiration:

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Plan 1:

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Plan 2:

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Facets + Rails

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This project is an abstraction of train tracks, which have inspired the design of this bookstore located near a railway and station.

Two metal clad, structural beams run the

length of the building which are reminiscent of the steel train tracks. On the southern facade, a faceted pattern has been created to represent the rock base.

Drawing from the

wooden rail ties, wood finishes are used on floors and ceilings. The angles created by the south facade are continued to the interior where they influence the cashier's counter and some of the bookshelves.

Railroad Tracks Inspiration:

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Cross Section:

Structure:

Program:

Seating Bookshelves Cafe

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Floor Plans: 1-2:

3-4:

5:

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Longitudinal Section:

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Inflated Canopy

Illinois School of Architecture Make Series 1 Winner Team Members: Yu-Lun "Nico" Hsu, Theradej "Top" Nasueb, Andrew Smith, Kristina Werner, and myself The Inflated Canopy is a balloon based structure that provides shelter, spectacle, and a sense of place in the courtyard.

Currently, the courtyard goes unused throughout the year but, as per the competition requirements, the installation will serve the required purpose of activating the space. Our team purposely chose this concept because of its playful nature and its bright colors which are expected to draw the attention of passersby. With a budget of $1800, we are able to inflate the canopy for four separate ocassions during the spring semester with each inflation lasted about one week.

The balloons are placed inside a closed net allowing external stimuli to manipulate the form of the structure. The Inflated Canopy responds to events like fluctuating temperatures, strong winds, and human interaction.

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Playful Interactivity:

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Site Plan:

Tie Point Detail:

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"Inflated Canopy" Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, Champaign, IL Digital Photos- April 2015

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Undulating Studio Inspired by the movement of dance, I chose the wave to be the concept that shaped my dance studio. That wave has also influenced the circulation by having users moved to the furthest ends of the wave in each studio. The second concept was a gradient angled perpendicular to the axis on which the wave was drawn.

That gradient determined how light would come into the building leading the southeastern side of the studios to feel more enclosed but with light filtering in from above. These concepts set out to create a non-uniform space to encourage the creativity of choreographers.

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Form Derived from a Wave:

Building Plan:

Daylighting: Lighter

Darker

Longitudinal Section:

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Design Analysis Church of Santa Maria in Araceli

Designed by Guarino Guarini Construction started: 1670s Consecrated: 1743 Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

Plan Image from: Guiseppe Dardanello, Susan Klaiber, and Henry Millon.

Guarino Guarini.

Torino: Umberto Allemandi & Co., 2006. Print.

Applies concepts from: Hersey, George L. Architecture And Geometry in the Age of the Baroque.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Print.

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Concept: Tilling

Concept: Tilling + Epicycles

Concept: Musical Proportions

With the size being found in the distance between the edge of the largest oval and the furthest of the arches that supports the dome, this circle is repeated trifold which could be symbolic in this Catholic church of the Holy Trinity.

The diameter of these smaller circles is set by the distance between the two arches (light blue lines) that form pendentives for the dome. These circles form connections between columns (blue dots), the center of the space, and the pier-like protrusions opposite the actual piers.

There are several ratios in this church that are also found in music: 7:5 (septiminal tritone), 3:4 (perfect fourth), 3:2 (perfect fifth), and 3:1 (perfect twelfth). One circle represents one unit in the ratios.

The four non-central circles are also epicycles around the central circle.

These four circles were only arcs in the original plan and indicate the only epicycles that are tangent to the largest oval.

The 7:5 is the ratio between the long and short axes.

3:4 and 3:2 correspond (on the long and short axes respectively) to the number in the central space versus the total on the extremeties.

And 3:2 and 3:1 correspond (again respective to the long and short axes) to the number on the interior compared to the number on one side external of the central space.

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Visual Arts

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"Kaminski House" (designed by Antoine Predock) Digital Painting- March 2014 For class: Architecture 272

"The Shard" (designed by Renzo Piano) Digital Painting- February 2015 (not coursework)

"House of Usher" (from "The Fall of the House of Usher"

by Edgar Allen Poe) Pen- April 26, 2013 For class: English 116

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Photography

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"Westminster Abbey Chapel" London, England, United Kingdom Digital Photo- December 2014

"Victoria Tower from Westminster Abbey" London, England, United Kingdom Digital Photo- December 2014

Above: "Unity Temple" Oak Park, Chicago, IL Digital Photo- May 2013

Below: "Reflections of St. Paul's Cathedral" London, England, United Kingdom Digital Photo- December 2014

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Damon Stich

Thank You.