Summer 2023 Arch Portfolio by dicazam

Daniel Icaza Milson Graduate Work

Daniel Icaza Milson is a bilingual, Panamanian and American designer with 4+ years of work experience

Skills • • • • • • • •

bilingual (Spanish & English) project management product development plan development client communication scheduling design sketching

Programs

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Solidworks AutoCAD Keyshot Agile PLM Smartsheet Centric Software Adobe Creative Cloud Rhino Revit Microsoft 365

Accomplishments • • • • •

Presidential Scholarship, Anderson Ranch, CO, 2019 Exhibiting Artist, The Identity Show, PVD, 2018 Exhibiting Artist, RISD x EWHA, Seoul, SK, 2017 Exhibiting Artist, Witness Tree, NYC, 2017 Team Captain, Brandeis University Swimming, 2015

dicazam@gmail.com dannyicaza.com 617.943.6181

Education 2022 - 2025 2016 - 2019 2015 2013 - 2015

University of Texas, Austin Master of Architecture, Graduate Studies Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) BFA Industrial Design (transferred in) RISD in Seoul, Sunset Club, Textiles Focus University of California, Berkeley Certificate of Completion, Architecture Summer, Architecture Intensive Program Brandeis University BSc Biochemistry BA English (transfer out) Captain, Brandeis Men’s Swimming and Diving

Work Experience 05/22 – present

02/22 – 05/22

10/21 – 02/22

07/19 – 11/20

01/19 – 04/19

06/17 – 08/17

08/16 – present

DELL Computers -Industrial Design Engineer II• Managing three direct reports who conduct color-material revisions and lead person in communications with ODMs and vendors. • Driving force behind process workflows for color-material revisions of aluminum, resin, trackpad, logo, paints, and glass. PEARL iZUMi -Development Process Specialist• Promoted within four months to a new role overseeing the development of a $75,000 system upgrade of Centric Software PLM. • Created a workflow that identified a $250,000 cost difference in raw material purchases between 2020 and 2021. PEARL iZUMi -Product Development Coordinator• Coordinated cross functionally to deliver updated workflows affecting five teams. • Identified, visualized, and coordinated upgrade of 57 calendar milestones. DELL Computers -Industrial Design Engineer II• Designed and implemented color, material, and finish scheme for DELL 3120, 2,000,000 units manufactured in summer 2021. • Spearheaded development of color-materials affecting programs that generated $12.9 billion dollars in revenue in 2021. Polychrome -Design Intern• Developed trend boards for 2020 S/S season. • Created & edited two trend-relevant surface designs. City of Providence -Program Manager• Established a swim program to teach 8–14year-olds how to swim. • Managed a 25 lifeguards at five city pools and regularly updated department heads. Daniel Icaza Milson & Company, LLC -Owner• Developed, managed, and fabricated designs for clients across fields like industrial design, textiles, architecture, and art. • Selected projects: 01/21 – 03/21: Product Management, Malik Wagenseil, rug manufacturing. 03/21 – 08/21: Project Management, SMASH Design+Build, house addition. 08/21 – 10/21: Draftsman, Stanley Studio

Projects traction

ceramic studio

painting museum

transpose

transverse

Latitude 2024

Packaging 2024

t r a c t i o n a project to describe oneself with design using three processes: (ex)traction, (sub)traction, and (abs)traction

(ex)traction: creating a House of Cards set how do you introduce yourself to new friends? the self is a layering of three entities: one’s mind-body, the projections of one’s community, and the world associating each with Austin, Architecture, and Nature rendered nine unique images and patterns

Summer Studio 2022 : Professor Danelle Briscoe

process

select three photos

grayscale and lower opacity to 33%

mind-body, represented by the population of Panama, is 0.06% of the world’s people community, represented by the United States, is 4.25% of the world’s population world, from which scale factors of the photographs were determined layer all three, re-scaled photographs

process

1.5” x 2.25” (1/3 original size)

3” x 4.5” (2/3 original size)

4.5” x 6.75” (original size)

three notches on each card

run Image Trace on the photograph, select third vector from a list the command yielded

three orientation-scales of pattern (diagonal, horizontal, and rotated 90 degrees shifted down in thirds)

models

the unique images are abstracted the House of Cards are phographed in two elevations and one plan and applied to the limits of a cube in the x, y, and z planes which creates the Projection Plane Model 4

Projection Plane Model

ceramic studio our site was the exterior terrace of Goldsmith Hall what architecture does UTSOA need? a ceramics studio

clad in custom, concrete-cast blocks it is a space for contemplation, creation, and persperation featuring a bridge from Goldsmith into a floor for drawing

Fall 2022 : Professor Kevin Alter

site plan

Scale 50’ = 1”

Scale 10’ 8= 1”

plan: floor 0 1/4” = 1’-0”

plan: floor 1 1/4” = 1’-0”

PATH BETWEEN GOLDSMITH & ENBANKMENT

GOLDSMITH HALL

GUADALUPE ST.

massing model 1/8” = 1’-0”

wall section model 3/4” = 1’-0”

painting museum the Contemporary Foundation comissioned Kevin Alter’s students to build a new museum what building can help unify the foundation’s identity and connect Laguna Gloria with the Contemporary downtown? perhaps two new buildings: one for viewing paintings indoors and the other for sculptures

this project focuses on the painting museum the site is north of the driscoll villa the building is made of bricks and features a ramp that guides you through undulating bays this is a place for one to enjoy art in this oasis-nook of the Colorado River

Fall 2022 : Professor Kevin Alter

site plan 1/8” = 1’-0”

plan: floor 0 1/4” = 1’-0”

LEVEL 1 1/4” = 1-0’

LEVEL 2 1/4” = 1’

plan: floor 0 1/4” = 1’-0”

longitudinal section: 1/4” = 1’-0”

SECTION 2 1/4” = 1-0”

transverse section: 1/4” = 1’-0”

16 SECTION 1 1/4” = 1-0”

model 1/8” = 1’-0”

transpose these initial studies into the office building typology were developed with Ellenise Guerra and Andy Ngyen I focused on the text, Energy Consumption icons, and supported on layout Median Office Square Feet Per Worker

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Top 10 US metropolitan areas

Type: Office

515 500

Avg. Office Building Energy Consumption

1991

1kW

1990 465 2009

Ellenise

Ventilation

Water Heating

1998

Nguyen

2kW

420

noun: office; plural noun: offices 1. a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work. Andy

007 (kWH/SF)

When looking at square feet per employee, the common areas are included in the square footage. A percentage of this number is dedicated to areas like conference rooms and communal areas. Larger private offices receive a larger share of the available space than employees who work in cubicles or workstations.

Guerra

Daniel

Icaza

Sources:

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Classifications

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Amenities Matrix

Class A The nicest space in the market. Generally either new developments or have had significant improvements and renovations in recent years. The building’s common areas will have high-quality finishes and many amenities such as covered parking, fitness centers, leisure areas, and restaurants or cafeterias. Typically conveniently located, either in the epicenter of central business districts or along major streets, highways or transit centers.

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2019

2kW The amenities included in an office can change from industry to industry, but play a large role in overall employee satisfaction and productivity.

Class B Slightly lower than Class A in terms of quality. Buildings found in major commercial areas, but also commonly found in the suburbs. Building age usually older than Class A, oftentimes originally Class A but has been downgraded due to age and deterioration. Typically has good amenities, management companies and tenants, and rental rates.

Air Heating

Class C Functional space with below-market rates. Class C properties are typically very dated, with minimal amenities and located in less desirable locations.

Types

Introduction

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So it’s finally time to get a job. There are many reasons to want to work for a specific organization, but what about the physical environment of the workplace? Once we enter the workforce, we often spend more time in the office or workplace surrounded by coworkers than at home with our families. With long commutes through rush hour and uncomfortable workstations, offices have built a steady reputation as a dreaded place to be. Recently however, the focus of workplace design has seen a shift from simple worker efficiency to employee wellbeing, creativity, and stress levels. How did we get to this point? What ways do we expect our offices and workplaces to evolve in the future? To uncover these answers let us first start where it all began.

THAT’D BE GREAT.

Historical Timeline

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3kW Air Conditioning

8kW

005

7kW

Traditional Reception area, private offices, open area for cubicles, conference rooms, break room and printer room; the traditional office has everything needed to get the job done. Typically requires a multi-year lease ranging from 3-5 years and useful for companies that value their privacy.

Remote work tripled from 2019 to 2021, 5.7% to 17.9%

Creative Encourages teamwork and collaboration. Layout entails few barriers and often highly transparent. More space-efficient and usually an open-plan layout. These offices may have wooden floors, large windows, high ceilings, fewer walls, and wet pantries.

Lighting

Refridgeration

Work Culture Around The World

Co-working Offers flexibility to small businesses that are commencing operations or in initial stages. Start-ups or small companies can rent a number of desks in a shared space as per their need.

Avg. commute to work in the US is ~52min/day

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When exploring office cultures around the world, one can see distinct differences in the amount of hours spent at work, time taken on holiday, and the average amount of minutes spent at lunch. It is also important to note that regardless of the statistics detailed, office spaces continue to use energy even when workers end their day. Water heating, ventilation, air heating, air conditioning, lighting, and refrigeration continue to consume power after the work day ends.

Business Park Also called corporate campuses, these are large facilities that may include multiple buildings. Often an organization’s headquarters and are typically located in suburban areas.

Some of the data that could be used to make a point around office buildings differences around the world include the amount of time spent by Americans, East Asians, and Europeans working. For example, Americans work 47 hours per week, while 60% of employed people in the United States log up to 60 hours! This is slightly less comparable to China where the average worker logs up to 72 hours per week. Some companies in China encourage the 996 strategy whereby an employee is in the office from 9AM to 9PM, six days per week. Interestingly, some workers in European countries like France and Netherlands average 35 and 29 hours per week, respectively.

Executive Suites Full serviced and furnished office space meant to allow lucrative businesses the ability to rent private rooms and desks as needed.

Further evidence to add to this observation is that in the United States, the average vacation time is two weeks off per year. Workers in China and Japan have up to 10 days off per year. This is very different from European citizens who get around four to five weeks off per year. In Europe, the avg. space per employee is 210 ft2, which drops to 175 ft2 in the US, 140 ft2 in Japan, and 50 ft2 in China.

Shared Where a company with extra space leases a portion of the office out to another company. Generally a win-win.

Regarding other aspects of the work day, Americans take up to 30 minutes off for lunch. Chinese workers have about an hour and a half off for lunch. Japanese and Korean workers take about one hour off. This is in stark contrast to European workers who, in some cases, can enjoy a three to four hour lunch break.

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1700’s

1900’s

1960’s

1980’s

Present

Everything leads back to Rome. The ancient home office. Majority of “office” work was performed at home with many shop owners residing in their own establishments.

The first two dedicated office buildings. The Old Admiralty Office and The East Indian House in Great Britain.

Birth of the Open Plan, a layout that has largely dominated offices today. The creation of Taylorism, principles rooted in the work of industrial engineers and efficiency experts. Introduction of skyscrapers.

The introduction of the Action Office, the first modular office furniture collections. The office collection is still in use today.

Cube Farms, workspaces all over the world saw the rise of a sea of cubicles due to the affordable and practical modular walls.

“Co-Working” and “Hot Desking”, worker mobility has increased with the development of technology. The number of employees working from home, cafes, etc. has increased.

Spring 2023 : Professor Matt Fajkus

Future

transpose is a single, drone-deployed office unit in 2099 that provides surface for a variety of seating positions and can be aggregated into tree-like structures in remote locations

The Future

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The year is 2099. It’s time to head to the office and you’ve woken up with a case of the Mondays. Luckily, it only takes 5 minutes for a drone to carry your personal office pod to your company “Stack” or “TRAN(SPARK).” The Stack is where you and your colleagues’ pods are aggregated, typically in one of the many natural urbanscapes, in a way that encourages a lively and healthy work environment. Long gone are the days of spending hours in Hyperloop traffic or working in a dreadful cubicle. With the Transpose Pod, going to work has never been so fun!

Flex-Space: Location & Classification

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Transpose is a modular structure that works at multiple scales. When aggregated, Transposes become a Stack. IMGuerraYen Corporations invests heavily in preserving national parks and urban scapes around the world, advocating for Stacks due to its low-impact deployment practices. The TRAN(SPARK), sites with aggregated stacks inspiring sparks of creativity and collaboration in beautiful locations is the ideal intervention for preserved scapes.

Wall Construction

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Energy Consumption

The PivoWall® Assembly in Transpose allows workers to relax, focus, interact with others, and inhabit their space. Office culture is verging on the domestic and its architecture should follow. Amenities like game rooms, hang out spaces, fitness centers, private rooms are becoming more common in our office spaces.

= 5000 times more energy consumed than a single Transpose Pod

When closed, Transpose is a sealed pod. The 135 degree angled walls create spaces for sitting at a desk, laying down, or even reclining. The angled walls create a system comprised of a lower and upper potion, operating the PivoWall® Assembly creates a cross breeze and a work space open to the exterior. This arrangement allows for an independent work station overlooking gorgeous landscapes or allow for communal work zones. The angled assembly also allows for the roof of Transpose to be utlizied as a deck through the addition of ladders on its slope.

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Transpose conserves energy with four features, the pivoting walls, sustainable drone deployment, solar panel-powered office park, and carbon positive appliances. When considering power usage, one sees stark discrepancies between productivity and office architecture. In traditional office buildings, refrigeration, lighting, and air conditioning make up the bulk of power usage per kilowatt hours. Pivoting walls and operating apertures in Transpose allow for cross breeze ventilation, which in turn, reduces the energy consumption for cooling and heating. Secondly, the static nature of architecture requires buildings to plug into the grid. Transpose and its partnerships with Hypo-Carbon DroneTECH300®, the cutting edge in sustainable drone technology, makes deployment in urban officescapes carbon neutral. In this era, Texas’s grid still fails at least once a year due to temperature drops and poor grid infrastructure. Third, only 20% of office buildings in the United States use sustainable energy to power 50% or less of their buildings. If deployed in a TRAN(SPARK), Transpose does the reverse, being that any component associated with it are tuned into a grid made of solar, wind, and hydro-power. Lastly, working in a Transpose pod is carbon positive, generating green capitalism. Lights, mechanical desks, and any other tool in Transpose are designed to purify carbon into oxygen.

1 Avg. Office Bldg.

Transpose can nestle with other structures. It also creates spaces in between. There is a mechanism on top of the roof where drones can deploy these office spaces and configure them in different arrangements. The drone can stack pods in different arrangements that go along the X, Y and Z axes. They do not fit perfectly like a puzzle, but rather can create inter-spacial moments.

TRAN(SPARKS) have waste management on-site, mineral sprinkler systems dedicated to help the environment around the Stack, and are powered with a hundred percent clean energy. Connecting Transpose to other work pods and becoming part of the branches of a productive workspace has never been safer for the environment. The Stack offers to fulfill the yearning for flexibility across differing work districts. Global trends have shown the move away from the traditional office buildings. For example, there are 35 million digital nomads worldwide, and remote work has tripled between 2019 and 2021. One no longer has to drive to their Class C office space in the outskirts of town or take the train to a Class A building. The Stacks become a vibrant contrast to the hierarchical architecture of traditional office spaces.

Exterior Ladder Drone Attachment Storage/Reclined Seating Upright Seating

Interior Views

Operable Assembly Community Driven

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The architecture of Transpose is geared directly towards building community. The front entrance, a tall glass portal, serves two functions. First, it allows the inhabitant of the structure to view their external surroundings. Second, it acts as a threshold for entering and exiting. This threshold is crucial when Transpose is aggregated into a The Stack or when it is placed in a TRAN(SPARK). If The Stack is arranged in a courtyard-like conformation and has other office spaces attached to it, workers are encouraged to interact with one another. Access to your work space can be a social function, fruitful for the creation of new ideas and boosting productivity in groups.

Configurable Workstation

Work Culture

Additionally, Transpose’s interiors are professional, yet relaxed. It is common to find people working in nooks, benches, train station floors, and studio desks. The muted interiors and white furniture of the space provide a unanimous sense of well-being while the rearrangeable furniture permits one to work in ways that suit their needs. One could, for example, sit at a desk, lay on the floor, or lean against the wall with their laptop. Lastly, the main wall directly opposite to the glass portal serves multiple functions to bring people together. The pivoting desk can be rearranged to the center of the space and the seating located at the rear can be utilized as a bench, seating up to 3 extra persons, which is is superior for team meetings. The wall, which services a wall-mounted screen, could be a platform for conference calls or even transform into an entertainment source after a long day of work.

Built-in Cafe 50% Open

100% Open

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Transpose adapts to global work cultures by providing flexibility and reductions in energy consumption. The standard expectation of laborers around the world involves going to an office and spending countless hours of drudgery, slogging through work. In 2099, work is exciting because Transpose breaks that routine. For example, the average American spends 12,653 hours commuting to and from work in their lifetime. With a deployable work pod like Transpose, time spent commuting to the site becomes an adventure and an opportunity to work on the move. Hovering above the Rockies treeline to coasting along Maui’s beachside, traveling to work is finally fun. Seeing that one can work the same number of hours while enjoying new sites and routines is unique to Transpose. Working from a Stack or in a TRAN(SPARK) offers many opportunities to collaborate and interact with other workers within your company and from around the world. Lastly, traditional office buildings use energy during all hours of the day, even when people are not present. Transpose changes our culture around wasteful energy consumption and allows us to enjoy our productivity in an environmentally friendly way.

TRANSPOSE TRANSPOSE verb 1. cause (two or more things) to change places with each other. 2. transfer to a different place or context. noun 1. a matrix obtained from a given matrix by interchanging each row and corresponding column.

Form begins with a 10’ x 10’ x10’ cube.

Boolean at the top corners of the cube renders triangle-like apertures that allow natural light to enter the office. These apertures are operatble supporting ventilation when the unit is in its closed position.

This pitch allows for water to drain properly as well as provides a slope for the addition of a ladder so that the roof structure can be accessed as a deck.

The 135 degree angled walls provide a variety of ergonomic seating arrangements, its inhabitant can lie, recline, or sit upright. Additionally, these angles create dual spaces that can be utilized for storage. Lastly, this grants the wall assembly to become operable in two parts, supporting the lower portion as the floor system, and the upper portion as a ceiling structure.

The final form.

ICAZA MILSON NTAL STUDIO SPRING 2023 AJKUS

transverse an approach to aggregation that connects furnishings and interiors conducive for different types of work

these environments are inspired by irregular lines and jagged geometries the architecture was developed through explorations of forms devised at the beginning of the semester (left icons above) Spring 2023 : Professor Matt Fajkus

TOW

N C REE K

site plan 1/8” = 1’-0”

plan: floor 0 1/16” = 1’-0”

FLOOR PLAN 0 1/16” = 1’

TRANSVERSE EAST AUSTIN

DANIEL ICAZA MILSON HORIZONTAL STUDIO SPRING 2023 MATT FAJKUS 4/20/2023

plan: floor 0 1/16” = 1’-0”

23 FLOOR PLAN 1 1/16” = 1’

TRANSVERSE EAST AUSTIN

DANIEL ICAZA MILSON HORIZONTAL STUDIO SPRING 2023 MATT FAJKUS

plan detail: 1/16” = 1’-0”

north & west elevations: 1/16” = 1’-0”

longitudinal & transverse sections: 1/16” = 1’-0”

massing & section model

render

turtle mtn a structure to frame the exterior Texas prairie’s and woodlands built for the Tonkawa people who recently reclaimed the land, which they originate from in Texas a quonset hut structure was repurposed

Fall 2023 : Professor Nichole Wiedemann 29

PRAIRIE PRAIRIE

TRAIL

WOODLAND

PRAIRIE

CR 264

TURTLE MTN PEAK

WOODLAND

SITE PLAN 1/64” = 1’

PLAN

1/8” = 1’

DANIEL ICAZA MILSON

TURTLEMTN PAVILION VERTICAL STUDIO FALL 2023 MILAM COUNTY

TURTLE MTN PAVILION MILAM COUNTY

NICHOLE WIEDEMANN 11/30/2023

DANIEL ICAZA MILSON VERTICAL STUDIO FALL 2023 NICHOLE WIEDEMANN 11/29/2023

TURTLE MTN WEST LONGITUDINAL SECTION PAVILION 1/8” = 1’

MILAM COUNTY

NORTH TRANSVERSE SECTION 1/8” = 1’

TURTLE MTN PAVILION MILAM COUNTY

DANIEL ICAZA MILSON VERTICAL STUDIO FALL 2023 NICHOLE WIEDEMANN 11/29/2023

5 - N VIEW AFTER TURN 1 - APPROACH

7 - EXTERIOR N VIEW ALONG PATH TO TURTLE MTN PEAK

2 - ENTRANCE & N VIEW CIRCULATION

8 - N VIEW TURTLE MTN PEAK

5 - N FACING VIEW

TURTLE MTN DIAGRAM: CIRCULATION & VIEWS PAVILION 1/8” = 1’

MILAM COUNTY

DANIEL ICAZA MILSON VERTICAL STUDIO FALL 2023 NICHOLE WIEDEMANN 11/29/2023

3 - OFFICE AND S VIEW CIRCULATION

4 - COMPRESSION LIBRARY & STUDY S VIEW

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