Maya Angela Simms Graphic Design Portfolio

Maya Angela Simms B.Arch 2024 Portfolio

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Table of Contents Tesserae Atelier Reconstructing Roots What is this thing?

Promotional materials Ouroboric Matter Selected Prints

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Tesserae Atelier a visiting artist studio in Selinunte, Sicily

In this working and learning community, artists come to learn the practice of mosaic

making to produce their own contemporary art. The program includes exhibition

and gallery space, where artists are able to showcase their work as a fusion of ancient and contemporary art with the community.

There is a distinction between 3 materials throughout the design process: ground, mosaic surfaces, and non-mosaic surfaces. These distinctions create an opportunity for exploring the interaction between large masses, surface treatment, and ground excavations.

It is intended for the mosaics to evolve and populate the site beyond the idea of the

architect’s intervention as artists continue to live in Tesserae Atelier. By putting the true “final” design of the site in the hands of the visiting artists and the community within Selinunte, the hope is that the design becomes a beacon of collaboration and growth that can be expanded upon for decades.

This project was done in collaboration with Jeanelle Cho and Sarah Fellingham.

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Final Model

plaster cast, paper mache, foam core, 3D print

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Site Plan (top left), Plan (top right), Site Section (bottom) Rhino,

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Final Model and Rendering Composite (left)

Studio Desk Photogrammetry Scans (above) The real studio desks of students in Syracuse Architecture

were scanned using photogrammetry and imported into the final render in order to better imagine what the studio space could be like in the peak of an artist’s visit.

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Studio Render

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Reconstructing Roots memorializing a community left behind

Edgemere is a town on the Rockaway Peninsula at the very edge of New York City.

The current projection for rising sea levels means that the landfill in Edgemere will be one of the few pieces of land on the peninsula to survive the effects of climate change in 100 years.

This location offers the opportunity to design for the local population and to utilize renewable energy. Gas retraction systems can create energy in the present from

the methane buildup already within the landfill, and biogas digestors will give future waste the opportunity to be made into energy as well. Reconstructing Roots is

an urban design project that redesigns the empty landfill to include a renewable energy plant, a public park with viewing platforms, and a memorial to the lost community.

It must be acknowledged that this project cannot fix the effects of climate change

alone; the homes of many will be underwater in 100 years unless greater change is made. Most importantly, Reconstructing Roots tells a story of Edgemere so that people can remember what once was and work for a better future.

This project was done in collaboration with Lauren Li and Lillian Zhao.

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The landfill, having been previously declared a Superfund site, will be safe to build on in 2021

+3ft of water

+6ft of water

+10ft of water

Map of Edgemere

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Collaborative collages (above) and section diagrams over time (right) Hand Drawings, Photoshop

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Gas Retraction

Biogas Converters

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The Memorial

Edgemere +10 feet of water

current sea level

Site Section (top) and close-ups (bottom) Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Hand Drawings

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1. the present-day entrance

Site Plan (left) and Key Views (right) Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Hand Drawings

2. a view of New York City 3. the park built up 4. the park on the ground

5. the future ferry entrance

6. the memorial for Edgemere is transformed in a lifetime

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What is this thing? a book about a found object

Thisoddlyshapedbookwrapsaroundastrange,unnaturalform.Unwrappingthebook

proves an additional challenge due to the mysterious 10 pound weight in the center.

Throughoutthebook,thereaderlearnswhatthiscentral“thing”wasmadefor,howitwas made, and the larger implications of said making process.

What is this thing? answers the titular question in two ways that, hopefully, forces the reader to reconsider the literally heavy burden that comes with opening this book in a new way.

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Promotional Material work from my time as NOMAS Communications Chair

For two years, I was one of the Communications Chairs of Syracuse University’s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students. I created several promotional posters for NOMAS events and opportunities to be posted digitally on Instagram and physically throughout the school. The designs had to

follow some design guidelines to fit within the Syracuse NOMAS brand, but the elements and geometries could be reorganized however I wished.

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NOMAS Posts

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

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Ouroboric Matter

exhibiting the material properties of a flax-chitosan composite The project started with a question: How can flax become architecture?

Weaimedtocreateaflaxsystemthathighlightedthepropertiesofthematerialusingraw flaxfibersofdifferentlengthsasourstartingpoint.Weoptedtomakeflaxpaperbyhandas

thevehicleforform.Thevisualqualitiesoftheflaxpaperwereespeciallyintriguing,andthe display of such qualities informed our trajectory in design.

Usingchitosan,achemicalsubstancederivedfromtheshellsofshellfish,achitosansolution

wasmadebydissolvingchitosanpowderinalow-concentrationacidicsolution.Thissolution waspouredontothepaperanddried.Asthesolutionevaporated,thechitosanwasleftbehind

andcreatedatransparentplastic-likefilmoverthefibers,strengtheningthesheetofpaper.

This strengthening was then used to fold and form the 2D sheet into a 3D arch.

Priorresearchhasestablishedthatthechitosansolutioncanbewashedoffoftheflaxfibers.

Oncethisprocessoccurs,theflaxcanberepurposedintomakinganewpaperstructure,orit

canbeusedascomposttogrownewflax.Eitherway,thematerialinthenextcyclerelieson the destruction of the old one.

ThisprojectwasdoneincollaborationwithSebastianSchwarz,buttheworkdisplayedhere is my own.

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Study Models Folding the Flax Paper without Chitosan (top) and with Chitosan (bottom) Handmade Flax Paper, Chitosan Solution

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Process and Life-Cycle

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Hand Drawings, Adobe InDesign

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Selected Prints

Sardines Remember

Shrubris (Shrimp Hu

Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Design: Hand sketch,

Medium: Screenprint, 12”x12”

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Medium: Linocut Print

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Interrupted

Adobe Illustrator

Design: Adobe Photoshop, Hand sketch

t, 7”x10”

Medium: Copper Plate Engraving, 6”x9”

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Maya Angela Simms mayaangela2052@gmail.com

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