Using a unit module and structural organization to create housing in Charleston, South Carolina.
An analysis of the Jardins de María Matilde Almendros in Barcelona, Spain.
A health and wellness center interested in the room, the building, the city, and how these interests imapct occupants.
Illuminating the power of hands-on creation and illustrating the depth of imagination and reality.
Destroying conventional boundaries of representation and developing an individual style.
“Life changing moments seem minor in pictures.”
Frames For Life
Studio ARCH 3016
Location Michael Stradley Charleston, South Carolina
Professor(s)
Student(s) Michael Chick
Year
Description Fall 2024
The public spaces near Market St. are primarily businesses. In order to create a space that fosters true congregation and gives back to the city of Charleston, we look to our frames for life, or our unit modules, to push this concept.
The modules are given shared space around a punctured skylight alongside three structural walls. These structural walls act as the building’s organizing elements. Program is attached to these walls, altering their perceived thickness and creating inhabitable poche.
The units are arranged across a double loaded corridor. The shared spaces of the units expand and contract the circulation spine, furthering the concept of congregation. To give back to the city of Charleston, the structure of the buildings lifts it up to pull stalls underneath the building from the adjacent market.
Unit A Unit B
Unit C Unit D
Study model exploring unit forms and arrangement.
Study model as a tool for understanding pedestrian entrances and building views to context.
Title
Jardins de Maria Matilde Almendros
Studio ARCH 3017
Barcelona, Spain
Location Mark Cottle, Núria Arredondo, Arnau Pascual
Professor(s)
Student(s) Michael Chick, Nour Khalifa, Joey Pressel
Year
Description Summer 2024
The Jardins de María Matilde Almendros is a garden located off of Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain celebrating the accomplished radio presenter and actress. Over time, the site has been developed into what it is today through the embrace of a historical wall that administers a diagonal through the garden. This diagonal wall connects the new city of Barcelona to the old and grants the jardín its defining characteristic.
Flanking the entrance of the site, this building towers over inhabitants and casts a strong shadow in the latter half of the day.
Playground & dog park within the interior of the Jardins de Maria Matilde Almendros.
Light Study
Title
Society of Rooms
Studio ARCH 3017
Barcelona, Spain
Location Mark Cottle, Núria Arredondo, Arnau Pascual
Professor(s)
Student(s) Michael Chick
Year
Description Summer 2024
This Society of Rooms is created by a simple kit of parts: the vertical, the horizontal, and the oblique. The vertical elements formulate the structure and elevate the building stories above the sidewalk. The horizontal elements act as floor plates to support the programmatic elements. And the oblique elements create the building’s circulation, seating, and garden spaces.
A Society of Rooms is about experience. This built-body aims to create integral moments of experience in order for an occupant to foster better physical and social health and better contribute to the society they find themselves in.
Parti sketch depicting the oblique and horizontal elements of the initial scheme.
Sectional building sketch combining the vertical, horizontal, and oblique elements in conjunction with the program.
Ground Floor & 1st Floor
B1
Title
Model Making
Location
Student(s)
Year
Description
Atlanta, Georgia
Michael Chick
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
Every model created is a visual means of communicating design intent. Every piece demonstrates craftsmanship, spatial attitudes, and imaginative translation. We work in a trade that has the privilege of illuminating the power of hands-on creation and illustrating the depth of imagination and reality. Architects are communicators.
Performing Arts High School, Michael Chick, 2023
Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, Michael Chick, 2023
Title
Media & Modeling
Classes Media & Modeling I and Media & Modeling II
Professor(s) Bryce Truitt & Yeinn Oh
Student(s) Michael Chick
Year
Description Spring 2023 - Fall 2023
Experimenting and taking risks is at the core of Media and Modeling. Students are not only encouraged, but are actively urged to step outside conventional boundaries. This pedagogy fosters an environment where innovation and individual expression thrive. At the core of this philosophy is the belief that the field of architecture is not only about mastering established techniques but also about pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
Sectional Assemblage, Michael Chick, 2024
Simulation: Web , Michael Chick, 2023
Collage 01, Michael Chick, 2023
Collage 02, Michael Chick, 2023
Sitzmark Tavern & BBQ Construction
Michael Chick, 2024
Title
Photography
Student(s) Michael Chick
Year
Description 2016-2024
Photography was the first creative medium I gravitated towards. My venture into the world of design began in my ninth grade photography class. We were given a ‘Photographic Scavenger Hunt,’ consisting of various topics. Water, vintage, nature, poverty, and love, to name a few.
Though never explicitly explained, I believe the goal of the exercise was to train my eye to see more abstract concepts in what I was photographing. This simple exercise marked the beginning of my photographic journey as well as my first steps into design.
