Allen Design Portfolio 2021

SAYLOR ALLEN Portfolio — 2021

— Major: Bachelor of Science Architecture

— Minor: Sustainability Studies

— A collection of works

1|Abstract

ABSTRACT. My first semester Freshman year, I lived across the dorm hall from a fellow student, Computer Scientist.

He was a math brain, incredibly intelligent, not to mention thoughtful and full of curiosity. But there were still plenty of things that puzzled him and was full of questions: about life, about the future, and about matters of our universe. Fore mostly things humanity thinks to be known truths.

I recall one instance in particular when we sat on the floor, he queried, “why is pi the number it is?” At first we looked at him with the strangest faces humanity has ever seen. But he asked again “why are their some constants that just ‘are the way they are’?”

From then on we would have frequent talks similar to this one. How such simple ideas under a curious lens can become the most complicated ones. Discussions that target the fundamentals of humanity.

My ideas are ever-changing, but if anyone, architects have the power to challenge questions like these. We may not know the ‘hows’, or ‘whys’, but nonetheless, can use them. We wield shapes, spaces, and journeys, and we always do it for the betterment of our world.

Anyone can create a box for people to exist in, but architecture is for those fascinated by turning a box into something more than a place to exist. Architecture has many roles in our world but I believe its primary purpose is to create beauty in material, form, and the living experience. I strive to keep these values sacred in my work and day to day life.

Personal Information|2

Saylor Allen

Landscape Construction Intern Margolis Co. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Architecture Anticipated: May 2023 College of Design, University of Minnesota: Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 3.76 GPA Dean’s List Student | Spring 2020 & Spring 2021

WORK EXPERIENCE Landscape Construction Intern Margolis Company | Roseville, MN | May 2021 – Current Maintenance Worker Yudof Hall | Minneapolis, MN | September 2019 – March 2020 Dairy Department Representative Hy-Vee | Madison, WI | July 2017 - August 2020

alle1322@umn.edu

(608) 698-5547

1206 Como Avenue SE, Minneapolis MN, 55414

3|Table of Contents

Highlighted Projects

Paper Narrative - Fall 2020

Examination - Fall 2019

Dance - Spring 2021

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Replica - Fall 2021

Users - Fall 2021

Other Works - Fall 2021

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5|Paper Narrative

Paper Narrative Studio 01: Project 01

Term: Fall 2020 Instructor: Aaron Ammoson Brief/Prompt: Tectonic Exploration

Paper Skeleton Construction|6

Repeating Movement Intuitive Motion Re-reading Iteration

7|Tectonic Model

Narrative|8

NARRATIVE

Approaching the shattered geometry of the “Museum on the Hill”, curiosity strikes the artist and intrigue draws one closer.

Ahead between volumes of sheer mass a curtain window beckons the artist down a ramp.

Art hangs from jagged geometry of the interior space. After reaching the bottom of the ramp, the windowed wall has changed from a simple source of light to a framed piece itself. The valley sits picturesque from this vantage.

After rounding the final corner, there is no more art, just the artist and a floating staircase to leading to the upper level.

The final destination is atop the massive volume that previously constructed the ceiling. The volumes that were just leaning overhead now shied away, freeing the mind of their presence. The shapes framing and defining the top floor projected out into the world, where the artists ideas would soon follow, projecting into the world.

9|Examination

Examination

ITDA: Experiential & Value Drawings

Term: Fall 2019 Instructor: John Greene Brief/Prompt: Observe an Architectural Space

Imaging Analysis|10

Photo by: Johannes Reponen

The Rapson Hall addition was constructed by Steven Holl in 2002. Its goal was to inversely compliment the preexisting building by abstracting its predictable geometry.

In this operation, one of the spaces created was a massive staircase in the East Wing of the building.

Photo by: Johannes Reponen

11|Sketch Exploration

The Staircase fascinates visitors with its unique stance on lighting conditions. Complete diffusion floods the space and simultaneously the railing form projects staggered shadows onto the flush concrete walls.

Final Analysis|12

13|Dance

Dance

Studio 02: Project 05

Term: Spring 2021 Instructor: Hans-Christian Karlberg Brief/Prompt: Site Specific Architecture

Intervention Work|14

The Site is performing, how can architecture expose this Phenomena?

By creating a series of blank canvases set at precise angles to interact with site conditions, A modern sundial is created, Enhancing the suns everchanging relationship with the site.

Sun shift through building gaps

Site Timelapse Imagery

Blank Canvases standing in the Mississippi River

15|Building Drawings

How can the Building exemplify the site’s art?

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Section A-B Perspective Sights

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Performance Area - 1 Rehearsal - 2 Costume & Set Design - 3 Auditorium - 4 Restaurant - 5 Eating Spaces - 6 Restroom - 7 Offices - 8 Entrances - 9

Storyboard|16

A simple story contains distinct 3 phases.

Exposition: Meet the characters, and the adventure begins, often in fiction this occurs with travel to a world unknown.

Rising Action: The plot intensifies, the characters start facing new challenges, and friction begins.

The Entry

Cityside Elevation

The Build Up

Section B-B

Climax: Peak of drama.

Where the reader, along with the characters realize that something has changed forever.

The Grand Display

Riverside Elevation

17|Replica

Replica

Studio 03: Project 03

Term: Fall 2021 Instructor: Gayla Lindt Brief/Prompt: 1”=64’ Site Model

Project Summary|18

This group Project consisted of 14 team members.

Saylor Allen* Jon Breuer* Elise Morris Tian Li Max Pearson Shane Herb Gabe Zaun

Mitchell Gauthier Nantida Thao Blake Czyzewski Thanh Duong Sam Carpenter Stephanie Dose Mathew Wians

* - Indicates Project Manager Status

We constructed a site model for classwide studio projects on this dynamic site.

The model rendered conditions the prospect park neighborhood.

Our bounds included far stretches on the site; from Witch Hat tower to the United Crushers.

Construction Process

Concerns 148 Buildings including:

Commercial Residential Mixed-use Industrial Monumental

2 Cities:

Minneapolis St. Paul

Transportation modes:

Light rail Car Bus Walking

Diverse neighborhoods and housing types: 70’ of elevation change Vegetation

19|Model Photos

Local Monument - Witch Hat Tower

Custom Massing - Large Buildings

Entourage - Vegetation

Local Monument - Grain Silos

Generalized Massing - Residences

Entourage - Transportation Methods

1” - 64’ Site Model|20

21|Users

Users

Studio 03: Project 05

Term: Fall 2021 Instructor: Gayla Lindt Brief/Prompt: Program Based Architecture

Project Summary|22

Manifesto Cheesemaking is an art that is becoming less and less observed with each passing year. The Malcolm Cheesemaking Station recognizes this and integrates people at an individual level into the cheesemaking process, dividing the potential users into three distinct groups.

The Passers use this architecture as purely a station: UMN students, and prospect park residents that are commuting via Transitway and Light rail facilities. However, as they cross the building they are exposed to the fascinating and intensive cheesemaking process.

Malcolm Station asks guests to linger, to stay in hopes that a spark will ignite their recognition for this art.

The Composers are UMN students and local talent. UMN majors in Food science, or CFANS learn and obtain necessary work experience in their designated fields. In the lab material from the St Paul cattle dairy is crafted into fresh cheddar for sampling and buying.

The Seekers come to learn. More intense sessions allow them to get a hands-on experience and meet composers. These people gather in the learning seminar for views of the lab, and even get a tour of the caves during the slow moments of the cheesemaking process.

23|Site Context

St. Paul (UMN) East Bank (UMN)

Minneapolis, MN

Site

University Ave.

Situated between the University of Minnesota Transit way and the bustling University Avenue in Minneapolis, MN. The Malcolm Cheesemaking Station filters people and goods through its separate floors while allowing interaction and exploration of the intricacies in the cheesemaking process.

UMN Transit way

St. Paul, MN

Collage Imagery|24

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25|Experience

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Plans|26

Floor 01: Passer & Seeker Path

Floor 00: Composer Lab

Floor 0C: Aging Caves

27|Photography

Photography & Painting Other Works

Photography is often “being in the right place at the right time”. It’s the art of capturing Ephemeral moments in the world surrounding us. Turning the mundane into the extraordinary.

A photo that tells a story is everything. Capturing a moment so fully that it is expanded to the whole scene, the whole place, and even the whole world.

It truly takes a keen eye to see it in the everyday.

Paint|28

I view painting as an experimental way of expressing myself. I also live to explore techniques and strategies of making patterns, using everyday objects as my brush.

The shapes remain curious to me to this day, I find joy in creating a painting and then looking over it to see what I find, and what I feel.

SAYLOR ALLEN

2021