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TABLEOFCONTENTS RESUME/BIO STUDIO
Brighams Boutique Bags Hydrotech 5th ELEMENT
Professional Trull st. YBB
TYLLERBLACKBURN 26 LEYLAND STREET BOSTON MA 02125
412.608.7525
T.BLACKBURN1993@GMAIL.COM
EXPERIENCE
Leadership and Service
Youth Build Boston, Boston MA. - Lead Designer January 2017 - August 2017 • Creating lesson plans • Educating Youth • Generating designs and drawings for residential projects
Design Communications LTD, Boston MA. - Fabricator July 2016 - December 2016 • Very independent work enviroment • Expected to learn and execute quickly • Ability to be flexible with assignment
Hoyt Art Center, Pittsburgh PA. - Assistant Instructor Febuary 2015 - June 2015 • Responsible for executing lesson plans • Responsible for childrens saftey and education • Expected to maintain a positive attitude
Freelance Landscaping, Pittsburgh PA. - Landscaper January 2010 - Present • Excellent grasp of structural systems • Knowledge of various building techniques • Valuble teamwork skills
EDUCATION
The Boston Architectural College, Boston MA. - Masters of Architecture Candidate August 2015 - May 2018
Slippery Rock University, Pittsburgh PA. - Bachelors of Art (Art) September 2011 - May 2015
Osha 10 Certification, Boston MA. - Certified May 2017
Personal Skills • Accomplished interpersonal skills • Strong critical thinking • Excellent communication Skills • Hard worker/self motivated • Very patient • Eager learner • Great management/ coordination skills
Men of Distinction, Slippery Rock University - Member • Contribute to upholding values such as accountability, distinction, strength, and humility. • Help organize events • Support and attend events and meetings. Black Action Society, Slippery Rock University - Member • Support events that promote unity, multiculturalisim, positive learning, and work ethic. • Attend events and meetings concerning the status of black students on campus. NAACP, Slippery Rock University Treasurer and Vice President • Apply problem solving during major events. • Plan and budget events under tight timelines. • Make smart decisions on behalf of a group AIAS, Boston Architectural College - Member • Attend meetings and give input on issues relevant to the architectural world. • Bring minority viewpoints/issues to the forefront of disscussion • Attend and support events coordinated by AIAS. Lecture Series Committee, Boston Architectural College Member • Attend meetings and weigh in on lecturer selections. • Reach out to speakers and write invitations to the speakers. • Being professional in communication.
Traditional Skills • Techinical drafting
Software Skills • Adobe Creative Suite
• Perspective drawing
• AutoCad
• Diagraming
• SketchUP
• Communicative sketching
• Rhinoceros
My name is Tyller Blackburn I am a 24 year old designer from Pittsburgh PA. I moved to Boston in 2015 to study architecture at the Boston Architectural College. I previously graduated from Slippery Rock University with a bachelor’s of art in Art. While at Slippery Rock I specialized in sculpture which had a focus on building things. I used this to support my interest in architecture. Throughout my learning process I have realized that I have a strong interest in residential architecture. Although I have no problem with large scale commercial design and large scale private projects, my goal is to engage in urban communities as directly as possible. To me the most important thing about architecture is the people that use it. I would rather have a building that is able to be useful to a community for centuries than any prize or accolade. I have also been intrigued by sustainability and the idea that a building can be “smart� and adaptable. In my opinion the perfect design for me would be sustainable residential architecture. I have learned a lot while here in Boston and i plan to keep excelling in my studies to accomplish my goals.
Site Map
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BRIGHAMS BOUTIQUE BAGS site and the Circle is important. Another thing that
This conceptual project is located across from The Stop and Shop parking lot at Brighams Circle. The site is currently a paid parking lot that is gated and sits on a very steep incline.the incline gives the site a few very unique qualities. One of those qualities is the fact that it overlooks all of the action that goes on in Brighams Circle. The Circle gets a lot of traffic and attention so the visual connection between the
proved to be very important to the process of my design is the tectonics of the surrounding buildings. The goal of the studio was to learn the importance of tectonics and how to create a tectonic language that reflects your design desicions and the fabric of the context the project is in.
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Tectonics is the poetry in the way materials interact with each other as well as the way the stuctural system and the chosen materials work together to support the building. For me grasping this was challenging because previously I had only thought of design as a formal practice. Understanding how design and tectonics influence each other and even how formal design can express itself in the tectonics
of a bulding improved my design immensly.
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I was tasked with creating a maker space on the site. The type of maker was up to me and I decided to create a boutique custom backpack shop. The reason I decided to create a backpack maker space is becuase I think backpack design and architecture are similar in the idea that we both design creative compartments for different things. Architects creat compartments for people whereas
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backpack designers create compartments for a wide assortment of supplies. After grasping how tectonics work, I was able to create my own system based on my design. My design began as an exercise where I cut a bunch of triangles and simply put them together any way that they fit. Allowing for almost autonomus design.
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As I continued to iterate my design I kept adding more rules to the process and tweak the spaces as neccesarry. This gave birth to a very unconventional form. Tectonically I designed this building using a 3 pronged wall system that acomplishes the job of structure, form, and program seemlessly througout the building. One thing I took from the fabric of brighams circle was the layering of wally systems
that almost every building seemed to be using. I wanted to incoperate that somehow so there is a layer for every sort of program in my design.
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SUN DIAGRAM
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COLLABORATION/ISOLATION SPACE VISABILITY AND PRIVACY
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The different wall assemblies differ in permeability. By permeability I am refering to sun, vision, and sound. The level of permeability and level change of each space work together to provide a unique experience for every level of privacy/intimacy.
In order to realize both the form and the wall assmblies I worked a lot in model form. It was very helpful for me to see these things physically come together for me to fully grasp my design. Because of how complex things eventually became clarity was very important.
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AXON MATERIAL DIAGRAM
HYDROTECH
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HYDROTECH This conceptual project is located across from Wonderland Station in Revere MA. Unlike my other projects this was a masterplanning project. The site is currently a big parking lot and a struggling salt marsh. I decided to propose a desalination plant on the site because the site is bordered by the Mass. Bay and the salt marsh. There is a lot of water around and I saw an opportunity to use that water
more effectively. The criteria for this project was that I had to have some connection to the water and the train station. The way I did this was by program and by circulation. The fact that it is desal plant and the fact that I am adding more water to the site makes a very strong connection to the water and the way that I designed the circulation connects it to the station.
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One of the challenges of this project was being very intentional about my design moves. This was because one of the goals was to disturb the marsh as little as possible, and if I had to do something drastic I needed a very strong reason why. This became a road block for me but I was able to design a good comprimise that didnt affect the marsh too much but gave me the space Ineeded in my design.
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KEY Desalination Plant 1--------- Water Lift Pump Station 2--------- Screen and Feed Pump Station 3-5-------DMPF and Backwash Treatment 6----------Reverse Osmosis Building 7-9-------Chemical Buildings 10-15----Solid Treatment Station 16-18----Potabilisation Sytem 19-20----Holding Tanks
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Creating a masterplan was extremely challenging for me because I had never worked on a scale this big. The idea of carrying a concept through a design over a entire region was mindboggling to me. Throughout the process I developed a conceptual idea that was strong enough to carry through the project.
The overarching concept was this idea of “spine�. The idea that there was a origination line through the site from which everything else builds off of. The spine becomes apparent in two ways the first being the very clear water spine that becomes the spine for the desal buildings. The second spine is the circulation spine that cuts through the site.
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The steps I used to create the masterplan was very simple. The process just consisted of merging existing site conditions with desired conditions. Everything boils down to 6 steps and these steps all build off of each other you cant move on to the next step until the one before it is complete. The 3 concepts that were important were community, education, and desalinaion.
STEP 1 - Chosing the flow of water based on water sources. STEP 2 - chosing where the desal building would be based on the order of processes. STEP 3 - Chosing the shape of the buildings STEP 4 - Choosing where hills and valleys will be. STEP 5 - Choosing the topography. STEP 6 - Chosing the spines.
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Commercial - The Commercial Buildings are the front of the site they are the buildings that you see from the street that gets the most traffic.They are menat to be monolithic buildings to create a very opaque boundary and visual barrier creating privacy for the residential spaces behind it.
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Residential - This typology was meant to be elevated to prevent flooding and create a sense of community. These ideas also influenced the arrangement of the residential buildings on the site.
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Educational - These buildings are where the plant workers and the residents interact. The idea is that the plant workers use these buildings to hold community events and teach the residents about healthy ecosystems and hydrology.
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Desalination - These buildings are used for the plant itself. The primary goal of these buildings is to house the machines that clean the water.
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The sections were a pivitol point for me because they helpled me design in layers. I realized that the sequence of experience happens in layers not just an abrupt building. this also helped me strengthen the relationship of the typologies to each other. Another relationship that the sections helped me stregthen was the buildings relationship with the water, and the spine of circulation.
The section drawings also helped me see the role that vegitation can play in design. Vegitation can be a buffer or a threshold as well as a boundary. Designing in section became the main vehicle for my design.
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Ultimately I think my total design does a good job of communicating community, education, and desalination. I also think I did a great job of bringing those three concepts together on one site and allowing my concept of spine to organize them.
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The site for this studio is located in Medellin Colombia. The site sits on a very busy street right accross the street from the public library and a public park called Plaza De Cisineros which means Plaza of the Lights. The site is rich with culture and people. The goal of the class was to design a performing arts school based on a song that we chose in the beginning of the semester. The song I selected was “I Used to Love H.E.R. by Common on his 1994 Resurection album.
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Recently there have been designers and architects drawing a connection between hip hop and architecture. Sekou Cooke a professor at Syracuse University sees architecture as a part of hip hop culture itself. There are 4 aspects to hip hop, we in the culture call them elements/ pillars. Emceeing, Graffiti, Djing, Breaking. Those are the 4 elements of hip hop and Sekou Cooke would argue that architecture is the 5th element that ties the other 4 together. This philosiphy along with the history of hip hop in columbia were the driving factors in my project.
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In my plans I wanted to keep 4 distinct areas while keeping the corridoor spaces as the membrane in between. It was very important to me to create these coves of spaces that sort of act as spaces within spaces they take on their own character. After the review It was brought to my attention that this idea was communicated clearly on the ground floor but the concept gets lost as you go to the upper floors. I think that I was still able to prgramatically make the plans work to build a really good product.
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In my sections I tried to carry the concept communicated in my plans these sections allowed me to learn the importance of context and public vs. private space. In the sections you can see that the entire bottom floor is entirely open This was meant to speak to the architecture around the site already. In medellin colombia there is a culture of “under building spaces” these spaces are created by just elevating the building and allowing the bottom floor to be open space.
Finally the wall section taught me the importance of knowing how things actually come together on a detail level. I came to the conclusion that if I decide that I need to use a specific architectural technique then I need to know how it works. This section allowed me to explore the assembly of my walls and really see what was required to actually realise what I had decided to do. This ultimately informed my plans because it allowed me to understand how thick my walls really needed to be.
Very honestly this was a rough studio for me because I think the size of the building disoriented me and I never really got my bearings the way I wanted to. However I think the way I concluded the project was good enough and I think that I was able to adequetly display all of the skills i aquired thoroughout the semester.