DESIGN PORTFOLIO
Travis Hodges
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Peace Corps
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Crate & Barrel
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Undergraduate Architecture
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Salcoatitรกn, El Salvador
2007-2009
Chicago, IL 2006-2007
University of Michigan
2001-2005
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Peace Corps
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I began my Peace Corps service in May 2007 under the Municipal Development Program. For the following two years, I lived and worked in Salcoatitรกn, a town of 5,000 inhabitants located in the coffee-producing highlands of western El Salvador.
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The Journey It may seem like a reckless thing to do.
When I decided to devote two years to the Peace Corps, I knew that sacrifice and hardship awaited me. But I also knew that I had much to gain: a genuine understanding of the developing world, deeper connections with its people, and the promise of a meaningful experience. What I hadn’t considered was how much my community would become a part of me. Whether playing games with the local kids on my street, talking with families about their stories from the war, or bearing witness to life’s injustices, I always had something to learn from my neighbors. Though I describe my projects on the following pages, so much of my work in El Salvador took place in the streets and living rooms of Salcoatitán, the small town I’ll always consider my second hometown.
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The Peace Corps was founded by John F. Kennedy in 1961 at the University of Michigan. I passed the exact location on the steps of the student union countless times as an undergrad, not knowing that one day I would eventually serve as a volunteer myself.
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Tourism Development
Salcoatitรกn is one of five towns situated on a major tourist route, and the area has been cultivating tourism ever since the decline of the coffee-based regional economy. I helped form a local association for tourist development comprised of local business owners interested in growing a local economy around tourism. These community leaders planned events and festivals with the goal of promoting local identity. On behalf of the association, I presented a strategic tourism development plan to city hall, and succeeded in securing a designated tourist zone within town.
The mosaic park and town arches were initially proposed in the urban interventions proposal.
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Since the tourism committee restored the town fountain, it has become a symbol of local identity.
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These arches flank the highway that cuts through Salcoatitรกn, and establish the towns identity for the hundreds of cars that pass through each day. The design and construction was a collaborative process from start to finish.
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Ruta de las Flores C.E. Pestalozzi
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Elemento A: Arco de Entrada Descripción: Materiales: Dimensiones: Costo Estimado:
Elemento B: Parque de la Ceiba
Arco de bienvenido en la entrada del pueblo hierro, cemento, bloque, pintura, teja 12m (largo) x 1.5m (ancho) x 6m (altura) $5000
foto: Arco en el camino a Apaneca, construido de hierro, 5 metros de altura.
Techo de teja amarrada a la estructura de hierro
Estructura de bloque y hierro, repellado y pintado
Paso para peatones
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The urban improvement plan proposed a series of city beautification elements. The tourism committee sought funding from a government ministry, and succeeded in completing elements A and C. Element A is an entry arch on the road through town, welcoming visitors to Salcoatitán. Element C is a small park which we converted from an neglected water tank into an inviting public space covered in mosaic tile.
Ceiba Centenaria
Rotulo de bienvenido a Salcoatitan
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fotos: Terreno de la ceiba en la entrada del pueblo
Atractivo turístico con bancas y una caseta para atención al turista bancas, grama, flores y plantas ornamentales, caseta de turismo (madera de teca, barra de castilla, teja) 16m x 16m $500
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Churrasco de Don Rafa
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El Pan Nuestro panadería
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Elemento D: Mantenimiento del Paisaje Urbano
Elemento C: Parque La Cantarera Descripción: Materiales: Dimensiones: Costo Estimado:
Creación de un punto de encuento: apodo de plantas, siembra de flores, un mural o mosaico grama, plantas ornamentales, pintura, mosaico 16m x 8m $500
foto: Ejemplo de un mosaico para adornar la cantarera.
Descripción: Materiales: Dimensiones: Costo Estimado:
Campaña de limpieza, pintada de edificios y acercas, pintada de murales, siembra de plantas ornamentales pintura de aceite, pintura de oleo, pinceles Primeras tres cuadras $1000
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Community Organizing & Citizen Participation
Working with three rural communities, I organized and helped form local development associations of active citizens. I facilitated the legal process and fundraising necessary to incorporate the associations and register them nationally. These associations play an important role in bridging the gap between the municipal government and smaller communities and rural settlements.
A swearing-in ceremony for members of a local development association
13 Within City Hall, I modernized organizational procedures and provided technical support. In January of 2009, municipal elections were held in every town in El Salvador. In response, I organized and hosted a political forum and debate between the five mayoral candidates, and provided an opportunity for citizens to become involved in the democratic process. I also helped plan a town hall meeting in which the city administration reported on the state of municipal projects and finances.
My desk at City Hall placed me at the center of action in SalcoatitĂĄn. I was able to follow all municipal projects, and forged the relationships that would allow me to develop my own projects in the community.
The mayor speaks at the town’s first political debate
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Arts & Culture
As a member of the town’s cultural committee, I actively promoted all cultural events in Salcoatitån, especially those showcasing local traditions and indigenous heritage.
One such event was an artisan fair in which local people exhibited their handicrafts for national and international tourists.
I developed creative expression classes in rural schools that can’t afford to provide art education. For these classes I solicited art materials from international donors for children aged 6-12.
15 The art classes were designed to strengthen critical thinking skills and develop new abilities and interests. The students’ work was exhibited publicly during a local art festival.
In a project with older students, I facilitated a cultural exchange with students in the United States in which we created an interactive class letter (in Spanish and English) and posted a YouTube video.
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Environmental Sustainability
I worked with the City Hall to design a municipal waste management solution, which was a comprehensive plan including trash collection, separation, recycling, and composting. Though the plan has yet to be implemented, my work led to the creation of an environmental department at city hall.
Making water filters out of reused plastic bottles with sixth graders at a rural school. For these students, this is their final year of education.
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17 For a class assignment, these high-schoolers created a video report about the dangers of open landfills in their community.
I taught environmental education classes for elementary school children, stressing the value of sustainability and ecologically responsible lifestyles. An important element of that education was natural disaster preparedness, in which I trained students in identification and evacuation techniques for disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides.
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Other Projects Graphic design for logos, brochures, presentations, and promotional materials for various community groups SALC
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During my service, I provided architectural design services for local institutions and other Peace Corps volunteers throughout El Salvador Schematic plan for a proposed homeless shelter in the nearby city of Texistepeque baño 3 x 3
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dormitorio (familias) 7 x 5
Turicentro Shutecath Caluco, Sonsonate
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Landscaping design for a tourist center in Caluco
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In addition to these examples, I prepared construction documents for a new computer center in Ereguayquín, preliminary planning for a beach hotel near Mizata, and CDs of the historic colonial church in Salcoatitán and several other local buildings for preservation by a government institution. Plan and diagram created for the tourism association’s plant exposition and festival, held at the town’s K-12 school
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Festival de la Planta y la Flor Salcoatitán, Sonsonate
Complejo Educativo Juan Enriquez Pestalozzi
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Map of the municipality of Texistepeque. This composite, created from photos of old surveys, is the city’s first digital map Metapan
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Extensión Territorial: Area Rural: aprox. 178 km2 Area Urbana: aprox. 2 km2
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Crate & Barrel
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Crate & Barrel is an international retailer specializing in upmarket housewares and furniture. The company’s in-house architecture department designs all new stores which, at up to 40,000 sq. ft., showcase merchandise in a distinctively modern environment. The buildings themselves are characterized by continuous volumes and interior spaces, premium materials, abundant natural light, and dramatic architectural compositions. As an entry-level architect, I created architectural drawings, models, and renderings, assisted in project planning and coordination, created design presentations for corporate executives, and provided interior design and space planning.
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Cherry Hill Homestore Location:. . . . . . . . . . . Cherry Hill, NJ Start Date:. . . . . . . . . . . . . June 2006 Completion Date:. . . November 2007 Size: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,000 ft.2
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Edina Homestore Location: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edina, MN Start Date:. . . . . . . . September 2006 Completion Date:. . . . . . March 2008 Size: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,000 ft.2
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Undergraduate Architecture
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University of Michigan: B.S. Arch
Retail Reincarnated
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Winter 2005 Arch 442: Design Studio IV Professor Mireille Roddier
Material Studio
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Fall 2004 Arch 432: Design Studio III Professor Keith Mitnick
Digital Fabrication
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Fall 2004 Arch 571: Digital Fabrication Professor Karl Daubman
Detroit Automotive Archive Winter 2004 Arch 322: Design Studio II Professor Julie Larsen
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Live / Work Space
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Fall 2003 Arch 312: Design Studio I Professor Nondita Correa-Mehrotra
Color
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Winter 2003 Art 210: Color Professor Elaine Wilson
Visual Studies
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Fall 2002 Arch 218: Visual Studies Professor Anselmo Canfora
Hand Drawings Winter 2002 Arch 201: Design Basics Professor Melissa Harris
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Retail Reincarnated Winter 2005 Design Studio III Professor Mireille Roddier At the University of Michigan, the final undergraduate studio is reserved for the Raoul Wallenberg Competition. In honor of the exceptional World War II humanitarian, the Wallenberg studio examines the potential for compassion and humanity in architecture.
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Driven to improve an undesirable condition, I turned to a common source of suburban disappointment: the dead mall. Vacant retail centers are a blight to any community, becoming slummish icons of economic failure. I chose to map and document the current condition of the Livonia Mall, near Detroit, as a case study. I found that the Livonia Mall maintained an infrastructure for a large active population that is no longer present. Using methods of resistance and disruption to affect a shift in consciousness, this project transforms the dying Livonia mall into a vibrant, diverse forum for public engagement and interaction.
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Non-retail Tenants: A. United States Post Office B. Livonia Community Theatre C. Wayne County Medical Center D. Wayne County Therapeutic Center E. Conumer Research Center F. Michigan Secretary of State
*Suffering retail: Stores showing outward signs of financial ruin, especially lack of maintenance. Symptoms include understocked shelves, desperate sale offers, and closings during peak shopping hours. Estimated life expectancy = less than five years.
33 By mapping the site and its surroundings, it became clear that retail has become a redundant and unsustainable program for the Livonia Mall. In a playful, yet well-considered twist of program, I proposed transforming the mall into a monastery.
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The building typology of the suburban mall is isolated and introspective. So too is that of the monastery. Since capitalism has exhausted the mall’s usefulness for its own purposes, the building is now available for its new tenants. Corridors once walked by consumers, hands full with shopping bags, will now be walked by monks and nuns, minds full with contemplations of a more meaningful nature. Rather than drawing local shoppers to its stores, the monastery will radiate karma and goodwill to the community.
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35 With the studio’s emphasis on resistance as a means of bringing change, I proposed a subversive series of phases. In each phase, subtle changes are made to facilitate the site’s transformation from a mall into a public multi-denominational monastery and retreat center.
Some of these changes include the introduction of a yoga studio, a public library, and a new age bookstore. Weeds and grasses begin to dominate the vast parking lot, and eventually the landscape is cultivated and gardened extensively. Courtyards and corridors open the dark mall to the sky. Ultimately, Mervyn’s, Sears, and Value City become cathedral, mosque, and synagogue.
This image demonstrates the subtle infiltration, transforming under-used commercial property into a sustainable public oasis for contemplation and community engagement.
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These photos describe the gradual transformation from mall to monastery. The replacement of vacant strorefronts with non-retail program goes almost unnoticed. In this way, the new program is a subversion of the existing building.
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A plan of the completely transformed monastery
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noviciate
hostel clinic
zen rock garden
winery food vendors
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agricultural equipment kitchen shipping & receiving
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38 Once the transformation is complete, the former mall continues to increase its role in the community. Open to all wisdom traditions, and offering various services to the public, the center regains the prominence it had before its first stores went out of business. In contrast to the mall typology, however, the new program is completely sustainable.
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Material Studio Design Studio III
Fall 2004 Professor Keith Mitnick
Charged with investigating a marginal spatial condition, I became interested in packaging design and the functionality of margins of air, particularly in bubble wrap. In exploring these material characteristics, I became increasingly interested in possible architectural applications of functional membranes and voids. The
bubble wrap explorations translated into an investigation of volumes suspended within folds of an enveloping surface.
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Beginning to think about inhabitation of these spaces, I explored larger scales, looking at how one might experience moving in and out of fluid volumes and passing through membranes of varying permeabilities.
43 At building scale, I interpreted each volume as a seperate program, determined by its form and location. Depending on the membrane surrounding each volume, the program within is either strictly contained or may permeate beyond the volume itself.
44 The studio culminated in the design for a public institution for an infill site on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The building includes a school, museum library, health club, housing, auditorium, restaurant, and retail.
An early section diagram conveys the conceptual idea behind the building.
45 The structure itself folds around each programmed volume, as if formed around inflating pockets of air.
The ground floor plan reflects the initial concept of fluid volumes surrounded by permeable membranes.
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46 In creating a structural system that retains the integrity of the original ideas of volumes and surfaces, I proposed a structure of flat concrete piers which bend and fold to envelop the programmed spaces. Other membranes, such as screens, meshes, and curtain walls, envelop the spaces within. Expressing this novel construction method in the building model required an unconventional means of fabrication (result: wax-impregnated phone book strips).
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48 Floor plans 1-15. The solid black elements are concrete piers, which bend to become beams on higher floors. right: These sections demonstrate the functionality of surface to facilitate or inhibit the mixing of programs. below:
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Digital Fabrication Digital Fabrication
Fall 2004
Prof. Karl Daubman
This course aimed to familiarize students with new technologies that apply to architectural fabrication, with emphasis on computer-aided manufacturing.
The final project for the course was a shading device for a full-length window. Utilizing digital fabrication techniques, our group began a surface derived from a digital file [1]. We replicated the surface by devising an array of point-held panels [2] mounted on an MDF structure that we fabricated with a CNC router [4]. The panels were held by pipes laser-cut to specification, threaded on steel nuts [8].
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52 Though designed with CAD/CAM software, the stucture components consist of standard hardware and materials (MDF, threaded rods and nuts, and chipboard). collaborators:
Mark Mangapora, Carl Cornilsen, & Kristen Hogue
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Automotive Archive Winter 2004 Design Studio II Professor Julie Larsen This semester-long building project proposed an International Automotive Archive for downtown Detroit. The building design makes the most of natural light on the site, employing carved spaces to direct and diffuse the light where necessary. In order to convey the carved qualities of the concrete, 1/8 scale models of significant moments were cast, resulting in expressive volumes which communicate the effects of light and shadow.
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Second Floor Plan
Transverse Sections
Ground Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
Basement Plan
Third Floor Plan
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Live/Work Space
Fall 2003
Design Studio I Professor Nondita Correa-Mehrotra
The first assignment began as a translation of a painting (Matisse’s The Dancers ) into three dimensions using layered museum-board as a medium. The result was an attempt to capture the dynamic gestures inherent in the painting. An element from the preceding project was cast in plaster, which in turn generated a site and program. The building, which maintains the sweeping planes and billowing gestures of the plaster form, serves as a Laboratory/Library. The adjacent forest is scattered with large fragments of this same form, weathered to inspire a sense of earthy mystery. The site accommodates the rigorous pursuit of knowledge within the building, and pensive meditation on the adjoining grounds.
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64 The final assignment called for a live/work studio for a graphic designer at 220 Liberty St. in Ann Arbor. An original massing model revealed an intriguing confusion between the two-dimensional surfaces and the three-dimensional volumes. This discrepancy is ever-present in graphic design, where all work is presented on flat media. With this concept in mind, I paid particular attention to the orientation of the workshop, the residence, and the public interface. Circulation and the threshold between each program became opportunities to explore this play between surface and volume.
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Color Studies Color
Winter 2003 Professor Elaine Wilson
This course, which explores color as a visual phenomenon, emphasized a comprehensive understanding of color theory.
original by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Narni: the Ponte Agosto over the Nera
This study attempts to analyze Corot’s use of color by using found papers and magazines.
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An exercise in acheiving contrasting effect with the same color pallette.
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68 Visual Studies Fall 2002 Visual Studies Professor Anselmo Canfora
69 Ceramics Independant Studies
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Hand Drawings Winter 2002 Design Basics Professor Melissa Harris
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Travis Hodges
t.hodges@mac.com