Talor Young Portfolio 2023

Talor Young University of Oklahoma College of Architecture Cal Poly Pomona Architecture 2020-2023 selected works

Education

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 3801 West Temple Avenue Pomona, California Bachelor of Architecture 2020-2022

University of Oklahoma 660 Parrington Oval, Norman, OK Bachelor of Architecture 2022-2025

Awards

CPP Architecture Interim Exhibition Fall 2020, Fall 2021 Exhibition of the student’s final projects selected by studio professors

CPP Architecture Outstanding Student Award Fall 2020

GH2 Architects D5 Prize Nomination Fall 2022

University of Oklahoma Telesis Journal Fall 2023

Skills

Programs

Adobe Creative Suite

Rhinoceros 3d Revit Lumion Enscape Vray

Illustrator Photoshop InDesign

Work Experience Gh2 Architects

712 W Sheriden Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73102

Architectural Intern May- August 2023

Printmoz

42149 Zevo Dr, Temecula, CA 92590 2011-2021

On-Press Operations 2019-2021 Oversees the preparation of files for print and the successful operation of large format printers. Ensuring highquality prints on various materials to meet customer satisfaction.

• Large Format Printing • Operating EFI VUTEk LX3 Pro, EFI VUTEk H5 • Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Fiery XF Rip Software • Attention to detail

Logistics Coordinator 2017-2019 Facilitating shipping operations for nationwide and Canadian shipments. Includes scheduling deliveries and freights based on weight, box calculations, and pricing. Ensured the proper packing of boxes, timely arrival, and best pricing.

Experience with UPS WorldShip 2020

CNC Cutter Operator 2015-2017 • ICUT Software • Kongsberg C Series

Hot Air Welding Operator 2013-2015 Welded hems of large banners.

• Miller WeldMaster T300 Extreme Flex

Quality Control Specialist 2011-2013 Reviewed day-to-day customer orders to assure quality and customer satisfaction.

Contents

Multi - Family Housing Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Café

Lake Thunderbird, Norman

School of Architecture Cal Poly, Pomona

Museum of Japanese Contemporary Art Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

Museum + Library Cal Poly, Pomona

Multi - Family Housing Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The approach to the design is to subvert traditional house forms by using unexpected materials, unconventional shapes, and spatial arrangements that balance a shared living experience and a sense of autonomy. The design features six units split between the second and third floors while the ground floor has a lobby for the residents and a restaurant open to the public. The expressiveness of the design comes from the manipulation of the traditional gabled roof. This was originally done in response to the townhouse, making sure their units receive ample light throughout the day but has also created complex volumetric interior spaces. These volumetric spaces are both confining and expansive in response to certain program areas such as high ceilings in the living spaces and more compressed spaces in the kitchen, bedrooms, and bathrooms. The massing of the design has produced two secluded courtyards on the second floor and then a terrace and inverted dormer rooms on the third floor.

Dematerialization has taken place in areas that create lighting opportunities, dramatize the form flowing over the restaurant space, and disorientate one’s sense of structural integrity. The first area is in the restaurant where the space intersects the front gable form creating a clerestory in the dining area. The second is where the stairs that lead to the second floor undercut a glass wall in the lobby space. The exterior is comprised of metal paneling which folds over the gables and obscures the height of the floor plates. Brick is then added in areas that ground the project giving it a sense of sturdiness that aims to contextualize and embrace historic and conventional domestic types.

Café

Lake Thunderbird, Norman The café at Lake Thunderbird is intended to be unassuming, blending with the natural landscape and acting as a connection from the road to the water. The site was chosen because of a clearing in the trees that has allowed for a natural circulation route. Filling this void, the form of the building follows the existing tree line limiting the impact on the environment and becoming what could be seen as a canopy within the canopy. From the parking lot, the user ramps down into the earth enveloped by a water feature that overflows into the project. The user is first met with the multipurpose space which is shown here as an exhibition space filled with art and sculpture. Passing the multipurpose space, you are met with the café which attempts to capture southern views that are framed by clusters of elm trees. The user then arrives at the bar and outdoor performance space that juts out over the water and provides panoramic views of the lake and western sunset. The buildings feature three systems that aid in sustainability and energy efficiency.

The roof of the trellis is comprised of two layers of polycarbonate panels that enclose the primary and secondary beams. The overhang is such that it provides full solar coverage during the hottest months and maximum exposure during the coldest. Solar panels are also utilized and are carefully positioned above each building in place of that top layer of polycarbonate. This not only provides energy but doubles as extra shading to the buildings. Finally utilizing the stack effect, operable windows are placed on the top and bottom of each space, taking advantage of northern winds. While circulating throughout the landscape, the polycarbonate roofing of the trellis diffuses light creating an ambient atmosphere. The translucency of this trellis aids in blurring the line between the built and natural environment. Because of the way each piece of the program sits within the structure, the user is given two circulation paths that wrap around each element. Making their way to what seems to be the end of the path, the user is then enticed to loop back around and enjoy the site from a different perspective.

School of Architecture Cal Poly, Pomona

The proposed architecture school is central to the student services building, parking structure, and college of engineering. It also sits adjacent to an existing Japanese garden. The intention behind the plinth is to be unassuming and of the ground, highlighting the gardens inside and outside of the plinth and acting as a continuation of the current Japanese garden. To do this the plinth features three gardens that act as that continuation. The entrance from the Japanese garden is immediately met with a café and the plinth’s first garden. Passing the café we are met with a gallery and a ramp that acts as a through condition from the Japanese garden towards the parking structure beyond. The fabrication lab and the gallery have been intentionally put on display to exhibit the beginning and end of the architectural process. Another ramp has also been included that wraps around the gallery leading to a rooftop deck. This rooftop deck then flows into the second floor of the tower which acts as an extended gallery and optional review space. The massing of the tower has been designed using the same DNA as the plinth. The tower features three balconies that are delineated by legs that touch down accentuating the opening in the façade. Two of the balconies are set aside for architecture studios while one is for administration use. The façade is made of undulating translucent acrylic panels which from the outside appear semi-opaque during the day but at night are more translucent. During the day the focus of the project is the gardens but as the sun goes down the focus shifts inward as the interiors light up. The tower’s translucent façade lights up in a way to expose the silhouettes of architecture students thus becoming a beacon for the whole campus showing the hard work and dedication of architecture students working late into the night.

Museum of Japanese Contemporary Art Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

The museum of Japanese contemporary art is centered around the idea of carving out volumes to create space. The museum is located on east first street in Little Tokyo. The program of the library is separated so that the user must travel up or down from the ground level to reach an exhibit. The ground floor houses the bookstore and much of the service spaces. The second floor houses the lobby, auditorium, and the first exhibit. The remaining floors feature an outdoor café and multiple exhibition spaces ranging in size and height. As mentioned, the main idea of the design was to utilize a carving process to create space.In section, the carving process used to create the spaces in the museum resulted in volumes that seem to float above the lower levels. Then the ground floor was done by carving out circulation resulting in unique spaces and the exhibit spaces were done by carving spaces out that still preserved the flat walls needed for art. This process also created a connection between the bottom levels and the top levels which can be seen with the main staircase that runs the length of the museum. This stair acts as an exterior passage from the ground floor to the second floor.

This allows the public to pass through the museum without actually entering it. The café on the third floor has been opened to the outside by carving out a hole in the exterior wall turning what seems to be an interior space into an open exterior experience overlooking east first street. The upper spaces of the museum are delineated by small elevational changes that are connected by a series of long ramps. This is seen by a ramp connecting the café to the exhibit on the third floor and the ramp connecting the two exhibits on the fourth floor. On the second floor, the carving process created a ceiling that ramps up to create a sense of compression and expansion inside the lobby space and the ceiling on the third and fourth floors undulates and unveils creating skylights that highlight key moments in the museum. Finally, the fluid yet imperfect form as a result of the carving process is inspired by a traditional Japanese aesthetic called “WabiSabi.” “The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete” in nature.”

This acceptance and contemplation of imperfection and constant flux and impermanence of all things is particularly indispensable to Japanese art and culture.

Museum + Library Cal Poly Pomona

The main idea of the project was to design a library that is of the ground and grows up from the ground. The program of the library is separated between two levels where the more public spaces are on the ground level and the more private spaces are below. The ground floor features a lecture room, café, exhibition space, and restrooms while the subterranean level consists of offices, meeting rooms, lounge, stacks, archives, and storerooms. Entering the building can be done either from the ground or from below. The plaza is a meandering path that ramps down into the earth. The meandering path attempts to slow down traffic while giving the user a unique experience of being surrounded by water. This path creates a convenient access point into the main library space where It is then continued with a spiral-like maze, inspired by Sou Fujimotos Musashino library, which doubles as both wall and stacks. The spiral also features cutouts, which create shortcuts between the walls and turns what seems to be a complex maze into an open floor plan.

These shortcuts can be seen on the circulation diagram in black…

The spiral maze will then ultimately lead to a lounge where all forms of circulation, from both levels, meet. This central circulation point and its ability to create a blurred line between ground and the subterranean creates what can be seen as an infinite loop of circulation where the top level ultimately leads to the bottom and vice versa. The plaza is not the only way to enter the lower level of the library. The library has a complimentary ramp, as seen on the right side of the subterranean plan, that meanders down, just like the main plaza, into a sunken plaza. This sunken plaza not only serves as a secondary access point to the library but also serves as an outdoor gathering space immersed by nature. Just as the subterranean floor influences a certain circulation path, so does the ground by floor by utilizing voids in the floor which create double-height spaces between both levels. These voids are shaped in a curvilinear fashion as to resemble the fluid nature of the plaza. The form was generated by re-imagining building 7’s concrete brese soleil while at the same time contributing to the idea of a library growing up from the ground.

The roof undulates to emphasize the most prominent areas of the plan and the hanging facade peeks up just enough to expose public spaces such as the lobby and exhibit space. The concrete roof also serves as a shell that protects the public space, giving it a sense of prominence and creating its identity as the new addition to the site.

The form becomes one of the key components to emphasizing this idea of being of the ground and growing up from it. It curves up from the earth and it is only when you venture underneath that you can truly be enveloped by the ground.