Taylor Bond - Portfolio 2023

Taylor Bond

Age: 26

From: Jamestown, NY

Education: Third year Bachelor’s of Architecture - University of Utah

GPA: 3.8

Work Experience: Solar Designer using AutoCAD and SketchUp

Other hobbies and work: Commmissioned furniture and interior design

Phone: (716)720-0877

Email: tbond13@gmail.com

Address: 163 West 200 South APT 209, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Software and Other Skills:

ABOUT/

• Revit

• AutoCAD

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe INdesign

• Adobe Photoshop

• Rhino / Grasshopper

• Sketchup

• Enscape Rendering

• Model makeing

• Welding

• Wood work

• Concrete casting

How can we make waste management entertaining?

Take precedent from science museums: disguise education as fun and then exit through the “gift shop” (bodega/food). By taking this idea and using both visual and physical types of entertainment, I’ve created a space that is both enticing and exciting, while still being educational and functional.

Making waste mitigation a visual language. After some research I found that the EPA lists composting, recycling, and source reduction as the three best ways to reduce waste. I used these to divide and program the space into two “tracks” that process waste, and one center bodega that uses the sites unique surroundings to reduce energy usage.

Site Plan 1”=64’

Deep Programming Stories Accompanied by Exploded Isometrics. I specifically designed the space to function as an experience, something where you walk the intended direction without much effort or realization, just one big circulation path of education disguised as activity and shopping. I’ve created these deep programming stories to help give a sense of what the space would function like and how this experience could change for different users.

Measuring the Nearness of our Doom - A Dark Take on the Pavilion. In Salt Lake City, we have dealt with water issues for decades. In recent years this has become more apparent, and worries have begun to circulate. One of the largest worries is the level of the Great Salt Lake, due to the toxic chemical that exist in the sediment on the bottom, including arsenic. My pavilion is a representation of that fear, holding back the water to expose this sediment. Furthermore, the pavilion itself moves along the track, acting as a measuring tool of the adverse relationship between water level and air quality.

Deteriorating Materials and Their Effect on Design

The goal of this project was to study both form and material. I was tasked with developing a form from paper, then recreate this form using two different materials. I took this a step further and used these forms and materials to study this idea: that we can account for weathering and destruction and allow it to enhance our forms. I let the steel rust, and then estimated what kind of damage the planes would inflict on the cube and struck the pieces accordingly, breaking them in semi-calculated ways.

2020 spring semester /05

Technical Drawing: Lovell Beach House

DOCUMENTING RUDOLPH SCHINDLER’S LOVELL BEACH HOUSE

Using a combination of both Auto CAD and Rhinoceros, I recreated technical drawings as well as a 3D model of R.M. Schindler’s Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach, CA. This project was done for a drawing and communications course and was my first introduction to both of these softwares.

2021 spring semester

Furniture Study: the recliner

Body Ergonomics Translated into Cardboard.

By measuring our own bodies and the angles of our comfort, my partner, Rebecca Birch, and I were able to gather enough information and research to redevelop the traditional recliner. The idea of a recliner is to have two positions, one upright for working or reading, and one at an obtuse angle to lounge. We were able to achieve both positions without mechanics or moving parts.