Seth Trotter's Architecture Portfolio

Seth Trotter Trotter seth.trotter@gmail.com 951.907.8024

The 101 freeway serves as Los Angeles' artery for transportation, yet it creates a large pedestrian dead zone between key urban cores in the city. osteo[n] generates an urban retail environment that challenges the pedestrian dead zone, establishing a pedestrian artery between the Pueblo District and the Civic Mall/Little Tokyo. By challenging the city's dead zones and forming stronger programmatic ties between urban cores, the urban fabric will be strengthened through inhabitation.

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Seth Trotter osteo[n] Los Angeles Street Perspective

Seth Trotter osteo[n] Interior Perspective

Seth Trotter osteo[n] Aerial View (right) Olvera Street View (left)

Seth Trotter osteo[n] Walking Street Plan (above) Los Angeles Street Elevation (below)

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Seth Trotter osteo[n] Upper Level Plan (above) Elevations and Section (below)

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Seth Trotter osteo[n] Building Components (above) Wall Section (below)

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UC Santa Barbara’s Campus is divided into two halves, the East Campus and the West Campus. The East Campus is built up with the majority of the university, while the East Campus has remained relatively untouched.

The project creates an Environment and History Museum that also incorporates classrooms, faculty offices and a lecture hall.

The site’s original inhabitants were the Chumash Indians and their vernacular housing unit was the wigwam. The new museum nods to past by translating the wigwam’s structure into a modern day building.

Conceptually, the project is a cluster of wigwams formed to provide a learning community for UC Santa Barbara.

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Seth Trotter ModWam Vernacular Chumash Dwelling

Seth Trotter ModWam Conceptual Sketch (Top Left and Below) Computer Translation (Bottom Left)

Seth Trotter ModWam Conceptual Sketches (Left) Study Model (Bottom)

Seth Trotter ModWam Computer Translation

Seth Trotter ModWam Structure (Left) Skin (Right)

Low-E Glazing Exterior Beam Recepticals: Steel see detail

Air Intake Ventilation Chimney

Interior Beam Support: Steel Column

Alucobond-Eco Aluminum Panel

Secondary Glu-lam Beams (young Pine) MSK Photovol PV Glass

Primary Glu-lam Beams (young Pine) Louvered Double-Pane Glazing Entrance Curtain Wall: MSK Photovol PV Glass

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Seth Trotter ModWam Site Plan (Above) Details (Top Left) Section A (Left)

Daylighting Factor Calculation West Center East Time Outside West DF Center DF East DF 580 216 234 9:00 AM 2220 Winter 26.13% 9.73% 10.54% 216 207 190 12:00 PM 3770 5.73% 5.49% 5.04% 259 213 184 3:00 PM 2440 10.61% 8.73% 7.54% 380 290 315 9:00 AM 4060 Equinox 9.36% 7.14% 7.76% 285 290 293 12:00 PM 5900 4.83% 4.92% 4.97% 289 254 228 3:00 PM 4400 6.57% 5.77% 5.18% 530 1370 486 9:00 AM 5750 Summer 9.22% 23.83% 8.45% 467 382 490 12:00 PM 7190 6.50% 5.31% 6.82% 452 2630 470 3:00 PM 5950 7.60% 44.20% 7.90%

Seth Trotter ModWam Daylight Analysis (Top Left) Envelope Sun Exposure (Above and Left)

SportKirke p The project is located next to a major artery for the city of Copenhagen and the cities old railway. The railway is a part of a master plan to convert that stretch into a park for the neighborhood of Nørrebro.

SportKirke takes the architectural language of the traditional Danish church and the religiousness of Danish sport culture and combines them. The combination seeks to create a dialog amongst the Danes about sport culture’s place in society.

Seth Trotter Model Photos SportKirke

Seth Trotter Interior Perspective SportKirke

Seth Trotter Detail (above) SportKirke Sections and Elevations (below and right)

Seth Trotter Court Level (below) SportKirke Observation Deck Level (right)

Seth Trotter Site Plan (right) SportKirke Park Side Aerial Photo (below)

ReTreat ReTreat is located in the Topanga Canyon wilderness and has views of Los Angeles.

ReTreat is conceptually driven by the idea of simplicity for a busy client. The form is simple and the proportions follow the Golden Section. When the client is away ReTreat would remain in the closed position and open when he/she is there the doors and glass panels would be controlled remotely.

Seth Trotter ReTreat Downhill Perspective

Seth Trotter ReTreat Perspective

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Seth Trotter ReTreat Floor Plan (above) Study Model (left)

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Seth Trotter ReTreat Model

Software Experience Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveCycle, Autodesk AutoCAD, Bentley Generative Components, FormZ, Microsoft Office, Mindjet MindManager Pro, Rhinoceros, Square1 Ecotect In the process of learning 3DStudioMax, Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe Premiere, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Revit, ArchiCAD, HEED, Sketchup

Seth Trotter seth.trotter@gmail.com 951.907.8024 20330 Corona Street Corona, CA 92881