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ICONICSimplicity + Projection

By Danny Travis

Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience Intern - Jordan Mozer & Associates May 2014 - August 2014

Organized and helped transition between new o�cesFabricated custom stair treds for new o�ce.

Fellow - Crosstree May 2014 - August 2014

Learned how to fabricate and manipulate metal welding, bending, steel types Designed, developed and made working prototype

Intern Architect - MGA Architects June 2011 - July 2013

Collaborate in the design and construction process of a variety of residential and commercial projects. Contribute from onset of a projects �eld measurement to designing and creating construction documents to completion.Prepare and submit drawings for zoning, planning, and client review.

Owner - Garden Brothers, LLC May 2001 - November 2011

Ran day to day operations building the business from three lawns on the block to 34 weekly lawns and various landscape projects from weeding and mulching to designing and coordinating full installations.Expanded weekly lawn service into surrounding cities and landscaping thoughout the metro Detroit area with at times four employees.

Marketed and communicated with customers and potential clients.

Created quotes, invoiced, ran payroll, recorded income and expenses.

Consultant - SHW Group November 2010 - March 2011

Worked with Detroit Public Schools in assessing

current building capacities and potential

occupancy of each school in the district.Catalogued and organized existing furniture for moving into new facilities.

Education Masters of Architecture Candidate August 2013-Present

University of Illinois at Chicago

GPA 3.68

Honors: Year End Show Selection

Fall 2013, Spring 2014*, Fall 2014

*Directors Choice Award Winner

Bachelors of Science in Architecture May 2010

University of Michigan - Taubman College of

Architecture and Urban Planning

Extracurriculars Community Design Work Detroit Bench - Helped design and create a bench for an apartment’s public lot “Kyle Bartell, Wayne State University Student, Creates Parks To Make Detroit More Walkable” -Hu�ngton Post Article Detroit By Design 2012: Detroit Riverfront Competition Help organize the international competition with the AIA Detroit Urban Pirorities Committee

Additional Skillset Pro�cient with Microsoft O�ce: PowerPoint, Word, Excel Adobe creative suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign Design Programs: Rhino, AutoCAD, Sketch-Up, Maya, Cinema 4D, Maxwell

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CV..................................................................02

Fundamentals...........................................04

House Project................................................18

Creteur......................................................28

Myth..........................................................44

Lost In Found.................................................50

Objectified.................................................66

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Molly Hunker’s fellowship research during the 2013–2014 academic year has centered on

kitsch artifacts and their potential to recalibrate contemporary notions of atmosphere and

engagement. Hunker’s culminating fellowship project, Myth, focuses speci�cally on the

religious genre of the home shrine, re-imagining the richly decorative and kitsch assembly

through the lens of the architectural installation.

Myth uses the decorative prayer candle as the primary object-tradition through which to

explore how home shrines may provoke new understandings of visual and atmospheric

opulence in the architectural interior. Made with traditional candle-making techniques,

hundreds of handmade wax candles are suspended on embedded cotton wicks, accumulat-

ing to create a semi-enclosed chromaphilic space. While the overhead candles are geometri-

cally simple and clean, the candles closer to the ground are increasingly articulated with a

grotesque rustication captured during the transformation of the material from its liquid state

to its solid state. This rustication technique partners with a gradient of increasing color

saturation to engage with the traditional shrine organization that establishes a narrative

describing the change between heaven and earth.

Contemporary expressions of religious architecture tend to reinforce a clean, open-minded

spatial construct that leaves the spiritual narrative to be de�ned by each visitor’s imagination

and beliefs (however rich or bland those may be). Instead, Myth aims to establish a space of

greater emotional and spiritual resonance by employing familiar materials, crafts and even

smells present in more common devotional spaces.

MythMolly Hunker, 2013-2014 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow

Collaborators: Preston Welker, Samra Pecanin, Max Jarosz, Nichole

Tortorici, Jacob Comerci

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L o s t in F o u n d p la ys with the idea of architecture as

character and with character through its relationships

between program, interior spaces, exterior form and

facade. The overall form, three arches with the center

arch rotated, gives the architecture movement,

animalizing and animating the static shape. This new

characters façade then begins to add character

through the use of the collage. Its familiar forms:

arches, Roman columns and temple friezes; distort,

scale, overlap and interact to give the façade a simple

yet complex �gure. This begins to form the interior

spaces and confuse the reading between what is

simply �at aesthetic and what is volumetric within.

The interplay of what is simply exterior or interior

continues inside where the de�ned interior is

distorted through large volumes of space that feel as

if they are still part of the exterior. Other spaces play

more directly with the interaction of the façade’s

shapes. This constant shifting of interior/exterior, as

well as use of programmatic organization, allows

visitors to become more aware of the architecture

they inhabit and make new discoveries along the way.

Lost In FoundProfessor: Stewart Hicks

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KEEP WALKING

RESEMBLANCE:

Keep Walking resembles an elephant like creature with too many

legs.

FORMS:

Keep Walking is formed by three repeated arches.

STORY:

One can enter through one of the three large openings at the fig-

ures base. Once inside, the large arches continue upwards to the

spaces above. Each leg containing program, meet at the top to

create a large singular space, where the programs begin to mix.

These legs were

meant for walking!

+ + =

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PLAN 2

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Plan 2

Plan 1

Plan 3

SECTION A60

Plan 2

Plan 1

Plan 3

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O b je c ti�ed examines the house in the age of

consumer culture. A shift from the house as a means

of creating an interior environment for its user, the

house has become a piece of storage for the amassed

collection of objects and possesions by its

inhabitants. The shift reverses architectures elements:

the wall, column, �oor and ceiling, into primary

elements for storage and allows for the objects

themselves to become the architecture. Objects

divide space, �lter light, and create privacy through

their aggregation in the house, even over�owing out

onto the landscape. In the center of it all, the cone of

silence allows reprieve for the houses inhabitants to

escape their own collection. Providing the primary

circulation from the front door to the back, the cone

and adjacent corridor are stripped of all objects and

decoration. It’s smooth white walls cut through the

ceiling looking upwards to the sky, escaping the

chaos around it.

Objecti�edProfessors: Penelope Dean & Grant Gibson

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Hanging CeilingSystem pulls down surface

Movement

Cut Site

Overall Form

Spaces from ObjectsHanging objects divide space

Pocket StorageWall becomes storage for small items

Stacking StructureStacked objects surround columns

Pile FloorFloor dips to provide storage for areas of object aggregation

LandscapeLifts dips and is cut, reacting to house access

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PLAN

SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”70

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SECTION A - ASCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”72

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SCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”

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REFLECTED CEILING PLAN

SCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”

SECTION B - BSCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”

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