Category: Projects
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Resonance Reconstructed Concert Graphics
I was commissioned by Sony Music to create large-format animated video backdrops for a recent concert in Hong Kong, China.
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Creative Expert for Microsoft!
I was approached by Microsoft to be one of their Creative Experts and share some of my workflows with a general audience!
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Commissioned for Samsung Bespoke Promotion
I was commissioned by Samsung and my gen-AI work is now featured in their promotional videos for their new line of AI-powered Bespoke appliances!
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Featured Visual Artist in Storms Journal
I’m proud to have been the featured visual artist for the latest edition of (volume 3) of The Storms Journal!
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Published in Harper’s BAZAAR Serbia!
I’m thrilled to announce that my collaboration with the fashion brand Monize and Harpers Bazaar has resulted in the first (as far as I know) hybrid photography/AI cover for a multinational magazine brand! The cover and editorial blends traditional photography of a real model and wardrobe along with fictional AI-generated settings, backgrounds, and architectures. It…
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Coverings 2022 Tile Design-Build
We were really lucky to collaborate with the tile industry on a design-build project for the 2022 Coverings Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. This spring, School of Architecture faculty members Joshua Vermillion and Paul Morrison led a multi-disciplinary group of students from Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Theater in a design-build elective, sponsored entirely…
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MONSTR Architectures: Apotheosis of the Unfamiliar – 2nd Year Studio at UNLV
During the Fall 2017 semester a new set of exercises for a design foundation studio was developed by Alberto de Salvatierra, Samantha Solano, and Joshua Vermillion. Inspired by temporal cycles and systems, the UNLV School of Architecture’s Design Foundation course—which must serve the dual constituency of beginning architecture and landscape architecture students—was redesigned and rebuilt…
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Augmenting Reality Workshop with Hadrian Predock (USC) in the Foundation Studio
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Every Neighborhood Needs an Architect wins Fourth Place in Federally-funded Competition
In Spring 2015, I was part of a team that placed fourth overall ($50,000 prize) in the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) competition. This is a federally funded economic development program started by the Obama administration to solicit innovative ideas in the urban environment to spur economic development, and judged locally by a mixture of…
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Graduate Studio Moves on to Finalist Round in Federally Funded SC2 Competition
The first round of the SC2 Competition was integrated into the Fall 2014 graduate comprehensive studio (co-taught with Mark Roddy, FAIA). This one month-long effort was recognized by the City of Las Vegas and received a 7th place ranking in the first-round of the competition among all of the teams and projects submitted In January…
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2014 Taylor Seminar Lecturer at the University of Calgary Environmental Design
In 2014 I was invited to the University of Calgary for one week as the Taylor Seminar Lecturer. The Taylor Seminar brings emerging designers in the fields of digital fabrication, design and computation in architecture to Calgary to explore design research proposals and prototypes with a group of graduate students. Over the course of 4-5 days…
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SILICONE CASTING EXPERIMENTS
Some silicone casting experiments by Tyler Cox and Michael Bolatto. I was advising them right before I left Ball State for UNLV.
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ZIPP
Showroom wall for ZIPP Speak Weaponry, who design, engineer, and manufacture carbon composite bicycle wheels and other bike components for cycling, triathlons, and track racing.
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CENTER FOR MEDIA DESIGN
Custom office furniture designed, manufactured, and installed for the Center for Media Design on the campus of Ball State University.
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TRANSFORMER
“Transformer” is a layered, light-responsive shading lattice, designed and fabricated by an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty. The system acts as an active shading device, potentially for use within a building envelope.
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TETRAMIN
tetraMIN is a hanging screen aggregate consisting of componentry generated from tetrahedron geometry via Rhino’s Grasshopper parametric modeling plug-in. Comprised of laser cut polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) scraps, each component forms a periodic minimal surface, and is propagated into a regular pattern by a series of reflecting/mirroring operations.
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REBARN
The “reBarn” program evolved to enhance the site by connecting users more solidly to the landscape in a tactile and visual manner, and provide a new platform for activity (crawling, climbing, sliding) and reflection (sitting, chatting, viewing, and reclining).
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MORPHO LUMINESCENCE
Comprised of custom laser-cut “petals”, “stems”, and hinges, Morpholuminescence was pre-assembled for testing prior to shipping in pieces to the SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibition in Florence, Italy.
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SMART SCRAP
‘SmartScrap’ was a project testing ecological design strategies for the building industry following generous awards from the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Discovery foundation.
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ARCUS ANIMUS
A scaffold of suspended kinetic meshwork, populated by secondary components such as a light weight, expanded textile meshwork. Responding in conjunction with microprocessor-controlled actuators and sensors, the system self adjusts based on the location of users in the space.
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LUMINAIRES
Beginning with material investigations by students with hardwood veneer, Luminaire highlights some of the subtler properties of hardwood. The thinness of veneer allows wood to bend, twist, and glow—revealing latent and innate qualities of the thinly sliced wood.