AJ ELLIS
Montana State University
AJ Ellis
austin.james.ellis1@gmail.com 719-502-7060 | www.linkedin.com
LEADERSHIP
•MSU Dean’s List 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 •United States Green Building Council •AIAS Montana State University Chapter: Marketing Director 2018-2019 •Volunteered in Bozeman West Quad Conference
CONSTRUCTION LABORER | LONE WOLF CONCRETE, INC. | Bozeman, MT |
6/2015- 2/2016 - Pouring concrete, finishing, edging, and creating wood forms
- Decorative concrete, retaining walls, foundations, architectural designs, driveways, patios, and sidewalks.
2016
SKILLS
PROFICIENT Adobe Suite: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator 3D Modeling: Rhino, Revit, Sketchup, AutoCAD Handworks: Drawing, Modeling, Woodwork
2017
-Rome 2092: Urban Planning Studio, Manufacturing and Open Space systems
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | HOLLAND BASHAM ARCHITECTS | Omaha, NE | 8/2017- 12/2017 -Conceptual project stages in software like SketchUp and AutoCAD -Sustainability research, punch lists, site analysis, and site visits. -Worked on multi-family housing, commercial, and mixed-use.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | FORTE ARCHITECTS | Wenatchee, WA |
2018
5/2018- 8/2018 -Produced in revit: construction details, as-builts, schematic designs,
renderings, and project documents. -Single-family houses, a zinc plating factory, and a hydroelectric dam.
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT | COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER | Fort Peck, MT
9/2018 - now
•MASTER’S IN ARCHITECTURE | MONTANA STATE | Degree Expected 12/2019
2019
-Used grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing, CNC mill testing, and welding. -Sourcing materials, modifying forms, and performance testing. -Grant-funded project for installations on the buffalo ranch
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT | MSU SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | 1/2019 - 5/2019 -Taught how to collaborate in a central file in revit to complete a standard set of construction documents. -Graded drawings based on constructability and creativity.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Long Distance Running Hiking Ice Hockey
2/2016-8/2016 -Assisted with all-aspects of light-wood frame residential construction. -Landscaping, painting, framing, trim work, siding, and general construction.
5/2017 - 7/2017-Sketched projects in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Hamburg, Graz.
•BACHELOR’S IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | MONTANA STATE | Degree Earned 05/2018
HOBBIES
CONSTRUCTION LABORER | KAT CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Bozeman, MT |
STUDY ABROAD | MSU SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | Rome, Italy |
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Grasshopper: Lady Bug, Elk, Meerkat RhinoCAM: CNC equipment Handworks: Welding, Wood crafts
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
2015
2020
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | FORTE ARCHITECTS | Wenatchee, WA | 5/2019- 8/2019 -Produced in revit: construction details, as-builts, schematic designs, renderings, and project documents. -Single-family houses and multi-family housing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OPERATION HYBRID
STUDY ABROAD SKETCHES
2018 p.4-7
2017 p.14-15
FORTE ARCHITECTS
WOVEN WILLOW STORY POLE
2018 p.8-9
2018-19 p.16-17
OPLONTIS ANTIQUARIUM
LA HOMELESS HOUSING
2018 p.10-13
2019 p.18-21
Operation Hybrid 4.0
4th year - Undergrad Capstone Project
Location: Bozeman, MT Program: Public plaza, green power plant, post office, car wash, horse jumping, fight club, and a nudist colony. Concepts: Integrate a random selection of programs into a hybridized architecture. Integrating site, program and sustainability into a car-centric series ramps and parking to act as scaffolding for the public plaza to vertically circulate to an open green space. The top extreme of the roof is the most private space that fosters the most intimate soical interactions. The green space below is the culmination of all spaces working together.
NORTH-EAST PROGRAM AXON
PROGRAM DIAGRAM COMMERCIAL FLOW STAIR - RAMP
Vertical Circulation
Ramping for Wash Tunnel
PUBLIC VISIBILITY
GREEN POWER PLANT POST OFFICE
CAR CENTRIC
PARKING
FIGHT CLUB NUDIST COLONY PRIVACY 4
CAR WASH
HORSE JUMPING
PUBLIC PLAZA
Neutral Extension Spcae for
Grazing Concert Horses Space
EXTENSIVE GREEN ROOF Sun Bathing
SOUTH-WEST PROGRAM AXON
1/8” = 1” MODEL
POST OFFICE ATIRUM EXTERIOR FIGHT CLUB (HORSE TRAILER PARKING)
PLAZA STAIR RAMP 5 AND CAR WASH
NUDIST SUN SPACE
WATER HEATER
NUDIST LODING
PUBLIC PLAZA PARKING CAR WASH
FIGHT CLUB HORSE JUMPING
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION
POST OFFICE ANAEROBIC DIGESTER
PARKING DIAGRAM
PLAZA STAIR-RAMP
PUBLIC PLAZA
PARKING
CAR WASH
HORSE JUMPING
CROSS SECTION 7
FORTE ARCHITECTS 2018 - INTERNSHIP
FRANCE RESIDENCE
Program: Airbnb leasable residential space Location: Chelan, WA Concepts: English Cottage aesthetic
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ROCKY REACH DAM - VISITORS CENTER Program: Outdoor covered space Location: Chelan/Dougals Counties, WA
LOCALTEL HEADQUARTERS
Program: Billboard advertising, Public Entrance, Employee Entrance Location: Wenatchee, WA Concepts: Integrating the new monumental entrance with billboard advertising for new administration in a former monumental structure of a post office.
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Antiquarium: Ancient Connection Through Contemporary Play 5th year - Comprehensive Studio
Location: Torre Annunziata, Italy Program: Antiquarium (museum of antiquities), offices, artifact storage, conservation labs, promenade walkway, playground - soccer space
1. EXISTING CONDITIONS
+ 2. CATALYSTS Villa A
1
Villa A Isolated Destination
Frescoes
2
Courthouse
3
No civic space for social generation
Stored and hidden from public viewing
Villa B Under extensive reconstruction
= 3. PROMENADE
Unfold frescoes and statues into procession
Open Promenade
Playspaces
Elevated Walkway (Promenade) Connect through vacant corridor on site
Hospitality School
1
Playscape Shares space with the promenade
2
3
Alleyway Soccer Unsafe due to car traffic
Elementary School limited access to recreation space
10
Context Views
Elementary School
Artifact Walks
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Playscape An tiq
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Artifact Walk
Fly-Over
Ground Source Heat Pump
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Artifact Walk 1 B
Antiquarium A
C Villa A
Artifact Walk 3 Artifact Walk 2 Villa B Antiquarium B
A
SECTION A - Antiquarium B - Exhibit Space 12
Wall Section
1-Parapet
4-Curtain Wall
2-Pavers
5-Reflectance Wall
-EPDM Roofing over insulation -3" Lightweight Steel Deck -5" Rigid Insulation - Polyisocyanurate -Painted Aluminum Coping -12" CFS Beam -7 1/2" Batte Insulation
-2" - Hydrotech Paver -11" Paver Tabs -4" Polyisocyanourate Insulation -1/16" Hydro Guard - Hydroflex 10 -3/16" Hydro Seal - MM 6125EV-FR -5" Steel Decking - ASTM A992 -24" Steel Girder W24 X 62
3-Stair
-3" - Poured-in-Place Concrete Stair -4" Polyisocyanourate Insulation -1/16" Hydro Guard - Hydroflex 10 -3/16" Hydro Seal - MM 6125EV-FR -5" Steel Decking - ASTM A992 -24" Steel Girder W24 X 62
1
-Suspension Rod -Double Layer of Low Iron U-Profile Glass Units W/ Translucent Insulation -Aluminum Fixed Mullion -Corten Steel Paneling -Uplighting
-2x6 Cold Formed Steel -CFS Restraining Angle -Flat Straps -5/8" Gypsum Sheathing - Reflective Finish -Cold Rolled Channel -Erco Track Lighting
6-UFAD
-2x6 Cold Formed Steel -CFS Restraining Angle -Flat Straps -5/8" Gypsum Sheathing - Reflective Finish -Cold Rolled Channel -Erco Track Lighting
7-Stair Ramp -6" Slab on grade -2" Polystyrene (x2) -3/8" Reinforcing Bar -5/8" Anchor Bolts -7"/11" Stair (2 1/2" depth)
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SECTION B - Artifact Walk 1 Light Well
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2
2
3
View Space
6
Exhibit Space
7 SECTION C - Antiquarium A - Offices
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Study Abroad 4th year
Kuntshaus, Graz, Austria
Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy
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Nyhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark
Duomo of Santa Maria, Siena Italy
St. Mary’s Basilica, Krakow, Poland
Music School, Hamburg, Germany
Elbephilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
Benedictine Retreat Center, Hamburg, Germany
Coast by East Hamburg, Germany
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Story Pole | Weaving Willow Graduate Material Research
Single Curve Puck 1/2 Scale 3d print
Cubed Faces Puck Prototype 1/2 Scale 3d print
5th year
National Endowment For The Arts Grant For Buffalo Connections Project on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation Work involves generating prototypes of pole construction through Grasshopper and Rhino, then either milling them out of wood or 3d printed to test structure and touch experience. 1/10th Scale 3D Print
1st Full Scale Puck Prototype Single straight notch 3 1/2” x 3 1/2” x 1” Baltic Birch
Vertebrae Puck Prototype 1/2 Scale 3d print
Curve Notch w/Pin Puck Prototype 1/2 Scale 3d print
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2nd Full Scale Puck Prototype Curved Notch with Pin 4” x 4” x 1 1/2”
3rd Full Scale Prototype Double-Curve Notch 4” x 4” x 1 1/2” 3/4” Steel Rod
Full Scale Prototype 4” x 4” x 1 1/2” 3/4” Steel Rod 7’-0” Tall
Full Scale Structural Prototype Bent 1” Steel Rod 5’-0” Tall
Welded Dynamic Joint
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Homeless Housing + Community Center | Morphosis Studio 5th year
Location: Venice, CA Program: 200 units of affordable and market-rate housing, administration and security offices, counseling + healthcare support for the homeless, community + education center, co-op grocery + market, farm to table-style restaurant, art gallery, commercial retail, juice bar, public gardens, public plaza, and 650 parking spaces. Concepts: This housing complex and community center are the new approach to integrating the homeless population with the local residents by creating semi-private space between all residents. In the public realm, the center coutyard combats the distance created by Pacific Ave by opening up between three different paths on the ground plane. Conceptual Modelling
SITE PLAN - 100 Sunset Ave, Venice, CA DN
SITE CIRCULATION Open Space
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Community Commercial Shelter
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Car Parking
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GROUND FLOOR
2ND FLOOR
SUNSET AVE LOADING BAY
1LW
1LW
2BR
2BR
3BR
2LW
UP
DN
UP
Studio Units (x45)
CO-OP MARKET 2LW
UP
2LW
2LW
DN
2LW 1LW
VETERAN'S MEMORIAL
PUBLIC SCULPTURE GARDEN
1BR
1LW
CO-OP OUTDOOR MARKET
3BR
UP
1LW
ST ST
1LW 1LW
RETAIL
PACIFIC AVE
1BR Units (x75)
ST
1LW MAIN ST
COUNSELING +HEALTHCARE FOR HOMELESS
2LW
DN
UP
RESTAURANT
1LW
3BR
SECURITY
1BR
2LW COMMUNITY
RESIDENTIAL PLAYGROUND
ST
JUICE BAR RAMP TO PARKING
1LW
1BR
RETAIL (BELOW)
2BR
2LW
RETAIL COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION CENTER
UP DN
2BR
ROOM
2LW
2BR Units (x45)
1BR
2LW 1BR
1BR
LOBBY
1BR
3BR
2BR
1BR
1BR
THORNTON AVE
ST
1BR
1BR
1BR
1BR
1BR ST
3BR
SERVICES SITE LAYOUT
3BR Units (x15)
OPEN SPACE DIAGRAM Sheltered Opennings
1BR Live-Work Units (x10)
2BR Live-Work Units (x10) 19
PLAZA RENDERING
Plaza
Main & Thornton
Co- Op Market
Sunset & Pacific PARKING PARKING
20
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
MODEL - 1/16”= 1’-0”
21
Thank You!
AJ ELLIS
austin.james.ellis1@gmail.com
719-502-7060
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2019