http://www.mellistaylor.com/climbingfurniture daily 0.75 2015-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443641107448-QUC719L4Z9CS6L16FEV4/chair+white+background-with+shadow.jpg Climbing+Furniture - ROAPS ROAPS is a chair that repurposes retires climbing ropes into pieces of furniture. It takes an expensive, but now useless, material and turns it into something beautiful that the climber can use again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443641107448-QUC719L4Z9CS6L16FEV4/chair+white+background-with+shadow.jpg Climbing+Furniture - ROAPS ROAPS is a chair that repurposes retires climbing ropes into pieces of furniture. It takes an expensive, but now useless, material and turns it into something beautiful that the climber can use again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443641154018-TP6GLTB9BE39YYUHVXQ4/Daniel+at+gym.jpg Climbing+Furniture - concept For this project I structured a mock-company that takes in retired climbing gear and repurposes it into usable furniture. Rock climbing gear, in particular rope, is an expensive investment that has a very short life span. It has to be retired after a certain amount of falls or wear-n-tear begins to show. The furniture functions as a way for climbers to reuse a useless-to-them material cheaply into something that they can be proud. Their old rope/gear will become part of their lives again in designed furniture pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443641137436-EBJT0Q2I365M0XEZJTHZ/exploded+axon+chair-01.jpg Climbing+Furniture - assembly The furniture products are designed “build-it-yourself” kits. The consumer would purchase a prefabricated kit of pieces that would be shipped with instruction and they could assemble it at home. Climbers would use their own gear while others could purchase the “Complete Kit” which gear and the furniture piece. The ROAPS Chair is a simple sling chair that has its own unique weave pattern that can be completed with a 60 meter rope {the most common personal rope size}. The frame is designed to be cut on a CNC router so that it packs and ships flat. The main two pieces slits together and has a central tension piece that holds it in place and takes all of the force from the seat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443641158224-GDZ8NX8Y7L9AYTUX4P5Y/chair+and+table.jpg Climbing+Furniture - Flexibility ROAPS is designed to be shipped and woven at home but, as an added feature, it also fits a size D Butterfly Chair cover. This gives the ROAPS a unique ability in personal customizability, flexibility, and an added non-climber appeal. http://www.mellistaylor.com/live-work-play daily 0.75 2015-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1412263656042-QOIY410PJ8F6D3P81NYR/911.jpg Live+Work+Play - Humble Beginnings A young, local developer and entrepreneur has been working out of his apartment and growing his business in Greenville, SC. He has realized the need for a separate work space for the benefits of fewer distractions and a more proper place to bring clients. This entrepreneur has envisioned a place to LIVE and WORK within the same building/campus and he intends to take action and do it. He has asked us to propose a building scheme that creates a sustainable, walkable, and efficient place to LIVE and WORK. A place that will create successful entrepreneurs who will LIVE and WORK alongside our own entrepreneur client in the city of Greenville, SC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1412263656042-QOIY410PJ8F6D3P81NYR/911.jpg Live+Work+Play - Humble Beginnings A young, local developer and entrepreneur has been working out of his apartment and growing his business in Greenville, SC. He has realized the need for a separate work space for the benefits of fewer distractions and a more proper place to bring clients. This entrepreneur has envisioned a place to LIVE and WORK within the same building/campus and he intends to take action and do it. He has asked us to propose a building scheme that creates a sustainable, walkable, and efficient place to LIVE and WORK. A place that will create successful entrepreneurs who will LIVE and WORK alongside our own entrepreneur client in the city of Greenville, SC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420918784111-OXASJZRDD0N8NYW6B7WI/01+Corner+Shot_small.jpg Live+Work+Play - why? how? Our design process was based on on the TED Talk J Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action. Just as Sinek began in his talk, we began with the "why?", what was the purpose? we then move to "how?", how do we do it?, and finished on the "what?". WHY? The places where dreams entered the physical world and grew to unimaginable heights. Often in garages, kitchens, cheap rental space, these are the places that enabled people’s ideas to take shape. These places may seem unappealing to the common businessman, but to the entrepreneurs who began their journeys in these odd locations, these places will forever be reminders of their humble beginnings. HOW? he LIVE/WORK campus should encourage and enrich the entrepreneur’s dreams and aspirations by providing distinct spaces for living and working. These spaces not only provide physical and mental separation, but also allow for differentiation between active and passive dreaming. Active dreaming is consciously pursuing work-related goals in an atmosphere designed to boost productivity and provide opportunities to succeed. Passive dreaming is subconsciously pursuing work-related goals in an atmosphere designed to boost decompression, facilitate rest, and provide playful distraction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420918314902-THWVCU4XXLXFO5QTSNG6/Massing-01.png Live+Work+Play - what? A campus of distinctions [visually, metaphorically, physically] between variables of decompression, isolation, collaboration, networking, chance meeting, sleeping, eating, living, dreaming, doing. Achieved by bridging live [blue] and work [red] with play [purple]. A starting point that will transcend time and stay with the entrepreneur beyond their time as resident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420918373857-NDHBAQZISC7TCZA86027/Site+Plan-01.png Live+Work+Play - site plan We chose the site at 911 South Main Street. This site is located beside train tracks, the old Cigar Warehouse, and Fluor Field. These neighbors make it a very interesting place to work. The historic nature of the West End compliments the growth of this portion of downtown very well. Designing in a historic, expanding, and traditionally industrial area allowed for many opportunities to embrace sentimental ideas within a project that is inherently forwardthinking and progressive by nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420918809031-5XTUNJIHT7P3Q7QD28B1/03+Site_small.jpg Live+Work+Play - park To connect to building and the entrepreneurs to the city of Greenville, A park along was included in the design to create public space next to the baseball stadium and to give the building occupants addictional creative play space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1412262831109-WXQU6JOEXZZJ9NELUAIC/08+Atrium.jpg Live+Work+Play - garage for movement The atrium in the main, central space for circulation and play space. It is an open air area bridges between work, play, and the parking garage spaces. Because the parking garage is virtually synonymous with entrepreneurs, we decided not to put it in an obscure corner of the building but to to make it a central point of our design. When ever someone moves within the building, they moving through the garage. We also used the flexibility and nature of the garage to help us design other aspects of our building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420918426623-F492QKUQ69SW9FC7FVH1/Passive+and+Sola+Tubes-01.png Live+Work+Play the atrium is passively ventilated through it's orientation and passively lit through the used of Sola Tubes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1412262891997-XGQRQTFMFYZYQLOGW4JG/06+Office.jpg Live+Work+Play - garages for working Each resident is given a working garage within the office levels. This garage allows for private, secure, and intimate working that also allows for a certain level of collaboration if the user chooses. This flexible work space is designed to function effectively for the individual’s preferences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420919025742-1LNJWBTS3KL8K5AMIDXH/04+Garage+Interior_small.jpg Live+Work+Play - garages for playing Many garages are open to flexible play. These spaces can be used as event spaces, large-format work, mixers, tailgating, etc. These garages are meant to work for anybody and everybody. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420919051797-NSRTJTN8OY6QELYAKINF/09+Residential+Garages_small.jpg Live+Work+Play - garages for living Personal garages between units allow for residents to store items and interact with neighbors. The nature of the atrium allows for chance-meeting and improvised community gathering. The spaciousness of the garage itself allows for residents to store items or undertake tasks that aren’t fit for the inside apartment, much like a traditional suburban garage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420918508000-XIQLW5ZR8JVSFXLSUHTQ/Structure.png Live+Work+Play - structure Two different structure types integrate within the building. A gridded steel column+beam system supports the office building and much of the atrium space while a pre-fabricated SIP system connects and supports the garages of the atrium while relying upon the structure of the office. http://www.mellistaylor.com/la-farm daily 0.75 2015-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1425571638816-H2WSG3HNMODU6UPJR75K/interrior.jpg L.A. Urban Farm - farm pavillion+market+water purifier this project looks at the issues of water in L.A. and uses both the building and the farm to alleviate the cities problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1425574487080-QN342VIBAA1F2TU38QRZ/Water+Purify-section+perspective-01.jpg L.A. Urban Farm - structure+water+solar we designed small water purification pods that fit into the structure of the farm's main pavillion. It used solar energy to purify grey water from the city and gravity to collect the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1425574540079-K3XQW05OZ87GOEFT6PUW/Exploded+Axon-01.jpg L.A. Urban Farm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1425571721266-SVFS9NS57E4D3PH8ZGRX/La+Research-01.jpg L.A. Urban Farm - L.A. mapping To initiate the project, we did an intensive mapping of L.A.'s water (or lack there of) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1425571786350-Z1EUTK9JZXHV7E8SBPRQ/SITE+PLAN+FINAL--color+copy-01.jpg L.A. Urban Farm - site+water We propose that our farm will take on the polluted water from Los Angeles {the LA River} and the recycled water from Paramount, clean the water, return it to the water table, and provide the people with potable water and food. We based our site plan on research done by Allen Berger and his water natural purification system. He used a series of islands to push and pull the water, forcing it to slow, meander, and causing the toxic agents to settle where they can be naturally filtered by the plants. We decided to use the logic dictated by our reading of the paint swatch and use it apply Berger’s system to our site on the L.A. River. We applied our swatch to the site, pulling it along the existing pedestrian bridge, pushed it up along the river, and then used to contours and ridges of the paint to inform how we reconstruct the river edge and islands. We are now cleaning the L.A. River as well as slowing the river down enough to allow th     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1425571575661-TRP1PNHW3UIWPP5NSHBV/FROM+IN+RIVER+TO+BUILDING.jpg L.A. Urban Farm http://www.mellistaylor.com/not-a-museum daily 0.75 2015-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420922360054-A2SKWXF0IKLQSCX4YTKX/KyleSmithEllisTaylor_Final+Model_Large.jpg Not A Museum - Not A Museum. is a new take on the traditional museum that is rooted in the community---taking in their input and desires to drive art and design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420922360054-A2SKWXF0IKLQSCX4YTKX/KyleSmithEllisTaylor_Final+Model_Large.jpg Not A Museum - Not A Museum. is a new take on the traditional museum that is rooted in the community---taking in their input and desires to drive art and design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420922985546-YHY36EF65U7R77DLSR3B/Projection+Diagrams-all.jpg Not A Museum - site Piazza Fontana is located in the tourism heart of Milan, just a block from the Duomo Cathedral. Because of the bombings that took place in December of 1969, this site is sensitive to the people of Milan, and no one has developed the space. Our project revitalizes the plaza by giving it back to the citizens and artists. We used the the angles from our Urban Infill site to project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420922593078-WB6E0KQMHNCTU7XV7LFY/Floor+Plan-01.jpg Not A Museum - program the building program consists of temporary galleries that project into the site, permanent gallery space, artist work spaces, and artist live+work space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420923413358-3CGW5EE80R2HQDIUZWZA/office+interrior.jpg Not A Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420922539378-H1HCMLKJ32PXX1K7XWJ1/Interrior+house+toward+building.jpg Not A Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420923081699-EO2DRL4S3YLEH2JE7SMX/Reconfigurability+Diagram-01.png Not A Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420922581869-Q01GER1T8J84VHXHCLJP/Artist+Hall.jpg Not A Museum - artist live+work the community selects and supports locals artists to live and work within their museum. In return the artists regularly participate in "open houses" to https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420923548806-9U7C79QKEWQJUIHO7ASI/KyleSmithEllisTaylor_Final+Model+2_Large.jpg Not A Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420923811204-X24YFDAY5E62X0IPSGM4/KyleSmithEllisTaylor_Final+Model+5_Large.jpg Not A Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1420923627142-GUBK2M7OQRSEULVEE6JD/KyleSmithEllisTaylor_Final+Model+1_large.jpg Not A Museum http://www.mellistaylor.com/clemson-centennial daily 0.75 2015-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445099989922-V3LKO2J6URWAYB5WNAEC/Gallery--2+002.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration - 100 years + Clemson Architecture The gallery is a celebration of 100 years of Clemson Architecture and the students who made that possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445099989922-V3LKO2J6URWAYB5WNAEC/Gallery--2+002.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration - 100 years + Clemson Architecture The gallery is a celebration of 100 years of Clemson Architecture and the students who made that possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445100017091-A46XJFUB5ECRD46H56Y3/Installation+-Floor+Plan.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration - Experience I was hired as the head grad student to design and build a gallery show displaying 100 years of Clemson Architecture and the students' work. The gallery is laid out as a suspended ribbon newspaper that pulls you along through Clemson, Clemson Architecture, Architecture, and World History, and eventually pulls you into the interior where special moments pulled out in “folly pieces”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445099979387-3UYH4HUPAXCME3WVWZTS/Gallery--2+082.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445099970036-CLX4PBO77HDN8S526E6S/Untitled_Panorama2.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445099984182-2EA107JPBXK9DHUHLLH0/Gallery--2+041.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration - Folly Inside the suspended gallery, we pulled out follies, or special moments, in Clemson Architecture history and place them on their own free standing displays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445099718037-6KWH1CXELL6NEHQYAQVX/1960s_Sheet_small-01.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration - Education I was responsible for the layouts for the Pre-1950s, 1950s, 1960s, 2000s, and 2010’s. I research the time periods and paralleled World History, Architecture History, Clemson History, and Clemson Architecture History with-in the ribbons and used text size to establish a hierarchy between each section. We left blank spaces within the "paper" to show slideshows of student work and lectures. We used multiple rasberry pi mini-computers to completely automate the projection system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445100066076-Y4GM8IT4VMLCJGYL59I9/Centennial+Gallery+717.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445100054323-1LK95G6T6M5I3WI6BOPN/Gallery--2+001.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445100791022-CAVRBS0DRP887YVQMR9C/Exploded+construction+detail-01.png Clemson University Centennial Celebration - Light To emphasis the floating aspect of the gallery, we wanted the ribbons of news papers, which were printed on tyvek, to glow. I designed a lighting system made of layered plexiglass and folded polypropylene pieces that could be mounted directly onto the main structure of the gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445100002663-GR3FZADL4AW38EGQCZRF/Centennial+Gallery+005.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445100006317-GALXK8QI4V9N1JLKP6CE/Gallery--2+036.jpg Clemson University Centennial Celebration http://www.mellistaylor.com/beer daily 0.75 2014-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1413469175484-CB136KMT48BNAE0NIFSE/IMG_2760.JPG Clemson Brew-Crew Mobile Lab - Clemson Mobile Brewery This project is a “Mobile Lab” for the Clemson Brew Crew and the accompanying Creative Inquiry’s nano-brewery. The Clemson School of Architectue will be will be repurposing an existing “Trail Gating” trailer to promote sustainability, education, and cross disciplinary collaboration which the Brew Crew strives for. I found the project and brought a team of graduate and undergradate students to deign and build the Mobile Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1413469175484-CB136KMT48BNAE0NIFSE/IMG_2760.JPG Clemson Brew-Crew Mobile Lab - Clemson Mobile Brewery This project is a “Mobile Lab” for the Clemson Brew Crew and the accompanying Creative Inquiry’s nano-brewery. The Clemson School of Architectue will be will be repurposing an existing “Trail Gating” trailer to promote sustainability, education, and cross disciplinary collaboration which the Brew Crew strives for. I found the project and brought a team of graduate and undergradate students to deign and build the Mobile Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1413469240279-BAFQL7I2OJRMG9BS0Z3G/IMG_2653.JPG Clemson Brew-Crew Mobile Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1413471067199-JDLBTQBVLKNZUW7MF8VL/IMG_2719.JPG Clemson Brew-Crew Mobile Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1413469105518-ZJCH46UPKLAAPRV9GUIH/IMG_2731.JPG Clemson Brew-Crew Mobile Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1413469280327-5X13W4RVH7PU5WTEXS67/IMG_2748.JPG Clemson Brew-Crew Mobile Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1413469260781-BMS0HLFKN4AKCXB22DJ6/IMG_2759.JPG Clemson Brew-Crew Mobile Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1413471041819-UBO5MOOSKVK8RSWLZ6EJ/IMG_2758.JPG Clemson Brew-Crew Mobile Lab http://www.mellistaylor.com/sof-stair daily 0.75 2015-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443645236946-0KQAL9RNF120EOOWCEJR/image-asset.jpeg Sustainability+Students - STUDENT ORGANIC FARM STAIRCASE The SOF staircase was a design build project to create a connection between the Student Organic Farm and Clemson Universities greater campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443645236946-0KQAL9RNF120EOOWCEJR/image-asset.jpeg Sustainability+Students - STUDENT ORGANIC FARM STAIRCASE The SOF staircase was a design build project to create a connection between the Student Organic Farm and Clemson Universities greater campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443645377369-S0D6QCJYWZLY273PWMPX/NORTH.JPG Sustainability+Students - connections The Student Organic Farm {SOF} Staircase was designed to connect the SOF directly to Clemson University Campus. Though the farm boarders the campus, there is no pedestrian access and vehicular access is long and out-of-the-way. This severely limits the SOF’s ability to host events, such as their annual Farm Aid Festival, and connect to the students of the university https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443645441234-L97GXFNI9637EE24TH1J/coldstair.jpg Sustainability+Students - students As part of a Creative Inquiry, Professor Dan Harding and a team of 5 undergraduate students {including myself} tackled this project as full design and build. We spend the first half of the Fall 2011 semester designing the stair. Our mantra for the project was “connectivity, accessibility, and sustainability”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443645433191-EYMR58E2YFA6XIB0VJ9G/stairs+west.jpg Sustainability+Students - future The original design called for a lookout porch that turned into an ADA accessibly ramp that took one straight to the main farm buildings. But, due to a lack of funds, we simplified our immediate design into a stair with a lookout point. But, we continued to spec-out the ramp design for future farm construction. This project received a 2011 SEED Structures for Inclusion Honorable Mention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443645404323-MQZWCE0KZC4PP765OWLH/plant+detail.jpg Sustainability+Students https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1443645439531-ZKNWEE5ORV1JF0QY3TNF/IMG_2469.JPG Sustainability+Students http://www.mellistaylor.com/avl-pods daily 0.75 2014-10-01 http://www.mellistaylor.com/aboutme daily 0.75 2015-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445102105039-TS9OCCGC4MF9WRLBYDHO/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAJLAAAAJDA2OGYwMDVlLTAwZTktNDA2ZS1hNzEzLTBiNjBkYzNjNzAzZQ.jpg Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542c1264e4b00b1a249786f0/1445102762147-MYXO5TWZDQR5R8GHIDV1/image-asset.png Me http://www.mellistaylor.com/resume daily 0.75 2015-10-17 http://www.mellistaylor.com/vacancyworkspace daily 0.75 2015-10-05