Sean Stillwell's portfolio showcases his education and experience in architecture, fabrication, and art. He has a Master of Architecture from California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metal Sculpture. His portfolio demonstrates his diverse skills in 3D modeling, graphic design, fabrication, and conceptual art projects.
2. Sean Stillwell Education
831.252.7849
sstillwell@cca.edu California College of the Arts
MArch 3, Architecture Graduate Program
July 2009 to Present [3 year program]
• Developed skills and thought processes crucial for
success in the field of Architecture.
• 3D design, model making, drawing, & exploring
alternate methods of conveying/ exploring ideas.
• Published at eVolo.us May 2011
CAD Teacher, San Diego, CA
Revit I and II
January 2009 to March 2009
• Basic drafting and 3D modeling through schedules,
area details, callouts with detail components,
importing and exporting to AutoCAD.
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metal Sculpture
Fall 2000 to Winter 2005
Minor in Science Illustration
• Fundamentals in making techniques, 2D and 3D, in
multiple medias, as well as developing conceptual
thinking.
• William H. & Susan B. Irwin Scholarship Grant Winner
• Student Member of the Faculty Selection Committee
3. Experience Software
OBR Architecture June & July 2009 • Rhino®
• Grasshopper®
obrarchitecture.com • Revit®
OBR Architecture is a young & accomplished • Autocad®
Architectural Firm in San Diego having opened • Adobe® Illustrator®
its doors in 2008. • Adobe® Photoshop®
Position: Graphic & 3D Design • Adobe® InDesign®
• 3D Design in Sketch up • Adobe® Dreamweaver®
• Graphic Design in Photoshop/Illustrator. • Adobe® Acrobat®
• Microsoft® Office / Excel®
Blue Motif Architecture July 2008 – July 2009 • PC & MAC based
operating systems
bluemotifarchitecture.com
Blue Motif is an award winning Architectural
firm in San Diego. Fabrication Skills
Position: Presentation Design
• Developed Proposal Strategies and Material
for the new Cultural Center at UCSD with • Precision Machining & Milling
digital and print media. • MIG, TIG, Stick welding on
Stainless Steel, Steel,
Reside Inc./MAKE Fabrication|May 2008 - July 2009 Aluminum,and Bronze.
• Bronze Casting: Mold making,
makefabrication.wordpress.com Investment/Ceramic Shell,
Reside Inc. is a branding corp. specializing Pouring Metal, Refinishing,
in custom thematic signage and contracting. Patina, and Installation.
Position:Fabrication / Installation • Casting: Resin, rubber,
• Design and Fabrication of signage in metal, polyurethane, rockite, concrete
wood, Acrylic, glass, and other materials. fiberglass, plaster, wax,
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• Welding (MIG and TIG), precision milling, life casting, etc.
Sean Stillwell
and other machining of parts for installation. • Mixed Media: woodworking,
• Installation of signage and other custom ceramic, acrylic & oil painting,
products on commercial and private properties. water color, ink, graphite, etc.
4. Compressive Plan Diagram Gateway:
Parking Ramp Radius Study View to Abu Dhabi (west)
Compressive
Exotic Variables
Instructor:
Thom Faulders
Spring 2011
Abu Dhabi is a car culture. The vast distances
between destinations, the extreme heat and sand
storms, the quality of the existing public
transportation systems, and the current low cost of
petrol in the UAE make the automobile the default
means of travel.
Compressive looks at this existing condition and more
specifically, the car as a representation of human N
beings’ very worst and very best achievement. The way
western society, and emerging societies around the
world have implemented the automobile is both
irresponsible and inexcusable. While the resources
consumed to manufacture and operate the car are
astounding, the personal freedom the car affords is
something that every society should strive for
(personal freedom, that is). The car is an integral Museum of
component of our existing lifestyle, and one that the Future
will not fade without a reexamination of our entire & Restaurant
public transportation system.
Compressive reexamines the interaction between the
person and the car at various scales and questions Real Estate
the current understanding of the parking lot as a Offices
type of “service space.” It looks forward to a time & Cafe
when emissions will be reduced and people and cars
may inhabit the same spaces comfortably given that
safety, congestion, and the integration of various Tourist
forms of transportation have been resolved. These Bureau
“service spaces” that we call parking lots may
eventually be seen as destinations in themselves.
Transportation
Hub & Cafe
Perspective Diagram
Programatic Expansion & Contraction
Precedent studies:
Marina Herzog & de Meuron, 1111
City
LTL: Park Tower Foster + Partners: Masdar City
Compressed Site Plan: *NTS
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Saadiyat Island:
Gateway to Abu Dhabi N View Approaching Underpass (North)
5. Facade Operation Uncompressed
& Pedestrian Pathways State
By utilizing the car as
another form of vertical
transportation the building
can begin to register
occupation by the reacting
to the weight of cars parked
on various floors. By
sectionally arranging the
main programs of this mixed
use tower, groups of up to 5 Compression:
floors will actually begin Indicates Occupation
to sag with the weight of
cars based on program use at 19th Floor Plan
different times throughout
the day. The dynamic façade
system intensifies this
condition by folding out and
up when the floors compress Transverse
allowing for increased Section
ventilation throughout the
parking area to counter act
the greater number of cars.
Whatever solar protection is Uncompressed
lost by the folding façade State
is made up by the new
condition of shorter
floor-to-floor height of the Operational
surrounding parking ramps.
The compression is brought
back to the scale of the
human where the yellow
pedestrian paths make their
way from the parking spaces
across the car ramps to the
interior. When a car Weight Based
approaches a pedestrian path & Operational
the road reacts locally to
the car’s weight, causing an Compression:
inverted speed bump and Indicates Occupation
ensuring pedestrian safety.
Fixed System Weight Based
This reaction to the weight
of occupation allows the
user an intuitive
understanding of not only
their own impact on the N 5’ 10’ 20’
space, but the impact of
the aggregated population
surrounding them.
Transverse Section 5’10’ 20’ Sectional Model 1’=1/8”
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Compression:
Uncompressed State Indicating Occupation
6. Studio 3
MArch Living in JapanTown - San Francisco
Fall 2010
Instructors:
C. Falliers
& A. Sparks
“We have no choice but to reformulate the
dialectical constituents of the world, to
determine more consciously the necessary links
obtaining between place and production, between
the ”what” and the “how.”... With the manifest hong kong: kawloon walled city: circa 1960 hong kong: kawloon walled city: 1992
exhaustion of non-renewable resources the
techno-topic myth of unlimited progress becomes
somewhat discredited and, at this juncture, the
production of place returns us by way of
economic limit not to architecture, but to
the... [Heideggarian notion] of Blaukunst ...
Since what is fatally tied to the relevant
optimal sub-categories of production, not only
those of built form itself, but also those
structurally productive forces that implicitly
shape the built environment as elements of
our relations to nature.”
- Kenneth Frampton
The erosion of the Peace Plaza at
JapanTown enabled a more direct N N
access between the existing sidewalk
erosion of peace plaza exposing existing structure infrastructural truss utilizing existing structure
elevations at Post and Geary street
using ADA ramp standards to influ-
ence the path and location. This
erosion also exposed the existing
structural columns that could be
exploited for new construction. This
project explored parasitic architec-
ture as the most extreme form of
Critical Regionalism and the future
of Car/Pedestrian interaction.
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post street
section: north - south
*NTS
geary street
7. birds eye view north post street
section:
north - south
MArch
section:
east - west
japan town:
peace plaza
view from integrated space
geary street
1st Floor Plan
N
*NTS
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section: east - west plan unit detail: 1st 2nd Floor
*NTS *NTS
8. Studio 2
Museum of Architecture and the City:
Architectural Topography
Spring 2010
Lecture
Instructor: T. Faulders Space &
The architectural augmentation Roof Garden
of topography throughout San
Francisco, the “city of hills,”
is a condition that a museum of Wind Turbines
architecture should communi- Permanent Collection
cate.
While this condition will education
continue to evolve with the Archives center
built environment, the amplifi-
cation is a product of code at Reading Library
the scale of the city, the Room
neighborhood, the block, and Installation
the building. Gallery
The buildings surrounding the Virtual
site in question step down from Black Box
40+ stories to 15+ stories (the
Administrative
specification for MA+C) &
finally to the ground level of
Offices
the plaza adjacent to our site
Galleries:
& the Yerba Buena center across
Special Shows
Mission Street. The existing
flow of architectural topogra- The Urban
phy cuts through the proposed
Coffee Model
volume of MA+C creating a Lobby
novel condition of interior Bar Book
and exterior spaces. Store
Plans 1-10 *NTS N
Installation education Wind Lecture Space
Gallery center Turbines
Ticketing The Urban Library
Model Galleries: Admin. Virtual
Lobby Receiving Black Box
Secial Shows Offices
&Storage Reading Archives
Room
Roof Garden
Coffee Permanent
Book
Bar Collection
Store
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Averaging Architecural Topography as it Traverses MA+C
9. Lecture
Space &
Roof Garden
Mechanical
Wind Turbines
Permanent Collection
Archives
education
center
Reading
Room
Installation
Gallery
Virtual
Black Box
Administrative
Offices
Galleries:
Special Shows
The Urban
Model
Lobby Book
Store
North - South Longitudinal Section *NTS
View From the Plaza Apparatus to Experience
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Circulaiton Diagrams: Following Up Around Void View of Special Shows Gallery San Francisco
10. Studio 1 The Albany Bulb:
MArch Project 2 Ground Materiality Influencing Stability: Micro Scale
Diagram By:
Sean Stillwell
Fall 2009 & Gabe Guerriero
Instructors:
J. L’Heureux
& C. Marsh
Investigations of ground
conditions indicate locations
of possible Architectural
intervention on the Albany
Bulb. An understanding of Shoreline
materiality and resulting Idustrial Infill
ground stability was gained Clay
through site research, Top Soil
80
60
40
20
SL
Sand
diagrams, and model making.
Gravel
Modeling was additionally Silt Sediment
used to explore three Sand and Silt
dimensional relationships Clay and Silt
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between topsoil & vegetation Sand,Clay,& Silt
(visible conditions), & the Liquifaction
Stable
foundation of in-filled 0 400 800 1200
Unstable
construction waste materials.
Model 1 Plan N Model 1 Elevation: North
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Model 1 & 2: Study of Stable and Unstable Ground
Wooden Dowels and Laser Cut Plywood
11. The Albany Bulb:
Determining Site Locations
MArch
Model 1 Site
Model 2 Site
Systems Limiting
Intervention
Direction of Slope Grade
& Intensity of Change
0 to -3’
-3 to -5’ Bathymetry
Ground Stability in
term of Liquefaction
N
Vegetation as a
0 400 800 1200 Limiting Volume
Model 2 Elevation:
East / West
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Model 2 Elevation:
Model 1 Elevation: West / East South / North
12. Visual Digital Sectional Perspective: S.Stillwell
Media 1
MArch
Fall 2009
instructor:
A. Steinmuller
An exploration of
representational techniques.
Using Lebbeus Woods as an
example, drawings of the
Loisium Hotel in Langenlois,
Austria were produced.
By Lebbeus Woods By Lebbeus Woods
By Lebbeus Woods
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Sectional Perspective: S.Stillwell
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2
1
Death & 3
3 Polite 2
Dinner
Conver- 5
sation 4
Senior
1
Show ucsc
1
4
5
Undergraduate
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16. The series “Patriotic From the Waist Down”
is comprised of 3 cast bronze belt buckles. These
works question the notion of patriotism and ones
own relationship to it. Every symbol used can be
interpreted differently with both positive and
negative connotations depending on perspective.
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17. These works are the part of the series
called “Best Intentions.” This body of
work deals with the layering of individuals
and the cultures they live in. As these
layers interact they begin to break away,
engulf, reveal, and conceal the layers both
beneath and surrounding them.
Slurpy Lid Painting 1-4
Supersoaker Sculpture 1 (2-4 N.S.)
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![Sean Stillwell Education
831.252.7849
sstillwell@cca.edu California College of the Arts
MArch 3, Architecture Graduate Program
July 2009 to Present [3 year program]
• Developed skills and thought processes crucial for
success in the field of Architecture.
• 3D design, model making, drawing, & exploring
alternate methods of conveying/ exploring ideas.
• Published at eVolo.us May 2011
CAD Teacher, San Diego, CA
Revit I and II
January 2009 to March 2009
• Basic drafting and 3D modeling through schedules,
area details, callouts with detail components,
importing and exporting to AutoCAD.
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metal Sculpture
Fall 2000 to Winter 2005
Minor in Science Illustration
• Fundamentals in making techniques, 2D and 3D, in
multiple medias, as well as developing conceptual
thinking.
• William H. & Susan B. Irwin Scholarship Grant Winner
• Student Member of the Faculty Selection Committee](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)