Taylor Architecture - Project descriptions

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1952 - 1982 • 1982 - 2005 • 2006 - 2007

Taylor Architecture

Project Descriptions
159 through 171
2007 - 2008

As of June, 2007, when this URL was first posted there are 11 active 2007 projects (159 - 169) in development. In addition, an equal number of projects from the 2005 - 2006 period are also still active with a number of them likely to remain so for a number of years. This work, as a body, is satisfyingly varied in many dimensions of practice [link: practice]: geography, type of building(s), kinds of setting and landscape, project size and scope, services rendered, size and kind of clients and their organizations, degree of challenge to our existing capabilities, economic consequences, ValueWeb participation, project duration, and strategic fit to the mission [link: mission] of MG Taylor. This is, of course, congruent with the goals of TSM Architecture as it is the only way to develop the knowledge, capacity and kind of practice we seek.

It is certain that over the 6 months remaining in this year and the 12 of 2008 a fair number of projects will be added making these the busiest years, in our history, by far - a practice is being born [future link]. It is not our desire to build a huge practice. It is our intent to be able to practice across the entire range of wok which we consider to be architectural in nature [link: basic architectural practice course notes - scope] from single dwellings to, ultimately, planetary and space architecture.

There are three aspects of this period which may make this work significant: First, beyond manufacturing components and furniture we will be involved with building and field project management than we have in three decades; second, we will be recreating the entire drawing and documentation process of Design/Build/Use practices; third, our design capability, because of these technical improvements and a greater range of opportunities, will flower and begin to achieve the art of architecture we have sought for so long. This will not come easy as we are learning on Work #159 the Leopard Studio Addition. It will take a tight integration of these elements plus the ability to exercise good judgment in regards just how far we push each project. Setting the right level-of-ambition is critical for our success. The downside slopes on both sides - too conservative or too radical - are equally dangerous.

The next 18 months will be ones of execution, execution, execution and if we can sustain it there is the possibility of being in an entirely new place by 2009-10. Work like #159, the Stan Leopard Studio Addition, in many ways, illustrates the critical step in this process. Projects such as this bring the capability I developed in the 60s to the AI work of the last 15 years to the opportunities we have in first decade of this century. These projects can smooth the path to the projects which are ahead.

Work 159
2007 - Leopard Studio Addition

leopard_studio_addition

Preliminary Plan view of Studio.

click on drawing
to go to web page

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Stan Leopard
Design, Manufacture, Project Manage, turn-key environment
Matt Taylor
Matt Taylor, Fred Stitt, Dick Lowndes, AI Shop
This is a HabitatMakers ValueWeb Project
Sebastopol, California
In Design Development
A POD Greenhouse - see Work #126 - Studio. A personal workspace for Stan Leopard off the front entry of his house.

[link:habitatit makers vallue web]

livability_project_prototype

Work 160
2007 - Livability Project Prototype

2001
(drawing in progress)

[future link]

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Livability Project
Board Advisor - Schematic Concepts
Matt Taylor
n/a
Sebastopol, California
Planning Stage
W.

co_op_village_concept

Work 161
2007 - CO-Op Villages

2001
(drawing in progress)

[future link]

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CO-Op Villages
Commentary and Feedback
Matt Taylor
n/a
Florida
Work Ongoing
W.

moma_group_genius_exhibit

Work 162
2007 - MOMA Exibit

2001
(drawing in progress)

[future link]

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MOMA Collective Genius Exibit - 2008
Develop Concept
Matt Taylor
Matt Taylor, Gail Taylor
New York City
Work Ongoing
W.

xanadu_abscape

Work 163
2007 - Xanadu Abscape

[future link]

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Stan Leopard
Design, Build
Matt Taylor
n/a
Sebastopol, California
Work Ongoing
W.

leopard_guest_house_2

Work 164
2007 - Leopard Guest House
& Patio Trellis

2001
(drawing in progress)

[future link]

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Stan Leopard
Design, Project Manage
Matt Taylor
n/a
Sebastopol, California
Work Ongoing
W.

office_hotelling_prototype

Work 165
2007 - Office Hotelling Prototype

2001
(confidential until completed)

Publication when client approves

[future link]

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confidential until completed
confidential until completed
Matt Taylor
n/a
confidential until completed
confidential until completed
W.

Work 166
2007 - Studio Treehouse @ Elsewhere

2001
(drawing in progress)

[future link]

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Matt and Gail Taylor
Study
Matt Taylor
n/a
Elsewhere
In design
A small elevator Studio that. rises on cables to 75 feet high in a redwood tree cluster and overlooks the ocean a mile away.

Work 167
2007 - Masters Academy Snowflake Demonstration

SnowFlake original configuration

[future link]

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M
D
C
M
C
P
W.

Work 168
2007 - Masters Classroom Prototype

2001
(drawing in progress)

[future link]

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M
D
C
M
C
P
W.

Work 169
2007 - Extremadura NavCenter

Picture of abandoned cement factory to be recreated as a Center to facilitate the making of a region-wide “replacement economy”

[future link]
[link: trip to spain]

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confidential until completed
confidential until completed
Matt Taylor
n/a
confidential until completed
confidential until completed
W.

Work 170
2007 - Minneapolis VA NavCenter

[future link]

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c
c
Bill Blackburn
n/a
c
c
W.

space_colonies

Work 171
2007 - Space Colonies Redux

[future link]

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c
c
Matt Taylor
n/a
c
c
W.

Work 172
2007 - Offices

[future link]

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c
c
Matt Taylor
n/a
c
c
W.

Work 173
2007 - CyberCon Media POD

media_pod

Schenatic Model of POD

click on drawing
to go to web page

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AI Product and Several Client Environments
Design, Build, Use - Manufacture
Matt Taylor
Mat Taylor, Rodney Meadows, Mike Byrne and AI Shop Crew
Client environments in Nashville and Virginia
In Development and Installed in Virginia
Any application of the CybeCon concept and its integration with work processes and work environment creating a technology POD with multiple applications.

The sum of this work will be my topic at this ending explanation of our 2007 and 2008 work. I will leave this to later after the work it further developed and the year more behind us rather than ahead.

There is no following
URL, yet...
Work #173 is the most recent logged in project

GoTo: Work # 158

Matt Taylor
Elsewhere
June 11, 2007

SolutionBox voice of this document:
VISION • STRATEGY • EVALUATION

posted: June 11, 2007
revised: June 12, 2007

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