MICHAEL SOUTH

     
PORTFOLIO.2024

The following work is comprised of selected undergraduate works completed at Pratt Institute, as well as personal projects related to the field of architecture, woodworking and textiles.

Table of Contents

Selected Professional Work
    GLOW + FLOW - HAWTHORNE, CA

Selected Undergraduate Work - Pratt Institute

    NASA X-HAB --------4th Year
    THESIS ------------5th Year
    CLAY 3D PRINTING --5th Year     
    COMMUNITY CENTER --3rd Year

StudioOoni - Custom Furniture/Millwork
    GREENPOINT HEADBOARD
    POLK RECORD CABINET
    RISON CABINETS
    Ooni LAMP V.1
    Ooni LAMP V.2
    
Unit Studio - Fashion
    3-SEAM BUTTON-UP
    CANOPY JACKET
    U-SHORTS
    HOODED ANORAK
    FOUR POCKET BUTTON-UP
    CANVAS CARPENTERS
    FRENCH TERRY WORK JACKET
    GUNNER SMOCK
 
   
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01 GLOW+FLOW - HAWTHORNE, CA

While working at Chadha Ranch, I completed all schematic design for this Glow+Flow retail location in  Hawthorne, California.

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02 NASA X-HAB MOON TO MARS

In this year-long, granted studio by NASA, 11 students and I were tasked with designing and developing a long-term habitat on Earth’s Moon for astronauts to conduct research and experiments.

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03 THESIS
 
This proposal argues that experiential consumerism was killed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a SoHo that offers a street level free of conventional shopping by bringing working artists into vacant ground-floor retail spaces. 

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764—08/22 
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04 CLAY 3D PRINTING 

An investigation of historic hollow voussoir construction from the Roman Empire using cutting edge clay 3D printing.

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764—08/22 
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05 COMMUNITY CENTER
 
Alvar Aalto’s Finnish City Center was utilized as precedent for this community center that doubles as a storm shelter.
  
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764—01/20 
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06 POLK RECORD CABINET

A custom mixing station and record storage cabinet for a local Brooklyn DJ fabricated in Red Oak. 

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764—01/24 
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07 RISON CABINETS 

Two large storage cabinets fabricated in Red Oak, stained in with a vanilla cream oil finish. Milled, solid oak spherical door pulls are the highlight of these cabinets.

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764—10/23 
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08 Ooni LAMP V.1

Fabricated from basswood and paper, this lightweight lamp is perfectly cozy. 

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09 Ooni LAMP V.2

Fabricated from basswood and paper, this lightweight lamp is perfectly cozy.  

Same as version 1, this version utilizes coloured tissue paper to meet the client’s request for coloured light.

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764—09/24 
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10 GREENPOINT HEADBOARD

This large headboard doubles as a wall unit and radiator cover. 

Fabricated in sapele mahogany, the unit features three small closed cabinets and underlit book shelves above the radiator. 

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764—09/24 
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 11 3-SEAM BUTTON-UP

 100% grey and brown linen short sleeve button-up.

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764—08/24 
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 12 CANOPY JACKET

 Lightweight zippered jacket made from deadstock  recycled military parachute.

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764—07/24 
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 13 U-SHORTS
 
 Light shorts constructed with a linen body and  structural nylon twill waistband.

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764—07/24 
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 14 HOODED ANORAK

 Lightweight two-button anorak made from cotton  plaid cotton shirt and blue linen.

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764—08/24 
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 15 FOUR POCKET BUTTON-UP

 Garment-dyed purple, front cutout pockets spatter  the front of this button-up.

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764—07/24 
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 16 CARPENTER PANTS

 Constructed from heavy weight canvas, these work  pants are a variation on typical carpenter pants.

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764—07/24 
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 17 FRENCH TERRY WORK JACKET

 Made from scrap french terry lined with scrap  linen and garment dyed ‘black’.

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764—03/24 
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18 DENIM GUNNER SMOCK

Constructed from denim scraps scabbed back together to make full panels, this is modeled after a WW2 Navy Gunner’s Smock.

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764—12/23 
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