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Daniel Maslan

+44 7888 499087

Education:

M.Arch, Princeton University School of Architecture (2017–2020)
Thesis: Shedi.fi: A Design Platform for Architectural Sheds, Advisor: Erin Besler

B.A. with honors, Architecture, University of California, Berkeley (2011–2015)

Publications and Exhibitions:

Working Remotely (2020)
Work exhibited in the inaugural exhibition at a83 gallery, New York, NY

Rumor (2018 – 2020)
Co-editor-in-chief, https://www.rumor.farm/

“Advertisements for Architecture School” (2020)
with Mariah Smith, Pidgin 27

Loosening the Bauhaus: The Summer Transcripts (2018)
Co-editor with Jamie Lipson in conjunction with research led by Prof. Beatriz Colomina

Selected Awards and Honors:

Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara Scholarship (2017–2019)
UC Berkeley CED Circus Presenter (2014–2015)
UC Berkeley Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship (2011 - 2015)

Technical Skills:

Software: Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, V-Ray, RhinoCAM, SketchUp, Cinema4D, Blender, AR/VR

Coding: HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery

Other: CNC, laser cutting, 3D printing, Zund

Professional Experience (selected):

Designer and Researcher (June 2020–present)
Profs. Erin Besler & Stefana Parascho, Princeton University SoA
"Zero Waste – Making Architecture Fit Together in New Ways"

Researcher (June 2018–August 2019)
Prof. Lucia Allais, Columbia University GSAPP
“Rendering and Experience” (in Design Technics, UMinn Press, 2020), and other projects

Junior Designer (2015–2017)
Office of Ajay Manthripragada, Berkeley, CA
Page House and Gallery, Kains Addition, Wallace Art Shed, Amaranta Addition

Intern (2014, New York)
Ennead Architects LLP, New York, NY
Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and other projects

Teaching Experience (Princeton University SoA):

ARC 205: Interdisciplinary Design Studio (2020)
Assistant in Instruction, with Elisa Silva and Lluís Casanovas Blanco

ARC 311: Building Science and Technology – Building Systems (2018)
Assistant in Instruction, with Prof. V. Mitch McEwen

ARC 547: Introduction to Formal Analysis (2018)
Assistant in Instruction, with Prof. Cameron Wu

Hello, my name is Daniel Maslan 👽I'm an architectural and digital product designer currently based in London.

Explore the items on the floor below to discover my work. Some are full projects, others are case studies and works in progress. This space is permanently under construction and I am continuously adding to, editing, and changing it.

Hello, my name is Daniel Maslan 👽I'm an architectural and digital product designer currently based in London.

I received a B.A. in architecture in from UC Berkeley in 2015 and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University in 2020. For my M.Arch thesis, I designed a design interface for the production of backyard sheds, called Shedifi. While at Princeton, I was co-editor of Rumor, a bi-weekly publication of op-ed building reviews.

I am currently working with a team of professors and students at Princeton to develop a home maintenance app for the circular economy.

Prior to this, I have worked as a freelance graphic designer, web designer, and front-end developer. I have also worked as an architectural designer at Office of Ajay Manthripragada in Berkeley and Ennead Architects LLC in New York. While at Princeton, I worked as an academic researcher and manuscript editor and taught as an assistant for two undergraduate and one graduate level course.

I use Figma and Sketch for interface design and prototyping, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for graphics, Rhino and AutoCAD for 3D modelling and drafting, Grasshopper for parametric modelling, V-Ray for rendering, Cinema4D and Blender for 3D animation, and Adobe After Effects and Premier for video editing.

I make websites and web apps using HTML, CSS, and Javascript and I am currently learning React.

Explore the items on the floor to the right to discover my work. Some are full projects, others are case studies and works in progress. This space is permanently under construction and I am continuously adding to, editing, and changing it.

Feel free to get in touch!

[email protected]

@danielmaslan

+44 7888 499087

(contact and more)

SHEDIFI

Shedifi (2020)

Demo (Password: SHEDIFIME)

A design platform that engages the social media public in a new way of working with architecture through the production of backyard sheds.

M.Arch Thesis, Princeton University School of Architecture

Advisor: Erin Besler

Critics: Sylvia Lavin, Liz Diller

Special thanks to Clara Syme, John Cooper, and Naomi Steinhagen.

Shedifi Infomercial

"Framer's Delight" filter and algorithmic design interface.

"Masonry Madness" filter and algorithmic design interface.

"Tilt-Slab Sonoma" filter and sticker interface.

"Framer's Delight" filter and sticker interface.

"Shedifi Recipe" augmented reality building specs.

RURAL WALL

K-12

K - 12 (2018)

Three rectangles (one parallel to each side of the trapezoidal site) become the containing walls for this K-12 School in Trenton, NJ.

The goal of this design is to create four discrete schools (kindergarden, elementary, middle, and high school) which, on a macro scale, are all integrated into one system of layers, overlaps, and intersections. The resulting space is one of difference disguised as uniformity, randomness disguised as order.

ARC 502 (Spring 2018, Princeton University School of Architecture)
Critics: Mónica Ponce de León, Iman Fayyad.

Site strategy diagrams

Campus plan

Plan excerpt

Unrolled facades showing overlapping aperture systems

Campus model

Study model

Interior elevation

Classroom Courtyard Rendering

Campus Courtyard Rendering

DAY/NIGHT

Day Night

A communal living space for off-peak sleepers. The building is divided into two floors: day and night. In the latter, dwellers’ inverted circadian rhythms are guided by the ambient light emitted by rotating screens.

ARC 505 (Fall 2018, Princeton University School of Architecture)
Critics: Cristina Díaz Moreno, Efrén García Grinda

Inhabitation concept

Floor plan (24-hour rotation)

Rotating floor plans, installation, Princeton SoA

Communal mattress, installation, Princeton SoA

Rotating living/sleeping units: bathing and dressing facilities (below) and sleep-optimizing ambient lighting screens (above) connected by spiral staircases.

Night inhabitation rendering