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Tim Wood
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Artist, designer, and programmer. Recent UIC MArch graduate on the path to becoming a licensed Architect.

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A little peek into how the job search is going after graduating with a Masters of Architecture into a sluggish market
A news article titled "A black hole: New graduates discover a dismal job market" Recent college graduates searching for jobs are finding that practical degrees, work experience and even connections are no match for sluggish hiring. A news article showing "College used to open doors—now even grads with master’s degrees are sending 60 job applications a month with no luck" A news article showing "U.S. Construction Slows Sharply Following Tariff Announcements" An article showing the decrease in architecture billings over the last three years
August 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Brought the whole family out for #NoKings. A thousand or so demonstrators even in the sleepy Chicago suburbs!
A family at a protest rally holds up two signs. One is a variation on workplace safety signs that reads ‘249 years without kings. Democracy is no accident’. The other shows an Among Us character that looks like the president with the text ‘Orange is sus, vote him out’
June 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Similar strategy to Candillis’ Honeycomb! Hopefully can resist the double height spaces being bricked in.

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Nid d’abeille building in Casablanca shortly after construction, with alternating double height balconies Nid d’abeille building in Casablanca many years after construction, with all double height balconies bricked in by residents
May 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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For rooms with three doors, the total number of permutations is 220 (12*11*10) / (3*2*1), but is reduced to 30 unique reflections.
Thirty permutations of rooms with three doorways each are shown with a red line denoting the circulation paths through the room, and yellow areas showing the remaining usable space.
April 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The same exercise can be done to show all the permutations of rooms with two doorways, and the effect on the size of uninterrupted usable space
Twelve permutations of rooms with two doorways each are shown with a red line denoting the circulation path through the room, and yellow areas showing the remaining usable space.
April 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Overlaying circulation paths shows the remaining usable space for the function of the room
A diagram of two single-room floor plans, each with a single door. A red line denotes the circulation path into the room, and a yellow area shows the remaining usable space.
April 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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As a simplification, I'm considering a room with 4 walls, each with 3 door positions, left, right, and center. This yields 12 permutations, but by taking some rooms as reflections of others, can be reduced to 2 homeomorphic equivalents (see topologist donut and coffee cup meme)
A diagram shows 12 examples of rooms with one doorway. On the north, south, east, and west walls of a square room, the doorway can be in the left, center, or right side of the wall. The twelve example rooms can be reduced to 2 examples, one with a door in the center of the wall, and one with the door in a corner.
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I've been thinking about room layouts lately, and wanted to do some analysis on how door placement impacts traffic patterns, which in turn impacts furniture placement.
A comparison of two floor plans of rooms which each have three connected doorways. In one plan, the circulation path to the doors is located against one wall, allowing the furniture to be arranged adjacent to each other. In the other plan, the circulation path runs through the middle of the furniture, disconnecting armchairs on one side from couches on the other.
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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One of the miniature scenes that my daughter and I put together, a figure buried among the flowers, overgrown with moss.

#architecture #miniature #model #art
An architectural scale figure lays among some flowers, the sleeping body overgrown with a blanket of moss
March 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Based on my son's vision, some leftover architecture scale models are arranged with a twig as a hockey stick, a bit of an acorn cap as a puck, and a rock as a goal.

#architecture #miniature #model #art
Small architectural scale figures are arranged into mini-scenes. One figure holds a twig that approximates a hockey stick
March 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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My 6 year old put together this mini scene with leftover chairs and scale figures from my school projects and a bit of petrified wood from a vacation to Arizona a couple years back as a desk.

#architecture #miniature #model #art
Small architectural scale figures are arranged on a mini-chair, with some rocks glued together as a desk
March 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The kids dug out some of my old architecture modeling supplies, and we had some fun gluing together some little scenes on some spare tiles I had laying around.

#architecture #miniature #model #art
A top-down view of some hexagonal tiles with architectural scale figures glued among moss and rocks and sticks to create individual scenes
March 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I polished up some of the sections and elevations for the a-frame I built for the kids this summer.

Semi-transparent polycarbonate sheets over a wood-frame structure

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#architecture #aframe #construction #diy
An architectural drawing of the side of an a-frame, with a woman sitting on the edge of the patio An architectural drawing of the end of an a-frame, with a woman standing inside for scale reference An architectural section drawing through the triangular side of an aframe, showing the structural members used to construct the building An architectural section drawing through the rectangular side of an aframe, showing the structural members used to construct the building. A child and a kneeling man are shown as a scale reference
February 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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You know whatever you find in this jar goes so hard
A vintage cookie jar decorated with Yosemite Sam, guns ablaze
January 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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A little dust and some wear and tear on the railing, but still looks good
A paper craft project that appears to be a mini alleyway with a coffee shop and bookstore, meant to be put on a bookshelf as a mini world between adjacent books
December 18, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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I was just thinking about these earlier today after seeing this James Wines drawing at the art institute in Chicago!
An architectural drawing shows a section through a tower, with smaller homes and buildings embedded between the floor plates
December 1, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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I spent the last couple months building an aframe in the backyard as a playhouse for my kids. They were great first clients after six years in architecture school!
A wooden a-frame structure with opaque white plastic roofing letting diffused light into the interior.
November 12, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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These breeze blocks look really nice when two different patterns are mixed together www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2SD...
October 10, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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We have a wooden walkway from out driveway to our front door that has been slowly rotting and falling apart for the past few years and I'm seriously considering using these clay breeze blocks as permeable pavers for the replacement
A wall of terracotta breeze blocks in the corner of a backyard A wall of decorative terracotta breeze blocks used under the front counter of a restaurant
October 10, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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This is Barley, who puts up with the kids when they put glasses and other ad-hoc costumes on her
A black yorkie-poodle with glasses lies her head on a couch
September 19, 2024 at 1:06 AM