Portfolio_DMcLean_February2020

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Architecture

Devin McLean Portfolio

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0.0 Contact: Phone 720.331.3301 Email dmclean3@huskers.unl.edu LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/dbmclean

Contents: Section 1 Design Studio Projects/Pgs. 4-37

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Section 2 Design-Build Projects/Pgs. 38-49

2.1 Section 3 Supplemental/Pgs. 50-59

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Individual Work

The Contemporary Art Museum of Omaha (CAMO) is designed with a formalistic approach that meets the program need while re-interpreting the surrounding context. The building uses smaller blocks to create a larger mass, similar to the surrounding historic structures. The mass of the building crosses the urban edge and defines a pedestrian zone at its base.

The atrium connects vertically between all floors.

The ground floor is the pedestrian zone and is largely transparent. The second level supports the museum with education and administration.

The third level is split between the top-lit galleries. The promenade alternates between the inward oriented galleries and moments of connection back to the city.

Year Five Semester One Professor: Craig Babe

Formal Design in an Urban Setting

Contemporary Art Musuem-Omaha

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Concept Massing_Step 1: The surrounding context is comprised of smaller blocks forming a larger whole. Divisions in the adjacent buildings become delineating lines on the site.

resulting areas are extruded vertically to create volumes. The heights are varied according to the surrounding building heights.

Concept Space_1: Lobby with connection to the Street Gallery and Members’ Lounge.

Concept Space_2: Street-level Gallery with connection to public space.

Concept Massing_Step 3: The masses are shifted to address the new edge condition created by newer buildings. Intrusions into the new zone become glazed. The footprint of the existing building is removed to become void.

Concept Space_3: Main stairway as circulation and outside connection.

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masses are rotated into the sight lines from the approach corridors. This disrupts the urban edge condition.

The gaps between the blocks become interstitial circulation space.

bases of each mass are raised from the ground level. This creates a sheltered pedestrian zone at the base of the building.

Concept Space_4: Main gallery with top daylighting.

Concept Space_5: Main gallery with top daylighting.

Concept Space_6: Upper level corridor with visual connection to the city.

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The LNK_MoW is a multi-use project in the South Haymarket area of Lincoln, Nebraska.

The project will be a new hub for the emerging neighborhood, containing housing, offices, and the Lincoln Museum of Walking. The Museum will not represent an exhibit, but rather the idea of walking through a city. The ground floor is a hypostyle plan, inverted from the solid/void relationship of the city grid. It will host numerous events to enrich the area. The office space is tailored to B-Corps to promote social responsibility. The LNK_MoW employs numerous engineered timber systems. Lower levels are framed with glu-laminated timbers that minimize the need for steel connections.

The upper levels are built from cross-laminated timber. Cladding is dark brick, which re-interprets the material language the historic warehouse district.

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Year Four Semester Two Professor: Jason Griffiths

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Phase II Glue_Lam Bents are Assembled Flat.

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Perimeter Beam Installed.

Phase III CLT Floor Panels Installed.

CLT Panles are fabricated.

Panels are shipped to off-site storage.

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Phase IV Second Level Wall Panels Installed.

Third Level Structural Wall Panels Installed.

Phase V Fourth Level Structural Wall Panels Installed.

Phase VI Structural Roof Panels Installed.

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Platte River Prairies is former agricultural land that has been restored to native prairie habitats

by The Nature Conservancy. The only existing facilities are a house and workshop left from the farm operations. These are used to support long-term researchers, educational groups, and excursions such as bird watching trips. The studio collaborated with The Nature Conservancy to try and address their needs. The resulting proposal provided oďŹƒce and lab space, a meeting facility, and restroom accommodations, in a format where the units could be closed o when not in use. The area between the units serves as an educational garden. A walkway connects the units and provides an accessible connection from the parking lot to the trail head.

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Year Three Semester Two Professor: Ashley Byars, Bill DeRoin

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Award: College of Architecture PAC Prize, 2018 Zai Du Maji, Jordan Morris

Year Four Semester One Professor: Tim Hemsath Collaborator:

Spencer Homes is a tract of barracks-style, aordable housing owned by the Omaha Housing Authority (OHA). The north Omaha site is lacking in numerous measures, from proximity to stores or jobs. Our studio spent the first part of the semester designing a master plan for the conceptual re-development of Spencer Homes in collaboration with OHA. The second phase developed the Community Center portion of the plan. Sustainable design was emphasized through all phases of the project. The plan includes features like eďŹƒcient central utilities, rain gardens, and renewable power generation.

The Community Center was entered in the ACSA COTE Top Ten: Innovation 2030 Challenge.

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[Re]Connecting Spencer

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The second portion of the semester was developing the community center portion of the master plan. The building program includes housing, recreational space, and room for daycare and after school programs. The bridge carries the path and utility connections, and hosts gardens and solar panels. The path cuts through the building mass to reach ground level from the bridge. The center emphasizes sustainable design.

Energy analysis was preformed with Sefaira, The Zero Tool, and NREL’s PV Watts Calculator. The north and west facades are banked to reduce energy losses.

The gabions around the building sequester debris demolished from on site.

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Stormwater management based on the COTE 2030 rainwater spreadsheet

Interior spaces lit with ambient North Light

North facade banked with displaced soil to reduce energy losses

Building Integration June 21

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Sound Batt ACT Ceiling GPWB R-13 Batt-Insualtion Metal Stud Frame Rigid Insulation

Sefaira analyzed baseline building

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Zero Tool Baseline EUI Capillary Break Slab-on-Grade R-10 Rigid Insulation

Energy Use Intensity Analysis

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Alfredo Vera, Daniell Durham, Darian Scott, David Alcala, Eric Engler, Hannah Christy, Joe Croghan, Justin DeFields, Kristen Schulte, Ruslan White, Scott Kenney, Virginia Gromley

Collaborators:

Year Three Semester Summer Professor: Jason GriďŹƒths

Basic Shelter

Emerge

2.1 This three-week design-build seminar took place on-site at the Bauman Family Tree Farm in Crow, Oregon. The project was conceived as a basic cabin, for use by visitors to the site. The shell was pre-fabricated of CLT and delivered to the site. The siting, fenestration, and cladding were designed and constructed by the class members. The final design draws from the onsite vernacular structures, a series of buildings associated with a former saw mill. The project incorporates elements to educate visitors about the process of timber manufacturing and construction.

Award: 2017 Regional Excellence in Wood Design, WoodWorks

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Year Five Semester Two Professor: Jason GriďŹƒths Collaborators: Paige Nelson, Charles Dowd

Re-Interpreting A Lost Vernacular

The Sod House

2.2 The Sod House is perhaps the most recognizable icon of settlement on the prairie. Its simple form sheltered of settlers as they tired to make their way in a harsh land. Despite this legacy, the typology of the Sod House has all but vanished from the American plains.

The Sand Hills Scenic Biway Interpretive Center in Broken Bow, NE, wishes to re-connect visitors with the Sod House. This graduate design-build project called for an investigation into the history, meaning, and icon of sod construction. This investigation allowed for the desgin of an educational Sod House for the contemporary era.

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Year Six Semester One Professor: Jason GriďŹƒths Collaborators: Brenton Rahn

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Santee Sioux Fitout

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The Santee Sioux Family Support Center is the result of several years of collaboration between graduate studios in the College of Architecture and the Santee Sioux Tribe in northern Nebraska. Successive groups of students concieved, designed, and detailed the project.

Our group was assigned to design and detail the fit-out elements to complete the interior of the facility. The scope included built-in benches, and window and door frames. The benches in particular required extensive detailing to include utility chases and integrated utilities.

The first critical theme was that the project began with student work, and would be completed with student work. The second major theme was to continue advancing the use of engineered mass timber in the United states. To that end, the installations were designed using nextgeneration CLT, such as that produced under the Novatop name. The third theme was to analyze our own work in such a way that the system could be employed on future designbuild projects.

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Saunders Central is the resulting proposal of a seminar on rural healthcare design. The main arc of the class began with identifying and mapping various health issues in the rural region around Wahoo, Nebraska. This project primarily looked at issues of air quality, respiratory health, and cancer. This analysis was then used to develop conceptual proposals for the Saunders Medical Center. The SMC is a local hospital that recently acquired a vacant building in the center of the town of Wahoo. The resulting proposal was for a multi-use community hub. The space would combine community education and fitness programs in a location convenient for local residents. There was particular emphasis on connecting resources from surrounding urban areas into the Wahoo Community.

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Year Six Semester One Professor: Bud Shenefelt

Mapping Health Solutions in Ex-Urban Nebraska

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Individual Work

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Analog Drawing

I consider drawing to be more than just a developmental exercise. Drawing allows me to understand ideas in ways that are not as apparent when using digital design processes. I believe that traditional techniques can still have a place in contemporary design practice. The following pages contain examples of work I have done in both academic and personal contexts.

Oregon Barns The on-site vernacular of barns and sheds associated with the timber industry heavily influenced the Oregon design-build project. The buildings represent local history. These three drawings capture the banal yet crucial structures.

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Drawing Studio The Drawing Studio was a 3-week exercise taught by Prof. Tom Laging.

The building’s program was intended to support drawing and art groups.

All representations for this project were manually drafted.

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Travel Sketches These sketches are from a series drawn durring a pilgramage trip to Burgundy in France. I recorded the medieval structures through observational sketches.

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