Faith McGee Portfolio Architecture 2019-2021
Design Outlet
(summer 2019)
This project is all about having a place for students from the design school to accumulate after or between classes. To have a bite to eat, meet friends, and relax and take a breather before getting back to the busy student life. A giant walk in fountain will help give a since of serenity and coolness from the heat.
Floor has tiles with motivational quotes
Water pours over door
West view of sight
Door contraption that stops the water when opened
Fabric
(Fall 2019)
This building was designed for a new and innovate non profit called Fabric that helps fashion designers fulfill their dreams. This company gives designers a place to come and try out their ideas. To create their designs as well as get help starting off their own business. The building has a fashion show room to hold events and help raise money for this non profit organization. They have a spacious maker space that allows designers to create their ideas. There is also retail space that can be rented out for people looking to sell their ideas on their own while also being close enough to get advice and help from Fabric.
Concept: Subtraction, revealing, Expose, Cutting away All these runway outfits would be normal everyday dresses and outfits except pieces have been cut out, or cut off and reformed to make it more unique and abnormal. That is my plan for my building by cutting out pieces to make it unique and abnormal compared to a normal square building. After all the entire point of the building is to hold new creative ideas and to create, make, show and sell new designs. So, the building should hold the same ideals and be new and unique to show that this is not just a normal clothing store but so much more.
Site Plan (Floor 1) Runway space -1 Makerspace -2 Store -3 Gallery -4 Entrance -5 make up/ dressing room -6 co-work class -7 runway storage -8 Rest room -” Break room -9 Makerspace storage -10 Cad and screening room -11 Fashion Library -12 Retail space -*
Site Plan (Floor 2) Media studio -1 Conference room - 2 VIP room - 3 Rest room - “ Apravels office - 4 Outdoor roof space - 5 Elevators - ^
Sections
Sonoran Church of Christ
(Spring 2020)
This desert church is designed to take advantage of natural light to brighten the Sanctuary space with color while also using angles of the walls and ceilings to give a great acoustic experience while in the space. This project revolves around the natural colors and themes of the Sonoran Desert. Nature has alway had a close connection with spirituality and various religions this church pays tribute to where it resides in the Sonoran Desert.
Site from above
Site plan 1 - Sanctuary 12
2 - Reception 3 - storage
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4 - classroom
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5 - Pastors office
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6 - rest room 7 - restroom storage 8 - cross 9 - locker room / rest room 10 - office space 11 - kitchen 12 - basketball court 13 - activity space 14 - Gazebo with reflection pool
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Light Effect
The Sun in the South comes into the long narrow windows and hit these colored walls that are painted as the deferent colors of the desert; Green, red, orange, blue, and yellow. Once the sun hits these colored walls it reflects those colors into the sanctuary space.
Acoustics The walls are angled so that the sound waves from the front of the room will not bounce more then once before they reach the ears of the people in the pews. It is also angled so that no sound waves will ever get trapped between the window and the wall, so that no sound will reach the peoples ears late. The ceiling has this effect as well.
Floor plan perspective
section cut
Section cut of Sanctuary
Carver Hall
(Fall 2020)
This is a renovation project of a building called Carver Hall on Iowa State University campus. The 3rd, 4th and roof floor have been changed to accommodate a new program of cloaboration/ relaxation spaces. These spaces also use biophilia to promote collaboration and ideas, to boost morale and allow students and staff to de-stress.
New floor plan (3rd floor) 1 - Class rooms 2 - break room 3 - Open Lab 4 - Conference room 5 - Teaching Lab 6 - Outside Balcony * - Offices
Section cut
New floor plan (4th Floor) 1 - Class rooms 2 - break room 3 - Open Lab 4 - Conference room 5 - collaboration/ relaxation space * - Offices
4th Floor Perspective
New floor plan (4th Floor) 1 - hatch to roof of mechanical room 2 - Mechanical room 3 - Glass green house 4 - outdoor space 5 - Semi intensive green roof * - Offices
View of Roof
Inside Glass Green House
West Elevation
Weeping Hole section cut brick wall air cavity that allows water from bricks to escape weeping holes
water proof sheathing paper Sheathing wall framing
Green Wall section cut weeping hole with rain water run off
vegetation
water line bringing water from grid
drip-line Growing medium rear drainage layer water proof backing board water pump
water catchment gutter
water bringing excess water to rain water catchment system
West Wall Section Air cavity that directs collected water to weeping hole 2”
waterproof sheathing plywood 3/4”
Brick 4” Dry wall 1/2”
Brick Anchor
Insulation 3.5” Weeping Hole
Rain Water Harvest Diagram
Carver Hall in the Fall
Student Union
(Spring 2021)
This project is set in ASU’s Polytechnic campus. This project has a lowered garden space that helps match it with the rest of campus. Each building on campus uses similar materials and does well in creating a desert aesthetic for outdoor space for students and staff to enjoy. This knew student union is created to match the rest of campus while also standing uniquely on its own. Each space is designed to have great views of its outdoor space while also having in mind the harsh climate sun. Vertical surfaces of the building has been studied and have various shade and screen structures to protect from the sun while also giving windows to views that will help people enjoy each space.
Cite Analysis Circulation Map
Cite Analysis Circulation Map
Shading Sun Path
Hours of Sun on Vertical Surfaces
East Side
South West corner
North West corner
Hours of Sun on Vertical Surfaces 1 - Ballroom
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2 - Ballroom Storage 3 - Cafe 4 - Prefunctional Area 5 - Lowered Garden Space
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6 - Study/ Lounge Space 7 - Bookstore -Two bookstore offices - Receiving area - Book storage - Office storage 8 - Administration - Five admin offices - Kitchenette - Work Secondary Elements (Columns & Beams) room - Open work stations - Storage
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Hours of Sun on Vertical Surfaces 1 - Student organization Space - Open work space - Work room - Storage
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3 - Mechanical Room 4 - Outside Balcony Space * - Conference rooms (Small, medium, large)
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East Elevation
Envelope Materials
Garden Space
Full Section Facing North
Ballroom Wall Section Perforated metal Panel (Screen)
Continuous Isolation Decking Corrugated metal panel (Envelope)
Hat shaped sub grit
Z - Girt Steel frame
Joist
Air gap Gypsum board
Steel frame to screen
Door
Wood furring strip
Modern wood siding
Through wall flashing
Entrance from Garden Space
Roosevelt Community Center
(Fall 2021)
North Elevation
View from center
Guadalupe Center
(Spring 2022)
Self sustaining Community
First Floor
A place that encourages a community of connection, a place that provides households a place to get all Their shopping done. Small busynesses run by family’s in the community this will encourage small businesses, to help generate income for households and the city.
Second Floor
Each Household of Guadalupe Center: Required: - To run Commercial Attached to house - To help tend to community garden
Has Option: - To use Community Garden for groicieries and/or commercial business. - To grow garden on roof top patio - Can sell/ hold booth at events/ farmers markets on site. -Can use own garden or community garden to sell at farmers market.