John Mc Campbell M. Arch Candidate 2013 Rhode Island School of Design
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design principles
Design Principles. Fall 2011 This studio was designed to promote active understanding of simple ideas; to begin a life-long process of valuing that simplicity. Beginning with a simple knot, we set out to interpolate a techtonic language of construction from a basic set of operations. As material properties changed, methods of interpolating the initial processes began to respond to the inherent qualities of each material. Through sketches, drafted drawings, and modelmaking, one idea was represented throughout a wide range of projects. These projects began at the scale of a piece of rope (1:1) and expanded to the scale of a dwelling.
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design principles
Architecture begins at form-making. Our initial spatial concepts are fuel for completed works. These investigations begin as playful constructions; study models. We begin with simple forms and then we act upon them responsively. In a sense, we are entertaining ourselves. Once we have settled upon a certain shape or series of shapes, we set out to bend, multiply, cut, and alter the initial work to better satisfy our own senses. Architecture is for the people, but is designed to satisfy designers.
design principles
study models/process
Not every form will be incorporated in the design as initially conceived. Often, the final forms will be composed of portions of these rough models. The goal is to end up with an architecture that has the same degree of spontaneity in its completion. The limits that certain materials impose on a designer allow for invention. The same is true of materials that lack limits. The work is allowed to be playful and this enables unencumbered design. Structural considerations should be pushed by design, they should not control it.
study models/process
architectural design
Section through stairway
architectural design Section View through the Structure Shows grey water system
Performance Rendering (Winter Session 2011) The project concept revolved around the power of sight and sound. The people at the ground level would not only hear the sound of rain hitting the glass roofs, but also the magnitude increase as it was collected and fell as a bulk sum. Visually, they would see the rain allowed to fall uncollected into the courtyard to water plants, and the collected water directed to the cisterns.
architectural design
architectural design Architectural Design Principles (Spring 2011) Beginning with a simple sheet of paper, we fold, bend, cut, and score until 3-dimensionality is achieved. These exercises keep an emphasis on the importance of form-making in architecture. While architectural projects are informed by program, architectural ideas should come from a guided process of making. These projects are representative of paper folding, of starting with a simple gesture. While the level of completion varies among the projects as architectural works, they succeed as expressions of architectural thought. These proposals represent early individual work for a design/build studio. The program for the project was to construct a large scale public garden in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
urban design
Urban Design Principles (Fall 2011) Located at the corner of a four-point intersection, this project for a housing complex began with the musical premise that the existing structures at the corner were already in the middle of a performance. The proposed complex was designed as a jazz musician. On the first three floors, it hears what is being played by the other three buildings, and on the fourth floor it plays a lead. It was a first attempt to bring the musical processes listening, interpreting, and improvising into architecture.
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There were a variety of methods used to decode the musical output of the surrounding structures. Charcoal rubbings were taken of building facades to get a rhythmic pacing. Notes were added to these rubbings and pitch corrected to be in key with the other two structures. There were also measurements taken to establish proportional schemes, which yielded similar proportions in the relations between notes. The task of the new structure was to manifest the act of listening and interpreting, and to show a thoughtful response as its own output.
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site and sound analysis Piano Chordal/Harmonic (3rd Floor) Percussion Rhythm (Ground Floor) Bass Chordal/Rhythmic (1st Floor) Saxophone Lead Melody (2nd Floor)
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urban design
Urban Design Principles (Fall 2011) Beginning as an analysis project, the objective was to design three living spaces for three distinct users in the developing Knowledge District of Providence Rhode Island. Each building had to house fifty beds. Analysis led to an attempt to merge historic concepts with modern needs. Ultimately, the project became a mash-up of a 1918 site map and an idea about site migrations. The site migrations were ficticious, assuming that at one point, all the existing buildings were in one central mass. By mapping this migrations, I was able to derive curvatious forms. These curvy shapes held the rigid geometries of the 1918 plan, sometimes in suspension, sometimes under thumb. The curves became access ways and the cubed volumes became living spaces.
site layout
integrated with waterfront proposal by inFORM Studio
Downtown sky line
Site Migrations
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1918 Noli Map
Proposed Plan
urban design Student Living (50 beds minimum) The student living center was considered as an integral part of the Providence, Rhode Island Knowledge District, which is centered on Brown University’s medical campus. The street side looks out on a parking garage, which was problematic; consequently, it was necessary to handle the street directly and design the structure as a large glass facade. The idea was to plant trees reaching to the height of the facade and use them as directors to the street below, diverting people away from the less desirable views. The relation was between activity within the building and activity at the street.
urban design Student Living - Ground Floor
Student Living - 1st Floor
Student Living - 2nd Floor
urban design Hotel (50 beds minimum) The logical location for the hotel was at the site’s highest point. The ambitious site plan would be completely visible from the top floors of the hotel, which were designed as public spaces. Since the entire proposal was centered around the idea of a site’s memory and its present reality, the hotel was designed with a historic look. Referencing such precedents as the Providence Biltmore, the hotel was to function as the icon on the site, which would preside over the mash-up occuring below.
urban design Bar
Conference Room
Restaurant
Conference Room
Kitchen
Entry
Conference Room
Gym
Hotel Ground Floor
Hotel Residences with Patio
Hotel Conference Rooms
urban design Retirement Living (50 beds minimum) The decision to have a community of retired persons living amongst students and visitors to the city presented interesting opportunities within the overall design. Since there was an existing building bisecting the site, it seemed logical to use that structure as a privacy screen; however, the reappropriation of the building’s rooftop as a public park accessible to all three new projects allowed for complete integration. Consequently, the retirement community could be as involved as they felt comfortable with the security of a private dwelling space close at hand.
urban design Retirement Living - Ground Floor
Retirement Living - 2nd Floor
Retirement Living - 1st Floor
Retirement Living - 3rd Floor
Providence Train Station (Spring 2012) The Providence train station, as designed by SOM, has not been a success for the city. Invisioning a new start, the project is to design a new station at the current location. The long axis of the buildable foot print has two views: one to the State House, by McKim, Mead, and White, and the other towards an Avalon Communities 12 story condominum. This project attempted to use a minimal architectural statement to engage both these views.
Site Plan
providnece train station The design process began with paper-folding. In order to create the gesture of reaching out in two directions, it was necessary to work with changeable geometries. The v-fold with slit (shown below), used as the module in the final design, allowed sign allo ed for nat natural ral light in the structure str ct re and achieved achie ed the desired gesture. gest re
providence train station Aerial View
View under station at platforms
providnece train station View from the State House
Floor Plan
Longitudinal Section
hand drafting
Manual Representation (Fall 2010) These forms are derived from an abstraction of a expressionist painting. It began with the flat image, and then shapes were extruded, becoming solids and voids in the final piece, which was a sculpture. These images are plans, elevations, and axonometric representations of the work.
hand drafting
Architectural Design (Spring 2011) These plans and sections were for a preliminary proposal for a design/build gardening structure. It consisted of sloping roofs to channel run-off to planter boxes.
The drawings above and below are proposals for furniture to be located on site for a design/build project in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
hand rendering
Personal Work The ability to capture a scene through drawing implies a much deeper reading than the eyes can do on their own. By drawing, we are interpreting an image through the rhythms of our body as we make marks on the page. We are forced to ask questions about three-dimensionality that would normally be taken for granted; taking on issues of how light affects a material, how clarity decreases over large expanses, and how large-scale scenes are experienced as we move through them. Developing an intimate relationship with these issues enables a greater sensitivity in architectural design.
hand rendering
furniture design
Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York I was responsible for the re-creation of six clothesline posts —which sit nested in between the restored pergola and Toshiko Mori’s Eleanor and Wilson Greatbach Pavillion —and the piano bench for the main unit room of the Martin House.
furniture design
4'-0" 1'-2" 112"
biscuits (10 and 20) at mitered corners of moulding. interior oak is mitered and attached with brads and a glue up to plywood box
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58" 1'-5
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1" 134" 2" 6116" 1"
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front view of moulding split for stretcher to sit
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corner detail for intersection of trim and stretcher w/ added block for grain match under routed detail
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MDF BOX FRAME
78"
(6-1/16"X2-1/16"X5-1/4")
214"
CUTS FOR LEG BASE
2"
MOULDINGS (1-3/4"X2-1/4") W/ LENGTH OF 7'-0" (ALLOWS
2116" 34" 1 " 2 7"
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1'-0" MARGIN OF ERROR)
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CUTS FOR LEG BASES (2"X2.5") W/ LENGTH BASED ON DESIGN CHOICE BELOW:
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LEG BRACE: TOP - 3"X1/2"X2'-6" SIDES (2) - 2-3/4"X1/2"X2'-6" BRACING (2) 3/4"X1-1/2"X2'-6"
furniture design The Darwin D. Martin House clothes line posts functioned more as sculptures in the landscape. They were rarely used to hang clothes. SInce the posts are meant to remain outside year round, each of the six posts are built of cedar and heavily coated to resist Buffalo winters. A final coat of paint was applied before they were set out on their concrete bases. They are located at the heart of the current site configuration, surrounded by the Martin House, the pergola, the carriage house, and Toshiko Mori’s visitor’s pavilion.
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furniture design
Personal Projects The finger-joined lamp on the left was designed as a desk lamp; however, the function of the piece was for setting a mood more than aiding in the accomplishing of tasks. The light emits through the open space fingers and the thin slice of stained douglas fir at the top. Above is the sushi tray/soup spoon. This project consisted of a flat tray for sushi, two chop sticks, and a soy sauce dish. As seen in the sketch below, the chop sticks and dish could be combined to form a two-handled spoon for eating miso soup
furniture design Intro to Furniture Making (Winter Session 2011) The objective of this introductory furniture course was to produce a finished bench using simple tools such as the planer, jointer, saws, and sanders. We learned joinery techniques such as mortise and tenon and biscuit joins. We had to produce a series of drawings covering a wide range of ideas and distill the information into one project to move forward on. The piece below was designed as a shoes bench to be placed by the front door. Vistors coming in would sit down, take their shoes off, and place the shoes underneath. The drawings above are earlier proposals for the project.
design/build Site Plan
Blossom, Pawtucket, Rhode Island (2011) Objective: Design and construct a garden community for the Chinese Christian Church of Rhode Island. Response: Construction of two pavilions on a sloped site. One sitting at the top of the site with raised planter beds, and another at the bottom overlooking the Blackstone River.
Elevations
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Visitor’s Pavilion, Pile, Ecuador (2012) Objective: Construct an information space for the people of Pile that will celebrate the town as a center for the fine hat weaving of Panama hats. Response: Using native materials, we designed and constructed a simple structure that greets visitors with a sloping roof and represents the weave of the hats through its floor and wall patterning.
design/build Section
Floor Plan
building analysis
Personal Work The process of structural failure is rich with design ideas. As the assembly begins to bend and buckle, the once rigid frames become whimisical, almost poetic in their descent. I am interested in developing a language for understanding these changes and applying their methods of decay into new designs.
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Education:
Internships:
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island GPA: 3.511 (current) Master of Architecture (M.Arch), 2013 Candidate
smartDESIGN Architecture, Batavia, New York, May 2007 – August 2007 Drafting and design work on residential and commercial work Website: http://www.smartdesignarchitecture.com/
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York GPA: 3.861 Bachelor of Arts, Art History major, Architecture Minor, May 2009 Honors: Randorf Scholarship for Art History Excellence (3 students annually) Tau Sigma Honor Society, Member Dean’s List (every semester)
O-AT-KA Milk Products Co-Op. Inc., Batavia, New York, June 2009 – August 2010, June 2011 – August 2011, Salary Employee Responsible for design of various large expansion projects, direct communication with equipment vendors, plant supervisors, and project architect Website: http://www.oatkamilk.com/
State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, New York Course work in Sculpture and Fine Arts
Big Tree Furniture (Master Craftsman Steven Oubre), East Aurora, New York, June 2011 – August 2011 Worked on several restoration projects for the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York Website: http://www.wordworth.com/big_tree.htm
Experience:
Applicable Skills:
Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York, 2007 - 2010 Educate visitors on Prairie Style architecture; organize tour schedules.
Autocad, Revit, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Python (scripting), office experience, hand-drafting, model-making.
Down to Earth Approach, Los Angeles, California, May 2001 - August 2007 Performed on international tours including the Van’s Warped Tour 2006; co-wrote songs for two albums; released internationally two albums, Another Intervention, August 3, 2004, Come Back to You, July 7, 2007, through Vagrant Records.
resume/experience
John C. McCampbell 7 Valle Drive /153 Transit Street Batavia, New York 14020 /Providence, Rhode Island 02903 Mccampbell.john@gmail.com / jmccampb@risd.edu (585) 409-4273