JOHN TYLER PENNINGTON - ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO (2018)
Medway Park Pavilion
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A love for freehand drawing and sketching is what drew me into the architectural profession; I fell in love with the critical thinking and technical side of the profession and wanted to develop a deep understanding of how buildings are assembled. I gained a four year architecture degree in 2009 and worked for six years working before returning to graduate school at Clemson University to earn a Master of Architecture degree. This time between my undergraduate and graduate education gave me time management skills and practical experience in the real world that I brought back with me. My first semester of graduate school I had to write my own design manifesto, which I tailored after John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture. I chose to keep two of his topic words - “Memory” and “Life” - from Ruskin’s writing but selected five new topics that I feel represented my values and interests:
FAITH & LOVE MEMORY WORK & HUMOR CRAFTSMANSHIP SKETCHING DRAWING LIFE
Change the world with faith and love: actions and words
Experience of space, of place: hand, eye, mouth, ear, nose, time
Design process: design for concept, site, object, detail (redesign)
Quality multidisciplinary design: architecture civil structural mechanical plumbing electric ecology sociology psychology anthropology
The hand can record what the camera cannot: record, document, explore, test, share
drawing to think, thinking to draw haptic and spatial exercise: see, draw; draw, see
Building as a body: life with skin and bones. 3
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Medway Park Pavilion
Easter’s Letter Box
Summerton Theater
Vernacular Digital Fabrication
Recycling Urban Gardens
Panera Bread
Birding XYZ
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Medway Park Pavilion Graduate : 3rd Year Design Build Studio Collaboration with Yage Chen, Michelle Edwards, Ailed Mazas-Fernandez, Perry Hammond, Lillian Jones, Matthias Kelly, Michael Mioux, Lynn Ng, Tyler McKenzie, Juhee Porwal, and Katie Turner. Clemson’s design-build studio of a dozen students designed and built a 650 SF pavilion at Medway Park in Charleston, South Carolina in a short fuse project of four months from conception to occupation. We worked with a non-profit group, Charleston Parks Conservancy with an initial budget of $10,000 which we increased to $14,000. The program was a sun shade and garden tool storage shed for a group of over a hundred community gardeners. There was an existing raised vegetable bed community with individual beds that families purchased for an annual plot and eight community beds where everyone in the garden contributed to community produced vegetables. The community vegetables were donated to four food banks within the area and over the last three years had donated 7,000 lbs. of organic vegetables.
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My major roles included lead point individual for the construction document set which we submitted to Charleston County Zoning and Charleston County Building Department for zoning approval and our building permit; material takeoffs for steel; design of the storage shed cabinets to meet the owner storage requirements; bending rebar for the concrete pours and verifying they were tied in correctly prior to the concrete truck arriving on site for the three concrete pours; cutting, grinding, galvanizing, and fabricating steel angles used up in the roof; helping install the beams and purlins; tool cleanup each day at the construction site, recording daily photographs with a stop animation camera, and end of semester studio booklet design and editing. 6
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Typical overhanging roof condition, column, & concrete pier.
Custom concrete pier detail with storage shed (L) and sink (R)
Sun shaded north wall featuring benches; gardener sitting area.
(Close): interchangeable table rests into pier; bench beyond.
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East view at night; end of academic final review where students officially turned the pavilion over to the community for use.
North-east view at night
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CLIENT CHARLESTON PARKS CONSERVANCY 720 MAGNOLIA ROAD SUITE 25 CHARLESTON, SC 29407 720
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Roof 9' - 7" Girder 9' - 2" T.O. Storage Unit 7' - 2"
CLIENT CHARLESTON PARKS CONSERVANCY 720 MAGNOLIA ROAD SUITE 25 CHARLESTON, SC 29407 720
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: HARRY LESESNE
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Easter’s Letter Box Graduate : 3rd Year Woodworking Elective I designed and made a letter box for my beautiful wife, Easter, as the project for the woodworking course, “Introduction to Craft.” The project requirement was a box that needed to be 250-275 cubic inches of interior volume. I chose to make my box out of sapele and purpleheart wood with a half-blind dovetail jig. I produced my own set of shop drawings and a detailed “order of operations” list of all of the steps that I would do in sequence in order to build the project as a way to think through the craft construction prior to using the tools. The box was also inspired by a small keepsake box that my father built for me when I was a boy which provided a precedent and guidelines of how I could make a box similar to it but with my own modifications to the design. The most exciting part of the box is a concealed locking mechanism built into the side of a box with a compression spring and a dowel and plug relationship on the side.
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(L) Concept sketches and (R) final box photograph
All of the parts of the box are ready for sanding prior to glue and final assembly; orbital sander is connected to dust collection system hose.
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Summerton Theater Graduate : 2nd Year Design Build Studio Collaboration with Gabriel Berlineri, Ryan Brown, Lauren Divinagracia, Atika Jain, Lillian Jones, Matthias Kelly, Tyler McKenzie, Ailed Mazas-Feranandez, Lauren Ovca, Julian Owens, Juhee Porwal, and Katie Turner. Clemson’s design-build studio explored Sim[PLY], a plywood CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) router cut system that Clemson University had developed for their 2015 solar decathlon competition entry. Clemson had been exploring SimPLY with other applications such as food service buildings to process vegetables in a FDA approved facility, but had never pushed the boundaries of form and exploring what cut CNC fabrication could build other than “box” shaped forms, which it did well. Our studio’s exploration was creating a theater installation that had a bench, projector media hub, wall with shelving and display area, and a roof above. We installed this for a public meeting and gathering space for town meetings as well as a theater function in the town of Summerton, SC. The site was an empty quonset hut building in the heart of the historic downtown on Main Street. My primary role was the lead digital fabricator and was responsible for leading a team of five other people and setting up the files and toolpathing the parts to be cut for the CNC machine. Our studio cut 166 sheets of 4x8 plywood panels to fabricate display pedestals and the theater installation. I learned about the critical path - designing and completing the most important work first in order to collaborate with others or let future work fall in sequence behind what you have already completed. I also was Matthias Kelly’s partner for working on the construction document set that we produced for the installation. 22
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Top left: The pieces were all labeled with a etched groove into the wood which allowed them to be easily identified for transport and installation; the shelves had brackets which dropped into cross shaped forms into the shear panel wall to hold the span of the shelving panels. I found these to be beautiful details of the combination of light and shadow.
Bottom right: Architect Mies van der Rohe said, “God is in the details,” but I believe, “the Devil is in the details.” This is my favorite detail of the project, a pin and key condition to connect the roof beams and the rafters together which were held together with stainless steel zip ties, mechanically tightened with a tension tool. 29
Vernacular Digital Fabrication Graduate : 1st Year Work Explorations in digital fabrication course taught me a wide variety of work-flows and machine operations: laser cutters, 3D-printing, 2D CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) Routering, 3D CNC Routering, and Vacuum Forming. My final project was an exploration in typical vernacular forms; the two elevations and the axonometric were the significant drawings; when viewed only orthogonal, a traditional gable pitched child’s drawing of a “house” was visible; the side elevation and oblique views hid all of these forms; the argument presented is that digital fabrication can play a role in residential housing, but perhaps architects and the general public need to rethink what are the values they are seeking.
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The project was fabricated at full scale using 1/4” plywood, which was a failure because it was not able to hold its own weight at a bigger scale from the study models; I should have moved up to 3/4” plywood after one bay of testing was complete. The failure taught me of the role of prototyping small parts before expanding to full scale production.
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East Elevation - Vernacular Obscured
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Recycling Urban Gardens Graduate : 2nd Year Work Collaboration with Cullen Smith My role was primarily orthogonal drawings: plans, sections, elevations, details, writing, sustainability research, and most of the 3D modeling in Revit. Cullen did most of the diagrams, the renderings, laser cutting file preparation for the physical models, and post-production in Photoshop; we worked together on assembling physical models and discussed all design decisions as a team. This project was a semester long studio project for the COTE 10 Sustainability Competition. The project site was the existing Greenville News building in downtown Greenville, SC at the intersection of Main Street and Broad Street. Our concept was an adaptive reuse of the existing office building to a multi-purpose urban development scheme; we sought to keep the old Greenville News historic building instead of tearing it down and reprogrammed it as an office and cafe/bar on the lower level, with the upper two floors acting as an hostel. The other buildings on the site included apartments, an athletic facility, a restaurant, and storefront retail with live/work units above. The sustainability goals for the competition were broken into ten measures which we all developed but focused on natural daylighting, natural ventilation, long-life loose fit, and regional/community design. These were our four final competition boards, 20�x20�. The following pages are enlargements of some of these drawings and images. This project taught me about integrating sustainability into multiple aspects of the design and working with an existing building for an adaptation reuse. 34
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Recycling Urban Gardens (Continued) Graduate : 2nd Year Work Collaboration with Cullen Smith One of the aspects of the Recycling Urban Gardens that was intriguing to me was we chose to keep the existing Brutalist building on site and repurpose it for a cafe-bar, office, and hostel. This meant keeping the existing waffle slab structural system but using a surgical knife to carefully carve voids into the building to permit additional daylighting and increase natural ventilation. To prevent the building from overheating we used a combination of overhanging louvers and vertical fins to provide shade at the perimeter windows. We created and interior urban green space at both the office and the hostel for casual gathering and meeting room spaces.
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Panera Bread, LLC Professional : DP3 Architects, LTD.
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For two years I worked full time with DP3 Architects, Ltd. and my primary role was working with one of the restaurant studios on one brand, Panera Bread. I worked on 51 Panera cafes, and was fully managing 18 of them from the firm being awarded the project until client occupation. I also trained and was the mentor of a new team member the company hired, which I enjoyed. Panera works at a national scale across the United States and DP3 Architects, Ltd. is one of their core architects; the territory of served states were Michigan to Texas on the eastern coast, excluding New York and Florida. Adapting a kit of parts for production roll-out, each Panera cafe is unique. They share a similar DNA of parts and pieces, but vary their exterior materials to local climates, footprint design based off site conditions, and if the building is freestanding or in an existing building on the streetscape. Panera also experimented with DELCO (Delivery and Carry Out) cafes that have zero or limited seating because of increased catering; I also was involved in many of their prototype renovation upgrades of existing cafes. These projects taught me project management, permitting drawings, and I learned more about consultant coordination between S/C/MPE engineers. It was also these projects that gave me more exposure to conflict resolution with projects under construction and I was responsible for both office side construction administration and making site visits as the owner’s representative.
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Birding XYZ Graduate : 1st Year Work
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After exploring the South Carolina Botanical Gardens adjacent to Clemson University’s campus, I was tasked to design a bird watching blind. I was inspired by the ecotone of the garden - the transition zone between two plant communities such as the forest and the meadow. Designing a bird blind from an ecotone not only located the blind on the site at the zone between the forest and the field within the X and Y axis, it also elevated the blind up off the ground in the Z axis. This formal decision also was beautiful to the bird watchers because it elevated them up off the ground and got them closer to the birds up in the trees. In order to reach the blind, a custom elevator was used with six pulleys. The pulleys created a 1/6th mechanical advantage and was able to slowly lift you up to the viewing platform.
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Ecotone Maphouse Graduate : 1st Year Work Using the DNA of the Birding XYZ Project, the second phase of the garden project was an unusual building typology, a maphouse. Intended as a building storage space for a large map collection, the only requirement was the building had to hold and display the maps to the public. The Ecotone Maphouse was designed around the working office and gallery for the South Carolina Botanical Garden Director Botanist, whose job would be to catalogue and map every plant within the botanical gardens - a maphouse for a zoo of plants.
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In continuing to explore the ecotone, a variety of conditions were present on the site which became inspiration for the types of spatial relationships for the building. These conditions were: Forest + Meadow Sky + Earth Sky + Forest Sky - Restricted View Up Sky + Meadow
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Medway Park Pavilion