Michael Stinnett Portfolio by Michael Stinnett

Michael Stinnett

In Progress

2015

Contents

2. Floating Rock

Helsinki

3. Migratory Housing

Ilwaco

4. Flow Housing

St. Louis

5. Water Pause

Phoenix

6. Data

Barcelona, St. Louis

7. Technical Documentation

Helsinki, St. Louis.

8. Material Exploration

Helsinki, St. Louis

Barcelona

Contents

Michael Stinnett

1. Canopy

mail@michaelstinnett.com michaelstinnett.com

4466 Olive St #409 St Louis MO 63108

9. Scripting

10. Photography

Michael Stinnett

312.498.2539

Canopy Reactivating Historically Significant Public Space

Professors Adrian Luchini, Elena Canovas, Mariona Ribelles

Career de l’Allada Vermell is a prime example of the placelessness introduced by Barcelona’s aggressive clearing of open spaces in its incredibly dense, historic urban fabric. Higher speed public traffic punctures this square, while residents use the existing space as an ad-hoc sports field. Introducing a canvas canopy over the public space creates a link that connects the corner of the square. Canvas recalls the streets softened by window-hung laundry. Softening the ground material slows the traffic. Adding a second anchor within the square as an observation area frames the ad-hoc public space and formalizes residents’ use.

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Program supporting the uniquely Catalonian phenomenon of human towers (now acknowledged by UNESCO) defines the four levels of the rising structure. The first level is a hard concrete space with operable panels that expand lockers, restrooms, and storage into the square. Above this are observation and office levels. The large, long-span tree-like columns offer increasing amounts of deflection to the higher levels. On the top level, accessible only by wire ladder, observers experience an unstable sensation similar to being on the top of a human tower.

Approach to the square. Aerial rendering.

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Concept sketches in Rhino.

Canopy

Site plan.

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Elevation with urban context. Long section of enclosure and canopy-covered space.

Clockwise from top left Main canopy-covered assembly space. Looking up from the main stairs. Main stairs and ground floor entrance.

Circulation.

Major steel structure, “trunk”. Timelapse of model construction.

Canopy

Concept sketches of approach and circulation.

Concept sketches in Rhino depicting a subjective interpretation of the urban space and the response. Secondary steel structure, “leaf”. Opaque Private Solid

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Top floor, instability duplicating the wavering experience of being on top of a human tower.

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Office space, steel tension.

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Ground floor connection.

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Floating Rock

Professors Philip Tidwell, Matti Rautiola

Corporate Identity and Urban Relationships

Floating Rock

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Artek, evolving from its origins with a single design team, has become an institution that protects and promotes good design. The Artek brand does not serve one aesthetic style or one target market, but rather encompasses that which makes the world pleasant to inhabit. The brand enables designers to experiment and innovate within their field. It is this image of Artek that is promoted in this proposal. The monolithic upper building protects the designers and teams within, insulating their creativity from the world to the degree they see fit. As an education center, however, this project also demonstrates Artek’s reaching out into the community, which resonates with the transparency of the gallery at street level. Together, the monolithic feeling of shelter and the transparency of permeability define Artek and so provide the origin of this proposal . Dark copper draws the otherwise strange surface of the façade into dialogue with Helsinki’s architectural past. The dimensions of the façade’s undulation are likewise approximated from cantilevered bay windows. As part of an intensely pedestrianaccessible part of Helsinki, the emphasis on transparency on the first floor promotes connection to nearby green spaces and boulevards. A central atrium draws this tension between closed and open upwards into the more private spaces, while floors that come short of touch the exterior walls subvert the expected visual and, in some cases, acoustic privacy of the usual office building. This openness allows more natural light to penetrate the building, even while the skin retains good insulation and solid-void ratios. The voids that are present act as a box-type double façade, reducing heat lost through glass. Down the street, many rocks. A. Gallery.

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E. Glass under rock.

Across Ratakatu

Activation overlaid with window patterns.

Elevations

Urban relationships.

West

South

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North

Across Ratakatu & Yrjonkatu

Sauna & studio apartments.

Floating Rock

Classrooms.

Floating Rock

Office and conference space.

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Main gallery.

Reading room.

Archive.

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Upper gallery.

Southern facade.

Bedrooms and corporate sauna.

Facing the public park.

Floating Rock

Floating Rock Main gallery stairs. Clockwise from top-left

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Upper gallery.

Open office and conference room.

Bedroom. Glass-enclosed conference room.

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Gallery, view to reading room, exterior connection.

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View down through atrium.

AVEC / Artek-Vitra Education Center

Monolithic / Transparent

Proposal for Yrjรถnkatu

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Mullion Support Roof Truss Spacer to create Incline Glass Panel Flexible attachment Space and Bolt Connection

Insulation as part of STC-60-rated Wall Double Gypsum Board

Finished Gypsum Board Surface

Gympsum Board Metal Attachment Plate Rigid Thermal Insulation Moisture Barrier Aluminum Facade Support Bracket

Exterior Bolt Panel Attachment Aluminum Support

Aluminum Support (Orthogonal) C Steel Facade Support Connection Bolt

Floating Rock

Finished Gypsum Board Surface Metal Attachment Sheet

Concrete Masonry Unit Fire-Rated Wall Fire Stair Slab

Hanging Metal Wire Support

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4 Sidewalk Metal Flashing Drains to City Sewer

Thermally Isolated Mullion Stabilized by Column Connection Concrete Dark Concrete Tiles Fireproofing Board

Main Floor Slab Reinforced Concrete Metal Deck Primary Structural W-Beam Beam-Column Bolt Connection

Concrete Foundation Wall Finished Interior Surface

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Finished Floor

5 Plywood Subfloor, Bolt-Connection to Slab

Foundation Insulation Moisture Barrier

Concrete Spread Footing

Structural axon, relationship of skin to structure. French Drain

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Aluminum Support

Glitch

Professor David Ruy

Migratory Housing Typology in Ilwaco, Washington

Ilwaco, Washington is home to a large commercial fishing fleet, employing most of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2,000 residents. Together with the nearby beach towns, this coastal area is home to about 10,000 people in low-density typologies, mixed in with highdensity hotels. Tourism and fishing exports together are the leading economic drivers, but the peak tourism season is short: only from midsummer to fall.

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Taking advantage of the resonance between peak tourism and peak fishing, this housing project offers residents a migration from higher density units to combined units housing multiple families together and offering hotel space in vacated units. Multiple-family living situations increase the possibility for group childcare and reduce the loneliness of a family separated for months at a time. These grouphousing typologies operate along a spectrum from higher density down to individual housing that shares kitchen and bath space with more distant neighbors. In the least dense condition, units are separated by 300â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, which is the sight distance during the frequent heavy fog in this area. In the highest density condition, private space is achieved through traditional opaque materials, but the corridors are quadruple-loaded, ensuring a variety of interactions in the community.

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Michael Stinnett Site relationship, connection with ocean.

Section and plan cut axon.

Communal 1

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Peak Tourism migration

migration

January

February

Temperature

January

Migration sections.

February

Program resonances.

Glitch

Third floor plan, main set of buildings.

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Michael Stinnett Ground floor plan, main set of buildings.

Pairs and integrated units with exterior hallways. CMU disintegration. Undulating corridor provides privacy and connection.

Conventional unit.

Glitch

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Michael Stinnett Partially integrated unit / pair.

A. Interior of partially integrated unit with compressed image plane.

Totally integrated unit.

Flow Housing

Professor Ersela Kripa

Using Combined Live/Work/Retail/Produce Units and Circulation to find flow

The primary obstacles to adopting public transportation are long commuting distances and daily necessities. Chief among these obstacles in a world of increasingly single-parent, multiple-care-taker households is finding child care to be able to work. To solve this, this project proposes live work units that connect child care providers to a child care space as well as various levels of care for the elderly. Employment in the form of workshop spaces, tutoring spaces, and integration into the child care center enable productive use of time and contribution of value to the housing community.

Early massing model.

But, each connection erodes the psychological sense of private space. Can we reintroduce what the Situationists would call “life” into the process of circulating through these hyperspecified spaces?

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As society moves toward ever greater specificity and division, we lose community. Simmel suggests that chance encounter provides one avenue. This project provides spaces for individual users, tailored to their needs, but attempts to coerce these hyper-specific individuals into a community? A quilt of subjective experiences might unify under common, essential activities like social food preparation, or

physical activity, or even communal reading spaces.

Can we willfully initiate individual ontology? Can we achieve this while breaking the duality of the split Cartesian human being, and unify body and mind? What if one’s commute engaged actively with both one’s mind and one’s own assertion of one’s existence?

Flow Housing

Live-work will occupy an increasing amount of economic productivity, while job complexity will require more specific work-related assets at home. Can housing provide a Level-5 lab for a telecommuting pharmaceutical researcher, a still to a craft beer maker, a quiet space for an author, and a shop for a woodworker? Hyper specificity will increase supply chain complexity. Density provides an opportunity to join the supply chain as a genuine entity to supplement the inadequacies of walkable options.

The circulation corridors of this project engage in a rhythm of mental challenge and restoration, mutating the walking commute into a psychologically active experience. Some users, however, do not require a circulation that invokes the psychological construct of ‘flow’ and find their psychological center in another way, on or off site. Michael Stinnett

Michael Stinnett Site connections. From left Circulation and zones of activity. Circulation and street connection. Nodal site occupation. Environmental borders. Commuter activity.

Solar exposure.

Circulation.

Wind.

Occupation by time of year. UP

Flow Housing

Activity during morning commute. UP

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Flow Housing

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Introverted & total digital units.

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Final model. First model.

Four-unit live-work-produce cluster.

Flow Housing

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Live/work unit with retail/coffeeshop.

Unit clustering. UP

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Live/work unit with private office.

Using Topography to Create Naturally Cooled, Humid Space in the Desert

Water Pause

Professor Christine Yogiaman

Parts of labs have strict HVAC requirements. However, many functions in labs, like eating, meeting, and writing papers, are less sensitive. These spaces can be kept cool and warm through lighter interventions than a traditional full-building HVAC system. In Mountain Park, Phoenix, artificial arroyos serve as the moisture for natural cooling for less technical space in a lab complex. A

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First, investigating site topography reveals moments of opportunity in lower grade and more vegetated spaces. These opportunities will be recreated and reinforced with the design of the intervention.

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Water flow.

Moments of opportunity.

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Time of day and solar exposure correlation.

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Circulation and public / private spectrum. Logic

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Site plan.

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Across Barcelona

Professors Elena Canovas and Antonio Sanmartín

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All the stores here are open, laundry and plants disappear, replaced by open balconies in grand stone buildings.

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Vehicles become more important to the definition of the street.

There is a constant stream of activity along the tight but commercially intense streets of the old city. Turning the corner to Rambla intensifies an already dense amount of people.

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Pedestrian Crossing

The streets of Barcelona exhibit a rhythm. Following the +7.5m contour line from the new, iconic Jean Nouvel-designed Torre Agbar to Parc del Mirador del Poble Sec, this line documents a subjective/objective experience of the city.

open Carrer de l’Allada Vermell is a cleared square in the fabric of the Old City. The relatively young intervention (finished only in 2008) marks the efforts of Barcelona to reinvent itself, to create vibrant spaces for its citizens.

Via L aietana is a divide between two parts of Barrio Gotico. The high traffic and infrequent crossing lights combine with large scale and high opacity.

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Parks like this provide an edge to the relentless hard surface of the city. This contour line has parks outside the ancient walls on both sides, reflecting the strong desire to prioritize green space whenever space is available.

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Parque Mirador del Poble Sec An end of the +7.5m walk is this new park. Built in 1997, this is a large forest-like space that defines an edge of the city. This is a particularly old part of the city: the defensive mountain is uphill, the city walls are only a few meters away. There were many wells here, feeding textile mills and shipyards before working class housing.

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There is a constant stream of activity along the tight but commercially intense streets of the old city. Turning the corner to Rambla intensifies an already dense amount of people.

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The winding dense streets of the old city give way briefly for the new square. Creating open space has been important for more than 100 years—the city walls started to disappear in 1854. It remains a contemporary priority.

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Occupying the historical border between city and country, this street defined the entrance to the 1888 World’s Fair, with the Arc de Triomf as the gate proper. This edge of the city has seen some of the greatest urban reconfigurations.

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Threshold of Occupation After the busy density of the old city and the park, arriving at Carrer de la Marina marks the end of highly occupied spaces. There are many fewer cafes and pedestrians and street users generally, and those that there are usually are moving to somewhere else.

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The ground texture of the park supports the preferred activities of sitting and lounging. This is the first turf on the contour line.

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This part of Sant Martí is not for pedestrians but for cars. Gone is the crowded throng, replaced by another layer of static enclosure.

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Cerda meant to relocate the center of the city away from Placa de Catalunya and La Rambla in the 1850 plan. Since then, the square has struggled to gain relevance in Barcelona. It is now being redeveloped as a park with a local-first attitude, burying the infrastructure underneath the new green space. Efforts are also being made to mitigate the scale of the area.

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Large scale is coupled with relatively opaque facades to reinforce the monumentality of this space. The street is a park, not commercial or residential in the way that the old city is.

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Turn the corner and the number of static inhabitants remains high but the dynamic inhabitants are gone.

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All the stores here are open, laundry and plants disappear, replaced by open balconies in grand stone buildings.

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Large plazas and larger buildings.

Phenomenological Mapping Diagramming View Corridors & Obstructions, and Types of Activation in St Louis.

Professor Natalie Yeats Group with Micah Stanek

Work was equally divided throughout concept and construction. The scriptgenerated mappings on the opposite page are entirely my own.

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Density of Traffic Flow

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Phenomenological Mapping

Intenstiy of Activation

Frequency of Activation

Michael Stinnett

The first map, made with a partner, is an Arch-D sized paper collage. Each point was measured and photographed on site, after which a sector of colored paper circle was cut out and placed to indicate the ability to view different phenomena. Emerging from this diagram are the moments of topography and large trees that define the site.

Winter Summer Data from Glenn, Vanessa, and Eric.

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Prevaililng Wind

Each of these diagrams corresponds to another type of phenomenological investigation. These include event activations, time of day activations (as measured by counting users of the space), prevailing winds, distance to trees, topography that exceeds a threshold, and circulation. These phenomena are fed into a Grasshopper script to create the final diagram.

High Activation and Low Circulation

Composite Edges

Michael Stinnett

Phenomenological Mapping

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Environmentally Responsive Script-Generated Facade System

Professor Chandler Ahrens Group with Keri Mate and Joan Walbert PUNCTUATE - UNDULATE Keri Mate . Michael Stinnett . Joanie Walbert ARCH 439H . Environmental Systems II . Chandler Ahrens

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West Elevation 1’ = 1/16”

South Elevation 1’ = 1/16”

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fan coil return air vent radiant slabs

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fan coils pre-heating air

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pan and joist concrete slab

operable ventilation plaster surface

radiant heating tubes

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allow minimal air conditioning use when

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supplemented with natural ventilation. facade-supported slab

Facade Iteration 02 slab-supported facade

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Section Heating Mode

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These shades are made of undulations of the load-bearing concrete facade. Apertures of three sizes set the overhang distance required by Helsinki’s summer sun angle. Grasshopper provides the new surface matched to the windows (which are also generated in Grasshopper with a circle packing algorithm). 0

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metal angle clips

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Building Study

Professor Eric Hoffman

Documenting Loop Lofts in St Louis

Group with Lexi White This model reconstructs the structural and facade systems of a new building in St Louis. Work was completed together simultaneously, alternating between 2D and 3D.

FORMED ALUMINUM COPING SUBSTRATE BOARD RIGID INSULATION ROOFING MEMBRANE

VAPOR BARRIER SHEATHING SPANDREL GLASS

557’-4” TOP OF PARAPET 555’-4” ROOF

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Building Study

545’-4” FOURTH FLOOR

CONTINUOUS VERTICAL CURTAIN WALL MULLION

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ALUMINUM COATED BRACING ANNODIZED ALUMINUM PERFORATED BLADES ALUMINUM PLATE

534’ THIRD FLOOR

BATTED INSULATION ANODIZED ALUMINUM SUNSHADE OUTRIGGER ALUMINUM PANEL GLAZED INSULATION

Michael Stinnett

FIRESAFING

RIGID INSULATION SOLID SURFACE SILL SPACER STUD GYPSUM BOARD #5 CONTINUOUS SPACERS W9 L BEAM

BRICK VAPOR BARRIER STUD @ 2' OC

524’ SECOND FLOOR

C HANGER PAINTED STEEL OUTRIGGER STEEL ANGLE TEMPERED GLASS ALUMINUM CLIP ATTACHMENT ZINC COATED COPPER GUTTER ZINC COATED COPPER DOWNSPOUT

GYPSUM BOARD CONCRETE MASONRY UNIT FULLY GROUTED GYPSUM BOARD EXPANSION JOINT SLAB REINFORCING WOVEN WIRE MESH VAPOR BARRIER FILTER FABRIC

MULLIONS PRECAST CONCRETE BASE VAPOR BARRIER INSULATION

508’ FIRST FLOOR

Scale 3/4” = 1’ Lexi White & Michael Stinnett Patrick Brown Delmar Housing Wall Section & Digital Model 5 December 2013

Lexi White & Michael Stinnett Patrick Brown Delmar Housing Wall Section & Digital Model 5 December 2013

Plywood Chair

Professor Julie Tolvanen 438mm 353mm

438mm

179mm

407mm

394mm

93˚ 93˚

503mm 543mm

Plywood Chair

503mm 543mm 102˚

510mm 203mm

Connection: 4x #6 T-Nut with M6 Screws Connection: 4x #6 T-Nut with M6 Screws 510mm

Michael Stinnett

102˚

203mm 445mm

445mm

Starting with a precedent analysis of an existing chair, this project developed a new take on the now quite old tradition of plywood chairs. Inspired by the comfortable curves of the Clash chair, this chair is comfortable, with soft curves inviting users to try it out. Hidden connection hardware gives an illusion of lightness, reinforcing the approachability of the chair.

394mm

820mm

407mm

353mm

Material Exploration Material Studies Assembling Steam-bent Basswood

Final bent form.

Material Exploration

Completed assembly.

Professor Natalie Yeats

Michael Stinnett

Michael Stinnett Hand drawing of connection types.

Early explorations.

Scripting Geometries Pieces of Projects and Experiments

I believe in controlling the tools of practice. Computer based design process has opened complexity many orders of magnitude beyond the variables that tools provided in the pen and vellum era, but with it has come a profusion of design possibilities. While software is never a design driver, knowing which tool can help achieve a design goal requires broad knowledge of the available tools at all scales. Python and VB scripts bring the potential to implement new algorithms without the associated cost and time of commercial software release. Programming is the new literacy and understanding the computer as the tool of design is one of my primary career goals.

compelling. At this stage in my process I use macros, scripts, and Grasshopper definitions to compute precise but dynamic geometries, make progressive changes, and iterate parts of designs closer to deadlines. Algorithmically driven design using Python is my next area of interest, with workflows involving Excel and custom software. Distributed workflow and multi-user files are the most exciting developments on the horizon for me, especially leveraging existing collaboration tools like Git and its ability to handle the text-as-geometry of the IFC file. In school, it has become clear that true collaboration offers speed, accuracy, and creativity well beyond that available to individual designers. The cost of this collaboration is in the clarity of the concept at all scales and the tools to implement dependent parts of the design simultaneously. The first problem is solved in practice and the second is solved in software.

Digital design and fabrication enables iteration, collaboration, and computation that is changing the industry. Workflow tools are beginning to handle the complexity of multi-firm, multi-role architecture projects and the results are already

Scripting Geometries

Uses a graph to bias the division of a curve and then constructs an algorithmically generated rectangular prism on this points.

Michael Stinnett

Scripting Geometries

Arrays an arbitrary geometry along an arbitrary curve and orients the top to face another arbitrary curve.

Computes an extrusion distance based on arbitrarily sized circles and fits a new surface to that minimum distance.

Working under Lavender Tessmer, I was responsible for extracting computed geometry and creating the curves the CNC would follow, including connections.

Photography

Michael Stinnett

Michael Stinnett Serengeti Gullfoss Porto

St. Louis Thingvelir Paris