Michael Stinnett
Work Sample
2015
Canopy
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Reactivating Historically Significant Public Space Renderings
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.
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3D drawings of urban condition and desired intervention in the square.
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Looking up and looking at the entrance.
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. 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.
Below Detail section showing steel structure and levels of enclosure. The top level is cantilevered both vertically and horizontally, contributing to a deflection that evokes a feeling of being on top of a human tower.
Axonometric circulation, structure, secondary structure, canopies, and enclosure.
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Looking down the street to the square. Elevation with canvas canopy in place. Ground floor plan showing moments to stop and differences in ground texture as well as hard enclosure.
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Floating Rock Corporate Identity and Urban Relationships 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 pedestrian-accessible 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. Roof
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Renderings (clockwise from top left) Main staircase in gallery. Looking down the street. View down through atrium. AVEC / Artek-Vitra Education Center
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Proposal for Yrjönkatu
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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
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Metal Attachment Plate Rigid Thermal Insulation Moisture Barrier Aluminum Facade Support Bracket
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Exterior Bolt Panel Attachment Aluminum Support Aluminum Support (Orthogonal) C Steel Facade Support Connection Bolt Finished Gypsum Board Surface Metal Attachment Sheet
Concrete Masonry Unit Fire-Rated Wall Fire Stair Slab
Hanging Metal Wire Support
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Aluminum Support
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Multi-part 1:10 structural section.
Thermally Isolated Mullion Stabilized by Column Connection Concrete Dark Concrete Tiles Fireproofing Board
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Main Floor Slab Reinforced Concrete Metal Deck
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Primary Structural W-Beam Beam-Column Bolt Connection
Section perspective. From bottom floor: archive, reading room, main gallery, small gallery, classrooms, office and conference rooms, apartments and sauna, roof deck.
Concrete Foundation Wall Finished Interior Surface
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Ground floor plan with below-grade reading room and exterior patio connection.
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5 Plywood Subfloor, Bolt-Connection to Slab
Foundation Insulation Moisture Barrier
Steel and cladding axonometric.
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Concrete Spread Footing
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French Drain
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Glitch Migratory Housing Typology in Ilwaco, Washington Ilwaco, Washington is home to a large commercial fishing fleet, employing most of the town’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 high-density hotels. Tourism and fishing exports together are the leading economic drivers, but the peak tourism season is short: only from midsummer to fall. 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 group-housing 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 300’, 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.
Site aerial with Ilwaco to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Fragmenting conjoining and multilevel units. Section of fragmenting (top) and dense (bottom) living conditions.
Opposite Double cut axonometric. Rendering progression showing fragmenting portion of building, fragmenting CMU construction, and planar wall glass interface detail.
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Models are valuable in design, in communication, and in learning the properties of materials and craft. These selected models are moments where I learned the most about production, material resistance, the design process, and communication.
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Careful observation of existing conditions reveals emergent qualities that are otherwise opaque. Poetic vignettes and careful photography provide other lenses but the drawing of the data-driven map is a unique aspect of architectural thinking that underlines our value to the world. The training may not result in a career of data visualization, and the billing is impossible to justify, but the training in careful map making creates an important way of looking at the world that will yield better, more sensitive design.
A plywood and metal chair made in Finland where the plywood and metal chair emerges as an architectural practice. A
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Topography and vegetation emerge from a careful study of view corridors, which extends to a discussion of activation intensities.
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Mapping solar exposure and moisture content correlates with existing, previously adapted vegetation.
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Finding joining techniques of steam-bent basswood.
Iterations of sixteenth scale models reveal circulation and adjacencies.
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Script & Technical Study Scripting Environmental Response
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Starting with a set of openings that vary in size based on the program behind
I believe in controlling them, the facade undulates in frontthe of tools of practice. Computer based design process has opened complexity many orders of magnitude beyond the variables that the punctuated openings. The shade tools provided in the pen and vellum era, but with it has come a profusion of design possibilities. While software isairnever a design allow minimal conditioning use whendriver, knowing which tool can help achieve a design goal requires broad knowledge of the available Facade Iteration 01 tools at all scales. Python supplemented with natural ventilation.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 facade-supported slab primary career goals.
Facade Iteration 02 slab-supported facade
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 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-asgeometry of the IFC file.
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insulation window assembly cnc-formwork concrete facade
fan coil intake cover
metal angle clips
hanging bar lights
plaster board
fan coil return air vent
finish floor floor supports fan coil water supply fan coil water return
operable inner window assembly shell insulation cnc-cut insulation cap
pan and joist concrete slab
operable ventilation
radiant heating tubes
plaster surface
An algorithm that packs circular openings based on intensity of occupation is followed by another that er mixing creates a surface of the proper depth to shade the scripted facade.
fan coil intake cover exterior operable window
Uses a graph to bias the division of a curve and then constructs an algorithmically generated rectangular prism on this points.
Uses a graph to bias the creation of a 2D grid which is then populated with an algorithmically generated symbol. Computes an extrusion distance based on arbitrarily sized circles and fits a new surface to that minimum distance.
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. 0
Arrays an arbitrary geometry along an arbitrary curve and orients the top to face another arbitrary curve.
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Working under Lavender Tessmer, I was responsible for extracting computed geometry South Elevation 1/16”the CNC would follow, and creating1’ the=curves including connections.
Michael Stinnett
mail@michaelstinnett.com
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312.498.2539
4466 Olive St #409 St Louis MO 63108
Education Washington University in St Louis Sam Fox School & Sever Institute
Anticipated 2015
Candidate for Master of Architecture and Master of Construction Management. Study abroad in Helsinki and in Barcelona. GPA 3.9. Selected for Approach for work in studios I, V, and VI. Reviewed portfolios with admissions committee. Served as IT representative for the Graduate Architecture Council.
St John’s College Annapolis and Santa Fe
2009
Great Books education. BA in Philosophy and the History of Mathematics and Science. Studied abroad in Scotland (sculpture) and in Rome (philosophy).
Experience Washington University in St Louis Teaching Assistant Representation II
2015
Teaching introductory Rhinoceros, T-Splines, Grasshopper, and Illustrator as well as drawing layouts and line weight.
Luchini AD Visualizer
2014
Completed 3D model and renderings from AutoCAD drawings for a professor’s practice.
Washington University in St Louis Teaching Assistant Core Studio III
2014
Assisting professor with the final required studio. Projects were based on re-purposing a large governmental infrastructure in Madrid and adding thirty units of housing.
Washington University in St Louis Teaching Assistant Concepts & Principles
2013
Led a discussion section for a required theory course, covering a survey of theory from Vitruvius through modern topics in technology and fabrication.
Washington University in St Louis Assistant Book Developer Developed a layout and editing material for an exhibition compilation.
Enrichment Extensive travel including: Beijing, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Spain, and Tanzania.
Software Rhino, Grasshopper, T-Splines, Maxwell, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, ArcGIS, P6, AutoCAD, Office, HTML+CSS+Javascript, LaTeX, PHP+MySQL, C, Objective-C, Python, Digital Project, and Revit.
2013