MShinnick Cummulative Architecture Portfolio [2019-2021] by mmshinnick

POR TF O LI O MACKENZIE C U + A

U M U L A T I V N D E R G R A D U A T G R A D U A T R C H I T E C T U R

E E E E

S H I N N I C K

MACKENZIE

S H I N N I C K mshinnick3@gatech.edu 850.240.3630

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE II

INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE INTERN

Georgia Institute of Technology College of Design 2021-2023

EXPERIENCE

Sin Luz Ingenieria y Arquitectura SLP Barcelona, Spain Summer 2019

BACHELOR OF DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE

University of Florida College of Design, Construction + Planning 2017-2021

MINOR IN SUSTAINABILITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

University of Florida College of Design, Construction + Planning 2017-2021

ACADEMIC

EXPERIENCE

SEMESTER STUDY ABROAD - ARCHITECTURE

Vicenza, Italy University of Florida Spring 2021

HONORS

AWARDS

PORTMAN PRIZE STUDIO FINALIST

Georgia Institute of Technology 2022

NOMINATION FOR KPF TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP

Georgia Institute of Technology 2022 HARRISON CHAIR FELLOWSHIP

Georgia Institute of Technology 2021 -2023 WORK SELECTED FOR ADV. STUDIO I SoA ARCHIVES

Georgia Institute of Technology Fall 2021

HEAD OF RESEARCH FOR COMMUNITY BUILD INSTALLATION

University of Florida Florida League of Architectural Things [F.L.o.A.T.] Plaza de Americas, Gainesville, FL Fall 2019 SECOND-YEAR STUDIO TEACHING ASSISTANT

University of Florida Fall 2019

WORK SELECTED FOR MEDIA + MODELING III SoA ARCHIVES

Georgia Institute of Technology Fall 2021

WORK SELECTED FOR INTEGRATED BUILDING SYSTEMS I SoA ARCHIVES

Georgia Institute of Technology Fall 2021

TOP 10 - TWO-YEAR CUMMULATIVE FACULTY REVIEW

CO-CURRICULAR

ACTIVITIES

University of Florida Spring 2019

MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

AIAS GAINESVILLE SCHOLARSHIP

Georgia Institute of Technology Mentor: Yasser El Masri Spring 2022

Univeristy of Florida Fall 2019

INTEGRATED BUILDING SYSTEMS CLUB

SKILLS

Georgia Insitute of Technology Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

AIAS - AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

University of Florida Chapter President [2019-2020] Chapter Treasurer [2018-2019] Active Memeber [2017-2020] ARCHITECTURE BUILDING GROUP

University of Florida Fall 2020

STUDENT BODY REPRESENTATIVE FOR COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN FACULTY SEARCH

University of Florida Fall 2020

MODELING

Rhino 3D Revit [Some Experience] Woodwork 3D Printing DRAWING

Illustrator AutoCAD InDesign Hand Drafting RENDERING

Photoshop Lumion Keyshot Premiere Pro

O1.

C Y P R E S S MArch II Georgia Institute of Technology Spring 2022

O2.

R E C O R D E R MArch II Georgia Institute of Technology Fall 2021

O3.

U R B A N

O4.

N E X U S

O6.

[37-53]

PAVILION

[54-63]

BA of Design in Architecture University of Florida Fall 2020

K A R S T BA of Design in Architecture University of Florida Spring 2019

DIGITAL

S I T E S

MArch II Georgia Institute of Technology Fall 2021

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C H A P E L OF M E M O R Y BA of Design in Architecture University of Florida Fall 2019

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C Y P H E R MArch II Georgia Institute of Technology Spring 2021

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[22-37]

F A R M

MArch II Georgia Institute of Technology Fall 2021

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[06-21]

V I C E N Z A SKETCHBOOK

[64-71]

[72-75]

[76-83]

[84-89]

[90-95]

BA of Design in Architecture University of Florida Spring 2021

01. portman prize studio prof. daniel baerlecken spring 2022 mayersville, MS MArch II georgia tech

CYPRESS The Mississippi Delta is a charming but threatened place. It is threatened by the persistent forces of nature that mold its landscape; precipitation, intense sun, and heat, but most notably the fluctuating flood levels of a pluvial flood plain. Currently, the community of Mayersville’s flood mitigation strategies involves either fight (using personal pumps and sandbagging flood-prone areas) or flight (evacuating) procedures. This proposal seeks to provide an alternative, more resilient solution to the community of Mayersville and other communities along the Delta to live with the water as opposed to resisting it.

01.

C Y P R E S S RESILIENCY

NATURE

The people of Mayersville are incredibly resilient, but their shelters are not. How can we design a community where water is no longer seen as a threat, but instead a utility in an alternative flood mitigation strategy? Using the simple and free power of water in a passive hydraulic system and learning from the inner workings of cypress trees, this proposal offers an alternative, more resilient solution. These catalysts influenced many decisions made throughout the project in terms of designing the flood mitigation strategy, community plan, form, and structure.

MAJOR FLOOD LEVEL [+/- 15’] PASSIVE HYDRAULIC LIFT SYSTEM [1]

Water fills 10’ x 10’ tanks underneath elevated boardwalks

[2]

The weight of water pushes down a pressure plate

[3]

That force displaces an incompressible liquid (water or oil) through underground pipes

[4]

This force is multiplied creating an upward force on the pistonlike central core of the house, thus lifting the houses above the water line

NO FLOOD

MISSISSIPPI RIVER

HOUSING PROPOSAL

COMMUNITY CENTER

MAYERSVILLE EXISTING HOUSING

MSL 135' 101' 85'

AGL

MAJOR FLOOD MODERATE FLOOD MINOR FLOOD ACTION STAGE

50' 46' 43' 35'

LEGEND 1

COMMUNITY CENTER

BOAT DOCKS

HYDRAULIC TANKS

SOFTSCAPE PARKING

1 BEDROOM HOUSE

FLOATING DOCK

3 BEDROOM HOUSE

CYPRESS

TREE CROSS SECTION HEARTWOOD [Support system]

SAPWOOD [Transport and storage of water and nutrients]

OUTER BARK [Insulates and protects inner tissue]

PISTON CROSS SECTION REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN [Primary structure]

UTILITIES CAVITY [Transport of water, sewage, and electricity]

SPIRAL STAIR [Transport of residents]

EXTERIOR WALL [Wood cladding, insulation and secondary structure]

CYPRESS

REDEFINING "PORCH" The southern vernacular housing typology of the ‘porch’ is reimagined in both the house and community center. The mosquito netting mesh provides a delicate layer of enclosure and transparency that form spaces that bleed the boundaries between interior and exterior. Thus, offering places of pause for meditating on the Mississippi landscape. Simultaneously, it protects the interior from direct sunlight and mosquitos. A tensile cable system stabilizes the structure by transferring loads from the top of the piston, to the spanning floors, and back to the center piston.

3 BEDROOM HOUSE : 2,300 SQFT

MOSQUITO NET SKIN

CABLE NET STRUCTURE

TENSILE CABLE STRUCTURE

CIRCULAR STAIR

INTERIOR ENCLOSURE GLASS + CLT

CYPRESS

BEACON OF THE DELTA The community center acts as a threshold between the proposed community and the existing community of Mayersville. It is a beacon - a lighthouse - that brings new residents and visitors. Curious eco-tourists have the potential to make this town a destination and positively influence the economy of Mayersville. The terraced platforms serve both as community park space in the dry season and adapt to become a parking deck for cars and boats that the new community uses in times of minor and major flood events.

C Y P R E S S

02. adv. studio I prof. michael gamble fall 2021 MArch II georgia tech

R E C O R D E R The purpose of this project is to create a "Curiosity Cabinet" to house an established curated collection. "Infinity Drawings" are created out of the cabinet and collection as generative stepping stones for form and programatic ideas. The introduction of the site grounds the project and contextualizes its purpose. Ultimately, the "Curiosity Cabinet" reveals itself as a series of archival and garden spaces tailored to the program of the collection.

02.

RECORDER COLLECTION This collection arises from the need to record our natural history through the careful gathering, categorization, and preservation of plant life. A series of studies were conducted to explore different methods of preservation the preservation of the organism itself [living and dried] and the preservation of form [plaster imprinting]. The result is a collection of plates that record the biodiversity, climate, and atmosphere of a geological location. What emerges is an elegy of time and place.

R I T U A L O F COLLECTING

GEOMETRIC

O R D E R

A geometric order is derived from patterns found in nature. Cell clusters from a Sarracenia "Pitcher" plant are extracted from the elevation of the plant, geometrically refined, and interpreted into a structural framing system.

RECORDER

ARCHIVES

GALLERIES

ARCHIVES

GALLERIES

INFINITY

SEVIHCRA

DRAWING

The infinity drawing is a boundless, generative model for spatial and programmatic ideas. The drawing is constructed through the manipulation of naturally born geometries subjected to a series of 2D and 3D digital operations such as mirror, scale, move, boolean difference, rotate, and invert.

COLLECTION GARDEN

ARCHIVES

LIVING GARDEN

GALLERIES

LIVING GARDEN

COLLECTION GARDEN

SEIRELLAG

ARCHIVES

BRARY + GALLERIES GARDEN ARCHIVES

GALLERIES

SING GARDEN + GARDEN COLLECTION

COLLECTION GARDEN

LIVING GARDEN

LIBRARY + READING GARDEN

LIVING GARDEN

LIBRARY

PRESSING + DRYING GARDEN LIBRARY + READING GARDEN

PRESSING + DRYING GARDEN

RECORDER

KERNFORM [Core Form] The kernform focuses on the techniques and structural framework of an architecture. This project generates space by employing a system of stereotomic components subjected to manipulated extrusions and spatial inversions. The geometries are extracted from patterns found in nature and then isolated to perform a series of carving operations - extrude, scale, rotate, intersect, and invert. The resulting interior cavities are carved from travertine stone using an industrial sized CNC water-jet mill. These extrusions can be oriented in a finite but extensive number of ways to craft various languages of space that are adaptable based on programmatic function.

EXTRUDE

LIFT

ROTATE

REFINE

3D PRINTED MODEL IMAGES

INTERSECT

INVERT

EXPLODED SECTIONS

45 LAYERS

RECORDER

KUNSTFORM [Symbolic Form]

The kunstform focuses on the representational aspects of the construction, such as its materiality and enclosure. This project explores materiality in testing the structural and aesthetic capabilities of travertine stone. The form is intended to display the characteristics of weightlessness, lightness and delicateness of stone that sharply contrasts with the heavy representation of the same material seen in the backdrop of Roman construction. Light-colored travertine stone catches light and shadow to emphasize the surface textures and details. The interior cavities diffuse light that is preferred for archival spaces. Additionally, the representational aspect of construction stems from the organic geometries. Similar to cells functioning as the building blocks of the living world, these carved components are the building blocks of inhabitable space.

RECORDER

S I T E [Il Campo Marzio, Rome (1762) Giovanni Battista Piranesi]

The etchings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi record a unique image of Rome. In his synthesis of his Campo Marzio dell'Antica Rome (1762), Piranesi interrogates the soft, malleable city. He explores the inhabitation of Rome's past and present by addressing the old (ruin) and new monuments within the same plate. It is suggestive in that the historical city is reinvented and selectively restructured into fragments. These fragments endure material transformations and a fictional order that proposes a site for the advent of "other forms." I seek to intervene with an "other form" - a form that respects the same materiality and steromtomic nature of construction, but employs evolved technologies of carving that introduce a new formal system and contradict the order of architecture established by Piranesi. The program of a herbarium will reinvent the use of the site just as the restructuring of the fragments of Rome calls for new ways of inhabiting space.

FRAMING

PIRANESI

In addition to holding a collection, This “other form” acts as a lense from which Piranesi’s drawings can be viewed from within.

RECORDER

P R O G R A M Herbarium The Herbarium is a vessel for the gathering, classification, pressing, drying, and preserving of precious plants and plant specimens. specimens The Herbarium is composed of three Archives, and five Gardens Archives Gardens. The archive spaces are dedicated to the careful storage and preservation of a variety of preserved plants and plant parts. They are separated by the way in which they are preserved [dried, imprinted, living] and then further organized by their geographic region in which they were collected. The Gardens are spaces designed to instill wonder and create moments of pause. The herbarium's most important poetic function is to connect humanity back to nature. A living herbarium rests within nature the ground and below the floating cabinet of archive spaces. It serves as a point of growth and collection as well as a poetic opportunity to display the life cycle of these specimens.

ARCHIVES

01.

PRESSED + DRIED PLANTS

02.

PLASTER IMPRINTED PLANTS

03.

LIVING HERBARIUM

04.

ARRIVAL GARDEN

05.

COLLECTION GARDEN

06.

PRESSING + DRYING GARDEN

07.

EMILY DICKINSON'S PRIVATE POETRY

GARDENS

01.

02. RECORDER

03.

04.

05. RECORDER

03. design studio 7 prof. martin gold fall 2020 ba. of design univ. of florida colleague: sukanya mukherjee upper west side manhattan, NY

U R B A N

F A R M

Urban farming is part of a wave of urban design that has been heavily discussed and pursued for over a century now. The threat of climate change, increasingly heightened demands on farmland, and the build up of contaminating pollutants endangers our ability to produce enough food to sustain rapidly growing populations. In order to create a meaningful change, we must understand the need to reorganize our cities to be more self-sustainable. A community centered around the ritual of farming nurtures a new culture of living that is more ecologically sustainable, social, focused on the well-being of residents, and relieves the pressures of food demand on the city.

03.

U R B A N

FARM

IDENTITY +

CONNECTIVITY

The Upper West Side of Manhattan is characterized by high-end commercial and residential districts that have layered over a historical working class culture. The site is currently occupied by a deteriorating public housing complex which lacks identity of place and connectivity to the dense urban fabric surrounding it. As a microcosm of Manhattan, this intervention seeks a duality in a new mixed-use housing program - to reconceptualize a rich working class culture through the ritual of farming and act as an intermediary threshold connecting Lincoln Center and the Hudson River. By reimagining agricultural landscapes as vessels of dialogue between class lines, the proposal finds balance in the needs of the community for growth and the needs of the people themselves.

12 2

WEST END AVE

UPPER WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN, NY

LP AR

42 34

64TH ST

SITE ANALYSIS BUG MODELS

BREAKING THE GRID ANALYSIS OF CITY DENSITY AROUND PARKS

122 ST MARCUS GARVEY PARK

CENTRAL PARK S ST CENTRAL PARK

42 ST BRYANT PARK

34 ST

NO PARKS

5 ST WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK

URBAN F A R M

HOW DO WE MERGE ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, AND FARMING?

R I T U A L OF F A R M I N G Agricultural typologies in the form of rooftop green-houses, vertical residential farming, and sunken cultivation spaces connect humans back to the earth. Growing, harvesting, cooking, and eating form the ritual of farming that facilitates community engagement through farmto-table dining experiences and openair produce markets hosted on the site.

GROW

HARVEST

COOK

EAT

SLEEP

RADIATION

ANALYSIS

kWh/m2+ 1172.11< 1054.90

This radiation analysis reveals the annual sun exposure on the surfaces of the housing and farming bars. The rooftop greenhouses and vertical farming volumes recieve sufficient daylighting throughout the year to sustain a culture of farming. farming The housing bars recieve significantly less sun exposure which reduces the loads on HVAC systems.

937.69 820.48 703.27 586.05 468.84 351.63 234.42 117.21 <0.00

VIEW FROM ROOF-TOP GREENHOUSES

VIEW FROM RESIDENTIAL HOUSING BARS

URBAN F A R M

B R E A K I N G

THE G R I D

Similar to the way Mahattan's parks and plazas break the rigid urban grid, the pushing and pulling of an integrated housing fabric breeds a culture of congregation and conversation between the residents.

INTEGRATED H O U S I N G F A B R I C

64TH WEST

END A

STRE

The site hosts three types of housing - subsidized, affordable, and marketrate. The layers of housing typologies rate correspond to a 25/50/25 ratio respectively. These programs are differentiated by plan and amount of livable space as opposed to being segregated throughout the project. The housing bars consist of subsidized and affordable living. The slight undulation of the bars allows the rows of housing to breath - shaping larger social realms for residents to meet and coexist.

61 ST

STREE

URBAN F A R M

GROUND LEVEL

TOWER In order to make residential gardening more accessible and efficient, this small-scale design can be integrated into the largescale urban form of towers. Articulating “farm” as vertical volumes that break through each floor provides access to the urban dweller occupying each level, thus, fostering small-scale agricultural villages. LEVEL 10

LEVEL 35

VERTICAL FARMING

URBAN F A R M

FARMING TYPOLOGIES

[VERTICAL FARMING] Vertical volumes that organize the towers are pushed to the south facade of the tower to maximize access to sunlight for year-round growth. Verticality as a reinterpretation of farm provides access to each residential level fostering small-scale agricultural villages. [HORIZONTAL FARMING] The roof plane of the housing bars hold occupiable green spaces that shift the horizon line above the ground. These spaces are ideal for light and land dependent crops. Residents are each designated a plot for their own personal cultivation. [SUNKEN FARMING] Underground farming anchors the project back to the ground. Lightwells funnel light through the residential bars and into the sunken spaces below. Mushrooms and low-light crops are harvested to supply the farmto-table restaurants.

BRIDGE FROM LINCOLN CENTER

VERTICAL FA R M I N G

H O R I Z O N TA L FA R M I N G FA R M -T O -TA B L E DINING

FOOD PROCESSING

SUNKEN FARMING

FOOD HARVESTING + STORAGE

URBAN F A R M

[01]

GREEN-ROOF

FARMING

Better control of rain flow and prevention of stormwater runoff prevents flooding on property.

Trees and foliage provide shade and remove heat from the air, thus mitigating heat island effect and reducing energy costs. costs

Reduced membrane wear increases the lifespan of the roof. Planting Soil Drainage Board Roof Membrane Foil-Faced XPS Insulation Greenroof Substrate

[01]

[02]

AEROPONIC

[02]

FARMING

Passive solar design ensures that crops recieve sufficient daylighting.

Soilless system increases crop yeild and decreases dead load on structure.

LED grow light systems compensate for areas that do not recieve sufficient natural light from the light wells.

Exposed roots absorb more oxygen from nutrient enriched solution - reduces water demand. demand

Passive water supply system collects groundwater and utilizes gravity to pump into hydroponic tanks.

URBAN F A R M

OPEN-AIR M A R K E T An open-air produce market lies in the pocket created between the residential housing bars. This space links the highly dense urban centers of Lincoln Center and the Hudson River. This space is set aside for local small businesses and residents to sell produce harvested on or off-site. The bottom floor of the bars is reserved for commercial businesses that that separate public and private entities.

URBAN F A R M

O4. media + modeling III prof. tzu-chieh k. hong fall 2021 MArch II georgia tech colleagues: elizabeth gooch nicole barrow miguel jimenez

N E X U S

P A V I L I O N

The Nexus Pavilion is a prefabricated tent-like structure that can be built and then deconstructed as a temporary instalation for any public space. The catalyst of the project was an interest in developing a digital language between tectonic systems and enclosure. Assembly logistics interpret this language as the interplay between joints, connections, and surfaces. surfaces Experimentation with the domains and bounds of these elements allows for numerous possible variations in the structures design based on program and site.

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N E X U S P A V I L I O N

FORMAL DERIVATION Starting from an initial design goal, our team performed a set of operations in Grasshopper to develop a formal study that can be applied to multiple sites. The resulting tectonic structure is transformed by adjusting the number of points, the density of points, and the movement of points in the z direction. Four anchor points form their own data set that is not manipulated in order to preserve points of connection to a site. Applying a Delaunay mesh to the frame introduces the idea of surface.

POPULATE 3D

MOVE POINTS IN Z DIRECTION

PROXIMITY 3D

PIPE

DALAUNAY MESH

VARIATION 01

VARIATION 02

VARIATION 03

NEXUS

PAVILION

JOINT DERIVATION

PROXIMITY 3D PIPE SPHERE SCALE SOLID INTERSECTION BREP CONTAINER

Generate linear connections from points. Pipe connections by .05. Create spherical surface on connection points. Scale sphere and pipe, create BREP. Perform a solid intersection on the scaled sphere and pipes. Combine smaller sphere and the result of the intersection in a brep container.

PROXIMITY 3D / PIPE

SPHERE

SCALE

SOLID INTERSECTION

BREP

JOINTS (JTOTAL) = 20 CONNECTIONS (CTOTAL) = 38 J3

J10

J17 J14

J18

J11 J8

J16

J19

J13 J5

J15

J12

J20

J11

J16 C26

C3 C6

C16

C5 C7

C17

C24

CONNECTIONS (C(X))

C23

C19

VALENCY = 4

C21 C20

VALENCY = 3 VALENCIES 3<V<6

C25

C22

JOINT (J(X))

C21

VALENCY = 5

JOINT (J(X))

VALENCIES 3<V<6

CONNECTIONS (C(X))

VALENCY = 6

JOINT (J(X))

VALENCIES 3<V<6

J11

CONNECTIONS (C(X))

15.15'

15.00'

C16

17.00

15.00'

14.60'

C17

16.00'

14.95'

C19

16.05

JOINT (J(X))

VALENCIES 3<V<6

J11

CONNECTIONS (C(X)) C20

15.15'

16.40

C22

15.40'

14.00

C23

15.85'

C20

15.15

C24

15.00'

C21

16.00

C25

16.35'

C26

15.00'

NEXUS

PAVILION

SURFACE DERIVATION

DELAUNAY MESH FACE NORMALS DISTANCE SMALLER THAN GATE OR . CULL FACES

SURFACE ADAPTATION TO MANIPULATION OF BOUNDS

Create mesh from triangulation of points. Locate the centers of each face. Find distances between cloud points and centers of faces. Determine specified points. Join the list of elements. Construct mesh from specified points.

SURFACES (STOTAL) = 21

NEXUS

PAVILION

NEXUS

PAVILION

05.

K A R S T

design studio 4 prof. kristel bataku spring 2019

How do humans find place in an environment that lacks orientation, identity, and permanence?

b.a. of design univ. of florida

The aquatic biome of a karst is a reinterpretation of desert. Its porous surface offers a vast expanse of inhospitable landscape - one that lives in complete isolation. The dissolution of limestone over time molds a surface and subsurface that is in constant flux. Pulling from the markings of an articulated surface, architecture emerges to offer a solution that reacts to the landscape and manipulates the ground. ground

05.

K A R S T

GENESIS O F GROUND The nature of ice mimics the impermanence of a dissolving landscape. Freezing water in layers casts an effervescent quality akin to subterranean rivers that construct an aquatic biome. Saturating the fractures in the ice as it melts results in fields of varying densities from which architecture can pull from and intervene. TRAIL 01

FRACTURE

SATURATE

INTERVENE

TRAIL 02

TRAIL

K A R S T

COLLABORATION

LIVING

EXPERIMENTATION

The rich biodiversity of an aquatic biome that is concealed beneath an immense homogeneous landscape encourages exploration and discovery of new marine organisms. A remote research center provides a hospitable environment for the collection, experimentation, and discussion of the aquatic life discovered in the network of rivers beneath the surface. Scientists dwell in the hierarchy of spaces as a community in isolation. Sleeping spaces and laboratories are joined by a central meeting place intended for open collaboration. collaboration

ENTRY TO RIVERS

E N T R Y A connection of earth, sky, and water tether together an occupiable plenum. Satellite nodes carve into the aquatic biome puncturing layers of horizon. A new underground world is revealed - facilitating mysteries to be uncovered and new information to be found by the divers who navigate the network of flooded caves.

K A R S T

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

ENTRY TO RIVERS

ENTRANCE

K A R S T

O6. media + modeling III prof. tzu-chieh kurt hong fall 2021 MArch II georgia tech

D I G I T A L

S I T E S

This project focuses on the implementation of a site in a digital context. It highlights the skillsets of creating a pliable geometry that reacts systematically to a given surface condition. condition In this case, the orientation and position of a cylindrical form dictates the rotation and scale of a motif in a vertical datum. The result is a spine-like structure that twists parametrically to form various iterations of spiraling towers.

06.

DIGITAL SITES

REACTING TO SITE

TRANSLATION

MODULE

MOTIF

VARIATION O1

VARIATION O2

VARIATION O3

Rotate surface 90 degrees

Increase scale of translated geometry by 3

Increase scale of translated geometry by 5

Move surface down in the z direction

Move translated geometry in the x direction

Rotate surface 90 degrees Move surface down in the z direction

DIGITAL

SITES

07. design studio 5 prof. martin gold fall 2019 b.a. of design univ. of florida prarie creek natural burial reserve gainesville, fl

C H A P E L O F

M E M O R Y

Natural burial celebrates the journey of the body from birth, through life, into death and finally returning to the earth — among the elements from which it depended. The still marsh waters, moss-cloaked trees, sandy soils, and burned reminance of the burial grounds become the edges, thresholds and fields that reveal a new landscape — one that holds the memories of people who inhabit with a certain temporality and permanence. As holy remains dwell within the layers of the earth, the Chapel of Memory is extruded from the implicit boundaries below, forming layers of registration from which a “consolationscape” emerges.

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C H A P E L O F M E M O R Y

MARKINGTHE FLORIDA LANDSCAPE

GATHERING

MEDITATION

DIFFERENTIATION There is a distinct separation of program in the ritual of funeral - gathering, meditation, and mourning. The ground is touched with a heavy hand - pulling up concrete walls to frame each of the spaces as if they are “of the earth.” These hard edges create subtle thresholds to elicit pockets of pause and thus call attention to their individualty.

CONTINUITY The presence of pools connects these spaces through a gradation of textures of water. Upon arrival, flowing water greets water the visitors - quieting conversation into the gathering space. The murmring of water trickling down stones reveals an outdoor private meditation space. The view of the chapel is then able to be revealed in the reflections of silent pools that surround it.

INTERPENETRATION Differentiation and continuity work dynamically to create three moments that are parts within the whole individualized practices within the ritual of funeral. The ability to read these spaces seperately and then together enforces an inside-outside relationship that threads movement throughout the project. Hard and soft edges offer directionality but encourage individual discovery of the site.

MOURNING

CHAPEL OF M E M O R Y

TEMPORALITY The transient nature of architecture arises from the presence of the individual. The ritual of funeral in itself individual is ephemeral. Visitors come and go in a cycle of temporary occupation to gather, meditate, and mourn. Materials in the form of water and light are the bodies that occupy these spaces when the living do not. An unconsciousness understood by still waters can be awakened by the slightest movement of air across its surface just as the people that visit the site are experiencing it with a certain plasticity.

CHAPEL

PERMANENCE Walls composed of site-cast concrete are molded with aggregate from a local quarry bringing to life the natural textures of the ground in a state of permanence. The materiality is “of the earth.” As bodies become one with the earth again, the materiality of the chapel will mature with time and grow new life in the form of vegetation.

MEDITATION GARDEN

RECEPTION + OFFICES

DECENT TO BURIAL

PRIVATE FAMILY CHAPEL

CHAPEL OF MEMORY

PREPARATION OF THE BODY

SHINNICK

GATHERING

PROCESSION ARRIVAL

ARRIVAL OF THE BODY

CHAPEL OF M E M O R Y

ARRIVAL Upon arrival, flowing water greets the visitors - quieting conversation into the gathering space. Natural stones line the pathway to ease the transition from softscape to hardscape.

DECENT TO BURIAL The manipulation of horizon guides the procession through a series of ascending levels that mark a departure from the ground. The chapel rests on the highest point, providing isolated views of the landscape that juxtapose the body on the alter. A ceremonial circumambulation of the chapel ushers the precession back to the ground where the body is lowered into its final resting place.

CHAPEL OF M E M O R Y

08. design studio 8 prof. peter sprowls spring 2021 b.a. of design univ. of florida vicenza, italy

C Y P H E R The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to have a unique impact on the urban experience. An experience characterized by limited access to the interior of buildings, sociallydistanced public spaces, and less populated streets leaves the urban wanderer to isolate their observations to the qualities and edges of facade. Vicenza, Italy provides a rich landscape of facade that is dependent on the variables of ornamentation, texture, materiality, edge, proportion, shape, and scale. scale The purpose of this project is to manipulate these variables in a way that defines new edges and qualities of public space. The result is a "cypher" to an space imagined architectural landscape.

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C Y P H E R DECONSTRUCTING + RE-IMAGINGING FACADE T H R O U G H P R O J E C T I O N Two studies were conducted to isolate specific qualities of facade. One study of facade is conducted through the mirrored reflection of the Basilica Palladiana onto the facade of the Loggia del Capitanio. Projections were taken from the same point in Piazza Signori but at different angles of reflection. A palimpsest of ornamentation, texture, materiality, and edge is recorded as a cypher. A model study is conducted through the use of light and shadow to reveal overlaps in shape, scale and proportion between the same two facades.

B A S I L I C A PA L L A D I A N A

LOGGIA D E L C A P I TA N I O

PIAZZA SIGNORI UNROLLED

CYPHER

LIGHT

SHADOW

MODEL

CYPHER

09. a personal collection spring 2021 vicenza, italy

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SKETCHBOOK

This is a collection of observations from my temporary home in Vicenza, Italy. I see drawing as a way of being present and deeply absorbing your surroundings. Through drawing, I find peace and place in my environment.

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