2017 - 2021 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
MACKENZIE SHINNICK UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN PORTFOLIO M.ARCH CANDIDATE FALL 2021
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URBAN FARM
VERTICAL DATA
BIODIVERSE DESERT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPEL OF MEMORY
WINTER PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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BIODIVERSE DESERT
REMOTE MARINE RESEARCH CENTER SPRING 2019 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. How do humans find place in an environment that lacks orientation, identity, and permanence? Pulling from the markings of an articulated surface, architecture emerges to offer a solution that reacts to the landscape and manipulates the ground.
01. BIODIVERSE DESERT
FRACTURE
SATURATE
GENESIS OF 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.
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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.
ENTRY TO RIVERS
GALLERY OF FINDINGS
03. DESERT ORGANISM STROAGE
01. BIODIVERSE DESERT
IMBEDDING GROUND
ENTRY TO RIVERS
ENTRY 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.
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VERTICAL DATA
HOME OF THE CRITIC, ORCHESTRA, AND PRODIGY SPRING 2019 Operating within the speculative site of a vertical gesture, this project seeks to define moments of occupiable space held within a concentrated tectonic system. Pulling from the musical artistry of James Blake, “Overgrown� becomes the generative piece for exploration. Through the repeated practice of listening, closing my eyes and drawing what I heard, architectural conditions were revealed. The steady background tempo acts as a datum - organizing the elements of the song in a structure-like scaffolding. Melodic vocals cutting in and dissolving become fields and transparencies that break that datum - allowing for the insertion of constructed spaces.
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Working dually between drawings and modeling three nodes imbed themselves within the modulated structure. Manipulation of scale and levels of intimacy individualize these spaces tailored to their intended occupant - the critic, the orchestra, and the prodigy.
THE CRITIC
A gallery for musical observation: elevated above the line of sight of the orchestra, it offers a space for audible observation and not visual observation. The levels of occupation are filled with the music from the orchestra - providing a large-scale space for twenty or more critics to listen in a refined setting and collaborate on their findings.
THE ORCHESTRA
Occupying the joint is a space for group performance. Areas open to the sky allow for the orchestra to put their perfected pieces on display for listeners.
THE PRODIGY
The space for the prodigy offers itself as a quiet place of refuge for the individual exploration of music. In isolation, the prodigy can cultivate a unique perspective of the art through personal study and practice.
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URBAN FARM UPPER WEST SIDE MANHATTAN, NEW YORK PARTNER: SUKANYA MUKHERJEE FALL 2020
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IDENTITY AND 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.
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AMSTERDAM AVE
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W END AVE
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LINCOLN CENTER
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INTEGRATED HOUSING FABRIC The pushing and pulling of an integrated housing fabric breeds a culture of congregation and conversation between the residents. The site hosts three types of housing subsidized, affordable, and market-rate. The layers of housing typologies 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.
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[850 sqft] 02. AFFORDABLE HOUSING [1000 sqft] 03. LIGHT WELL 01. SUBSIDIZED HOUSING [850 sqft] 04. RESIDENT GATHERING
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MARKET-RATE HOUSING [1200 sqft] AFFORDABLE HOUSING [1000 sqft] RESIDENTIAL GARDEN CAFE RESIDENTIAL ENTRY
INTEGRATED HOUSING FABRIC In the towers, the same residential fabric is rotated to attach to a vertical datum. Leaves of vertical housing bars encase a voided core. In a similar approach to section as in plan, the tower bends to form spatial reliefs in between the layers of mixed affordable and double-height market-rate housing. The social spaces forged from the voids articulate a language that reinterprets the pockets of open space which break the Manhattan Grid.
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RITUAL OF FARMING 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 farm-to-table dining experiences and open-air produce markets hosted on the site.
VERTICAL FARMING GROW
HARVEST
COOK
EAT
ROOFTOP GREENHOUSE
SUNKEN FARM
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SUBSIDIZED 01. SUBSIDIZED HOUSING HOUSING [850 AFFORDABLE 02. AFFORDABLE HOUSING HOUSING [1000 LIGHT 03. LIGHT WELL WELL RESIDENT 04. RESIDENT GATHERING GATHERING
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COMMERCIAL PROMENADE
FARMING ORGANIZATION
VEGETABLE GARDEN MUSHROOM GARDEN COLD STORAGE DRY STROAGE RAINWATER COLLECTION FOOD PREPARATION
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MANIPULATION OF HORIZON VERTICAL FARMING | HYDROPONIC 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| GREENHOUSE ENCLOSURES 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 farm-to-table restaurants.
BRIDGE FROM LINCOLN CENTER
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VERTICAL FARMING
H O R I Z O N T A L FARMING FARM-TO-TABLE DINING
FOOD PROCESSING
SUNKEN FARMING
FOOD HARVESTING + STORAGE
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HORIZONTAL FARMING | GREENHOUSE ENCLOSURE VIEW
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WINTER PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY WINTER PARK, FLORIDA SPRING 2020 URBAN STITCH
The Winter Park Public Library is a vessel designed to bring new people to the area while inspiring interest and collaboration. The Library acts as an urban stitch in several ways. Through programs of holding, performance, and research; a stitching of community emerges from the connection of public and private spaces. Additionally, the rich history and rapidly modernizing culture of Winter Park is stitched together through its extension of parks that reach into the public realm, bringing visitors to the site.
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The Library occupies the corner of New England Street and N Park Avenue in Downtown Winter Park. Two plaza’s – Alderman’s Square and Founders Square pull from the existing historical landscape to form a marked urban park that holds active and passive recreation. The Plaza features seven benches to commemorate each of the seven bold founders that crossed the square in 1887 to found the city of Winter Park. Each bench acts as a threshold within the open plaza which is designed to respect the path that the founders walked to reach the Capital. Two reflection pools point toward the libraries face and the heart of the plaza. This plaza serves as a major hinge within Winter Park that softens the transition from the city into the main downtown shopping district.
04. WINTER PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
COMMUNITY COMPUTER LABS PERSPECTIVE
FO UN DE RS OF PA TH
FOUNDERS SQUARE
ALDERMAN’S SQUARE
N PARK AVE
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GROUND FLOOR
HOLDING Upon entry, vertical elements form the bookshelves which dually provide structure to the building and hold a skin of books. The volume extends through all levels a gallery of literature as that orients exploring visitors from within. Private collections recording the history of Winter Park’s beginnings are stored as a public relic in the city.
PERFORMANCE The performance space offers itself as a multipurpose theater. Live book readings and guest lectures bring a new points of view and a source of educational opportunity to the city of Winter Park. Private and public performances reinvent a culture of art and theater accessable to the public.
RESEARCH
Floating volumes above the entrance hold computer labs providing affordable internet access for research and community collaboration.
04. WINTER PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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SECOND FLOOR
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THIRD FLOOR
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ATRIUM PLAYSCAPE STOREFRONT CAFE URBAN FRONT PORCH PUBLIC STUDY PRIVATE STUDY COMMUNITY COMPUTER LABS FICTION BOOK LIBRARY NON-FICTION LIBRARY AUDITORIUM RESTROOMS
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OVERHEAD CONDITION
SKIN
STRUCTURE
PLANES
04. WINTER PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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04. WINTER PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
ARTICULATION OF FACADE The building has a motif of being light on the ground floor and becoming increasingly more dense as you move up in elevation. Minimal structures in the ground floor allow for a glass mullion wall to encase the street side of the ground floor. A lightness to the ground floor in contrast to a heavy second and third floor welcomes the public within. The skin talks about elements of verticality in the way it’s thin wire-like white bracing spans from the second floor to above the roof.
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CHAPEL OF MEMORY PRARIE CREEK NATURAL BURIAL RESERVE GAINESVILLE, FL FALL 2019
MARKING THE FLORIDA LANDSCAPE
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.
CAPTURING ELEMENTS PRECESSION
IN NATURE.
IN FILM.
Elemental studies were conducted to recreate observed ephemeral conditions found on the site. By inventing techniques to control the elements in isolation; water, light and earth become usful as architectural materials.
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CHAPEL
BURIAL
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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 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.
GATHERING
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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.
MEDITATION
MOURNING
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TEMPORALITY
The transient nature of architecture arises from the presence of the individual. The ritual of funeral in itself 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.
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. 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.
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DECENT TO BURIAL
PRIVATE FAMILY CHAPEL
CHAPEL OF MEMORY
PREPARATION OF THE BODY
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PROCESSION ARRIVAL
ARRIVAL OF THE BODY
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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.
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CONTACT
EDUCATION
113 Safe Harbor Cove
May 2021 Aug 2017
Valparaiso, FL 32580
BACHELOR of DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE
ACADEMI Fall 2019
SEC
Univ
University of Florida SoA GAINESVILLE, FL
mshinnick@ufl.edu 850.240.3630 May 2021 Aug 2017
MINOR in SUSTAINABILITY + THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Fall 2019
HEA INS
F.L. Plaz
University of Florida College of Design, Construction + Planning GAINESVILLE, FL May 2017 Aug 2013
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
Spring 2021
NICEVILLE, FL
HONORS + AWARDS TOP
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UF College of Design, Construction and Planning SoA award for undergraduate work
AIA GAINESVILLE SCHOLARSHIP
UF College of Design, Construction and Planning
DEAN’S LIST
University of Florida Fall 2017. Spring 2018. Spring 2019. Fall 2019. Spring 2020. Summer 2020
PUBLICATIONS ARCHITRAVE
Studio work published in the University of Florida Architrave Edition 25 [pg.22]
UF
Vice Vice
Niceville Senior High School
PROFESS Summer 2019
TEC
Sin Barc
MACKENZIE
SHINNICK
CURRICULUM
IC EXPERIENCE
COND-YEAR STUDIO TEACHING ASSISTANT
versity of Florida SoA
CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Spring 2020 Fall 2017
AD OF RESEARCH for COMMUNITY BUILD STALLATION
.o.A.T - Florida League of Architectural Things za de Americas - University of Florida Fall 2020
SIONAL EXPERIENCE
CHNICAL ARCHITECTURE INTERN
Luz Ingenieria y Arquitectura SLP celona, Spain
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS Spring2020 Fall 2019
UF CHAPTER PRESIDENT
Spring2019 Fall 2018
UF CHAPTER TREASURER
Spring2018 Fall 2017
ACTIVE MEMBER
ARCHITECTURE BUILDING USER GROUP College of Design, Construction + Planning University of Florida
SEMESTER ABROAD - ARCHITECTURE
enza Institute of Architecture enza, Italy
VITAE
Fall 2020
STUDENT BODY REPRESENTAIVE for COMPUTATIONAL FACULTY SEARCH
College of Design, Construction + Planning University of Florida