Peter McInish: Schoolwork

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Peter McInish Schoolwork



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Riverine Dyeing Pavilions Advanced Design Studio, Yale School of Architecture Tactical Interventions Post-Professional Studio, Yale School of Architecture In Search of Stillness Undergraduate Thesis, Auburn University House on Lake Martin Second Year Studio, Auburn University Rural Studio Farm Design + Build, Auburn University Drawings and Visualizations Yale School of Architecture, Auburn University


Riverine Dyeing Pavilions A Textile Typology for Bangladesh

This project proposes a typology of riverine

filtration tanks and oxidation pools set into a

washing and dyeing factories to intervene in

large plinth recycle the water for distribution

the antagonistic relationship between garment

to an engineered rice paddy inland. A series

production and Bangladeshi agriculture.

of pavilions are linked by canopies and

The current predicament has resulted from

accomodate the social and administrative

the displacement of productive land by new

functions of the complex, which descends to

factories and their accessory settlements,

the river’s edge with ramps and ceremonial

as well as competition for basic resources.

stairs. A public pool and outflow canal ensure

In Dhaka alone, the water table is falling by

the availability of water, even in flood season.

over 2m per year, with much of the remaining

groundwater polluted from the use of dyes

new working class of coordinators, or textile

and cleaning agents.

workers whose responsibilities are expanded

Date

to include water management and its impact

Location

on rural agriculture.

Size

By siting a washing facility on a

break in the Balu River’s natural levee, the

The project seeks to establish a

project seeks an alternative use of surface

Spring 2014 Dhaka, Bangladesh

1200 m2 facility 34 ac. agricultural production

water, shared between the needs of textile

Professors

David Adjaye

processing and rice production. A canal slices

Brian Butterfield

through the existing levee, siphoning water for washing and dyeing, while a series of

Kashef Chowdhury Duration

13 weeks



Process sketches, considerations about water filtration and management, and a diagram organizing the cycle of garment production into a monastic structure.




A series of simple study models first explored the relationship of a canal to the river’s edge, but later focused on the arrangement of the rice paddies protected within the levee.




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court canteen storage and loading offices garden meeting room washing and dyeing industrial drying filtration pools fountain







These views provoke the possiblity of the project’s fundamental diagram being repeated elsewhere.


Tactical Interventions A Network for Cambridge, Massachusetts

A half-mile stretch of Massachusetts

open spaces near Massachusetts

Avenue, caught directly between

Avenue, this condition is intensified and

Cambridge’s two largest hubs of activity,

expanded, becoming fundamental to

MIT and Harvard University, is primed for

the identity of the area. By imposing

development, but the risk of alienating

guidelines that meet FAR criteria but

an already diverse array of residents and

guarantee the creation and connectivity

user groups is a substantial one.

of public spaces and rights-of-way, the network emerges as a designed

To negotiate this risk with a market

figure comprehensible through multiple

desire to double the existing floor area

readings. Comprised of paving and

ratios, my partner and I proposed a

planting specifications, lighting strategies,

tactical intervention that exploits the

and street furniture, the solution jostles

difference in public space between

between the incidentally graphic and the

Date

Cambridge and Boston proper. While

immersive picturesque.

Location

Fall 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Boston features grand, scenographic

Size

open park spaces, Cambridge is a city

Professors

Ed Mitchell

of more intimate and tightly woven

Aniket Shahane

sequences of public and private

Duration

space. By cultivating a network of

Partner

.125 sq mi

14 weeks Laurence Lumley


urban furniture lighting and urban furniture urban furniture urban furniture

urban furniture

specified walls and greenhouses specified walls and greenhouses specified walls and greenhouses specified walls and greenhouses specified walls and greenhouses

blue cobble paving cobble paving and and stone platforms stone platforms

cobble paving and stone platforms cobble paving and stone platforms cobble paving and stone platforms

public parks and parks and gardens private gardens parks and gardens parks and gardens

parks and gardens




Existing Conditions

Site


Proposed Conditions


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First Saturday Flea Market


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The Red Sox win the World Series


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Cambridge Flower Show


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Trick-or-Treat


The intervention confines itself to idiosyncratic choices of material and lighting, often imposed on existing spaces and surfaces. The same alley that awaits visitors to the Cambridge Flower Show gives shelter to a more suspect individual.


The network behaves like a circuit, with elements switching on and off to accommodate specific events, while maintaining a graphic presence under ordinary circumstances.



The intervention and its objects are unfurled to lend drama to the theater of the everyday.



A comparison of satellite images before and after the development, with the network as its armature, reveals a desire to maintain subtlety.


In Search of Stillness The Crafted Void in Montgomery, Alabama

My undergraduate thesis asserted that

facades give shelter to the public browsing the

space itself—empty space—provides the

studios like a storefront. The second building,

emotional and mnemonic resonance in a work

to the south, houses workshops and teaching

of architecture. I thus took an unorthodox

spaces, administrative functions, as well as a

view of our prescribed city, Montgomery,

gallery and cafe.

choosing to focus on vacancy as a generator of urbanism: the holes and the fraying of the

Together, the two wings support a large

fabric tell its story.

public plaza with the help of a long colonnade that clings to the street edge. This space

Amid unused land, an abundance of surface

is preserved to be an empty witness to

parking, and numerous abandoned storefronts,

the changing light of day or seasons. It

a site is sifted from insurance maps and a

intermittently becomes a market, theater,

program is written to preserve the vacuous

or workspace: equally co-opted by the

spatiality and deliver it into the public realm.

maddening crowd and the quiet individual.

Date

2012-2013

Two parallel buildings form a public arts

Location

complex. To the north, a private wing flexibly

Size

shelters visiting artists and instructors in walk-

Professors

Magdalena Garmaz Randal Vaughan

up apartments with private studio spaces on the ground floor. Colonnades that form the

Montgomery, Alabama

24,000 sf

Duration

22 weeks




Early drawings aspired for a reticent language of architecture, as well as an understanding of residue and absence.


Castings of precedent voids, such as Kahn’s Salk Institute courtyard, made the invisible characteristics of enclosed space tangible, and helped create a catalogue of useful characteristics.


Axonometric Spatial Notations 1/64” = 1’0”



Above: Ground Floor Opposite: the site, before and after, as derived from compiled historical maps


Second Floor

Third Floor


An Open Fabric Paris, as seen by Turgot in 1739, reveals a loosely stitched fabric enriched by a variety of public, semi-public, and private open spaces. Merging these spaces with their constituent frameworks begins to undermine a classical notion of literal density and urban construction.

This view of the courtyard space draws associations from Turgot’s Plan de Paris while enumerating several iterations of urban walls: screen, allée, and building beyond. The directionality of the space reveals activity along the street while the columns visually collapse into walls of their own.

An Open Fabric Paris, as seen by Turgot in 1739, reveals a loosely stitched fabric enriched by a variety of public, semi-public, and private open spaces. Merging these spaces with their constituent frameworks begins to undermine a classical notion of literal density and urban construction.

This view of the courtyard space draws associations from Turgot’s Plan de Paris while enumerating several iterations of urban walls: screen, allée, and building beyond. The directionality of the space reveals activity along the street while the columns visually collapse into walls of their own.

An Open Fabric Paris, as seen by Turgot in 1739, reveals a loosely stitched fabric enriched by a variety of public, semi-public, and private open spaces. Merging these spaces with their constituent frameworks begins to undermine a classical notion of literal density and urban construction.

This view of the courtyard space draws associations from Turgot’s Plan de Paris while enumerating several iterations of urban walls: screen, allée, and building beyond. The directionality of the space reveals activity along the street while the columns visually collapse into walls of their own.

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Stillness This thesis asserts that the perception of space itself—as both physical and ephemeral object—provides and determines the resonance of a work of architecture. Yves Klein fielded a similar belief with Le Vide (The Void): an empty room that freed his work from the bounds of traditional painting and sculpture.

Since the act of building merges By exploring the symptoms of vacancy as a strategy for new the tectonic with hopes of the immaterial, this the project attemptsbecomes a medium for a composed buildings, project to take root in the material and mnemonic narrative of the City of stillness. Montgomery. By exploring the symptoms of vacancy as a strategy for new architecture, the work becomes a medium for composed nothing: stillness.


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Rooms for Making The project explores the physical impressions of the immaterial by typological allusion and direct quotation of contextual or historical knowledge. The public arts building, composed of studios and workshop spaces, is a collection of discreet rooms monastically structured into a tight spatial sequence.

The project also explores the physical impressions of the immaterial through typological allusion and quotation. The workspaces are a collection of rooms monastically combined into a tight sequence.


A view of the courtyard created between the two buildings, captured through the colonnade at the street

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This view of the courtyard space draws associations from Turgot’s Plan de Paris while enumerating several iterations of urban walls: screen, allÊe, and building beyond. The directionality of the space reveals activity along the street while the columns visually collapse into walls of their own.


House on Lake Martin

The brief called for a three bedroom

as an object within its surroundings,

house on a steep site at Lake Martin, in

foregrounding the experience of the lake

eastern Alabama. The area is thick with

and nature. Considered specifically for a

longleaf pines and pin oaks, reliable in

naturalist, I minimized excavation and set

part as passive shading.

the house on pilotis in order to touch the ground as lightly as possible. This also

The project evolved out of two distinct

increased the “objecthood” of the main

goals. The first was to organize a house

house. A separate studio space was

programmatically by level, after Mies van

conceived as an embedded outbuilding

der Rohe’s Tugendhat House. Arriving

that formally anchors the house to the

across an entry bridge, the spatial

hillside.

sequence unfolds with a transition from the discreet upper floor of guest rooms to the living areas below, which open into expansive views from a double height

Date

space. Decsending further, the master

Location

bedroom provides a contained level of

Size

repose close to the lake. The second

Professor

goal was the promotion of the house

Duration

Fall 2009 Eastern Alabama

2300 sf Justin Miller 7 weeks



The immediate site plan reveals the attitude of the neighboring houses, which helped to inform the orientation of the living spaces.

Entry Level


Middle Level

Lower Level


Study models show the transition from purely Miesian ideations to a more locally-informed result.


In the final design, the metal roof was a singular element that folded to make a clerestory and fell like fabric to emphasize the house’s separation from the land.



A perspective of the living area describes the spatial character of the middle level and the house’s relationship to the landscape.


Rural Studio Farm Design + Build

circulation farm: (v.) to cultivate The Rural Studio Farm is a five year project focused on the redesign of the Rural Studio Campus as an opportunity to experiment with the production of food, energy and building material. It is based on the educational

In 2010, the rural Studio embarked on a

production. Other elements of the masterplan

mission of self-efficiency by pursuing a

included the reorganization of the campus for

long-range plan to generate food, energy, and

food production with raised beds and improved

building materials for students at its remote

irrigation capacity, as well as plans for

campus in Hale County, Alabama. After

orchards, recycling facilities, and educational

designing this masterplan and considering its

programs to foster and demonstrate the value

implications, my colleagues and I began the

of sustainable organic farming techniques.

purpose to instigate a new style of life within the Rural Studio and its local community. The aim is to live off the land. Eating, building, and living are intended as parallel symbiotic systems driven by the same holistic ethic: challenged by using the land creatively as a precious resource.

Date

development of a passive solar greenhouse

Fall 2010

to extend the property’s growing season, in

The farm is a growing, multi-phase endeavor,

Location

accordance with the university’s academic

and a complete listing of students, faculty, and

Size

schedule. We consulted with farmers,

consultants for the project can be found at the

Professors

material suppliers, structural experts, and

Rural Studio’s website. The greenhouse and

environmental engineers, and ultimately

seeding pavilion remain under construction.

Newbern, Alabama

6 acre masterplan Elena Barthel John Marusich

Duration

14 weeks

devised a repeatable module of operable

Team Morgan Acino, Christine Bagdigian,

windows, retractable shades, and water-filled

Elena Barthel, Damian Bolden , Ashley Clark,

drums for thermal mass. Full-scale drawings

Drew Craven, Kurt Funderburg, Brad Greene,

and mock-ups were used to test and confirm

Will Gregory, Kyle Johnson, John Marusich,

the construction ideas of the project and the

Johnny Parker, Michael Stricklin, and

environmental outcomes necessary for food

Ashley Williams



Properties of the Rural Studio

Downtown Studio + Storage Shed Wood Shop Classroom Spencer House Faculty Accommodation Chantilly House Historic House / Archive Orchard Ampitheater

Walthall Barns Material + Tool Storage

Morrisette House Student Accommodation Center of Production Greenhouse + Hoop House Kitchen + Great Hall

Bailey Barn Material + Equipment Storage


G R OW I N G CA L E N DA R

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expandable working area

pod expansion

remain commercial kitchen

plant expand student kitchen

harvest

plant in greenhouse

harvest in greenhouse

TOTAL SERVINGS

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2690

3870

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2440

1880

690

2020

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70%

101%

50%

1%

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29%

64%

49%

18%

52%

1970

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1650

1350

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400

1050

1250

1470

1575

900

1170

5920

6970

4950

4050

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4720

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3520

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of crop

SQUARE FEET

of crop


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Morrisette House commercial kitchen solar greenhouse horticulture garden food forest proposed workshop


Toward the end of the term, we constructed a mock-up with steel culverts and a cypress roof structure, which performed well but proved too expensive when extended to the needs of the entire studio’s food production.


As students, we researched cultivated our own organic vegetables and fruits, from seed to plate: working alongside both USDA agents and local chefs and dieticians. Photograph by Timothy Hursley.


The greenhouse is the mechanical arm of the farm, and completes the northern edge of the site with its semi-buried thermal mass, made of unrecyclable spearmint barrels filled with water and antifreeze. Photograph by Timothy Hursley.



Winter Section

Summer Section



( under construction )


Things I Should Have Said Observation / Installation

An answer to a request for artwork proposals

they are completely anonymous, and—at a

for the entry space of Biggin Hall, Auburn

comfortable distance—form a portrait through

University’s art building, quickly became a

my failures, joys, longings, and frustrations.

social experiment—part confessional, part

Now that these thoughts are collected here,

interactive revenge. Things I Should Have

I feel both vulnerable and guarded. Maybe

Said was a drawing exercise in both the

these things will reach their intended audience.

personal and impersonal realms, which gains

Maybe not. But now is your chance. Take them

its gravity from simple repetition. Viewers

with you or make them your own. Speak up.

were offered the following description, and

Be loud and clear.

were allowed to contribute their own thoughts by claiming pieces of the work for themselves:

Regret is the worst thing in the world. I have always been a quiet person. For this reason, most of my regrets come from things

Date

I didn’t say or things I chose not to do. In this

Media graphite and ink text on paper,

Fall 2012

container, I have placed hundreds of these

bristol, and drafting vellum

things. Each handwritten statement was

Professors

addressed to someone in particular. But now

Duration

Zdenko Krtic 2 weeks (production)


Participants—both amused and intrigued—take part in the slow migration of thoughts.




Drawings + Visualizations Projects, Sketches, and Professional Work


Expanded Section of a Children’s Hospital Auburn University Fall 2011



Natatorium Interior Yale School of Architecture Fall 2014


View from the Janiculum Hill Rome Summer 2014


Palazzo Spada Rome Summer 2014



Library Renovation Analytique Interior Architecture Thesis Studio, Auburn University Summer 2012


Drake-Northrup-Thomas House in Greensboro, Alabama Elevation (Detail) Rural Studio Fall 2010

While studying at the Rural Studio, I was able to explore historic and vernacular typologies and construction methods, particularly through field studies with my sketchbook, but also for a more studied watercolor of a house in nearby Greensboro.


Construction Section of laminated timber Wetland Walk Yale School of Architecture Fall 2014



Campidoglio Studies (Detail) Rome: Continuity and Change Summer 2014



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