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
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to include water management and its impact
Location
on rural agriculture.
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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
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Cambridge and Boston proper. While
immersive picturesque.
Location
Fall 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Boston features grand, scenographic
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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
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blue cobble paving cobble paving and and stone platforms stone platforms
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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
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space. Decsending further, the master
Location
bedroom provides a contained level of
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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.
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development of a passive solar greenhouse
Fall 2010
to extend the property’s growing season, in
The farm is a growing, multi-phase endeavor,
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accordance with the university’s academic
and a complete listing of students, faculty, and
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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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1880
690
2020
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70%
101%
50%
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64%
49%
18%
52%
1970
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1650
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1470
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900
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3520
LINEAR FEET
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
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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