Reide/Remi McClain Samples 2022

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1. Outdoor Cinema - Projection

White Screen Surface, standard sizing

Projector Mount

Varied Seating Types, fits 12-15 people

Steps, integrated

Fiberglass slowly releases warmth

2. Sunbathing - Topography

Fun Abstracted Print from Local Geology Special UV resistant coating

Varied Seating Types, fits 12-15 people Sculpted Lounge Chairs

Steps, integrated

3. Shading - Figures

Fun Abstracted Print from Local Geology Special UV resistant coating

Pairing Type A - Tall, to walk through Pairing Type B - Short, to lay under

Connection Clasps, integrated at base Modules secured together

Arch frames views, clusters mimic the local coastal geoforms

Shadow Figures, adjust throughout day

4. Swimming Bouy - Surprise

Diving/Jumping from top of module

Floating Fiberglass, despite its “solid” appearance

Steps, integrated - easy access up

Reel Rocks frames vignettes of Geroskipou Beach through fiberglass geoforms, identical in shape with varying colors and flattened textures abstracted from Cyprus Geology. As a collection, Reel Rocks looks like playful colossal pebbles, referencing the shingle beach upon which they occupy. The geoforms can be rotated and organized depending on the desired use and program - shading, lounging, floating or projecting. Reel Rocks provides a sense of wonder and playful monumentallity on the island beach of Geroskipou.

House 5 negotiates a Southern California lifestyle and the architecture that houses it. This project begins with a clustering of pavilions, or totems, that sit rigorously within a cruciform path that defines the entire site.

Los Angeles, CA

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The house sits within the rising-affluence of the centrally located, renovation-crazed neighborhood of Larchmont Heights. With less land than their Hollywood Hills companions, these homes typify the ever-present desire to cash in on LA outdoor living, despite the constraints of a more densely developed neighborhood. House in Los Angeles 5 is a 2,050 sf “renovation” and addition three-bedroom, 2.5 bath Single-Family Residence accompanied by a 600 sf one-bedroom, 1 bath Back House.

House 4 is a collection of three buildings for an extended family of photographers in Mt. Washington. Rather than cutting into the steep hillside, like most of its neighbors, the house falls with the hillside. A box falling gracefully down the hill provides moments of interior and exterior ambiguity.

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The first building, a single-family dwelling, has been arrested by the previously graded portion of the site. Heavy masonry boxes begin to sink into the earth, while the box that once held them props against them and the retaining wall – producing a familiar composition to an alpine typology. The second building, an accessory-dwelling unit (ADU), stacks dubiously on the steepest portion of the site. At the base of the site, the artist studio sits – a rogue masonry box barely peeking above grade. (Model built by Son Vu, Drawing underlay renders by Xavier Ramirez)

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Assembly time ~5 hours; Supply List:

-26 pages of 8.5x11” natural stock printer paper

-14 pages of 8.5x11” thicker bond printer paper

A Shotgun House slinks onto the site of the Philip Johnson Thesis house, absorbing the flimsy yet foreboding perimeter fence into a home. The continuous bar knots around a courtyard, acting as both buffer for privacy from the street, and background for visibility from within the courtyard.

Shotgun House Cambridge, MA

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The bar is then filled with modules from a Kit of Parts, organized and selected at will by the homeowner. Historically speaking, the Sears Catalog offered accessibility to Black homebuilders who were typically ignored by in person solicitations to contractors. While the catalog depicts colorful vignettes of the home, eliciting a sense of nostalgia and longing for the warmth, the characters depicted are always white. This project introduces self defined additions to an otherwise impersonal backdrop through a reimagining of the catalog. (Collaged portraits w/ work of Kerry James Marshall)

Thoreau writes of Cape Cod, “We are as near to Heaven by sea as by land.” The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contain sufficient water to induce a sea level rise of 63.9m. In this doomsday scenario, Thoreau’s journey from Concord to Cape Cod would be completely underwater.

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This project oscillates between irony and sincerity in an effort to call attention to the scenario. The summer vacation home sits in anticipation for future beachfront, located on an above ground covered reservoir within a clearing in the woods. This project is interested in the relationship of buildings and their surprising infrastructure; tying a central fireplace core into the reservoir below. This house considers the summer vacation through two typological lenses: the communal and the individual; the camp society tent and the cape cod saltbox house. This project makes the primitive hut big.

Amongst the bucolic pastoral landscape of Malibu sits this collection of 4 buildings and a few ground figures. The compound is a fire re-build for 6,500 sf of agricultural buildings and a 2,100 sf residence. The project works within the typology of the greenhouse kit, reconfiguring 2 modules.

Kim’s Nursery Malibu, CA

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The modules are strong figures. Sometimes these figures mirror to create a more domestic double-pitched roof. The event space carves into the earth creating height to accommodate large trees within the greenhouse. Wall framing extends past the conditioned building plan housing greenery. These skeletal greenwall extensions provide a film between moments on the site that require more privacy. A series of pedestrian paths cross through the site while two main service roads run perpendicular.

This project proposes to recycle the bronze of all Civil War Sample Soldiers in the United States, while permanently archiving Confederate Specific Figures within a vault. Resituating these monuments within their collective scene allows for recognition of the absurdity of their infinity.

Make New Monuments

This project addresses two types of monuments: the “Sample Soldier” reproduced en masse after the Civil War, and the “Specific Figure.” Baltimore’s Confederate monuments have been sitting in a city owned parking lot, a graveyard of sorts, for over two years now. Northern bronze foundries produced over 2,500 soldier statues, of which the only differentiation between Union and Confederate was that of their cloak and belt buckle initials.

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One by one, the sample soldier gets recycled, their bronze melted and reused for the production of a new specific figure, one that represents a civil rights activist past or present. When writing of the Archive Derrida says, “The archivization produces as much as it records the event. The archive is a question of the future, the question of the future itself, the question of a response, of a promise and of a responsibility for tomorrow.”