Ryan McCully Architecture Portfolio Selected works from Masters of Architecture Victoria University 2013 - 2018
Contents 1. Ecological Economies, ARCHI 412 2. School of Music, Archi 312 3. Christchurch, Fiction & the City 4. Facade Construction, ARCHI 311
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Wa t e r. This project was a collaborative project with the Iwi who owned the land and the architecture firm Isthmus. It has become a part of the ongoing ‘Deep South’ project and has been shown in galleries around the wider wellington region. My teams was to propose a new housing and working proposal which would give the land owners a reason to come back. The land is currently a working dairy farm but due to sea level rise the way they live and work on this land needs to change. This projects looks at prefabrication technologies as a way to create a adaptable housing solution on the site whilst also proposing innovative yet traditional farming infrastructure. This project was a six week summer scholarship, we worked closely with the Iwi on site, Isthmus Architects and the work was exhibited in a dairy shed on site to the Iwi.
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Diversifying PA M U A H U M OA N A
marine farm.
FRESH WATER MARINE FARMING INNOVATIION THROUGH TRADITION RE-ESTABLISHING A MEANINGFUL CONNECTION TO PLACE
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Community. P R E FA B R I C AT E D H O U S I N G The sites located on this map show the three slocations for the housing proposal, they are surround the deepest projected waterways on site where there will be freshw ater marine farming. This housing project uses prefabrication technologies to empower the Iwi, giving them the opportunity to build their own houses on site. Thus restablishing a meaningful connection to place.
C A S S E T T E A S S E M B L Y
The architectural manifestation of ‘Innovating through tradition’ is to develop a housing typology and community whihc embodies traditional Maori design which utilizes modern architectural technology. I have utilized a Pre-fabricated PLywood Cassette system which gives the community the opportunity to be involved in the design of their built environment and construction. By providing a manual which provides knowledge for self determination gives the community a sense of ownership, shifting the the focus from architects as unique authors. The housing layout seperates spaces based on traditional Maori desiign. The central space between the houses is a communial open space for eating and gathering, with Patakas surrounding the cluster of housing, where you have to journey through the wetland to access the storage sheds.
Vertical Structure
Horizontal Structure
Insulation
Building Wrap
Cavity Battens
Cladding
First Floor
Ground Floor
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Catalyst Site One
Housing & Plant Plan
Housing Typology My operable A-frame housing typology symbolizes our ability to adapt and change, but we need to physically change for this to happen, thus my buildings are able to be transformed by the human hand. I have developed pully systems which unfold and transform the houses. This ability to open up the home allows the wetlands to enter the house, framing views of the surrounding envrionment.
Isometric Diagram
Isometric Diagram
Perspective Render
Perspective Render
Elevation Render
STREAM REHABILITATION FOR WHITEBAIT SPAWNING GROUNDS.
Cordyline australis tī kōuka Cabbage Tree
Cortaderia toetoe toetoe
Phormium tenax Harakeke
School of Music ARCHI 312
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Thesis
Fiction & the City
NZIA Awards
Preliminary Design Chapter 1/10
Christchurch Arts Centre
Preliminary Design Chapter 1 This chapter of my preliminary design process reflects on Arata Isozaki drawings of his Tsukuba Centre in Japan. Upon the completion of the building he felt compelled to create a series of drawings which depict the mundane building as a ruin. I am using this idea of drawing buildings as inhabitable ruins and applying it to Christchurch heritage, giving the cities heritage life beyond a mundane reality. Ultimately this chapter attempts to add a layer of mythology to Christchurch.
Preliminary Design Process
Site Photos
Preliminary Design Chapter 3 This chapter is a cautionary tale which has an underlying theme that your memories of a place may leave you disorientated and disappointed when you return. To apply this to Christchurch I have documented the cities current identity and visualized a narrative which depicts my experience of returning to the city.
Preliminary Design Process
Visualizing Narrative
Preliminary Design Chapter 7 By using Peter Eisenman’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as a case study invesitagted his ability to create new structures through scaling and the destabilizing agents discontinuity, recursively and selfsimilarity. To do I have 3D modelled traditional architectural forms from Christchurch’s lost heritage and applied these methods to them in order to create new structures. Here is an example of the Catholic Cathedral dome being scaled and asbtracted.
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Catholic Cathedral Dome
Axonometric
Object Asbtraction
Cathedral Square Section
Site One
Cathedral Square When the cathedral was first built its spire was iconic, seen from anywhere in the city but as the city has grown its visibility has decreased. Mr proposal first this site alters the contours of the square, elevating the landscape working with the restored cathedral. The new adaptable program of the cathedral extends out into the square which becomes a transient space for markets, communial vege gardens, giving this space back to the people of christchurch. This is reflective upon the way people of christchurch have tried taking back the urban environment, for example plant gang who have been planting in abandoned sites.
Site Two
Blessed Sacrament Cathedral This proposal takes the already fragmented pieces and reflects upon its original formal qualities and appplies them to a new site in the city. This reflects upon dalibor vesellys idea that fragmentation doesnt have to equal chaos, instead trying to crecreate spacial & formal qualities through superimposition, abstraction, recreation of form & aesthetics and applying new program to them. The new site is on Worcester boulevard by the avon river. I looked at the central congregation space, the repeting collonade which has three different scales and the ability to traverse up through these structures, the experience of moving through the spires, the beautiful ceiling details which draw the viewer to look up.
Punting Dock Axonometric
Perspective
Perspective
Art Gallery Axonometric
Art Galleries & Elevated Landscape Perspective
Construction Facade ARCHI 311
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