2. 0 m+ 1 m+ 4 m+ 8.2 m+ 15.6 m+ 19.5 m+ Section A 1:50 Opaque
Source Private Solid Disintegrated Public Outdoors Disintegrated
Disintegrated Disintegrated Disintegrated Disintegrated
Disintegrated Disintegrated Disintegrated Pole Pole Disintegration
Shard Canopy Reactivating Historically Significant Public Space
Looking down the street to the square. 3D drawings of urban
condition and desired intervention in the square. Looking up and
looking at the entrance. Detail section showing steel structure and
levels of enclosure. The top level is cantilevered both vertically
and horizontally, contributing to a deflection that evokes a
feeling of being on top of a human tower. Below Renderings
Axonometric circulation, structure, secondary structure, canopies,
and enclosure. Elevation with canvas canopy in place. Ground floor
plan showing moments to stop and differences in ground texture as
well as hard enclosure. Career de lAllada Vermell is a prime
example of the placelessness introduced by Barcelonas aggressive
clearing of open spaces in its incredibly dense, historic urban
fabric. Higher speed public traffic punctures this square, while
residents use the existing space as an ad-hoc sports field.
Introducing a canvas canopy over the public space creates a link
that connects the corner of the square. Canvas recalls the streets
softened by window-hung laundry. Softening the ground material
slows the traffic. Adding a second anchor within the square as an
observation area frames the ad-hoc public space and formalizes
residents use. Program supporting the uniquely Catalonian
phenomenon of human towers (now acknowledged by UNESCO) defines the
four levels of the rising structure. The first level is a hard
concrete space with operable panels that expand lockers, restrooms,
and storage into the square. Above this are observation and office
levels. The large, long-span tree-like columns offer increasing
amounts of deflection to the higher levels. On the top level,
accessible only by wire ladder, observers experience an unstable
sensation similar to being on the top of a human tower.
3. Floating Rock Corporate Identity and Urban Relationships
Glass Panel Flexible attachment Space and Bolt Connection Finished
Gypsum Board Surface Mullion Support Roof Truss Spacer to create
Incline Insulation as part of STC-60-rated Wall Double Gypsum Board
Gympsum Board Metal Attachment Plate Rigid Thermal Insulation
Moisture Barrier Aluminum Facade Support Bracket Fire Stair Slab
Concrete Masonry Unit Fire-Rated Wall Sidewalk Metal Flashing
Drains to City Sewer Exterior Bolt Panel Attachment Aluminum
Support Aluminum Support (Orthogonal) C Steel Facade Support
Connection Bolt Finished Gypsum Board Surface Metal Attachment
Sheet Hanging Metal Wire Support Aluminum Support Thermally
Isolated Mullion Stabilized by Column Connection Concrete Dark
Concrete Tiles Fireproong Board Metal Deck Primary Structural
W-Beam Beam-Column Bolt Connection Main Floor Slab Reinforced
Concrete Finished Interior Surface Concrete Foundation Wall Plywood
Suboor, Bolt-Connection to Slab Foundation Insulation Moisture
Barrier Concrete Spread Footing French Drain Finished Floor AVEC /
Artek-Vitra Education Center Proposal for Yrjnkatu Monolithic /
Transparent Michael Stinnett 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 A B C
5 Roof 4 3 2 1 A Artek, evolving from its origins with a single
design team, has become an institution that protects and promotes
good design. The Artek brand does not serve one aesthetic style or
one target market, but rather encompasses that which makes the
world pleasant to inhabit. The brand enables designers to
experiment and innovate within their field. It is this image of
Artek that is promoted in this proposal. The monolithic upper
building protects the designers and teams within, insulating their
creativity from the world to the degree they see fit. As an
education center, however, this project also demonstrates Arteks
reaching out into the community, which resonates with the
transparency of the gallery at street level. Together, the
monolithic feeling of shelter and the transparency of permeability
define Artek and so provide the origin of this proposal . Dark
copper draws the otherwise strange surface of the faade into
dialogue with Helsinkis architectural past. The dimensions of the
faades undulation are likewise approximated from cantilevered bay
windows. As part of an intensely pedestrian-accessible part of
Helsinki, the emphasis on transparency on the first floor promotes
connection to nearby green spaces and boulevards. A central atrium
draws this tension between closed and open upwards into the more
private spaces, while floors that come short of touch the exterior
walls subvert the expected visual and, in some cases, acoustic
privacy of the usual office building. This openness allows more
natural light to penetrate the building, even while the skin
retains good insulation and solid-void ratios. The voids that are
present act as a box-type double faade, reducing heat lost through
glass. Main staircase in gallery. Section perspective. From bottom
floor: archive, reading room, main gallery, small gallery,
classrooms, office and conference rooms, apartments and sauna, roof
deck. Opposite (clockwise from top) Ground floor plan with
below-grade reading room and exterior patio connection. Multi-part
1:10 structural section. Steel and cladding axonometric. Looking
down the street. View down through atrium. Renderings (clockwise
from top left)
4. Glitch Migratory Housing Typology in Ilwaco, Washington
Ilwaco, Washington is home to a large commercial fishing fleet,
employing most of the towns 2,000 residents. Together with the
nearby beach towns, this coastal area is home to about 10,000
people in low-density typologies, mixed in with high-density
hotels. Tourism and fishing exports together are the leading
economic drivers, but the peak tourism season is short: only from
midsummer to fall. Taking advantage of the resonance between peak
tourism and peak fishing, this housing project offers residents a
migration from higher density units to combined units housing
multiple families together and offering hotel space in vacated
units. Multiple-family living situations increase the possibility
for group childcare and reduce the loneliness of a family separated
for months at a time. These group-housing typologies operate along
a spectrum from higher density down to individual housing that
shares kitchen and bath space with more distant neighbors. In the
least dense condition, units are separated by 300, which is the
sight distance during the frequent heavy fog in this area. In the
highest density condition, private space is achieved through
traditional opaque materials, but the corridors are
quadruple-loaded, ensuring a variety of interactions in the
community. Site aerial with Ilwaco to the east and the Pacific
Ocean to the west. Opposite Fragmenting conjoining and multilevel
units. Double cut axonometric. Rendering progression showing
fragmenting portion of building, fragmenting CMU construction, and
planar wall glass interface detail. Section of fragmenting (top)
and dense (bottom) living conditions.
5. Data Models & Material Studies Phenomenological Mapping
A A B B C C D D A A B B C C D D A B C D Frequency of
ActivationIntenstiy of Activation Scale 1 = 200 Circulation 100
Density of Traffic Flow More Less 445mm 407mm 820mm 394mm 503mm
179mm 203mm Connection: 4x #6 T-Nut with M6 Screws 510mm 543mm 102
93 438mm 353mm Finding joining techniques of steam-bent basswood.
Topography and vegetation emerge from a careful study of view
corridors, which extends to a discussion of activation intensities.
A plywood and metal chair made in Finland where the plywood and
metal chair emerges as an architectural practice. Mapping solar
exposure and moisture content correlates with existing, previously
adapted vegetation. Iterations of sixteenth scale models reveal
circulation and adjacencies. Careful observation of existing
conditions reveals emergent qualities that are otherwise opaque.
Poetic vignettes and careful photography provide other lenses but
the drawing of the data-driven map is a unique aspect of
architectural thinking that underlines our value to the world. The
training may not result in a career of data visualization, and the
billing is impossible to justify, but the training in careful map
making creates an important way of looking at the world that will
yield better, more sensitive design. Models are valuable in design,
in communication, and in learning the properties of materials and
craft. These selected models are moments where I learned the most
about production, material resistance, the design process, and
communication.
6. Script & Technical Study Facade Iteration 01 Facade
Iteration 02 West Elevation 1 = 1/16 South Elevation 1 = 1/16 0
1/16 = 1-0 16 Plan 1 = 1/16 finish floor fan coil return air vent
hanging bar lights floor supports fan coil water supply mode valve
g use er mixing fan coil water return water supply pan and joist
concrete slab radiant heating tubes insulation facade-supported
slab Starting with a set of openings that vary in size based on the
program behind them, the facade undulates in front of the
punctuated openings. The shade allow minimal air conditioning use
when supplemented with natural ventilation. slab-supported facade
return air window assembly metal angle clips fan coil intake cover
cnc-formwork concrete facade plaster board operable inner window
assembly shell insulation cnc-cut insulation cap operable
ventilation plaster surface fan coil intake cover exterior operable
window Arrays an arbitrary geometry along an arbitrary curve and
orients the top to face another arbitrary curve. Uses a graph to
bias the division of a curve and then constructs an algorithmically
generated rectangular prism on this points. Uses a graph to bias
the creation of a 2D grid which is then populated with an
algorithmically generated symbol. Computes an extrusion distance
based on arbitrarily sized circles and fits a new surface to that
minimum distance. Working under Lavender Tessmer, I was responsible
for extracting computed geometry and creating the curves the CNC
would follow, including connections. Scripting GeometriesScripting
Environmental Response I believe in controlling the tools of
practice. Computer based design process has opened complexity many
orders of magnitude beyond the variables that tools provided in the
pen and vellum era, but with it has come a profusion of design
possibilities. While software is never a design driver, knowing
which tool can help achieve a design goal requires broad knowledge
of the available tools at all scales. Python and VB scripts bring
the potential to implement new algorithms without the associated
cost and time of commercial software release. Programming is the
new literacy and understanding the computer as the tool of design
is one of my primary career goals. Digital design and fabrication
enables iteration, collaboration, and computation that is changing
the industry. Workflow tools are beginning to handle the complexity
of multi-firm, multi-role architecture projects and the results are
already compelling. At this stage in my process I use macros,
scripts, and Grasshopper definitions to compute precise but dynamic
geometries, make progressive changes, and iterate parts of designs
closer to deadlines. Algorithmically driven design using Python is
my next area of interest, with workflows involving Excel and custom
software. Distributed workflow and multi-user files are the most
exciting developments on the horizon for me, especially leveraging
existing collaboration tools like Git and its ability to handle the
text-as- geometry of the IFC file. In school, it has become clear
that true collaboration offers speed, accuracy, and creativity well
beyond that available to individual designers. The cost of this
collaboration is in the clarity of the concept at all scales and
the tools to implement dependent parts of the design
simultaneously. The first problem is solved in practice and the
second is solved in software. An algorithm that packs circular
openings based on intensity of occupation is followed by another
that creates a surface of the proper depth to shade the scripted
facade.
7. Michael Stinnett Education Experience Enrichment Software
Washington University in St Louis Extensive travel including:
Beijing, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Sweden,
Russia, Spain, and Tanzania. Rhino, Grasshopper, T-Splines,
Maxwell, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, After
Effects, Premiere, ArcGIS, P6, AutoCAD, Office,
HTML+CSS+Javascript, LaTeX, PHP+MySQL, C, Objective-C, Python,
Digital Project, and Revit. Candidate for Master of Architecture
and Master of Construction Management. Study abroad in Helsinki and
in Barcelona. GPA 3.9. Selected for Approach for work in studios I,
V, and VI. Reviewed portfolios with admissions committee. Served as
IT representative for the Graduate Architecture Council. Teaching
Assistant Representation II Teaching introductory Rhinoceros,
T-Splines, Grasshopper, and Illustrator as well as drawing layouts
and line weight. Washington University in St Louis 2015 Anticipated
2015 Teaching Assistant Core Studio III Visualizer Assisting
professor with the final required studio. Projects were based on
re-purposing a large governmental infrastructure in Madrid and
adding thirty units of housing. Washington University in St Louis
2014 Luchini AD Completed 3D model and renderings from AutoCAD
drawings for a professors practice. 2014 Teaching Assistant
Concepts & Principles Led a discussion section for a required
theory course, covering a survey of theory from Vitruvius through
modern topics in technology and fabrication. Washington University
in St Louis 2013 Assistant Book Developer Developed a layout and
editing material for an exhibition compilation. Washington
University in St Louis 2013 St Johns College Annapolis and Santa Fe
2009 Great Books education. BA in Philosophy and the History of
Mathematics and Science. Studied abroad in Scotland (sculpture) and
in Rome (philosophy). 312.498.2539 4466 Olive St #409 St Louis MO
[email protected] michaelstinnett.com Sam Fox School
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