Ainsley McMaster | Selected Works

AINSLEY MCMASTER - selected works -

WORK EXPERIENCE | outline

EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology | 2015 Master of Architecture T. Gordon Little Fellowship

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | 2013 Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies | General Business Minor Summa Cum Laude | Dean’s Honors | High Honors in the major

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Georgia Institute of Technology | School of Architecture Research Assistant | 2013-2015 Teaching Assistant | 2015

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Front Inc. | New York. NY | Facade Consultant | 2015VA | Design | Atlanta, GA | Collaborator | 2014-2015 MALL | Atlanta, GA | Collaborator | 2014

FRONT | project experience

PROJECTS Longwood Gardens with Weiss/Manfredi | Kennett Square, PA | 2018 30 Warren with Post-Office Architectes | New York, NY | 2018 712 Fifth Ave with KPF | New York, NY | 2018 1100 Sixth Ave with MdeAS Architects | New York, NY | 2018 S. Pellegrine Flagship Factory with BIG | New York, NY | 2018 Manhattan West Hotel with SOM | New York, NY | 2017 Yale CIT with Weiss Manfredi | New Haven, CT | 2017 Perth+ with REX | Perth, Australia | 2017 Confidential Tower | Dubai, UAE | 2017 The Africa Center with Caples Jefferson Architects | New York, NY | 2017 GD Office Building with LSM | Falls Church, VA | 2017 | Under Construction 262 Fifth Ave with Meganom | New York, NY | 2016 Collegiate Tower with BIG | New York, NY | 2016 Lloyd Harbor Residence with REX | Long Island, NY | 2016 Georgia Tech HPC Center with John Portman & Associates | Atlanta, GA | 2016 | Under Construction Spence School with Rogers Partners | New York, NY | 2016 | Under Construction Camden Tower with Robert AM Stern Architects | Camden, NJ | 2016 1 John Street with Alloy | New York, NY | 2015 | Completed Victoria’s Secret Lippo Plaza with O’Neil Langan Architects | Shanghai, China | 2015 | Completed Victoria’s Secret 5th Ave with O’Neil Langan Architects | New York, NY | 2015 | Completed Bruce Museum with Eskew + Dumez + Ripple Architecture | Greenwich, CT | 2015 Google Campus with BIG / Heatherwick Studio | Mountain View, CA | 2015

SKILLS Consulting + Design - Advise architects about system strategy to achieve design intent; this includes assistance in coordinating system capabilities and limitations as they relate to geometry, material, treatment, product, and fabrication - Coordinate, develop, and review system designs and specifications to meet requirements for aesthetics, performance, feasibility, and cost - Inspect field testing, site installation, and fabrication facilities Environmental Analysis - Produce feasibility studies to provide feedback on facade components including glass performance and thermal analysis of system details Material + Building System - Materials: glass, steel, aluminum, natural stone, fiber concrete, metal panel, ETFE, and acrylic - Systems: curtain wall, curved glass, rainscreen, operable, skylights, and BMU

COMPETITION | observatory houses Project Type | Competition, 2017 Organization | Young Architects Competitions [YAC], Observatory Houses Design Team | Elpida Peponi, Ainsley McMaster Summary | A study of modularity as a source for seclusion and seamless interior/exterior transitions

COMPETITION | nuclear Project Type | Competition, 2017 Organization | Arch Out Loud, Nuclear Design Team | Ainsley McMaster, David Moore, Elpida Peponi Summary | A study of form and material as an experience of time on the site of buried nuclear waste

COMPETITION | eating Project Type | Competition, 2017 Organization | Non Architecture Competitions, Eating Summary | A whimsical speculation on restaurants of the future that commodifies everyday consumption through nutrient-instense, formally-consolidated meals

MALL | domestic hats Location | Atlanta, Goat Farm Arts Center Project Type | Exhibition, 2014 Design Team | Jennifer Bonner, Ainsley McMaster, and Son Vu Fabrication Team | Ishrat Lopa, Jessica Greenstein Funding | Georgia Institute of Technology and Goat Farm Arts Center Arts Investment Package Photography Credits | Caitlin Peterson, Patrick Heagney

A study of roofing typology through massing models

VA DESIGN | jetson Location | Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology, Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons Project Type | Installation, 2015 Design Team | Volkan Alkanoglu, Russell Gentry, Ainsley McMaster, Derin Yilmaz, Jessica Greenstein, Matthew Au Funding | Georgia Institute of Technology Photography Credits | Patrick Heagney

A whole greater than the sum of its parts

ACADEMIC | net-zero

Shading Device

Bike Share

Solar Panels

Garden Beds

Rainwater Retention

Location | Georgia Institute of Technology | School of Architecture Project Type | Design + Research Studio, 2015 Instructor | Michael Gamble Summary | A study in space-making as a source for cooperative campus living in a net-zero environment

Double Bedroom I

Single Bedroom

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Live-In Adviser

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Double Bedroom I

Double Double Bedroom Single Bedroom I Bedroom I

Single Bedroom Single Double Bedroom Bedroom Double Bedroom II I

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Programmatic Definition

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Programmatic Definition

The units types are dispersed throughout the building to provide opportunity for students of varying years to interact. Additionally, common spaces, defined in grey, are interminged throughout the building to encourage building-wide use.

Programmatic Programmatic Initial Massing Definition Definition

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Initial Massing

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Horizontal Circulation

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Initial Massing Horizontal Horizontal Initial Massing Circulation Programmatic Definition Horizontal Vertical Circulation Circulation Circulation Initial Massing

Vertical Circulation

Allowing the bar to be broken into three components, the vertical circulation situates itself as an unconditioned space for communal adjacencies to social amenities.

Public-to-Private

To encourage a greater display of the living + learning community program, the ground floor is devoted to enhancing awareness through the building, institute and surrounding neighborhood.

Vertical Circulation Public-to-Private Vertical Public-to-Private Circulation Horizontal Circulation Public-to-Private Vertical Circulation

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Public-to-Private

To encourage a greater display of the living + learning community program, the ground floor is devoted to enhancing awareness through the building, institute and surrounding neighborhood.

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Location | Georgia Institute of Technology | School of Architecture Course Type | Design + Research Studio, 2014 Instructor | Marc Simmons Project Team | Gene Barbara, Ashlynne Bauer, Peter Jamieson, Caroline Lang, Ainsley McMaster, Robert Nutall, Elpida Peponi, Victor Renteria, Phebe Tam, Kara Thomas, Derin Yilmaz Summary | A subdivision of program linked and suspended over the unification of performance spaces TEA

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theater

film

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film drama

chinese opera

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chinese opera

film

chinese danceopera

chinese opera

music

ACADEMIC | post-rationalized Location | University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | School of Architecture and Urban Planning Course Type | Design Studio, 2011 Instructor | Nick Moen Summary | A series of rules derived from an El Lissitzky Proun producing a woven nest of lines

ACADEMIC | modular network

Location | Georgia Institute of Technology | School of Architecture Project Type | Design Studio, 2013 Instructor | Mark Cottle Summary | An investigation in variable modularity responding to tenant-needs fused together into a single block internally networked to foster community

INSTALLATION | organic origins Location | Atlanta BeltLine, GA Project Type | Installation, 2015 Design Team | Ainsley McMaster, Jerrard Hall, Stefann Plishka, Ji-Hun Cho Funding | Art on the Atlanta BeltLine

ACADEMIC | form-finding

Location | University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | School of Architecture and Urban Planning Course Type | Elective Course, 2013 Instructor | Kyle Talbott Summary | A parametric study playing with repetition, scale, and folding

SERIES | exploded 2018 | An ongoing study of everyday objects through an isometric lens of variable representation

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SERIES | minihouses 2017 | A graphic series studying form and composition through a constant, familiar language

SERIES | photography + travel California, USA | 2010

Italy | 2012

California, USA | 2008

France | 2012

Ohio, USA | 2009

California, USA | 2010

Hong Kong | 2014

Iceland | 2017

New York, USA | 2015

Washington, USA | 2012

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