Portfolio ‘22

Archie P. Kinney, M. Arch

PREFACE

My journey into architecture began at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin in Spring Green, WI by riding my bicycle from Madison, WI through the Welsh Hills to volunteer at the FLLW Birthday party.

Ever since, things changed: First, I dropped out of college to join the Army; then, finished my degree in Construction Management; and finally, drove out to the Sonoran Desert to start my training as an architect. Sounds surreal, but once I was exposed to these designers who lived in tents and built spaces with natural materials there was no turn around.

Sincerely,

Archie P. Kinney

INDEX

Thesis

Arcosanti; Mayer, AZ

Studios

Prescott, AZ

Prof.

Phoenix, AZ

Summer Studio

Electives

Pneumatic Design

Spring Green, WI & Phoenix, AZ

Richland Center, WI

Food & Architecture

Wangshang, China

Technical

FORMAL EVENINGS

GRAPHICS

INVITATIONS

SHELTER MAINTENANCE

CHANGES

INSTALLATIONS BUILDING OUR SCHOOL

6. Usonian Automatic

5. Adaptive Reuse

3. Radical Food Coop

4. Emergency Housing

2. Integrated Design Studio

1. The Octahedron

Prof. Chris Lasch

Prof. Shawn Protz

Prof. Aaron Betsky

Prof. Stephanie Sang Delgado

Shawn Protz

Prof. Sarosh Anklesarias

Prof. Mathew Trzebiatowsky

Could the evolution of the Froebel gifts through the platonic octahedral solid function as an exercise to address landscape remediation and pedagogy at the graduate level in the tradition of learning by doing in architecture school?

As a student who started his formal architectural education in his early 20’s through the hands-on approach of working on the landscape, doing carpentry, making furniture centered on the ethos of building hand in hand with the landscape. The idea of developing a project through diverse and fun iterations starting with the octahedron allowed me to generate solutions to help remediate the environment from damage beyond repair on a beautiful desert site.

In the words of the author Dan Richards, “homo sapiens are a questing, consuming, destructive species…humans are ruining the planet. It might be better for the Earth if we stopped exploring. Or perhaps the wonders of the natural world can yet inspire us to change…I believe the more we know about our world, the more we see, the more we deeply engage with it, understand its nature, the more likely we are to be good custodians and reverse our most selfish destructive behavior” (Richards 2019, 9).

Prof. Matthew Trzebiatowski, ADV. Jaime Inostroza Campos

STUDIOS

Conceived during the pandemic, the Prescott Library played a supporting roll-on outdoor programing by stablishing areas for plein air readying, exterior circulation, and a performance balcony.

Located in the Northeast corner, the building is designed with sustainability in mind to take advantage of daylight hours, evaporative cooling, and natural ventilation. Finally, the studio is called Integrated Design because part of the work involved meeting with a structural engineer, an E&M consultant, and a Codes consultant to inform the design.

2. INTEGRATED DESIGN STUDIO

Prof. Matthew Trzebiatowski

Andre House is an emergency shelter that serves 550 people daily located in Phoenix, AZ that fall into homelessness for various reasons and offers them laundry service, meals, and a safe place to stay.

The project is in the white warehouse adjacent to the existing facilities of Andre House, and it is connected by a central courtyard. The intent is to provide a calm and comfortable environment along with counseling and human resources needed to help these people get on their feet.

3. EMERGENCY HOUSING

Prof. Shawn Protz

The Slow Food, Drive Through is a conceptual framework distilled from the American car culture and the Slow Food movement. For its final location we took over the Encanto Golf course located in Phoenix, AZ and created green houses, pavilions, and a drive through to stimulate the local food economy in celebration of the people working in food industry.

The large facade of the building is intentionally exaggerated to simulate a high visibility billboard as an attempt to attract driver’s attention followed by long windy road that displays different food processes along the way.

4. RADICAL FOOD COOP

Prof. Sarosh Anklesaria

5. ADAPTIVE REUSE

The A.D German Warehouse in Richland Center, WI (1915-1921) is a building of great power and idiosyncrasy. Never finished, it stood for decades in what was one a market center for the Driftless Region, marking its site and reminding us to the great agricultural riches that have come out of this area. My projects seek to use its four 4,400 square foot floors as affordable housing for first and second immigration workers and provide them the resources they need to succeed. These include classroom space for ESL courses, three floors of living units, a roof top garden, and the entire adjacent building for family and human resources open to the immediate neighborhood and the town of Richland Center itself.

Prof. Aaron Betsky

These blocks are a contemporary take on the Usonian Automatic concrete blocks designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Hollyhock Home, Ennis Home, the Millard Home, and more. The difference is that we created them using digital software to tesselate the shapes three dimensionally rather than working vertically and horizonal only. The most important thing to remember is that these systems are designed to be built on site, using local materials, and assembled by the owners to champion democratic architecture.

6. USONIAN AUTOMATIC

Prof. Chris Lasch

My first topographical model. Anh Luch taught me the process using Rhino and Grasshopper and then moved to frabricated it.

ELECTIVES

This class is an exploration of compositional exercises to achieve maximum visual effects. Prior to this course, we analyzed glass patterns in Wright homes and its furniture. And we photographed Taliesin West in search for effects like pinwheeling, directionality, and compression and release.

This course was all about sketching and making several digital iterations so eventually we could build our own compositional piece that displays the moves we learned.

COMPOSITIONAL DESIGN

Prof. Lloyd Natof

This course was all about opening our eyes to the documenting process and architectural application in a different field to awake other design sensibilities. Hence, my final assignment was an animated drawing of my classmates rolling dough using different photographs of the steps involved, line weights, and hatches.

FOOD & ARCHITECTURE

Prof. Stephanie Sang Delgado

Architecture is the creation of space. We are not subject to creating rigid structures built with standard construction materials. Occasionally, it is nice to take a deep breath and remember that we live in a Biosphere with a bast number of resources, we do not need materials from a specification list. Imagination is the limit.

PNEUMATIC DESIGN

Prof. Shawn Protz

These are a few examples of the cultural things that happen when a school is in a secluded area: Lecture series, workshops, movie nights, karaoke, pechakuchas, theme dinners. Basically, whatever we feel inspired to do. And this are some examples of the posters I designed for the community that also looked good on our social media that show we are a welcoming, thoughtful, and creative designers.

GRAPHICS

These are examples of the name tapes and invitations that we sent to each guest coming to our events. For most of these, I worked with Minerva Montooth who was Mr. Wright’s secretary to learn about guest lists and event planning.

INVITATIONS

The night life in the school is an important aspect of the school. Having classmates from diverse backgrounds, it was always nice to hear their story and the reason they were inspired to pursue architecture. But perhaps the best part is that we were enjoying the shelters built by former students and subconsciously learning from them.

INSTALLATIONS

There are over seventy shelters at Taliesin West in different stages of completion. This one in particular is called Atalaya and it was designed and built by my thesis advisor, Jaime Inostroza, during his time as a student. One of the reasons Sol, Richard, and I chose to reapair it was because it was very livable, recently constructed, and there was a lot to learn from it. This shelters were the place where we slept and those who were were mainted lasted a life time while others eventually turned into a site for a future student to design/build a new thesis project.

SHELTER MAINTENANCE

“One day men like you will go too and others will come, work, struggle, some will make their life. But once we where here.”