Barclay Finck - Architecture Porfolio - 11.25.2023

BARCLAY FINCK

PORTFOLIO

P (804) 614-7202

E dbfinck@gmail.com

A Augusta, ME

CONTENT

ACADEMIC Funk Music Hall of Fame

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Dayton, OH

Affordable Housing

11

Augusta, ME

Forestry Visitor Center Manchester, ME

Aggregated Verb

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PROFESSIONAL - PERSONAL Dog Recreation Area

31

Richmond, VA

Environmental Control

39

Pownal. ME

Art and Making

43

FUNK MUSIC HALL OF FAME Dayton, OH

ARC 407 Integrated Design Studio

The Funk Music Hall of Fame project seeks to celebrate the legacy and living story of funk music.

The intention of this project is to be a link between the past, present, and future of funk music, as well as to link the burgeoning West Dayton Community and the Vibrant Downtown. This is achieved through integration, equity, material usage, and discovery.

The program is arranged with the museum galleries lifted to the second floor to celebrate the history.

The large volume of the performance hall is sunken into the ground hearkening back to the underground basement shows associated with new musical movements. Further, it ensures that the massing of the building doesn’t overpower the surrounding context. The recording studio is on the ground floor to allow for ease of access with a dedicated secondary entrance for late-night recording sessions.

The three spaces are linked by a sculptural vertical circulation that creates an open and inviting experience for visitors connecting them through material. The overall geometry and position on the site allow for links to the past and provide public spaces linking the residential neighborhoods across the commercially zoned West 3rd Street.

LINK LINK

FUTURE RECORDING STUDIOS Concept Diagram

PAST

PRESENT GALLERIES

CONCERT

The Past - Gallery Spaces

The Future - Recording Studios

The Present - Performance Hall

Floor One

Longitudinal Section Perspective

Floor Two

View of Linking Stair from 2nd Floor Balcony

View of Entry Plaza from Parking

View of Entry Plaza from West 3rd Street

Model of Linking Stair - 1/4” = 1’

Final Model - 1/16” = 1’

Final Model - 1/16” = 1’

AFFORDABLE HOUSING AUGUSTA, ME

ARC 408 Community Design Studio

This affordable housing studio is a six-unit multifamily housing building for single parent families as they transition from homeless shelters to their own space. The intention of this project is to bridge the gap. This is achieved through engagement, performance, accessibility, and livability.

The geometry and orientation allows for future expansion on the site, and promotes many passive energy strategies. The building is oriented longitudinally on the east-west geometry of the site to disguise the building’s massing and lessen the visual impact from the road by exposing the small side of the building.

The asymmetrical geometry of the vernacular saltbox form allows a larger surface area of the roof to be exposed to the south, increasing space for PV arrays. The shed-dormers break up the facade and allow a maximal amount of solar gain for passive heating. The units are arranged so that they create efficiency and reduce the surface to floor area ratio.

All units are accessible, with at least one first floor bedroom and clear paths of travel. The paired units share covered entry porches as well as shared rear deck spaces.

Site Analysis

Unit Volume

Units Needed

Units Combined

Create Density

Apply Vernacular Form

Solar Strategies Employed

Final Form

Floor Two

Floor One

South Elevation

East Elevation

Section AA

North Elevation

Section BB

West Elevation

Wall Section Detail

Shared Covered Entry

Open and Accessible Ground Floor

Quiet Reading Nook

FORESTRY VISITOR CENTER Manchester, ME

ARC 204 Site Studio

The New England Forestry Foundation has need for a research lab for sustainable forestry practices, an info center for visitors, and an event space to drive additional revenue for the Allen Whitney National Forest.

The intention of this project is to minimally impact the natural landscape of the site. This is achieved by adapting existing infrastructure, thoughtful siting, utilizing local materials, and implementing passive energy strategies.

The concept for the project explores the three programmatic interventions like a stone skipping across the surface of water, lightly interrupting the forested site and informing the spaces between the forms. As visitors progress through the spaces, the sequencing creates a series of expanding framed views of Shed Pond.

The interventions are sited along an existing mixed-use trail that becomes the access road.

The site is a partially cleared trail intersection to minimize clearing in keeping with the Forestry Foundation’s mission. The buildings are oriented on the site to maximize passive heating and ventilation strategies. The use of locally sourced materials diminishes environmental impact and embodied carbon.

Concept Sketches

Site Plan

Site and Building Sections

Plan with Program Diagram

Sequence of Framed Views

AGGREGATED VERB ARC 102 Process Studio

This studio lays the foundations for the students architectural education. It teaches spatial thinking and sequencing as well as fundamental concepts of architectural design and representation. There are four separate projects, each with specific fundamental teachings that students must embed in their thinking and carry forward.

For this project, the second of four, a rectilinear prism was created from chip-board and then manipulated by applying the action of assigned verbs. The verbs applied in this project were bend, pinch, and reflect.

Bend was applied first resulting in the prism being upturned at two corners to varying degrees. Pinch was applied second resulting in one of the bent corners flattening. Then reflect was applied as an aggregation to the new form.

The final model was built using material of the students choosing and then represented as a narrative diagram drawing.

Prism

Bend

Pinch

Reflect

Aggregated

DOG RECREATION AREA Richmond, VA

Client - Richmond SPCA

Located in a historic warehouse district in Richmond, VA, the Richmond SPCA sought to find a dedicated dog walking/recreation area on their property.

Working on a volunteer basis, space was identified on the south side of the tight property where redundant driveways and holdover infrastructure crowd the site. By removing parts of the disused infrastructure and sliding the parking to the primary drive, a 32’ x 250’ space was identified.

The space is conceived as a series of volumes that meet programmatic needs, create varied terrain for the four legged users, and break up the space to allow for flexibility in usage and configuration.

Built and natural shading strategies are employed and sight-lines to a planned mural on the south facade influenced the design. Further, the design promotes equity by adding an accessible ramp to the rear of the building, and improves operations by rethinking circulation paths.

Following leadership and board approval of the concept, schematic design phase was completed through further engagement of all stakeholders.

Drawings, renderings and diagrams were produced for fundraising literature. The project is currently in the construction document phase and is being managed by Richmond Architect Todd Dykshorn.

G N I Y K Y A R A A P EW EW IV IV R

D

R

D

Site Analysis - Identify Redundant Vehicle Space

Remove Infrastructure

Move Parking Add ADA Ramp

Introduce “Terrain”

G

IN K

L Y A G A W IN W G K O R VE D I A P R

D

Fence and Shading Strategies

East Walking Area

West Walking Area

Section - BA

Section - BB

Section - BC

Section - AA

Section - AB

Plan

Staff Outdoor Lunch Space

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL Pownal, ME 4

Bradbury Mountain State Park Client - State of Maine: Bureau of Parks and Land Firm - Paul Designs Project Role - Designer

Part of a comprehensive overhaul and expansion of facilities at Bradbury Mountain State Park, the Environmental Control Building presented a unique opportunity to design for two programs 3 simultaneously.

The building is intended to function as a conservation lab for a period of several years for the conservation of artifacts, and as a maintenance building for the Parks Department once conservation efforts are complete.

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The project is currently in the construction document phase managed by Project Lead Andrew Treworgy and Architect Paul Lewandowski.

(c) 2023 Paul Designs Project

The space is conceived as two volumes with the large flexible space given hierarchy while the smaller volume houses support spaces keeping them clear of the open space. It also creates a 1 buffer between the outside and inside spaces allowing for control over the elements when loading/unloading artifacts and maintenance 0 equipment. Large windows provide ample day-light and a connection to nature for park employees.

Demountable partition walls allow for the space to be subdivided into dirty, working, and clean areas, each with specific environmental control measures.

Section - Maintenance Use

Connection to Nature

Plan - Maintenance Use

Dirty Storage

Work Area

Clean Storage

Plan - Conservation Use

ART AND MAKING ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

Balrog of Morgoth - Acrylic on Canvas

The Darness at Dawn - Acrylic on Board

GRAPHITE AND CHARCOAL

Kyla and Nora - Charcoal on Paper

Dave Grohl Eating a Donut - Graphite on Paper

Vans - Graphite on Paper