Joseph McMurchie 2021 | Selected Works

California State University, Chico Interior Architecture

PORTFOLIO Selected Works From My Academic Design Studies 2018 - 2021

Joseph McMurchie

Joseph McMurchie LEED Green Associate BFA Interior Architecture 2018-2021

L: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-mcmurchie/ E: joseph.s.mcmurchie@gmail.com P: (+1) 916 765 6446

EXPERIENCE

Architectural Intern

Project Manager, Student Intern

AFFILIATIONS

Perkins, Williams & Cotterill Architects

Rebuild Paradise Project

LEED Green Associate

Sacramento, California

Rebuild Paradise Foundation

IIDA Student Member

2019

Chico State Interior Architecture Design Si Chico, California 2019

EDUCATION

California State University, Chico

California State University, Chico

SOFTWARE

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Minor

Adobe Creative Suite

Interior Architecture

Managing for Sustainability

AutoCAD 2D Drafting

2021

2021

Revit Architecture Sketchup 3D Modeling Lumion 3D Rendering

AWARDS

Florence V. Ritchie Scholarship

IIDA Student Design Charette Competition

Art/Interior Architecture

Northern California Chapter

California State University, Chico

Regional Competition Qualifier

2020

Winning Concept - “Confluence” 2021

PORTFOLIO

PERSONAL WORK

LAKE TAHOE

IDEA INC.

FEATURE WALL

INTERNSHIP

Hospitality Design

Corporate Design

Hospitality Design

Rebuild Paradise Project

Lake Tahoe, CA

San Francisco, CA

Isle of Islay, UK

Paradise, CA

Spring 2020

Fall 2019

Spring 2020

Fall 2019

Typography Design

Publication Design

Duodecimal Glyphs

History of Interiors

Spring 2019

Spring 2019

LOCATION

Martis Camp Truckee, California Elevation: 6043 ft

Conceptual Design Project

LAKE TAHOE Hospitality Design Spring 2020

PROGRAM To create a layout and space plan for a 16’ x 23.5’ Luxury Hotel Suite; basing concept, form, and applications of materials and finishes on a specific location, its regional features, attributes, and culture.

Concept & Stratagy Lake Tahoe | Conceptual Design Project

CONCEPT

To create a space that emblemizes the natural features of the Sierra Nevada, adapting the unique blend of established Mountain Craftsmen and Modern design in the Lake Tahoe region into a space of rest and comfort, mimicking the textures of the natural landscape and features of the region to bring people back into the embrace of nature.

INTEGRATED DESIGN The integration of storage/closet space and activity spaces, such as the built in kitchenette space and desk work area, are a main component of the functionality of this space.

The use of dark tinted glass panels allows stored items to be seen when needed, but not visually interfere with the overall space or distract from the views framed by the floor to ceiling exterior glass walls.

Details are striped away from view, allowing the textural qualities of the materials and inter-sectional planes to draw the view of the subject outwards towards the main element of the project: its natural setting.

BLURRED DISTINCTION OF SPACE The separation of space between the bathroom amenities and sleeping area and need for maxized usage of passive lighting sources created a need for semi transparent partitions between areas. By containing the bathroom space within semi-translucent glass, natural light from the exterior glass wall is able to be transmitted into the space, while also maintaining personal comfort and privacy.

Conceptual Design Project

Building Section

LOCATION

The Embarcadero San Francisco, California

Space Planning System Furniture Design

IDEA Inc. Corporate Design Group Project - Tara Schjeldahl, Joseph McMurchie Fall 2019

PROGRAM To create a concept for the company “IDEA Inc”, an advertising agency located in San Francisico, based on existing program requirements and established corperate culture and brand, space planning mixed office space, specifying office furniture systems for various office positions and roles, and creating a welcoming environment that reflects the employees as well as the company as a whole.

Extra Work Area

Pantry/Social Meeting Area

Space Planning

Programming Dept.

Game Area

Collab Space

Marketing Dept.

IT Dept.

Collab Space

Collab Space Creative Dept.

Conceptual Design Project

Production/ Print

Conference

Reception/Showroom

Conference Room

Account Manager

CEO Finance/HR Dept.

Conference Room

Admin. Assistants

Collab Space

*NOT TO SCALE

PROGRAMMED SPACE PLAN The focus of each area remains consistently on the use of open spaces that are reflective of Idea Inc. and its environmentally inspired contemporary vision, and allows for visual and physical elements to emphasize a sense of flow.

Through this focus on flow, a sense of direction is a constant throughout the space, allowing for the circulation of elements throughout the entirety of the space to remain unobstructed.

PATH S OF EGRESS

SHARED SPACE

WORK SPACE

SYSTEMS FURNITURE DESIGN The integration of style with functionality became a central element within the design of office and activity spaces within this project. Because of this, the implimentation and analysis of furniture systems was a main element used throughout the duration of the project. Through the repitition of modular customizable forms, and emphais on ergonomic shape, human scale, and duty-specific needs, the utlization of systems furniture allows for maximized functionality, working to serve each specialized area of the office most effectively.

Concept & Stratagy Lake Tahoe | Conceptual Design Project

CONCEPT

To establish an innovative and creative work environment that is just as much about the employees as it is about the client. Through environmental and sustainable ideas, Idea Inc. establishes itself as a partnership of individuals whose goal is to create effective and innovative solutions to direct growth of new brands, and cultivate new and inspiring ideas to propel them forward. By creating spaces of group collaboration and interaction, the workplace then becomes a catalyist for this creativity, allowing ideas to flow freely throughout the space.

LOCATION

Lagavulin Distillery Isle of Islay, UK

Conceptual Design Project

FEATURE WALL Hospitality Design Spring 2020

PROGRAM To design a concept for an accent wall installation basing concept, form, and applications of materials and finishes on Lagavulin Whiskey, taking context from its location, production processes and hertiage on the lsle of Islay off the southern coast of Scotland.

Concept

CONCEPT

Scotch Whiskey is in itself the story of the people and the land in which it comes from.

Ranging greatly from region to region, every bottle is defined in its profile and character by the land in which it originates, and each has its own unique heritage and story to tell.

One such story is the story of Islay’s own Lagavulin.

The southern most of the Hebrides of Scotland, the Isle of Islay is known throughout the world for its single malt’s unique smoky profile, originating in the use of peat in the distillation processes.

By thoroughly “peating” their barly early in the process, Lagavulin’s slow distillation – and long aging

Feature Wall | Conceptual Design Project

within chard oak barrels – ensures the character of the whiskey is defined by its intense smokey aroma, complimented by a rich malt and spiced notes that is only improved by its natural salty nature – all qualities in which Islay’s natural environment shares, and define the character of this space.

The aim of the designed installation is to act as a representation of this hertiage and cultured process, to display the unique character of Lagavulin, and the emotional qulaities that a glass can represent to those who partake.

Conceptual Design Project

Ideation of Space

STRATEGY - A FADING GLOW The aim of the space and its lighting is to create an environment reminicent of a watching the last remaining embers of a fire fade out while sipping “a wee dram” of Islay.

Warm, smokey flavors blend together in your glass to create an internal luminous “glow” in your mouth just as the light bathes the room in a warm transluence – seen as much as it is felt – as the room around you begins to fade into the background.

LOCATION

Paradise, California Butte County Elevation: 1619 ft.

Conceptual and Schematic Design Project Management

INTERNSHIP “Option 8“ Container Home Concept Rebuild Paradise Project Fall 2019

PROGRAM To conceptualize the design of a container home, creating schematic designs and preliminary documentation for a 2400 sq ft 3 Bed, 2 Bath residence to be submitted to the Butte County building department and published as a construction set to benfit the nonprofit Rebuild Paradise Foundation in its effort to supply Camp Fire victims with pre-configured construction/build sets to rebuild the Paradise community after the 2018 Camp Fire.

Schematic Design

A COMMUNITY DESTROYED

The Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history, and the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018 in terms of insured losses.

Magalia

Named after Camp Creek Road, its place of origin, the Pulga

fire started in the early morning hours of November 8,

Concow

2018, in Northern California’s Butte County. Ignited by a faulty PG&E electric transmission line, the fire originated above several communities and an east wind drove the fire downhill through developed areas. After exhibiting extreme

Deadwood

Paradise

fire spread, fire line intensity, and spotting behaviors through the rural community of Concow, an urban firestorm formed in the foothill town of Paradise. Most residents of

Yankee Hill

Internship - Rebuild Paradise Project

Concow and many residents of Paradise were unable to evacuate before the fire arrived. Due to the speed of the fire, firefighters for the most part never attempted to prevent the flames from entering Paradise, and instead sought to help

Butte College

Cherokee

people get out alive.

According to Chief Scott McLean of Cal Fire, “Pretty much the community of Paradise is destroyed, it’s that kind of devastation. The wind that was predicted came and just wiped it out.”

Most Severe Damage Severe Burn Damage

Within the first 24 hours of the wildfire’s spread, it was estimated that over 80% of the town of Paradise was gone.

Mild Burn Damage

THE REBUILD PARADISE PROJECT

Founded in January 2019, The Rebuild Paradise Foundation established itself as a non-profit grassroots movement of Camp Fire survivors and community leaders from the public and private sectors who dedicated themselves to serving the long-term needs of Butte County’s disaster affected residents, businesses and workforce to provide access to resources and to help lower barriers to entry for those repopulating the disaster affected areas.

Working though the Rebuild Paradise Foundation alongside local engineers and contractors, the Rebuild Paradise Project established itself as a student and faculty led initiative created in the Fall of 2019 through CSU Chico’s Interior Architecture program. This project worked to produce sets of “ready-to-build” residential home designs that pass Butte County Building Department regulations to become Master Planning Sets – aiming to lower the costs of custom home designs and shorten the already lengthy approval and construction process usually involved in residential projects.

Ranging from 960 square feet to 2400 square feet, these construction sets incorporated the latest building codes requirements out of the California Building Code 2019 regarding fire safety and energy efficiency, while also implementing fire resistant or fire proof materials and design strategies.

Internship - Rebuild Paradise Project

Conceptual Ideation of Space

*NOT TO SCALE

“OPTION 8” - CONTAINER HOME CONCEPT 2480 SQ FT | 3 Bed, 2 Baths A combination of standard timber framing and reused adapted 40ft storage containers, utilizing the existing structural framing of the containers and natural fire proof characteristics of the steel siding. This results in a linear layout, with modern motifs carried throughout by the combination of weathered steel, rich wood textures, and expansive glass exterior windows that maximize natural lighting within the interior living spaces.

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Duodecimal Glyphs

Mr Eaves Sans Designed by Zuzana Licko

Zuzana Licko was born in 1961 in

and traditional, is currently the principle

Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and emigrat-

activity and mainstay of Emigre.

ed with her parents to the U.S. in 1968.

She graduated with a degree in Graphic

As a team, Emigre has been honored with

Communications from the University of

numerous awards including the 1994

California at Berkeley in 1984. Together

Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design,

with her husband, Rudy VanderLans,

and the 1998 Charles Nypels Award for

Licko started the design company Emigre

excellence in the field of typography.

Graphics in 1984.

Emigre is also a recipient of the 1997 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold

Based in Berkeley, California, the company

Medal Award, its highest honors. In Oc-

became world renowned for its self-pub-

tober 2010 the Emigre team was inducted

lished magazine and type foundry which

as Honorary members of the Society of

were greatly inspired by the new technical

Typographic Arts, Chicago, and in 2016

possibilities offered by the introduction

they traveled to New York to receive the

of the Macintosh computer. Licko and

29th Type Directors Club Medal. Licko is

VanderLans became early adopters to

the recipient of an honorary Ph.D degree

the new technology and they used the

from the Rhode Island School of De-

computer to experiment and created

sign (2005), and she received the 2013

some of the very first typeface designs and

Typography Award from the Society of

digital page layouts causing great conster-

Typographic Aficionados.

nation within the realm of graphic design.

0

Eventually, exposure of the typefaces in

In 2011, five digital typefaces from the Em-

Emigre magazine resulted in demand for

igre Type Library were acquired by MoMA

the fonts which lead to the creation of the

New York for their design and architecture

Emigre Type foundry. This growing library

collection.

of digital typefaces, both experimental

References: Emigre Inc. Adobe Fonts

https://www.emigre.com/ https://fonts.adobe.com/

Poster Design By Joseph McMurchie

Typographic Glyphs Concept Graphic Design

TYPOGRAPHY Mr Eaves Sans Basic Typography Fall 2019

PROGRAM To conceptualize the design of a base-12 number system, replacing the old base-10 system, creating two new glyph structures for the “ten” and “eleven” numerals in a base-12 system and appling them to a selected typeface (a roman serif or sans-serif typeface) that contains old-style numerals.

Digtial Print Publication Graphic Design

PUBLICATION The Farnsworth House, Meis Van der Rohe History of Interiors - Case Study Report Fall 2019

PROGRAM To research, compile, and present a Case Study report on a historically signficant Architect or Designer and a selected project or body of their work; analyizing the conceptual, schematic, and structural elements of their designs, while looking into the finer details and method used in order to study basic design elements and principles – learning the vocublary of design language.

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