Rachel Magee | Architecture Portfolio

RACHEL MAGEE selected works architecture

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACADEMIC

04 Perfect North Retreat 12 Suburban Tree House 18 Living Network 22 Chestnut Cart 26 Northside Housing 32 Masonry Institute 36 Improvisational Structures PROFESSIONAL 38 PreFab Shop Drawings 40 Fawcett

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3-D Spatial Collage with Magazines | Fall 2017

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PERFECT NORTH RETREAT Spring 2022 | Prof. Michael McInturf We all seek a non-urban environment to escape to. Just outside Cincinnati, Perfect North Slopes is a tiny ski hill in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The outdoor recreation destination is only open a few months out of the year. Growing up skiing here, I started to wonder:

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How can I develop the site to provide a year-round outdoor experience for the Cincinnati metro-area?

I designed the lodging units for the area to occupy the entire hillside. There are three different unit arrival sequences depending on where the units are located on the hill.

Units are arranged along the ski runs to ensure ski-in-ski-out access that turns into hike-in-hike-out lodging.

The architecture lifts to allow recreation activities to rule the ground. A large interior window acts as a portal outside to the trees and the skiers and hikers. The rooftop deck gives visitors a covered outdoor space for spending time with friends or simply reading a book alone.

The established structural system could be utilized at different scales for additional structures on-site such as a restaurant and multi-family lodging units.

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Mid-Hill Unit West Elevation

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Mid-Hill Unit Plan

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Looking Away from Perect North Slopes 7

Top of Hill East Elevation

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Top of Hill North Elevation

Top of Hill Section Looking East

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SUBURBAN TREE HOUSE Spring 2019 | Prof. Andrew Tetrault Student Finalist from the Custom Residential Architects Network, 2020.

Greenhills, Ohio, is one of the only greenbelt towns to exist in the United States today. Built on the self-sufficient communal ideals of post-World War II ample green space, shopping, and schools are all within the town limits. Greenhills has expanded but lost its value on greenspace simultaneously. The greenbelt is lacking on the near the site, which made me ask: How can I utilize the space for housing without impacting the entire site and still preserving some land use for the community?

I proposed that nature re-inhabits the space and architecture lightly touches the ground. Over time, the landscape would grow into a suburban forest. The new units and site redesign the living experience and connect people to both community and the environment.

With a simple tectonic relationship, the units are lifted above the ground. A public path floats and meanders through the site, connecting the units and the neighborhood to the green space. This development acknowledges the vital role of nature in the longevity of society.

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Unit Model Iteration Images

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Site Concept Diagrams

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Existing Site

SITE STRATEGY - RACHEL MAGEE

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SITE ELEVATION FROM JUNEFIELD ROAD - RACHEL MAGEE

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LET NATURE TAKE OVER

Re-Green Over Time

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Access to Houses

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Living in Nature

Site Section | Growth Over Time

First Construction and Growth

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Model Image | Community Pathway

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Model Image | Housing Units

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LIVING NETWORK Fall 2019 | Prof. Wolfgang Grillitsch Situated in a suburb of Stuttgart, Germany, this apartment complex is being considered for co-living units. Many elderly people live in the buildings and require very private quarters. The greenspace is not used and playing in the space is sometimes frowned upon. I asked: How can underutilized outdoor space create opportunities for social interaction, while honoring the values and needs of all generations?

A system of pathways link pieces of program that allow people to enjoy activities outside of their apartment. These spaces are pulled away from the building for privacy, a significant consideration for the current residents living there. The spaces add amenities to the building for all ages and an elevator at one end of the network makes all the units fully accessible.

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Activity Diagram

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Longitudinal Elevation

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Plan Diagram

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CHESTNUT CART Fall 2019 | Prof. Wolfgang Grillitsch While studying abroad in Stuttgart, Germany, I participated in a design workshop between German and Turkish students in the beautiful city of Istanbul.

As a group of ten students, we were tasked with researching street food and creating a cooking tool or mechanism, with the goal of serving the food at the final presentation of the workshop. We had many questions, but mainly asked: How can we create a portable culinary contraption with a tiny budget needing to serve over 50 people?

We ate our way around the city, visited the spice market, and wondered the streets for salvaged materials. We had to be extremely resourceful to make this a success.... but we did earn some money in the end with our roasted and spiced chestnuts.

Traveling Chestnut Salesman

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Pocket Stove

Food Cart with Spices like spice market

Fish Grill - Research Experience

Kit-of-Parts with Spices

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Garbage Corn

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Grilled Fish styrofoam coolers, deconstructable, built in storage and insulating ability, open flame with grate

Board for counter surface found + free Table turned sideways for cart base, found + free Stool turned upside down found + free Foil + wire mesh, contains fire minimal cost Crate for chestnut storage found + free Drawer turned over, levels dolly found + free Dolly for portability found + free Chestnuts, spices, charcoal, serving and display tools purchased

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Grilled Corn and Chestnuts popular snack, cart with wheels and heat source

Turkish Coffee popular social activity, long cooking time, lights and copper for stand

Simit cart, no cooking from cart, a couple options, popular snack

Nuts popular food, variety, easily buy in bulk, usually eaten plain or as garnish

Spices beautiful displays, vibrant colors, sensory experience between visual, smell, and taste

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NORTHSIDE HOUSING Spring 2020 | Prof. Whitney Hammaker NEST, Northsiders Engaged in Sustainable Transformation, paired with the School of Architecture and Interior Design to develop housing solutions for their neighborhood of Northside, Ohio. Over 3 years, students designed homes based on a matrix of constraints. Each cycle of students revised the matrix based on the previous results and feedback.

This term focused on a schemes suitable for multiple sites. With the matrix methodology, students began individual studies that culminated in group proposals.

Ultimately, we asked: How can we design for all generations in a scheme deployable across 5 different sites in a cost effective manner, while fitting into the Northside community?

We started working individually, but formed teams to produce final proposals. I joined a group utilizing a modular system. We worked through refining the interior spaces, connections between each module, and each site configuration.

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Model Rendering Collage

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ACCESSIBILITY

Modular Units

Matrix Constraints

SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS ACCESSIBILITY

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The shed roof is created with a parallel sloping truss system that utilizes one similar truss at a 3:12 slope to minimize cost. The roof alternates direction and height to create a variety of interior spaces and allow for a second floor with more bedrooms.

All of the schemes are accessible on the first floor with at least one bedroom and bathroom that is ADA, as well as the kitchen, living area, etc. The patio is zero-step entry. These houses were designed with the ability to meet anyone's needs.

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This project proposes schemes of affordable homes for five sites in Northside. It features a general layout based on a storage system along the solid block wall, a shed roof that alternates direction and height to create a variety of interior spaces, and an idea of modularity that organizes the building into a "kit of parts" of sorts that can be reorganized on the different sites to adapt to the specific situations.

An important driver of this design is that it can be suitable for any occupancy type and is accessible on the first floor. The designs also include a zero-step entry covered patio with an exterior fireplace.

Though the houses are made of similar components, the modularity offers variances in design that create distinct homes on each site, so that each occupant still feels that their home is uniquely theirs.

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Floor Plan Notes

Wall extend at the same angle as stairs

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Flex space with murphy bed for guests or possible office LIVING ROOM

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MASONRY INSTITUTE Fall 2020 | Prof. Terry Boling For a future Masonry Institute in the historic OTR neighborhood, the building materials and construction methods of the building need to tell a story about masonry.

This was a partner project that examined details and assemblies of the architecture more than the overall scheme. My partner and I asked: How can the architecture showcase the capabilities and qualities of masonry?

We were attracted to layering masonry to allow daylight through and to see through visually. We explored different masonry unit qualities and systems through digital and physical means. We arrived at a building that exploited masonry screening techniques from the detail to the building scale, with space between brick and terra cotta at all scales.

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Brick shaft with light passing through ceiling

Brick screening & light passing through the wall

Terra cotta extrusions (fins) as cladding and screening

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Assembly Notes Terra cotta fins Bracket connection between fin and building Terra cotta panel Metal wall framing Brick ties to structure Brick Steel plate

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Terra cotta fins Bracket connection between fin and building

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5 Plan at Cantilevered Corner

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IMPROVISATIONAL STRUCTURES Fall 2021 | Prof. Bennett Neiman IN-PROGRESS - The JAZZstudio examines a process of collage, diagramming, drawing, and making models to create spatial environments. A partner and I are working individually and collaboratively. We constantly ask, How can we manipulate 2D and 3D mediums to form spatial events that allow for improvisation?

We started with jazz music and musical instruments, working to abstract the forms in 2-dimensions. The process is continuing through additional drawings and models.

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Model - 24” x 8” x 10”

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PREFAB SHOP DRAWINGS Summer 2020 | Valley Interior Systems The PreFab Shop designs, manufactures, and assembles components for projects across the company. The shop creates a variety of products, but lacked drawings to share with architects and contractors. I was responsible for drawings their products for submittals, pre-design conversations, and internal use.

Rhino, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Bluebeam

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FAWCETT Summer 2019 | W.PA

Located in Tacoma, WA, the client wanted a themed residential tower, targeting bikers and younger generations.

I was responsible for making SketchUp model changes for renderings, facade studies, and Revit documentation in the schematic phase.

Some challenges included the steep grade change, organizing the lower lobby entry, garage planning, and bicycle storage on a mezzanine level.

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Lower lobby recessed from metal panel facade

I created the exterior elevation drawings from the Revit model for the 100% schematic design set.

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General Notes 1.

New buildings shall have approved address numbers, building numbers or approved building identification placed in a position that is plainly legible and visible from the street or road fronting the property. These numbers shall contrast with their background and be a minimum of 4 inches high with a minimum stroke width of 0.5 inches.

811 SE Stark Street, Suite 210 Portland OR, 97214 (503) 234-2945 www.worksarchitecture.net

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Textured Concrete

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W.PA Job Number 1283

© 2018 Works Progress Architecture, LLP All drawings the property of Works ALL RIGHTSare RESERVED Progress Architecture LLP and are not to be used or reproduced in any manner without prior written permission.

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SET ISSUE Basement 162' - 5 3/4" Fire Access 161' - 0"

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THANK YOU Rachel Magee architecture mageera@mail.uc.edu 812.577.7695