Mark Rainville's Portfolio - 2019

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Develop Dynamo solutions for updating design workflows, more computerization than computation.

From swapping curtain wall panels families, to auto-populating programming mass blocks which then become walls and rooms with related data. Beyond design automation, automated project file setup process reducing time spent by 50%.

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Design Automation HED Los Angeles, CA

WORK EXPERIENCE Design Technology

Axon (showing Dynamo preview points w/ masses, walls and rooms)

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Masses Auto Placed per Program (kit of parts) per Level

Masses in Pure Layout Form w/ Mass Tags

Dynamo Graph (taking mass footprints, place walls/rooms, add room requirements)

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Masses w/ Walls and Rooms

WORK EXPERIENCE Design Technology

Two towers (42 and 60 stories) on a nine story parking and retail podium.

Exterior skin modeling and detailing, overall team BIM support, Coordinated 1.5 acre amenity deck between Structural, Landscape, Aquatics, Lighting and Architecture. Acquired multiple supplemental permits.

Performed CA services.

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Metropolis (Phase 2) HED Los Angeles, CA

Details

WORK EXPERIENCE JOB CAPTAIN

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Amenity Deck Plan and Axons of Model

WORK EXPERIENCE JOB CAPTAIN

Black and White Photography has been an interest of mine for many years. Recently, while working in DTLA I have been reinvigorated by the urban environment with all its juxtapositions and patterns.

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Architectural Photography Los Angeles, CA

PERSONAL WORK BnW Photography

Almost completed pair of linoleum blocks

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While working in a mostly digital format performing my Design Technology role I found the need to go analog. After cutting some linoleum blocks for hand printing, the next step was to 3D print a small printing press and churn out more smaller prints.

The “Desert Sunrise” piece came from a photo taken while visiting an AirBnB in Joshua Tree, I awoke before sunrise to catch a derivative of an image I had seen before to make it my own. That image then became the inspiration for a lino cut triptych.

“Desert Sunrise” Triptych

“Desert Sunrise” initial BnW Photo in Joshua Tree 3D Printed Printing Press (w/ first run lino cuts)

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Handcut Linoleum Block Prints Los Angeles, CA

PERSONAL WORK SILK SCREEN & PHOTO

ADA upgrade of existing recreation facility, including the addition of a public service window for gym equipment. Executed Design Development through Construction Documents utilizing Revit. Sole Revit operator, turned around client comments within one week.

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City of Los Angeles Central Rec. Center Viniegra & Viniegra Los Angeles, CA

Toilet Vestibule

WORK EXPERIENCE PROJECT ARCHITECT/MGR.

Women’s Toilet Room

Tray Pass Thru Window

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Existing kitchen & dining building built in the 1930’s. Developed client’s evolving requirements into permitted Construction Documents. Officiated Construction Administration: site visits, job meetings, submittal & RFI review & response. Photo documentation of site conditions for use in office. Respond to durability, security, and separation client requirements.

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Acton Rehabilitation Center Kitchen / Dining Refurb.

Viniegra & Viniegra Acton, CA

WORK EXPERIENCE PROJECT ARCHITECT/MGR.

Generated construction documents from previously approved conceptual design package. Worked with inhouse structural engineer to produce structural drawings. Project was located on a tight site behind an existing commercial building. Adequate parking provided by the three private garages of the six units. One unit was designed to be ADA adaptable. (Taught myself ArchiCAD within a month to functional level.)

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Architecture & Geotech Drafting LACO Associates Eureka, CA

Efficiently drafted geotechnical and environmental figures ahead of schedule and under budget. Figures included site plans, monitoring well location maps, groundwater contaminant maps, trench logs and fault hazard maps.

WORK EXPERIENCE CONST. DOC. PRODUCTION

Reality of Entry from Hotel

Floor Plan

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Render of Entry from Hotel

Daily Grill - LAX, renovated an under developed hotel restaurant, installed a brand name restaurant servicing patrons and room service. There were many structural and permitting hurdles to clear before drawings were completed and finally permitted. Such as concrete shear wall locations, egress vs. shared egress, and parking restrictions based on square footage. The renovation required nonstructural storefront adjustments to install new entry and patio doors. The existing cook line was removed and an exhibition kitchen was installed dividing the hotel and the restaurant kitchens.

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Daily Grill Restaurant SFJones Architect, Inc. Westin Hotel - LAX, LA, CA

WORK EXPERIENCE Project Manager / Designer / Production

Our site was the last undeveloped lot in Central Square, Cambridge, MA. Within the 75 foot by 125 foot site, our program was to include a restaurant, an entry lobby, intermission areas, indoor and outdoor theaters with control booths, rehearsal spaces, practice spaces, a loading dock, private circulation for performers, some parking and storage.

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Studio 5: Theater Project Northeastern University Boston, MA

The restaurant is located at ground level on the main street, Massachusetts Avenue, to allow patronage as an independent entity. The main entry is set back from the property line with the intermission lobby overhanging. The main circulation core rises behind the glass box of the intermission lobby, covered in patinaed copper, a material found on roofs and ornamentation in the area. The main stage area designed to be a split stage servicing both the indoor and outdoor theaters. The outdoor theater had a structurally integrated glazing and sunshade system.

SCHOOL WORK URBAN IN-FILL THEATER

Revit Rendering (in progress)

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Structural Section

The class was charged with designing a Sports Pavilion in the Fens, a park in Boston, MA. The pavilion’s program included a snack bar, seating, equipment storage and restrooms. The repeated steel structural member (details at left) would start from a footing, slip up through the floor, support the bar, interact with angular supports and support a glazed facade. The glazing closed and locked when not in use; when in use, the glazing opened creating covered outdoor seating. The front and rear glazed panels are raised and lowered by a central winch system. The two private areas, bathrooms and the sports storage/ snack bar were wrapped in sheet steel bookending the central seating/viewing area.

Initial Heavy Steel Sketch

Structural Axon Detail

Perspective from Track

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Studio 5: Sports Pavilion Northeastern University Boston, MA

Site Plan

SCHOOL WORK TECHNICAL STRUCTURE

Created a detailed scale model for light studies. The model is Renzo Piano’s De Menil Foundation Collection in Houston, Texas. Recreating the leaf-like louvers afixed to a triangular structural truss proved difficult. The actual louvers are constructed of ferrous concrete, a material out of my reach. Therefore, many experiments went into discovering other ways of creating such thin and sculpted light reflective louvers.

The final construction used a spine with laser cut ribs, wrapped in vellum and spray painted white. Also the triangluar truss system was laser cut in order to acheive such slender elements.

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Environmental Systems Northeastern University Boston, MA

Light Study: Near Mid-day

SCHOOL WORK LIGHT STUDY MODEL

De Menil Foundation: Light Study Model

Light Study: Early Morning

Broad Street Elevation

FRANKLIN ST.

PED. PLAZA

CUSTOM HOUSE ST.

Exploded Programmatic Axon

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Lobby Perspective

Sited off the new Rose Kennedy Greenway, near Rowes Wharf in Boston, MA. There was an existing historic building on the site with a road that divided the site into two plots. Using similar materials and style of the existing building, created an addition for ground floor retail with gallery space above. By elevating the housing block a visual link is opened to the Greenway and a pedestrian plaza was created.

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Studio 4: Mixed Use Northeastern University Boston, MA

Structurally the core (black) is the backbone of the building. Each office floor (light blue) is supported angularly back to the core as well as from the floor above. The housing block (yellow) is the “backpack� cantilevered off the core. Both office and housing are serviced by this main circulation core via separate lobbies and elevator banks. The office lobby is located on the ground floor with the more private housing lobby at the mezzanine. Located along Custom House Street was the restaurant and retail face of the building.

Site Plan

SCHOOL WORK URBAN MIXED USE