MITCHELL MCLEOD
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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Archive Museum
Year Work
Speculative
Library Pavilion Bach House
Year Work
Third Year Capstone Archive
National Archive project,
The design focused on the concept of light and dark. An archive and repository has very specific needs in light and storage, the design was seperated into two main zones, a light and a dark for the working spaces and the storage and repository spaces. The main entrance was informed by the pataka, “to lift the treasure of a nation above the ground with reverence” The atrium focused on creating a void that allowed visitors to think and wonder about the history of new zealand and the future storys it could one day tell
Section through the dark block of the Archive, with the central atrium as the champion of the design
Left to right: auditorium render of north block, north centur overlooking the Wellington harbour, the central spine joining the offices to the reopsitory, the light to dark.
The design had a central spine that ran through the center of the building, connecting the light and dark spaces, acting as an emobodiement of a timeline that ran east to west, tracking the movement of the sun and the passing of time.
Third Year Capstone Museum
The museum of New Zealand Aoetearoa was informed by again the concept of time. The bases for form finding was dervied from the rings of a tree, and how history could be interpreted as the rings of a tree storing and preserving this information. The monolithic forms were created to mimic the valleys and hills of our country, with walkable roofs and an internal atrium centering new zealands history around the nature it has been birthed from
Hero render for the Te Papa tongerewa redesign, a natural landscape climbs abord the roof of the atrium
Left to right: process of the design, Auditorium render, Section through auditorium.
The internal atrium was intended to demonstrate timber and the beauty of the natural world new zeland has. The atrium acts as the central circulation space spiraling up toward each exhibition spaces forming a timeline of event and history that is preserved in Te Papa Tongerewa
Third Year
Computational Design
Computational Design [archi311]
This paper focused on the computational generation of form through site parameters. Using software like maya and houdini, simulations were formulated around site parameters like wind and topography generating iterations of form for a dystopian architecture.
The final design focused on the program of a metearological dissemination hub that collected data to repopulate the earths climate.
Hero render of the meteorological dissemniation hub
Program section highlighting circulation
Hero render focusing on the outcrops of the design
grasshopper script exploration
full board exploration
Second Year Design
Materiality render showing the central staircase under the water
The Library design focused on the form giving parameters of site and interpretation of site mapping. The project went through three major iterations, the first looking at site and form, the second looking at light and form and the third looking at materiality and form. The final project was a rich and complex development of ideas that refined down into the embodiement of the surrounding harbour of shelly bay, The play between above and below the ocean and the orientation of the building inrelation to the harbour, the city grid and the orientation in relation to the sun and natural environment
Left to right: Render showing the floating above water metaphor, a night time render glistening on the Wellington harbour, context axonometric showing the form in relation to its surroundings
A light and bright above water area was programmed to acompany tasks that required more daylight, and facilitated a journey underneath the water, a unique reading experience
Internal render focusing on light and form
Section showing the relationship between above and below water, and the exageration of this journey through the central circulation
pavilion
Process photographs
Final model photographs, Bottom left: final render
Left: final model photograph, right: close up of the internal form of the final model
Construction drawing
The construction of a 30m2 holiday home was the goal of this paper, To generate an understanding of NZS3604 and demonstrate an ability to produce working drawings.
The baches materaility focused on timber slats to screen off areas and create interesting shading on the interior space.
