Design portfolio 2017

Ballston Quarter Pedestrian Bridge studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Lead Designer

Practice FORM as a relationship between structure, movement and place.

Construction begins 2017

2017

CWRU Think[box] studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Design Team

Practice FORM as a resultant of a relationship to ‘making’

Completed

2015

CWRU Think[box] studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Design Team

Practice FORM as a resultant of a relationship to ‘making’

Completed

2015

CWRU Think[box] - Veale Connector studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Project Manager Lead Designer

Practice FORM as a resultant of a relationship to ‘making’ An exploration of Wildness vs. Parametricism

Completed

2015

Amenities Space studio TECHNE | Architects Cleveland, Ohio Lead Designer

Practice FORM as a resultant of methods of habitation

Design Development

2015

Cincinnati Country Day School michael mcinturf ARCHITECTS Cincinnati, Ohio Design Team

Practice FORM as a resultant of programmatic and daylighting conditions

Under Construction

2014

Cincinnati Country Day School michael mcinturf ARCHITECTS Cincinnati, Ohio Design Team

Practice FORM as a resultant of programmatic conditions

Under Construction

2014

Xiamen Highrise Competition GBBN Architects Xiamen, China Design Team

Practice FORM as a resultant of urban conditions

First Prize

2012

Waterfront Highrise Competition GBBN Architects Quingdao, China Design Team

Practice FORM as a resultant of programmatic conditions

First Prize Under Construction

2012

Huangzhou Competition Musee des Confluences Coop-Himmelb[l]au Huangzhou + Lyon Design Team Model Team

Practice FORM is “Viva la CHBL”

Honorable Mention

2010

Editors’ Preface An authentic Navajo rug contains a single line of contrasting yarn - an intentional error – in order to distance itself from perfection, a quality that is deemed impossible for mortals to achieve. The mistake provides a way into and out of the object. The weaver confronts the equivalent of a contemporary architectural dilemma, acting as a gatherer of diverse strands, imparting just enough chaos or setting exactly the right limits in order to disassociate the product of his or her labor from an impossible - or entirely undesirable - normative condition.

In this issue of Offramp we seek to interrogate what might remain as a tool, or tools, for producing the idiosyncratic in a technological era of increasing precision. The term tolerance has historically been defined in the practice of architecture as a degree of dimensional variation that takes into account variables that will affect the accuracy of construction. Woodwork may require tolerance as small as 1/64 inches whereas concrete footings can be acceptable within a variance of up to 2 inches. Through the digital turn we are capable of precision that was previously unattainable. The human eye, however, craves a degree of the imprecise, thus this “allowable amount of variation” has drifted from material application to the design process itself. The role of the architect has thereby shifted from acting as a decisive instrument to operating as the definer of constraining behaviors within a field of possibilities.

The projects presented in this issue are considered categorically as the effort afforded by multiple inputs within carefully considered rulesets.

These rulesets pertain to tolerances of construction but also to aesthetic outcomes - be it through a glitch, the incorporation of solar data into the design process, or the use of interactive surfaces - the final result of which is not directly controlled.

The disciplinary outlook on tolerance requires a lens through which we can navigate philosophical and aesthetic variation. The architectural discourse changes as it reacts to other disciplines such as art or philosophy. An alternate definition of tolerance in architecture emerges; it can be understood as an ability to resist intoxication. This can be beneficial to those attempting to have a conversation in the midst of the excessive forms of communication in contemporary society.

SCI-Arc Offramp 12: Tolerance SCI-Arc Editor Ghostwriter

The essays and texts included in this issue examine the relationship architectural discourse has with other disciplines and the effects on and of architecture. By shedding light on these relationships, Offramp 12 establishes new frameworks through which to view projects seeking such aesthetic variation.

The Design Theory and Pedagogy Team Majeda Alhinai Garet Ammerman Wendy Cox Matthew Lopez Maria Penovi Pooyan Ruhi Ryan Scavnicky Henry Yang

Academic Offramp is the academic journal published by SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

2016

Sucker Punch Studio DAAP Prof. Stephen Slaughter

Academic How can generative strategies and digital tools create novel form?

2011

Perverted Cube Sculpture Foundry Cincinnati, Ohio Farron Allen

Academic Can an intensely hand-crafted process reveal a deeper relationship between a digital form and our real, lived experience?

iMadeThat, 2015

2014

Speculation through Making Distractions Speculation and Exploration often involves Parti mistakes, sparks, distractions and unexplored Failed Prints ideas or forms.

Sketches Girlfriends wearing your Prints as Earrings

Academic iMadeThat, 2015 Super // Architects 2014

Speculation through Making Distractions Speculation and Exploration often involves Parti mistakes, sparks, distractions and unexplored Failed Prints ideas or forms.

Sketches 3D Scanned co worker wears your flooring tile Garment in Fashion Show

Academic iMadeThat, 2015 Super // Architects 2014

_JPEG2000 “Blurry Architecture” John Stoughton Quinn Kummer David Corns

Academic Speculative and ongoing project censors architecture so that it is “rated E for everyone” and provides commentary on the sexualization of design.

2015

Studio Bangarang 3D Printed Jewelry

Academic A line of 3D Printed Jewelry is for sale which is hand made in Germany, and designed in Cleveland under the umbrella of “Studio Bangarang�

Stilnest, 2015

2015

“In the Face of Decay I see Emerging Architectures�

Rust Belt

Academic Documentation of instances of Decay becoming possible methodologies for architecture.

Pit Crit, 2015 Crit.Day, 2015 iMadeThat, 2015

2015

The Bangarang Contagion University of Cincinnati DAAP Thesis Michael McInturf Aaron Betsky

Academic Are the theories and warning signs behind the devolution of mankind beocming all too real in today’s placeless and increasingly digital culture?

Taller Al Cubo 2014 Pit Crit 2015 Critical MASS 2014 Lantern Journal 2014

2014

The Bangarang Contagion University of Cincinnati DAAP Thesis Michael McInturf Aaron Betsky

Academic Are the theories and warning signs behind the devolution of mankind beocming all too real in today’s placeless and increasingly digital culture?

Taller Al Cubo 2014 Pit Crit 2015 Critical MASS 2014 Lantern Journal 2014

2014