Thomas Magee Spring 2024 Portfolio

THOMAS MAGEE

thomasmagee6100@gmail.com I (574)208-2308

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-magee-40467912b/

EDUCATION

University of Cincinnati I Cincinnati, OH

August 2023 - present

• Master of Architecture

• GPA: 3.895

ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE

Populous Architectural Co-op

Kansas City, MO I Jan - April 2024

• Tampa Bay Rays New Stadium

• Helped create bi-weekly presentations for client

• Designed concepts for pre mium spaces

• Assisted in the delivery of the Scehmatic Design pack age

• Used Rhino and Adobe Suite to create create presentation drawings

University of Florida I Gainesville, FL

August 2019 - May 2023

• Bachelor of Design in Architecture

• Final GPA: 3.93

• Bright Futures Florida Academic Scholar

Populous Architectural Intern

Denver, CO I May - August 2023

• University of Tennessee Lindsey

Nelson Stadium Renovations

• Designed Player Entry & Recruiting Lobby

• Created Layout for Coaches

Office Suite

• Assisted in Design Develop ment package

• International Olympic Committee Data

• Converted Excel data into Power BI

Terry Boling Architects

Architectural Intern

Cincinnati, OH I May - August 2022

• Built 3 scale models of the office's projects

• Manufactured and constructed custom corten steel retaining wall for backyard of project

• Assisted in the creation of a historic approval package submitted for the Over the Rhine Historic District

• Documentation through photographs and drone footage of firms projects

• Organized firms digital material library

Stephen C. O’Connell Center I Crew Member

Gainesville, FL I February 2022 - April 2023

• Event Staff

• Security, ticketing, and customer service for O'Connell Center and other UAA events

• Changeover Staff

• Set up and strike various event layouts

• Clean arena between events

• President's Honor Roll (4.0 GPA)

• University of Florida

• Spring 2020, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023

• Senior Digital Arts and Media Award

• Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School

• 2019

OTHER EXPERIENCE AWARDS SKILLS

• Digital

• Rhino

• Revit

• V-Ray

• Lumion

• Enscape

• Unreal Engine

Coffee Time, LLC I Part Time Employee

Niles, MI I Jan 2015 - August 2020

• Delivery person for businesses in the northern Indiana region

• Created route structures and customer profiles for each delivery day

• Worked in warehouse stocking incoming deliveries

• The Bishop McLaughlin Award

• Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School

• 2019

• Junior Fine Arts Award

• Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School

• 2018

• Photoshop

• Illustrator

• InDesign

• AutoCAD

• Microsoft

• ArcGIS

• Physical

• Drafting

• Modeling

• Sketching

• Soft Skills

• Presentation Skills

• Detail Oriented

• Teamwork + Problem Solving

• Patient

Below: Planar diagram showing “alleyway” concept

OVER-THE-RHINE ORAL HISTORY MUSEUM

Galleries, Gardens, and an Auditorium for an Audible Experience of OTR’s history

Fall 2023 I Architectural Design 9 I Prof. Mara Marcu

In Collaboration with Analise Kandra

Skills Used: Rhino, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop

The Over-the-Rhine Oral History Museum is designed with the audible experience in mind. The project first is generated through a mass, which is bisected by data from the immediate site as well as from distant visual connections. From there, the project was actualized through a series cylinders, each sized to best fit programmatic needs These concepts are showcased in the diagrams on the previous page and below.

From the exterior, the institute has a simple form, a smooth concrete edge aligning with the existing building edges; the only texture comes from the bamboo formwork. The complexities of the interior of the museum are visualized through the series of “alleyways”, semi-porous openings allowing for free movement between the programmatic blocks.

The cylindrical forms on the interior serve as a paradox to the simple exterior. Each cylinder has unique qualities, making them engrossing spaces to inhibit and each with a different audible experience for the stories of former and current OTR residents

These cylindrical forms become even more complex through the addition of sculpture gardens; actualized as spherical forms carved out of the cylinders, allowing for both visual and physical connections between each space. One moves through the project through the series of sculpture gardens, each connecting the cylindrical forms and programs of space.

Auditorium

Cafe

Library

TOP ROW:

Left: Exterior Elevation of 1/4”=1’0” Model

Middle: Exterior Elevation of 1/8”=1’0” Model

Right: Exterior View of 1/8”=1’0” Model

BOTTOM ROW:

Left: View through an alleyway, 1’8”=1’0” Model

Middle: View into Library, 1/4”=1’0” Model

Right: View into Library from Exterior, 1/8”=1’0” Model

CHELSEA INSTITUTE OF ART + DESIGN Campus + Dormitories for College Design Students

Fall 2022 I Architectural Design 7 I Prof. Alfonso Perez-Mendez

In Collaboration with Jordan Parnell

Skills Used: Rhino, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop

Open air atrium connecting buildings on northern block

Campus Green in center of block, protected by buildings

Communal terraces in each shared living area

Individual balconies for each dormitory

Skybridges connecting dormitories

The Chelsea Institute of Art + Design is a college campus designed on two city blocks in Manhattan. The student union becomes the icon of the campus, opening out into the main campus lawn to the south. The union is axially connected to the Manhattan West projects to the north, bridging the campus to the Moynihan Train Hall, the Hudson Yards, and the Highline.

The north block is the campus proper, with the student union, education halls, studios and creative hub all connected via a covered atrium space. The southern block features a recreation center to the west and an event hall to the east, each connected by bridges to the campus. These spaces open into the campus lawn, activating the space, while also protecting it from noise and air pollution from the avenues to the east and west.

As a project for college-aged students, the prototype for the housing is the dormitory. The single-room units are divided into 10 foot wide spaces, with each having its own private bathroom and its own balcony. The dormitories are tied together through student commons, with communal kitchens and living areas. These commons are accompanied by larger outdoor terraces providing easily accessible communal outdoor space, an essential aspect of city life following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The roofs of the project are activated by a series of occupiable skybridges, connecting the various dormitories together. These skyways allow for more private gathering spaces for the students, having large amounts of space set away from the city street.

Render of Atrium with Lecture Hall to the left and Student Union to the right

Render of the interior of the student union

Render of Campus Green with Student Union in Background

CROSSING MANHATTAN

Hotel for Alternative Transportation

Fall 2022 I Architectural Design 7 I Prof. Alfonso Perez-Mendez

In Collaboration with Jordan Parnell

Skills Used: Rhino, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop

Left: Rendered Perspective of Hotel

Above: City Plan highlighting site location

Below: City Section highlighting site location

Our project, "Crossing Manhattan" deals with the phenomenological effects of movement in New York City. To start, we analyzed how our chosen site could serve as an epicenter for the diverse forms of transportation the city has to offer; walking, biking, skating, public transportation, taxis, and cars. Our site is situated directly above the Delancey St/Essex St subway station which provided a unique opportunity to create a subway station incorporated into the ground floor of the hotel as a means of improving the overall negative image New Yorkers have of the subway.

The architecture of the project is also influenced by the experience of "Crossing Manhattan". Just as a New Yorker might experience the contrast between deep shadows cast by the city block to the reflected morning light shining through the streets, our hotel becomes a vertical study of the experience crossing a New York street With a series of open programmatic spaces sandwiched between floors of hotel rooms, the architecture gives a similar experience to that of a typical New York City block. This also serves the purpose of breaking down the scale of the hotel to jibe with its surrounding context. Dividing the hotel into these sections takes inspiration from the tenement houses which once dominated the Lower East Side, but are quickly being displaced.

The programs of our hotel aim to create a feeling of inclusion in an industry that has become increasingly exclusive. ours continues this trend upwards into several floors in the hotel, with a gallery situated in the center of the hotel, and a public bar and restaurant near the top floors, creating a uniquely inclusive experience.

Left I Ground Floor View

Above I Enlarged View of Hotel Exterior Tectonic Systems

PAYNE'S PRAIRIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

T

emporary Research Center for an Archaeologist, Hydrologist, and Apiologist

Fall 2021

I Architectural Design

5 I Prof. Charlie Hailey

Skills Used: Physical Modeling, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

The project is centered on a research facility for three types of scientists; a hydrologist, an archaeologist, and an apiologist. The design features a series of twelve buildings holding various programs, connected via an elevated walkway with overhead shading structures. Each portion of the project has a variation of a porch. In the hydrology space, a screened structure wraps the building. The screen is representative of the screens deployed in the weirs below the building, helping filter the water in the flooded prairie. The archaeology program has a central space used as the site for digging, with an overhead screen which provides shade to the archaeologists while allowing for open airflow. Lastly, the apiology space features a system of overhead louvers and screens, providing shade as one traverses the winding path between buildings.

The project touches the porous landscape lightly. First, the three programs are located along three axes of previously disturbed ground. The apiologist space situates itself along the levee, a major axis in my project. Pivoting off of this major axis are two minor axes. The archaeology space is situated along an infill which was previously used as a creek from nearby Sweetwater wetlands and the hydrology space is situated above a system of weirs, separating two bodies of water. Situating my project along these axes allows for the ground disturbance to be less impactful on the ecology of the prairie. The design also uses a relatively light system of construction common in a nearby boardwalk structure at the Alachua sink. Concrete footings support wooden columns which elevate each of the spaces and limit the amount of intervention imposed directly on the landscape.

North-South Section

Physical Model Aerial Image

A major design parameter of the project was to use the expansion and contraction of space to help frame views of particular elements. Each of these atmospheric collages represents the sequence of views as you move through the itinerary in the project. At the entrance to the project, a vast open view guides visitors eyes to the levee to the east and the hydrologist space in the distance. This space condenses before expanding into an open outdoor teaching center, where view is directed to the sky above and the patch of landscape incorporated into the core of the space. From there the view recondenses before opening out to the west. The boardwalk squeezes by the intersection of two apiology labs before opening back up into a view of the east culminating in an open viewing platform with views to the south.

Walkway with Apiology Office to the right

Outdoor Teaching Center

Walkway with Apiologist Lab in background

Walkway between Apiologist Lab and Incubation Center

Observation Deck

Right Page I Model photo of the entrance sequence to the project. Shows the apiology office on the right side of the image

Bottom I Photo of the outdoor teaching space. The apiology workspace and residence is shown in the background and the gallery is shown on the far left side

Top I Model photo of the outdoor teaching space with the path to the archaeology space outlined

VERTICAL CITY

Study on the Progression of Greed + Madness

Spring 2021 I Architectural Design 4 I Prof. Mark McGlothlin Skills Used: Physical Modeling, Physical Drafting, Diagramming, Photoshop

The “tower” project focused on the principal of dichotomy between two opposing chess players. Shown in the mapping on the right is my dichotomy mapping, unfolding the moves in the legendary chess “game of the century” between Bobby Fischer versus Donald Byrne. The mapping shows how Fischer used sweeping diagonal moves with his bishops pivotal moments such as when he sacrificed his queen in order to win the game. Much like the chess match, my project uses sweeping diagonal moves to envelope the project, similar to the way in which Fischer used them.

Programmatically, the design was meant to convey an Institution for the Corruption of Minds. The project focuses on four spaces within the tower, a space of wonder, a space of deception, a space of judgement, and a space of initiation. The project has an itinerarial structure, with movement upwards signifying the increased levels of corruption in a person.

At the base, the project has several large masses supported by thin columns giving the appearance of floating and cantilevering. These masses are meant to showcase the awe and wonder that brings people into corruption, with the masses ominously signifying power and wealth. Above this, a large gathering “ballroom space” shows the grandiose nature of wealth and its ability to corrupt. On one side of the space, one can see the positive aspects of wealth, however hidden behind screens are spaces in which gambling and other corrupt acts occur, signifying how corruption is veiled and not easy to spot at first glance.

Contained in the central core of the tower is the next phase of the project, the space of judgement. This space precedes initiation and represents the cruel nature of wealth and corruption, and how everyone is not welcome to partake in its shares. Finally, the very top of the project is a space for initiation, with open views out to below. Once atop this space, ones mind is corrupted beyond return as they view out into the openness below.

Dichotomy Mapping I

Analysis of the chess “game of the century”, Fischer vs. Byrne (1956)

Space of Deception

Space of Initiation Tower Midshot

BURLINGTON HOUSE MODELS

Two Models of the Burlington House, one at 1/16”=1’0” and the other at 1/8”=1’0”

Completed while an Intern at Terry Boling Architects; Cincinnati,OH I Summer 2022

1/8”=1’0” Model, unfinished. Living Area and Master Bedroom

1/8”=1’0” Model, unfinished. Living

1/16”=1’0” Model. Southewest View

1/16”=1’0” Model. Southeast View

Living Area, Pool and Studio

1/8”=1’0” Model, unfinished. Master Bedroom and Garage

View 1/16”=1’0” Model. Aerial View

PERSONAL SKETCHES

Sketches of Stadiums, Ballparks, and Arenas

Note: All sketches are original designs except for the top two in the furthest right column

SQUARE

Sketches showing progression of design concept from programmatic sketches, to sectional experiements, to design explorations

Auditorium

Atrium

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