DESIGN PORTFOLIO Z a c h a r y
M c G i l l
2020
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Portfolio 2020
ABOUT I am a fifth-year architecture student at Ball State University currently looking for a graduate architect position to further my architectural career. I have a passion for responsible design and sustainable design methods. I am currently in the process of looking into firms that will be a good fit and will provide me with valuable experience. My resume and portfolio detailing my current work are enclosed for your review and consideration. Moving forward with my career I want to focus on the implementation of sustainable design practices. I plan to become licensed as well as LEED accredited after seeing more work within a firm and hope to work on the leading edge of responsible design initiatives. Through various social justice classes I have also grown an interest in better tailoring projects to those who need them most and working on projects to help those in need. I am very aware of the impact that architecture can have on each person and hope to design works that have positive impacts on the lives of users. My years at Ball State have instilled in me a passion for travel and digital fabrication that have become hobbies as well as aids to my curriculum. Yearly trips through the architecture program have allowed me to visit cities throughout the US and other countries to see exemplar works of architecture. This has translated to personal excursions as well where I am now conditioned to be on the lookout for prominent works wherever I may be. Digital fabrication has become a more recent hobby through the purchase of a 3D printer. This allows me to bring to life some of my more complicated digital models while also providing me with better understanding of scale and material tectonics.
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Zachary E. McGill 1816. W. Bethel Ave. Muncie, IN 47304 Portfolio Online
Awards / Honors Cohen Peace Conference 2020 Deans List 2015 - 2019 Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society nomination 2018 Lavelda M. Goble Scholarship 2015
1-(812)-798-5810 zemcgill@bsu.edu https://issuu.com/zemcgill
Professional Summary Hard working, detail-oriented senior, studing architecture at Ball State University. Seeking graduate architect position to further my architecture career. Qualifications include Bachelor of Architecture Degree, internship experience, knowledge of various design software, graphic design, model making, 3D printing, and time management.
Education Computer Skills Revit
Adobe Suit
Enscape
V-Ray
Rhino
Lumion
Sketch-Up
Microsoft Office
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (August 2015 - May2020) Bachelor of Science in Architecture Minor in Sustainability GPA 3.8/4.0
Work Experience krM Architecture, Anderson, IN Architecture Intern - Covered an array of daily proceedings. Participated in the design of education, residential, religious, and public works projects.
References Mike Montgomery President of krM Architecture mmontgomery@krmarchitecture.com Kristin Barry Architecture Professor kmbarry@bsu.edu
Architecture Library, Muncie, IN Library student assistant - Assist patrons and keep library orderly. During this time I was available to answer software questions and move books through the various stages of processing.
Community Involvement Second Harvest Food Bank, Feb. - Apr. 2018 Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society in Architecture, 2018 Walk a Mile in My Shoes, Feb. 2017 Tiny House Immersive Learning, Jan. - May 2017
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krM Internship Alhuda
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Secondary Succession
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krM Internship Polytech
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01. New Architecture Building Date: Location:
December 2017 Ball State University
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Design a new architecture building that acts as a supplement to the current student center becoming a hub for student activity and cross departmental creativity. This project works to celebrate circulation while giving the building life through its aggressive interpretation of motion. Circulation is often hidden and buildings are set in foundations that keep structures static. This building counters the status quo by moving the circulation to the outside of the building and using a form that denotes motion. The design itself radiates outward from a central point. In plan, the building radiates outward from its south entrance. In section however, the form comes from a falling vertical axis that gains speed as it falls. The circulation is then set in this motion and carried forward by the wave of the building. From the Northern entrance, the building expands outward visually gaining design ques from an explosion, or a glacier. It is meant to visually translate that it could continue moving forward at any moment.
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New Architecture Building
McKinley Ave. Perspective
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Interior Perspective New Architecture Building
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North South Section
The first floor features a large atrium space. This space will become a thoroughfare for students as they cross from the new dorms into the heart of campus. It will also hold high volumes of traffic during the winter. The west wall of the atrium holds a maker space that faces the atrium and cafĂŠ. This shows visitors the type of projects going on in the school and provides an opportunity for people watching. The east wall houses meeting spaces that can be rented as well as a lounge.
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The second and third floor consist of studios and walkways that open to both the atrium and the outside. These walkways hold student projects that will be on display for the whole building. The studios are off to the far north and open on all sides to the surrounding campus. Those passing by outside the building will be able to see the architecture students at work during the day and into the night, giving the building a sense of life regardless of the time.
New Architecture Building
The section shows how the vertical circulation spaces interact. The first floor has three streams of traffic flowing through the atrium space. Entering from the south side, students can immediately head up to the second and third floor studios using the main grand staircase. The East and West circulation allow students to view atrium commotion or the street and rest of campus as they walk to studio. In reverse, those on the first floor are able to see students heading to class, or pinning up projects while eating at the cafĂŠ, or moving through the space.
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02. krM Internship - Alhuda Date: Location:
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July 2019 Fishers, Indiana
Member of the design team for the new place of worship for the Al-Huda Mosque in Fishers, Indiana. The Alhuda Mosque project was introduced to me further on in its design development stages. I had the role of working on redlines, participating in client meetings, and working on facade changes. This project reflects the kind of work I participated in. I had the pleasure of being part of a number of design teams for a number of project types while at krM. higher ed, K-12, library, healthcare, and religious markets to name a few. With each of these project types I worked on design teams ranging from 2 to 8 people in which I went to client meetings, visited job sites, worked on schematic design, worked on red lines, created site plans, and reviewed submittals among other increments in the design phases. From projects like the one shown, I gained experience in a firm’s daily proceedings and the architect’s role in the design process and administration.
Gary Site Plan
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krM Internship - Alhuda
On the exterior of the project, the client was still deciding on the color and facade they wanted to stick with. As such, I was tasked with putting together a color study to help visualize the selection of certain colors. The first color study looks to the traditional color scheme used for mosques while working to make it appear a bit warmer in tone. The second study focuses entirely on the traditional white walls with a darker base to ground the building. Lastly the third set turned to a tri-color scheme using less traditional colors to investigate an outside traditional approach.
While on the project I worked on a design team of approximately six total interior designers and architects. I started in the final stages of design development in which there were some changes made that required more staff be brought onto the project. I started by working on the daily flow of people into the worship space in which it is required that men and women have separate entrances with space to remove their shoes and store belongings. This required storage for approximately 1,500 pairs of shoes in the morning. We went through a number of iterations of how each space could best function with that amount of storage accounted for. We came up with a storage system that would allow for shoes, a place for coats, and seating built in.
krM Internship - Alhuda
This project was the first of its kind for krM. They had done places of worship in the past but had not yet worked on a mosque. As such it had a learning curve associated with it that was exciting to be a part of. Throughout the design there were meetings educating the team as well as the firm about the expectations for a mosque as well as the etiquette expected for in person meetings and cultural differences. One such meeting discussed the fact that no floor finishes could be used that implemented a cross in any way. That included + and x shapes. We spent a portion of the morning meeting coming up with patterns that could be used that didn’t included crosses. Even the standard grout joints were considered taboo.
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Date: Location:
April 2020 Washington, DC
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Can a system of Urban Scavengers be created within the architecture field to support an economy centered around reusing buildings at end of life, and in return, reducing demolition waste?. Annually, construction waste is generated at more than twice the rate of municipal solid waste. This is largely due to the lack of infrastructure that would make recycling buildings more accessible and affordable. This thesis sets out to make recycled buildings more efficient, economic, and accessible through an open catalogue of available materials and strategy for reuse.
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The final production for the project is a community center constructed using recycled building materials from three brutalist buildings in surrounding college campuses. Success for the project can be measured in its feasibility, percentage of reused material, positive community impact, and ability to be a reuse system implemented nationwide. Design a new community center using a material registry comprised of recycled materials harvested from decommissioned brutalist buildings on university campuses.
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Fifth-Year Thesis
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Partially established register for trees along street
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This render shows the green metal plates taken from the School of Foreign Service which are repurposed as the cladding for the auditorium. They are further used in the separated south wall in which they become a perforated metal panel system.
South West Perspective Community Garden McGill 10
Plant Retail Space Fifth-Year Thesis
Bike storage and Studios
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School of School of School of Butler Pavilion Foreign Service Foreign Service Foreign Service Marvin Center Marvin Center Marvin Center Butler Pavilion Butler Pavilion From the Marvin Center glazing and concrete will be salvaged along with interior finishes, gypsum, stud walls, ceiling grid, mullions, and doors. While windows will be directly recycled, the majority of interior finishes will be ground and repurposed.
Butler Pavilion provides the clerestory window that becomes a centerpiece for the project. Strip windows, storefront mullions, and frames are also pulled from the project as well as concrete which can be ground into more aggregate for future concrete. Fifth-Year Thesis
School of Foreign Service provides all the brick used in the project. As a massive building it has more than enough to offer. The building also features a green paneling system that will be reused as well as a number of windows that will be repurposed or directly reused. McGill 11
From the South East the clerestory window is visible. This centerpiece for the building is pulled from the Butler Pavilion. Site alterations can also be seen in which outdoor seating is fashioned using unused stone from Indiana stone quarries.
South East Perspective Spatial Connection Study McGill 12
Fifth-Year Thesis
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South Entrance Fifth-Year Thesis
Exterior Walkway Exploded Axon McGill 13
Community Garden McGill 14
Plant Retail Space Fifth-Year Thesis
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04. Secondary Succession Date: Location:
May 2018 Gary, Indiana
Design a new train station for Gary Indiana taking into consideration the rich history, current political climate, and potential future that the site present.
Gary Site Plan
This project is centered around the idea of secondary succession, which is defined as a process started by an event that reduces an already established ecosystem to a smaller population of species. Gary, Indiana, a once progressive industrial hub grew to become the largest steel producer in the country. It has since fallen out of its position and is now in a state of regrowth after a detrimental recession, major population loss, and rise in crime rates and vandalism. Rapid immediate expansion of the steel giant created a landscape void of its once plentiful hardwood forests. The recession of Gary however has allowed in new light to let life heal and begin anew. Design for this train station takes the destruction of the hardwood forest, and the dilapidation of a once giant city, and translates it into a station that is figuratively stitching itself back together and growing once again.
First Floorplan McGill 16
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Aerial Perspective Secondary Succession
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Section Perspective
Crumbling buildings across Gary are now a history lesson of past victory in industry, and a once thriving ecosystem. While I don’t set out to romanticize the conditions of Gary, there is a sense of empowerment to be found in the healing currently taking place. As the building reaches upward, it stitches back together the pieces of fragmented roof, leaving enough space in between to see the fracture that would have initially existed. A feeling of brokenness yet unification is achieved as the colonnade restores the design to something better than what it once was. Program, natural light, ventilation, direction, and spacing are all derivatives of the structural statement
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The program for this project takes the traditional train station and elevates it to a community center. The curved form was established as an easy drop-off and pick up for buses and visitors to the train station. When entering, the first sight is an expansive window that shows the trains traveling through the station. The main entry features a display area for local art and sculptures that can be switched out. For those waiting, small shops and sundries are located off the entrance next to a waiting area.
Secondary Succession
All spaces are located along the central column spine that allows in light, and acts as an organizing principle. Along the column spine are twelve shops that allow visitors to meander through the building as they wait. On the West side of the building are two restaurants able to be used after hours and become a farmer’s market on weekend mornings. The second floor houses a daycare for families within the community. The East end of the building houses administration and offices overlooking the atrium.
Entrance Elevation
Structural Detail
Systems Diagram
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Site Location BSU Campus
Eco District Date: Location:
December 2019 Muncie, Indiana
Use the intersection of various community building programmatic components to revive an otherwise empty area of Muncie in the hopes of establishing an EcoDistrict. This project sets out to establish an Ecoblock within Muncie as a catalyst for the future development of an EcoDistrict. Housing, makerspaces, community gardens, and bike rental all come together under the influence of net positive design practices in order to establish a future case study for an ecoblock. Success can be measured through its adaptability, design for resilience, sustainable design practices, and standard to which the various mix-use programs are met. The building is mixed use, designed with four main nodes of activity that work together to move people through the building. Where people’s paths cross is where spaces for gathering or intrigue appear. The buildings program all comes together with the hopes of revitalizing an otherwise dying area just outside campus. A steady layering of public and private zones within the building allow for constant interaction of differing people groups in the hopes of garnering a better since of community.
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Eco District
Aerial Perspective Eco District
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Bike Rental
Maker Space
Community Studio
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Relationships Relationships
Ordering Principles Ordering Principles
Model 2 Nodes Nodes Nodes West Lumination West Lumination West Lumination
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Mall MallMall Effect Effect Effect
Hierarchy Hierarchy Hierarchy
Material Material Connection Connection Material Connection
Datum Datum Datum Movement Movement Movement
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Carbon Carbon Carbon Sink SinkSink
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An eco district is created under the pretense of neighborhood for all. It is designed to be embedded with values of resilience and sustainability that can be seen in the design and function of the district. The idea is that by providing a self sufficient and strong neighborhood you establish the foot holds to then grow a resilient and sustainable city. Ideas of social equity, diverse inclusion, ecological health, and economic opportunity are brought together to create people groups with a better understanding of their roles within a community and to each other. This project works off the ideas of the EcoDistrict Protocol providing a place to live, grow, work, create, and socialize as a catalyst for future development.
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The buildings main focus is to promote the crossing of paths and the formation of connections within people groups. Two makerspaces are incorporated into the design. The second floor makerspace operates as a live-work makerspace where those living within the apartments are given private access. Directly below this space is the bike retail and rental. This solves two issues as there was once a bike store on this site that is now sorely missed, and its presence will help reduce the need to have cars on campus. The first floor also features the community makerspace. This space is open to the public and is showcased to those passing through to create visual intrigue. Connecting the four zones together is a social space featuring a large social stair, cafĂŠ, and landings for students to stop and chat, study or eat.
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North - South Section
Community Garden McGill 26
Plant Retail Space Eco District
Bike storage and Studios
East West Section
Outdoor Eating Space
Residential Space Eco District
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Outside of the four nodes of activity there are programs incorporated into the project to further garner a since of community. One of which being the large community garden and plant retail. The project came with a stipulation that fifty percent of the site must be turned into a carbon sink. A portion of that carbon sink has been converted into a community garden space with the rest being a mix of deciduous trees. The community gardens are open to the public and are modeled after some gardens around Muncie that have already seen success. For all year produce, an enclosed terraced growing space has been built beneath the residential block in an area that would have otherwise been deemed as a dead space. This space is also open to the public and allows the growing aspect of the project to bring in the public regardless of season. There is also a brewery directly below the apartment block raised above. The brewery is placed with the hopes that it will create a “mall effect� with the bars at the end of the Village, an area just off campus that has seen a decline in recent years. The bars and brewery act as two pinpoints along a line of smaller shops drawing students back and forth between the two endpoints in the hopes that it will bring more activity to the stores along the way. Below the brewery is an arcade that is directly linked with the terraced growing space. This prompts a flow of people throughout each of the different offerings the project has while also building up the night life of campus.
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Eco District
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krM Internship - Polytech Date: Location:
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June 2019 Anderson, Indiana
Partner with Purdue Polytechnic Institute immersive learning program to envision an educational facility featuring manufacture space as a teaching avenue. This project was the product of a partnership with krM and an immersive learning program at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute at Anderson. They had recently finished construction on their new facility and were looking at the possibility of expanding through the creation of a small manufacturing facility to give their students a hands on approach to design. The immersive learning students working on putting together the presentation package and list of benefits while krM was asked to put together an initial schematic design.
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I worked on the overall form, program layout, the initial renders that were sent to the students, and then presented the building to the instructor and students working on the project. This project allowed me to get more familiar with enscape in revit, while also giving me the opportunity to present the work to a potential client.
Final Model
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View From Road krM Internship - Polytech
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W. Pershing Rd.
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December 2018 Chicago, Illinois
Design a building for 2050 that revitalizes the Chicago Stockyard and combines methods of urban agriculture with a future social issue or people group. The stockyard project is a revitalization project looking to improve the state of a large leftover agricultural and industrial zone within Chicago known as the stockyard. Chicago became the largest meat packaging site in the world for around a century. During which the work conditions of the stockyard became known nationwide as being arduous and often times dangerous with many workers losing their lives in the process either by exhaustion or by hazards. Today the Stockyard is a patchwork of industrial sites with empty lots filling the gaps.
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Site Context Map Site Context Map
There has been a surge in some start-up companies however that are now focusing on less impactful and more sustainable ways of growing produce. This project looks to follow in the footsteps of these companies and design a building that merges agriculture with a specific social issue or specific people group in the hopes of creating a synergy between the two.
Site Plan Site Plan
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S. Halstead St.
S. Ashland Ave.
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Stockyard Project
The program for this project takes it from a train The timeline for this project starts twenty to thirty years in the future where we will begin to see more readily the effects of global climate change. The select people group is climate migrants displaced by a combination of rising sea levels, and the migration of people to larger cities which are most often situated along the cost. Chicago fits in with this narrative very well as it has long been identified as a sanctuary city, accepting immigrants regardless of background and ensuring open arms to those who seek refuge. Chicago is also located in a location of specific interest as it is expected to be one of the largest cities to see very little impact from the effects of climate change due to the great lakes and the climate models that currently exist.
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The design for the building consists of two parts. The first is a structural base that houses administrative function, as well as daily amenities. The second is the living units making use of shipping containers. The building works as one automated system constantly monitoring the amount of sunlight and rain that can be collected at a given time. Living units are then able to slide along their rails in order to better gather the needed resources. Each unit is fitted with growing spaces and produce is harvested on a rotating schedule. The money made from the produce along with the automation of the building allows migrants to get a cut on their living expenses while also providing them with time to go out and seek occupation.
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Photovoltaic Shingles 5/8” Plywood Sheathing Tripple Pane Windows Water Collection Diagram Collected Water Stream
Filtered Water Stream
Corrugated High Durability Metal Siding Exterior Window Planter Box with Irrigation 2” Rigid Insulation Vapor Barrier 2” x 6” Metal Stud Wall Assembly
Interior Section Perspective Dual Purpose Storage and Irrigated Planting Shelves
Ample Height for Optional Loft Area
Batt Insulation 5/8” OSB Sheathing
Interior Section Perspective Main Irrigated Planting Shelves
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Stockyard Project
Spatial Connection Study Stockyard Project
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