jason mcmillan architecture + design portfolio
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Fall 2015. A collection of works from my personal pursuits, academic endeavours and professional work. Thank you for taking the time to have a look!TRANSCRIPT
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scaleArchitecture / Design Portfolio
Jason McMillan
Volume 04 /Fall 2015
Maritime
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308m312m
316m
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320m
324m
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312m 31
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304m
30om
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306m
Reservoir
Rehabilitated Wetlands
Boreal
Coastal
Prairie
Tundra
Temperate
Existing RehabilitatedLandscape
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01 / Curriculum Vitae
02 / Strata City
04 / Marseille URM ( for ECDM)
08 / Indigenous Ecosystems
12 / Preserving Pyramiden
14 / Tectonic Morphologies
16 / Cambridge Common
22 / Migrating Markets
24 / Rocky Ridge Recreation Centre (GEC Architecture)
CONTENTS
.xls.doc .pptx
model lead ink
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.ai.psd .indd .prproj .aep
.nc CNC
CAM, CNC, Laser Cutter
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ECDMInternMay 2015 - September 2015
Competition work, conceptual design, maquettes, digital modeling, presentation drawings.
Urban Strategies Inc.Design InternSeptember 2014- December 2014
Urban design and planning, diagramming, photomontages, presentations, promotional videos.
MUSE the Play Producer May 2014 - August 2014
Managing the production of a full theatrical work over 10 weeks. Managing a 70 member team of designers, actors/actresses and writers.
GEC ArchitectureArchitectural AssistantJanuary 2014- April 2014
Constructing physical presentation models, working on design drawings and digital models.
University of WaterlooFederation Orientation Committee
November 2013- October 2014
Planning and implementing University of Waterloo Orientation Week at the School of Architecture.`
University of Waterloo School of Architecture
September 2012 - Present
OAA Second Year Award (2015)
Waterloo Architecture Building Construction Award
First in Class Engineering Scholarship (Winter 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
Deans Honours List (2012, 2013, 2014)
President’s Scholarship of Distinction (2012)
jmmcmillan.com
My name is Jason McMillan and I am a third year architecture student at the University of Waterloo. I am always looking to learn and explore with anyone anywhere, and this is a goal that I carry with me everywhere.
Relationships which we create with place in architecture interest me, and how interventions can grow from the site.
My belief lies in integrated design, spanning many mediums and embracing feedback in the process.
Thank you for reviewing my work.
Cheers,
Jason McMillan
Candidate for BASUniversity of Waterloo
Adobe Creative Suite
Autodesk AutoCAD and Revit
Manual Skills
Office
Rhinoceros, Sketchup, Vray
WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
TECHNICALSKILLS
HELLO,
CONTACTINFO
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Cut away axonometric of the project and the proposal for the adjacent park (Ink on mylar).
For ARCH 392 Design Studio V coordinated by Phillip Beasley.
Liberty village stands at the edge of Toronto’s increasingly dense downtown core, and will W be intensified from it’s current small scale industrial uses. To the east of the site is an ever expanding field of point towers, while to the west exists low industrial buildings which are now adopted by Toronto’s creative class.
The strategy of STRATA CITY is adopted from the existing city fabric in the historic quarters of Toronto. The emphasis of circulation hierarchies throughout the site sets the framework for the massing strategy of six narrow slab buildings. The tower sits on the eastern edge, introducing a new level of density to the existing fabric of one to seven floors, while the low-rise slabs are placed to the west, relieving the corner which is surrounded by condominium towers.
The buildings maintain the porosity of the built fabric towards Lake Ontario, allowing the public to filter through the site and encourage further development towards the waters edge.
STRATACITY
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Left: Études maquettes ( foam, 1-200).
Top right: Études maquettes ( foam, 1-200).
Bottom right: Massing studies ( foam, 1-500).
With ECDM in Paris, France
URM is a new technical university at the heart of Marseille’s ambitious master-plan to revitalize the cities waterfront the a ‘parc habitant’. The challenges posed by the competition are the combination of community and university programmes which interface both with the remnants of the existing fabric and the projected development.
Through rapid maquette studies at both city and building scales, the form of the project evolved into the site, taking feedback from existing and projected constraints. At 1:200, the maquette was used to test each iteration, allowing us to test organization, circulation and daylighting.
The project contains all of the programmes of a functioning academic building, along with a shared library, public gymnasium and exercise facilities and a restaurant.
ECDMMARSEILLE URM
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Left: Plan masse (AutoCAD, Illustrator)
Top left: Axonometric of the proposed buildings (ECDM left, Remy Marciano right) (Sketchup, AutoCAD, Illustrator)
Bottom left: Ground floor axonometric of the ECDM building (Sketchup, AutoCAD, Illustrator)
These programmes are organized as visible blocks, expressed on the facade, allowing each programme to showcase it’s activity, creating accessible public spaces which may not be at grade.
The main entrances of both buildings are generous halls which open onto the boulevard, linking the new campus into the tram and bus networks of Marseille.
While separated by a street, both buildings in the master-plan have gardens which open to each other, welcoming students to cross the street from classes to have lunch or use the sport field.
The project is situated at a hinge-point, between two master-plans, and the intensity of the mixed programme will fuse the two areas of development together.
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Left: Site plan of the rehabilitated Milton Quarry (ink on mylar, Illustrator and Photoshop)
For ARCH 293 Design Studio IV coordinated by Lola Sheppard.
The site is currently an active dolostone quarry to the north-west of Milton along the Niagara Escarpment that will need to be rehabilitated, which has already begun on the southern tip of the site.
The 20 metre quarry face bounds the garden, which is divided into five regions for the five major ecozones in Canada. A central path and a irrigation watercourse form the spine of the site, which is bordered by a synoptic garden containing the vast variety of food producing plants.
Surrounding the curated garden is agricultural landscape, which matches the regions soil conditions and properties, creating a productive space within the garden that is still public. Stretching out across the site to the west the landscape dissolves into wildness. Through control of moisture and very specific soil cross sections, the environments can be nearly duplicated in each region.
Maritime
304m
308m312m
316m
316m
316m
320m
324m
308m
312m 31
6m
304m
300m
304m
306m
Reservoir
Rehabilitated Wetlands
Boreal
Coastal
Prairie
Tundra
Temperate
Existing RehabilitatedLandscape
INDIGENOUSECOSYSTEMS
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Top: conceptual landscape collage showing active interaction with a wild landscape (mixed media).
Above: conceptual collage looking onto the site from the Bruce Trail Lookout (mixed media).
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Top: South east elevation of the building located in the Tundra re-gion of the garden (ink on mylar)
Right: Section through the Tun-dra Region building. The harvest-ing, processing and storage spaces on the lower levels cross the main circulation path of the site (ink on mylar)
Bottom: West elevation of the building in the Temperate region of the garden. The lower arm meets the stream for the harvesting of wild rice (ink on mylar)
Each region contains a building along the main circulation spine containing the production and logistic facilities of the garden and also its public and cultural elements.
The lower level contains all of the spaces for harvesting and storing the produced food, and as it crosses the main path allows the public to interface with the gardens productive functions.
On the upper levels is the garden café, kitchen, galleries and educational spaces which look out across the entire garden through the shuttered facade.
The garden is intended reconnect visitors to food sources, and while exporting crops, it also exports the knowledge of growing food to an increasingly urban society.
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Pyramiden’s current state as a tourist destination promotes the treatment of the town as a museum, Preserving the existing architecture as objects leaves the site a suspended artefact, without context - an anachronism in a changing landscape.
The Baths are the first step of introducing new life, formed as pods of light and programme dispersed throughout the town of ruins, acting as beacons in the landscape. The intervals of hot and cold create a sensory engagement with the site, drawing on the concept of Scandinavian baths, the utopian ideal of Pyramiden, and the recreational facilities the town once offered.
In introducing another layer of infrastructure that adds to the existing built forms, the Baths work to dissolve the cultural barriers traditionally associated in preservation by activating the liminal spaces that exist within the ruins. They promoting active occupation of the baths and creation of memories – new among old, in Pyramiden.
The proposition is a rejection of monumentality - a rejection of reconstruction - and a rejection of experiencing the past as an image suspended in time. The introduction of a layer of active participation among existing ruins attempts to catalyze cultural sedimentation in Pyramiden. By embracing the present strata of landscape, built form and culture, and beginning to metabolize it into something new, life may return, as a recapitulation of its past looking forward.
PRESERVING PYRAMIDEN
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Top: Render of the intervention in the abandoned pool house, leading to the new Baths (Rhino, Vray).
Left: Connection of the new baths to the existing and abandoned structure (Rhino, Illustrator).
With James Clark-Hicks and Anna Longrigg
For 120 Hours 2015 (Competition)
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Opposite: photograph of the figure’s back
With Tomas Masidlauskas and Andrew Kenny
For ARCH 285 Digital Fabrication coordinated by Steven Beites
Digital tools in design, as they monopolize the design process, are only as powerful as our knowledge of their capabilities. This project was an exploration into the abstraction of modelling and fabrication, which resulted in a small scale screen intervention.
Commencing with an abstract image, our team, through both Rhino and T-Splines, set out to model a surface inspired by that image. These two modeling tools allowed us to seamlessly switch between the advantages of both NURBS and polygonal modelling strategies.
As we worked through iterations of the model we constantly prototyped, adding RhinoCAM into our design vocabulary. We prototyped both surfaces and modules to develop the design.
The latest surface (seen left) is a combination of pure modelling in Rhino combined with tool-pass manipulation of the CNC machine to create textures and features that would have otherwise been difficult to model.
TECTONIC MORPHOLOGIES
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Top: Milled moulds for testing of modules. We discovered the limitations of casting in the foam, as the destroyed moulds can attest to (CNC mill, plaster)
Above: Milling the full surface. By manipulating the toolpaths and cut depths in RhinoCAM, we were able to create textural effects that would otherwise be difficult to model (CNC mill, foam).
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Left: Night photograph of the light-ed site model (acrylic, foamcore, museum board, plexi, taken with Nikon D3100)
For ARCH 292 Design Studio III coordinated by Adrian Blackwell
The ‘Cambridge Common’ is about the idea of a commons and the role it can play in the community of Galt. It also questions the role that public spaces play in a community.
The public sphere is suspended between the market and the state. Both encroach on its fringes but neither can control it; for the public realm is the stage where action takes place in contrast to the distraction of everyday life.
The project takes the place of a parking lot in the centre of a historic block, and replaces it with a community centre focused on a community garden.
The City already recognizes the re-development of its downtown core requires ambitious public building projects, however the common stays hidden within the existing built fabric, matching roof heights and providing a local node for public assembly.
CAMBRIDGECOMMON
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Top: west section showing the community dining room and gardening centre
Above: east section showing underground bath and theatre. (Steel screen, basswood, foamcore, museum board, plexi)
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The approach to the project is a kind of acupunctural urbanism.
[1] The building continues the defined street face of Dickson Street while [2] promoting connectivity to the public spaces [3] defined by the built form.
The public spaces are woven into the existing fabric of the city, taking a space that was the distraction of a parking lot and bringing it back into consciousness. The action that takes place is something that is out of sight in cities, from the rare back garden to the community gardens in the Lower East Side of New York City. Galt Sharecropper thrusts the ideas and questions of growing, cooking and eating food into the public sphere.
Top left: the community garden (mixed media)
Top centre: site plan (pen on mylar)
Top right: second floor plan (ink on mylar)
Bottom: site section (ink on mylar)
Next spread: Night photograph of the Dickson street elevation (steel screen, basswood, foamcore, museum board)
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ELIXIR BISTRORETAIL
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THEATRE
GARDEN
DICKSON STREET DICKSON STREET
THEATRE
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Above: rendering of the market aisle (Rhino, Vray, Photoshop). Right: dia-grammatic renders showing arrange-ments (Rhino, Vray).
For SSEF Architectural Design Com-petition with Justyna Maleszyk.
For ARCH 173 coordinated by Terri Meyer Boake
MIGRATING MARKETS
The theme of the competition was a reinterpretation of Vitruvius’ three pillars of architecture (utility, durability and beauty) as light, quick and cheap; the goal is a kind of pop-up architecture.
To participate in the market, the merchant first needs goods, and then a stall. This investigation led to adaptable stalls that can combine to meet the needs of both large and small vendors alike. In developing a simple kit of parts of steel angles, corrugated panels and tension reinforcement, the stalls will be cheap and light while remaining durable, able to create an inviting market environment.
The individual stalls open, close and can be arranged informally to create the alleys and aisles of the market. The stalls become the building blocks of the urban space, defining boundaries, portals and spaces.
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Left: Close up of the model (mill-board, card, laser cut basswood)
With GEC Architecture in Calgary, Alberta
Rocky Ridge Recreation Centre is at the very fringe of Calgary’s north-west corner. Pinched between and existing wetland and a natural hill, the building took a form that was unusual to the suburban areas to the south. The purpose of the model was to present the complete building to the public and community association of Rocky Ridge.
A model is the best way to present the concept of the entire project, and the exposition of the beams and an abstracted interior was essential in conveying the raised concourse level and structure.
Building the model in site allows the true scale of the building to become apparent, and gives one an idea of what it will be like to experience the levels and the one and a half metre glu-lam beams that span the entire building.
GEC ROCKY RIDGE
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Top: south view of the model.Above: north-west view of the mod-el.
Next page: West close-up of the model.
Final page: ECDM model shop
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