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938 Virginia AvenueLancaster

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08/04/1991

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James Hale Steinman Memorial Scholarship $ 5,000

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Lancaster PA 17603

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Patrick McMinn938 Virginia AveLancaster, PA 17603PMcMinn@VT.edu717.799.2754

Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA(Fall 2010 - Present)

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Oversaw all fundraising, sponsorship, and public relations efforts while working with Virginia Tech and the Office of Event Planning to create a new charitible event, benefitting our regional Children’s Miracle Network hospital.

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University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN

TU Delft: Delft, Netherlands

Tongji University: Hangzhou, China

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von Weise AssociatesSolomon, Cordwell, BuenzJAHN

DesignIntelligence: Into the World by Way of the CityThe Virginia Tech Chicago Studio Programhttp://www.di.net/articles/into-the-world-by-way-of-the-city/

One of two Co-Directors overseeing Virginia Tech’ssecond annual Dance Marathon and its 52 volunteers. This year’s event saw a growth over the inaugural event in both attendance as well as total funds raised, donating $8,532 to Roanoke’s Carilion Clinic Children’s Hospital.

As an architectural intern, I worked on several addition and renovation projects around Central Pennsylvania. Early phase responsibilities included meetings with clients, and the measuring, recording, and drawing of existing conditions. Later phase responsibilities included drafting of construction documents and coordinating with relevent product and technical consultants.

The Chicago Studio transplants students directly into the workings of one of four host firms in order to inspire collaboration between professionals and students. The result is a level of dialog and integration that benefits the students, the firms, the work, and the city of Chicago. The semester consists of an internship at a host-firm as well as an architectural proposal developed by the students and critiqued by many members of Chicago’s architectural and governmental communities.

Responsibilities included preparing submittals for two LEED projects, developing a RFP for a major hotel chain, and composing AIA competition entries.

G | R | E | C ArchitectsVirginia Tech Chicago Studio, Spring 2014w/ SOM, Cannon Design, von Weise Associates

Tippetts/Weaver ArchitectsLancaster, PAMay-August 2014

++ References/Full Portfolio Available Upon Request

Affiliations

Participated in 3 day Workshop/Charette

Patrick McMinn938 Virginia AveLancaster, PA 17603PMcMinn@VT.edu717.799.2754

I chose to pursue architecture because I thought it would be one of the few professions that could hold my attention for a long period of time. I am curious and love to learn, so a field that required constant investigation, especially after graduation, was a must. My curiosities and interests are wide ranging, and architecture’s ability to apply other fields of knowledge to the creation of a built work excites me. While the field is freeing in its breadth, I most enjoy the restrictions it offers. Each project is a study of what can, must, cannot, should, and ultimately will be done. Functionality, safety, accessibility, aesthetics, budget, and context all present unique pressures on each project, ensuring that no two present the same problem. I hope that this inherent variability will help to keep my work fresh and exciting. The overall impact of the built environment on people and their communities is another factor that continues to drive my interest in all scales of architectural thinking. We, or our clients, are forced to live with, in, and around the things we create. Architecture has to power to instill people with a sense of identity or pride in where they live and has a big impact on how countries, cities, and cultures are perceived. Every day we see proof of both good and poor design as well as how design decisions can impact so people’s everyday lives. I enjoy experiencing new places and thinking about how scale, density, material, and other architectural qualities affect the way I feel and act. I believe that interacting with the world around us is essential to creating successful places for people to inhabit in different ways. So far, my experiences have allowed me to see how people live in several different countries, how architecture is taught at the university level in southwest Virginia, how a medium-sized firm goes about completing large projects around the world, and now how a small firm in Lancaster takes care to build community and relationships in addition to their smaller scale projects. Currently, I am also studying for the LEED exam as well as conducting preliminary studies for my 5th year thesis project. I am very much looking forward to having a full school year to use 45 acres in Chicago to test my ideas about the challenges facing the future of American urban architecture. My study will focus on the site of the recently closed Fisk Generating Station, located southwest of Chicago’s central Loop and adjacent to the Hispanic neighborhood of Pilsen. Fisk’s closure was imminent due to more stringent environmental regulations and relentless pressure from Pilsen’s environmental rights and reform group (PERRO). Many industrial sites such as this one will face the same fate in the coming decades as our cities begin to deindustrialize or reindustrialize in new ways. Treatment of these vestigial remnants of industry will have enormous impact on their cities. We can either let them lay dormant as scars from our past or we can choose to utilize them in ways useful to the urban fabric. Ideally, as we become more environmentally conscious, the complexity that makes our cities great can begin to make its way into the areas in which we work. I am spending my year postulating about what that process might look like. As of yet I have no specific plans after graduation, only to continue doing what interests me. I will continually seek new experiences in life and go wherever I can learn the most. Right out of school, I see myslef working on smaller scale projects in order to learn more about how buildings are built in atypical, non-textbook situations. At some point, I would also like to work on larger projects and experience how a large firm operates. Large projects seem to be the most difficult to do well and I am very interested in the additional problems and issues that are associated with jumping up in scale. I do not mind lacking a rigid career plan at this point since I do not yet know all the opportunities that are out there. I do know that I have plenty of ambition, and am confident that as long as I give my maximum effort to work that I find inspiring, I am on the right track.

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The forest surrounding the Warm Spring Mountain Reserve are a part of a fire dependent ecosystem. Facilitated by humans, parts of the forest are burned every three to five years. The Visitors Center is an architecture of event. It consists of stacked masses culminating in a continually burning flame. A fire keeper retrieves the flame and descends from the tower when the need presents itself. The everyday user has the ability to ascend and descend the tower, the outlying view revealing itself along the way. This new perspective provides the opportunity for the user to appreciate the fragility of the ecosystem in concert with its dependency on the flame. The tower stands as a beacon of permanent event in an ever-changing environment.

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Patrick McMinnVisitor Center, Bath County, VirginiaWeek-Long CompetitionHonorable Mention

This new Visitor’s Center for the Warm Springs Mountain Preserve in Bath County, Virginia serves as a monument to inspire reverence for natural systems. The site is located on the top of a mountain ridge-line which cyclically burns to support its ecosystem. The Visitor’s Center’s design minimizes its footprint to protect the site’s scenic views. The building reminds visitors of the importance of fire to the surrounding ecosystem by fully expressing the egress stairs on the exterior of the building and illuminating the site with its flame beacon.

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Patrick McMinnTrain Station, Charlottesville, VA

Phase one of the efforts to expand and reenvision the site which houses the Charlottesville Amtrak Station focuses on activating the entire site through program, form, and site planning. A series of pe-destrian friendly terraces provides a social anchor midway between the University and downtown.

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Kitchen550 SF

Dry Storage300 SF

Dining Room/Bar1500 SF

Bathroom150 SF

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Patrick McMinnBluegrass Community CenterBedford, Virginia

The Bluegrass Community Center places a focus on flexible program-ming to accomidate musicians looking to practice, perform, or play their music socially. The lobby space can double as a large performance hall or a display space when necessary with plenty of space for an audience on the walkways above. Outdoor spaces are shaped by the natural slope while providing a variety of multi-functional porches..

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