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james mcdowall

portfolio of workJames I. McDowall

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phone: +1 626 205 8769email: james@jamesmcd.comwebsite: www.jamesmcd.com

ContentsSIGNIFICANT DESIGN PROJECTS

Tidal Flow: Monastery, Bowen Hills, Queensland | 2009 . . . . 4 - 9

Aquatic Fissure: Storm-water Treatment Facility, Berkeley, CA | 2010 . . 10 - 13

Artificial Topography: Center for Collaborative Research, Berkeley, CA | 2010 . 14 - 17

The Unfolding Fern: Childcare Center, Ipswich, Queensland | 2008 . . . 18 - 21

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

ArchiCAD Drawings . . . . . . . . . . 22 - 23

Human Figure Sketches . . . . . . . . . 24 - 25

Technical Hand Drawing . . . . . . . . . 26 - 27

Revit Rendering . . . . . . . . . . 28

Tidal FlowLutheran Monastery

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TIDAL FLOw: mONASTERYbowen hills, qld | 2009

The inherent inwardness associated with monasticism sets a disparate re-lationship between the public (pro-fane) and the individual (sacred). At the same time, however, the monas-tery has a role in providing service to the community. This project seeks to reconcile an Architecture that must provide for an insular commu-nity, whilst serving the wider public.

The scheme vertically divides what is public and profane from what is individual and sacred. Between these zones is the realm of the community. Architecturally, a lan-guage is set up to coincide with these strata of conceptual spaces. These strata are described in terms of what is underneath and what is above. It can be divided into a tripartite organization of what is ‘subterranean’, what is ‘trunk’ and what is ‘canopy’. Hence, the public become a dynamic mea-sure against the architecture, a ‘waterline’ that can be seen rising and falling from grotto to plateau.

Monastery | james mcdowall | page 5

14. Public Thouroughfare15. Theatre Spill-out16. Reception17. Office18. Public WC19. Elevator20. Meeting room21. Laundry

4. Library5. Guest room6. Choir and organ loft

7. Chapel8. Marshalling area & outdoor eating9. Refectory10. Scullery11. Cold store12. Store room13. Service Court

1. Common meeting lounge2. Common bathroom3. Monk cell

Ground Floor Plan 1st Floor and Mezzanine Plan 3rd Floor Plan Level 4 & 5 Floorplan

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Aquatic FissureStormwater Treatment Facility

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AQUATIC FISSURE: STORmwATER TREATmENTberkeley, CA | 2010

The brief was the design of an interweaving exhibition and stormwater treatment facility in which the two programs were integrated Stormwater Treatment process is fully exposed. Users feel like they are a part of the process. Byproducts are expressed. They line the edges of the retention ponds and are visible to the park and highway. The agenda of recycling and harvest ing waste is promoted. Transition spaces between environments, clean to less clean, are the zones of education. The large site is not occupied by the imposing scale of a building but rather ‘land art’. From a distance, the facility is seen as a series of cuts in the lake. Rather than an architecture of addition, it is an architecture of subtraction or negation

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Section A-A

Section B-B

Section C-C

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ARTIFICIAL TOPOGRAPHY:Centre for Collaborative Research (CCR) Berkeley, CA | 2010

Campus vs. CityTerraces vs. CavernsThe CCR deals with campus and city boundaries. The architectural language of the two zones was translated into equivalent geologi-cal analogies. The city’s narrow ser-vice corridors were analagous to caverns. The campus’ open green-space were seen as terraces. Thus, my building became a constructed landscape that interlocked terraced and cavern spaces.

Transparent VeilThe skin of the building is treated as walkable ground. As the public con-gregate in the exteral forum space, they are able to glimpse the goings-on of the interior laboratories. The facade also shades the separate interior volumes and casts shadows on inerstitial circulation space and the informal collaborative atria.

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1. Research Studio2. Entry Lobby3. Public cafe

4. Reading Library5. Gathering Atria

6. Delivery Dock7. Bathrooms

8. Stage

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The term ‘kindergarten’, which originally derived from the notion of the school as a metaphorical garden, alludes to the idea of children as unfolding plants.

The Unfolding FernUQ Ipswich Childcare Centre

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1. Reception foyer2. Reception3. Store room4. Manager’s office5. Daytime lunchroom / evening meeting room6. Staff kitchen7. Male WC8. Female WC9.Universal access WC10. Shower11. Staff locker room12. Pre kindergarten13. Toilets14. Common kitchen15. Pre Kindy external play area16. Kindergarten17. Kindy external play area18. Sandpit19. Wet weather activity room / Library20. Nature’s classroom / herb garden

Floor Plan

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TECHNICAL PROFICIENCYArchiCAD

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Graphite Sketches

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Graphite Sketches

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Side Elevation

Shadow and water Study

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Timber Pavilion Section Plan projected from section and

onsite measuremnts

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REVIT Modelling study, D House, Donovan Hill

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