andrew w mcgregor portfolio

ANDREW W MCGREGORDESIGN PORTFOLIO

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Harvest Wave SukkahT-RARchitectureSukkahville 2012 CompetitionToronto, Ontatio, CanadaCollaborators: Raymond Bourraine, Robert Miller, Teresa Cacho

Froedtert Hospital - Center for Advanced CareCannonDesignWauwautosa, Wisconsin, USA

River Keeper HQParsons New School For Design - FA 2010Design Studio 3 - Integrated StudioCollabortors: Megan Pfeffer (Lighting Designer) + Beliz Gorgul (Interior Designer)Instructor: Kim Ackert + Renee Joosten + Alfred Zollinger

Centre Hospitalier de L’Universie de MontrealCannonDesignMontreal, Quebec, Canada

EmpowerhouseParsons New School For Design - SP 2011 thru FA 2011Design Studio 4 - Solar DecathlonInstructor: David Lewis + Laura Briggs

Highbridge_PlayParsons New School For Design - SP 2012Design Studio 6 - ThesisInstructors: Reid Freeman (Primary Adviser) + Astrid Lipka + Jing Liu + Mark Rakatansky + Paul Goldberger + Peter Wheelwright

HARVEST WAVE SUKKAHT-RARchitectureSukkahville 2012 CompetitionToronto, Ontatio, CanadaCollaborators: Raymond Bourraine, Robert Miller, Teresa Cacho

Laying in an ocean of grainLooking up to the sky.Wind blowing the stalks.Shaded from the sun.Enveloped by the earth.A celebration of what’s above and what’s below.

Designed as a reinterpretation of the traditional Sukkah, The Harvest Wave Sukkah was inspired by windblown fields of grain and the connection of the sky with the earth. The form was articulated to provide areas to walk through, sit and lay down while the fins were calibrated to shade in the day but allow views out to the night sky.

Sukkahville 2012 Competition FinalistSukkahville 2012 Competition 2nd Place

Long Section

Short Section

Assembly at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FROEDTERT HOSPITALCENTER FOR ADVANCED CARECannonDesignWauwautosa, Wisconsin, USA

The new ambulatory clinic building houses spaces for theTransplant & Nephrology, Surgery, Prep & Recovery, Pre-Admission Testing, and Heart & Vascular Clincs. Flexibilty and adaptability were core values of the client which were incorporated at the large scale with the floor plan layouts and the small scale with the exam room composition. This adaptive design allows for the clinics to grow and shrink in relation to other physician groups using the space depending on the day of the week while still maintaining the key elements for operation.

In addition, the standardization of rooms and layouts allow for the hospital and its departments to expand their clinics depending on the changing volumne of patients seen.

2nd Floor - Transplant/Nephrology Clinic

4th Floor - Heart & Vascular Clinic

Clinic Diagram Clinic Module / Flexibility Diagram

Caregiver Access Diagram Patient Circulation Diagram

ZONES OF THE EXAM ROOM

ENTRY ZONEA 3’-6” door located near the corner of the room to maximize the usable space and allow for the passage of patinents and caregivers into the space.

PATIENT ZONETypically contains the exam table located near a corner of the room and placed at an angle, providing the caregiver with access to either side of the patient.

VISITOR ZONEContains guest charis. In many cases, patients will sit in the visitor chairs for their examination and consulation.

DOCUMENTATION ZONEDedicated sit down space for Electronic Medical Records access and patient/family consultations

CAREGIVER ZONELocated at perimeter of the room, containing a handwashing station, gloves dispenser, sharps disposal, trash receptacles, base and wall cabinets for fixed storage

EQUIPMENT ZONEIdeally located adjacent to exam zone and may include mobile equipment and storage along with wall mounted equipment.

Exam Room Options

Exam Room A1 Exam Room A2

Exam Room B1 Exam Room B2

ZONING PRIORITIES

Patient Privacy - Patient Zone visibility when the door is ajarPatient access - transfer to exam tablePatient access - transfer to the visitor chairsCaregiver access to exit doorCaregiver access to handwash sinkCaregiver access to documentation stationCaregiver visualization of visitor chairsCaregiver visualization of exam table.

ADVANTAGES OF B1 MIRROR CONFIGURATION

The door opens against the wall to leave a clear path for wheel chair accessThe sink is adjacent to the door for efficient hand washing upon entering and exiting the roomThe documentation station is in a direct line from the door or the examiner easily moves to the right side of the patient for examinationThe exam table is adjacent to the documentation station for efficient movement from desk to patient’s right side for examinationThe chairs are close to the door for ease of removal to accomodate a wheel chairExamination equipment is mounted on the wall to the right side of the patient to prevent examinar from having to reach or cross over the patientThe exam table can be moved parallel to the side wall if more room is needed to maneuver a wheelchair or scooter.

Exam Room Option B1 Mirror Selected

Exam Room Layout Adapted to other rooms

Exam Room

Large Exam Room

Consult Room

EP Device Room

Wound Room

4th Floor - Heart & Vascular Clinic

RIVER KEEPER HEADQUARTERSParsons New School For Design - FA 2010Design Studio 3 - Integrated StudioCollabortors: Megan Pfeffer (Lighting Designer) + Beliz Gorgul (Interior Designer)Instructor: Kim Ackert + Renee Joosten + Alfred Zollinger

River Keeper Headquarters is an adaptive reuse project of an old building on Newtown Creek for the environmental lobbyist group River Keeper. In addition to the main office component, the design required an educational exhibit space and a laboratory facility for water testing.

With its crucial position along a burgeoning nature trail on Newtown Creek, the form of the existing building was sliced in key areas to promote a relationship to the trail. These cuts were also refined to allow improvements to natural light and passive strategies for the building. Using the building and roof forms as an extension of the trail allowed for the educational programs and the company themselves to become a valued addition to the trail providing both exposure to the firms headquarters and further exhibits to the nature trail.

Selected for Parsons SCE Archiving

Adaptive Reuse Scheme - Facade

Connections Diagram New Zoning Proposal

Perimeter Parking Proposal Cuts - View Urban Diagram

Adaptive Reuse Scheme - Massing

Cuts - View Diagram

Summer Roof Plan

Winter Roof Plan

1st Floor Plan

2nd Floor Plan

Auditorium / Exhibition Space

Section AA

Section AA Night

Classroom / Stepped Facade

CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L’UNIVERSITE DE MONTREALCannonDesignMontreal, Quebec, Canada

The Centre Hospitalier De L’Universie De Montreal is a Public-Private Partnership initiative to design and develop a consolidated facility for one of the two major hospital networks in Montral. The 2.5 million square foot development will cover 35 medical disciplines including patient rooms, ambulatory and diagnostic centers, surgery, intensive care, clinical laboratories and research divisions that were previously spread out through three seperate facilities. The project represents the largest signle healthcare development underway in Canada and the largest Public-Private Partnership in North America.

In taking on this project it was necessary to identify opportunities to make the production and coordination of drawings manageable. A significant factor in this effort was the development of the Architectural Exemplars. These standard rooms were developed with the users and coordinated with the engineers to appropriatly convey the room intent, the equipment required and able to be applied to several instances of the rooms throughout the project. This allows for a single room sheet to represent several rooms across the project minimizing unnessesary repetition and extraneous work.

ELEMENTS OF AN EXEMPLAR ROOM

ARCHITECTUREThe physical constraints of the room are tied to the room data provided by the client and must be adjusted through ongoing coordination.

FUNCTIONALITYThe ability for the room to perform and accomodate the activities needed of it is one of the cheif concerns in producting the exemplars. Coordination with medical planners is key in the process to ensure the room functions as intended.

EQUIPMENTThe equipment and their layout is strongly related to the functionaliy of the room. As procurement progresses, the updating of equipment specifics must be translated into the exemplars to ensure that all equipment can still be accomodated while maintaining complaince.

MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBINGCareful attention and coordination must be taken with tocating the correct amount of devices to accomodate equipment and needs of the room. Locating devices to avoid conflicts with equipment and casework is also a significant task.

DIMENSIONSThe dimensions and realtionships of equipment and locations in the room not only affects the functionality but the ability of the room exemplar to be adapted to rooms accross the project with slight architectural variation.

Equipment Room

Multipurpose Patient Room

Unidose Alcove



Waste/Recylcing Room

Equipment Room

D Building Level 13 - Floor Plan5 Room Exemplars can account for 82 rooms on the 13th Floor.

GROUP OF ROOMS TO ISSUE IDENTIFIED

LAYOUT AND EQUIPMENT IMPLEMENTED

ROOMS SENT TO MEP CONSULTANTS FOR REVIEW AND COORDINATION

PLANNER + INTERIORS REVIEW FOR FUNCTIONALITY + CONSISTENCY

MEP CONSULTANTS REVIEW

INCORPORATION OF PLANNER + INTERIORS COMMENTS

COORDINATION MEETING WITH MEP CONSULTANT #2

REVIEW FROM DESIGN MANAGER + DOCUMENT CONTROL

INCORPORATION OF MEP COORDINATION ROOMS SENT TO DESIGN MANAGER + DOCUMENT CONTROL FOR REVIEW



PUBLISH

ROOM CHANGES CLOUDED +TRACKED

DESIGN MANAGER + DOCUMENT CONTROL COMMENTS INCORPORATED

FINAL CHECK

INTERIORS FINAL CHECK

Exemplar Process Steps

EXEMPLAR PROCESS AND FEEDBACK

The production and execution of these Exemplars depend on many factors that ensure the room meets the requirements of the client. The effort to accomodate these goals include the coordination with medical planners and consultants, ensuring clarity for the contractor and maintaining the expected quality of the drawings. The assurance that each one of these rooms fulfill these standards has produced and continues to evolve a production process that is constantly improved by feedback from the client and the contractor through continued meetings and Request for Information.

GROUP OF ROOMS TO ISSUE IDENTIFIED

LAYOUT AND EQUIPMENT IMPLEMENTED

ROOMS SENT TO MEP CONSULTANTS FOR REVIEW AND COORDINATION

PLANNER + INTERIORS REVIEW FOR FUNCTIONALITY + CONSISTENCY

MEP CONSULTANTS REVIEW

INCORPORATION OF PLANNER + INTERIORS COMMENTS


REVIEW FROM DESIGN MANAGER + DOCUMENT CONTROL

INCORPORATION OF MEP COORDINATION ROOMS SENT TO DESIGN MANAGER + DOCUMENT CONTROL FOR REVIEW



PUBLISH

ROOM CHANGES CLOUDED +TRACKED

DESIGN MANAGER + DOCUMENT CONTROL COMMENTS INCORPORATED

FINAL CHECK

INTERIORS FINAL CHECK

EMPOWERHOUSE SOLAR DECATHLONParsons New School For Design - SP 2011 thru FA 2011Design Studio 4 - Solar DecathlonInstructor: David Lewis + Laura Briggs

Empowerhouse was the Parsons New School of Design, Stevens Institute of Technology and the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy’s entry into the Department of Energy 2011 Solar Decathlon.

It was product of an interdisciplinary team of graduate and undergraduate students from a number of design disciplines including architecture, interior design, lighting, product design, and design and technology as well as engineering, management, and urban policy students. Designed with the aim to create an affordable net-zero energy house the project also sought to creat a prototype for low cost energy efficient housing habitat for humanity in Washington DC. The solution was developed through a combination of a thick air-tight envelope, carefully calibrated windows for passive heating and lighting and low energy mechanical system and appliances.

Empowerhouse reinstalled for the 2011 Solar Decathlon Competition

Concept Diagram

Active Systems

Energy Approach

Passive Systems

Construction + Build - NJ

Construction + Reassemble - DC

EW Roof Section

Back Porch and Ramp

Rain Garden Elevation

Rain Garden In Use

HIGHBRIDGE_PLAYParsons New School For Design - SP 2012Design Studio 6 - ThesisInstructors: Reid Freeman (Primary Adviser) + Astrid Lipka + Jing Liu + Mark Rakatansky + Paul Goldberger + Peter Wheelwright

The presence of exercise and activity in many people’s daily lives is lacking. Paired with poor nutrition these issues are the two main contributors to obesity, an issue prevalent in New York City, specifically the Bronx Borough.

While the Bronx has a significant amount of parks and sports fields, the problem with these spaces is that they are not inclusive and are intimidating to those not inclined to participate in exercise or not familiar with the rules of the game. There is no introductory or in between levels of exercise that teach people how to play and get them to the level of fitness needed to participate in these types of exercise.

Revisiting how we engage in activity, HIGHBRIDGE_PLAY is a reinterpretation of the recreation center and the park, seeking to change the perceptions of exercise as intimidating and rigorous, replacing this image with areas of “play” through less intimidating and more inclusive means of recreation and movement. By manipulating the boundaries of Interior and Exterior as well as the elements and spaces needed to exercise, HIGHBRIDGE_PLAY creates a gradient of activities ranging from alternative and unintimidating to traditional sports that allow for people of all comfort and fitness levels the opportunity to recreate through enticing means and progress to a better health.

FOLDED FOR CONNECTIONS

DISTRIBUTED PROGRAM

DIGITAL SITUATIONAL FRAGMENTED TRADITIONAL

LINEAR PROGRESSION

PLAY TYPOLOGIESTRADITIONAL PLAY

Medium to high level of intimidation, medium to high levels of rigorous exercise, based on rules and preset conditions, medium to high level of interaction

Examples

Common Sports at Regular ScaleFootballBasketballSoccer

SITUATIONAL PLAY

Low level of intimidation, low level of rigorous exercise, based on imagination and provided technology, low involvement of preset rules, low level of interaction

Examples

Wall BallBouldering

FRAGMENTED PLAY

Medium level of intimidation, medium level of rigorous exercise, low-medium level of interaction, Some preset rules and standards of play

Examples

StickballCommon Sports at Small ScalesPick up SoccerCatch

DIGITAL PLAY

Low level of intimidation, low level of rigorous exercise, based on imagination and provided technology, low involvement of preset rules, low level of interaction

Examples

Nintendo WiiXBOX KinnectInteractive Displays

Progress Models

Program Distribution

North South Section A

TYPICAL BOUNDARY MANIPULATION EMBEDDED GOAL PROGRAM EXTENSION

BASKETBALL

Fragmentation Studies

Typical Condition Boundary Manipulation

East West Section A

TYPICAL BOUNDARY MANIPULATION EMBEDDED GOAL PROGRAM EXTENSION

BASKETBALL

Retention of Essential Goal Program Extension

EDUCATIONParsons The New School For Design - New York, NY Master of Architecture

Washington University in St. Louis - Sam Fox School of Design Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

Danish Institute for Study Abroad Study Abroad Architecture Program in Copenhagen, Denmark

08.2009 - 05.2012

08.2004 - 05.2008

08.2007 - 12.2007

Andrew W. McGregor305-528-1023 - [email protected]

EXPERIENCECannonDesign - Chicago, IL Designer - Healthcare

T-RARchitecture - New York, NY Collaborator

Empowerhouse Collaborative - New York, NY Designer/Builder

John B. Murray Architect - New York, NY Architecture Intern

Al Baja Engineering Consultants - Dubai, UAE Architecture Intern

07.2010 - 08.2010

01.2011 - 10.2011

05.2012 - 09.2012

07.2006 - 08.2006

11.2012-Current

SKILLSDigital AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Rhinoceros 3DAutoDesk Ecotect Adobe Indesign 3DSmaxAutodesk REVIT Adobe Illustrator SketchupLaser Cutter Operation Grasshopper VRAYMS Office

Manual Wood and Metal Shop Familiarity Presentation Model Building Presentation Design Hand Rendering

LanguagesFluent English Conversational Spanish

Parsons The New School For Design - New York, NY Master of Architecture

Washington University in St. Louis - Sam Fox School of Design Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

Danish Institute for Study Abroad Study Abroad Architecture Program in Copenhagen, Denmark

CannonDesign - Chicago, IL Designer - Healthcare

T-RARchitecture - New York, NY Collaborator

Empowerhouse Collaborative - New York, NY Designer/Builder

John B. Murray Architect - New York, NY Architecture Intern

Al Baja Engineering Consultants - Dubai, UAE Architecture Intern

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