GRANT McCORMICK

Master of Architecture 2012BS in Design in Architectural Studies 2010

Minor in Urban Planning 2010Arizona State University

arizona canal branch library

fostering diversity

gare de susa station

bocconi university

solar oriented infill

intersect | interact

Bocconi University Competition

Inspired by the textile warehouses of the fashion district in italy, the project is a juxtaposition of orderly and flowing. The colorful interior courtyard is bordered by a solid, rectilinear exterior. The proposal demonstrates a hard side and a soft side; stacking boxes to the outside, and displaying undulating smooth fabrics to the inside. The rigid, continuous facade to the streets protects a green heart within, where the activity of the school converges. The carved-out courtyard serves as a congregational area for the school thorough controlled access points to each building from the center. This way, the project maintains two attitudes, one towards the notion of the city and the streets, and the other towards the park and the campus.

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Gare de Susa Train Station Competition

The proposal of the train station called for a hub that would serve both the local train and international high-speed rail line at the intersection where they met. The location was contested by the locals for fear it would mar the scenic countryside, so the design of the projects seeks to minimize the intrusion of the building on the landscape, and create a subtle transition from landscape to building. It is built into the hillside so that it all but disappears from the back, and in the front it reaches out to the proposed park space to begin to blur the boundary between built and unbuilt.

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT |2012 | 3d/Rendering Team

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Fostering Diversity, diversity in housing and the public space

Puerto Gaboto is a small town in Argentina with few social differences that has the potential to grow to become an important cultural location with the discovery of the archeological remnants of the first settlement in the country, increasing social diversity in the near future. Given the disparity within quality of housing and access to public space afforded to individuals of different socioeconomic status seen in many cities throughout the country, the project proposal was to create a community of social diversity through a mixed use program with emphasis on housing that centers around the public space. An urban and architectural system that accommodates individuals of differing socioeconomic situations, to enable a community that benefits from the participation of people from diverse social backgrounds.

Grant McCormick | Spring 2012 | ADE622| Professor Claudio Vekstein

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density vs open space proposed public space

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lower income housing adaptability

higher income housing adaptability

phoenix canal system

Arizona Canal Branch Library

Placed within the tight-knit community of Sunnyslope, the library serves as a hub for regional gatherings. Ideally located along the Arizona Canal and next to Sunnyslope high school, two major community hot-spots, it is provides a place for individuals to congregate and interact. The park space along the canal is preserved and the community room is placed in relation to it and the high school to accommodate community events. Located within the center of the library is the computer area which serves as the central, intergenerational gathering area within the library.

Grant McCormick | Fall 2009 | ADE421 | Professor Mark Ryan

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Solar Oriented Infill

When designing a house to be placed on multiple lots with different solar orientations, managing the effects of the sun on the interior by placement of windows and walls becomes difficult. A typical house designed for urban infill may not suffer from poor solar orientation on one lot, but by simply rotating it to fit another lot, it might. Designed to solve this problem, this modular home fits within the setbacks of a standard 50’ wide lot and maintains ideal North/South solar orientation on both North/South, and East/West oriented lots. Utilizing a 36’x36’ core of modules always oriented south, the prefabricated house also has an additional module that can be placed on either the North, East, or West sides of the core to maximize adaptability to individual sites. Containing the entry and the carport, this “floating” module is designed to be placed on the street edge.

Grant McCormick | Fall 2008 | ADE321 | Professor Jack DeBartolo III

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north/south orientation

exploded construction

work space

neighborhood

break room

exhibition space

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light bridge

Intersect | Interact

The coworking community of Gangplank is organized to encourage collaboration between all involved. The building extends these principles by allowing a physical connection from the street through the building to the neighborhood beyond. In the center of the building is a small courtyard that draws people in and functions as an intersection between the various functions of the building and the community.

Grant McCormick | Fall 2010 | ADE521 | Professor Alex Gino

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Roosevelt Sculpture Garden

Designed to be used by the neighborhood around it, the Roosevelt Sculpture Garden focuses on the fabrication and display of art by the community. Members of the community are able to create sculpture within the studio and display it in the outdoor garden where other members of the community can observe and purchase the sculpture. In addition to the outdoor gallery, along Roosevelt there is a visually permeable indoor gallery, allowing one to see through the gallery to the interior park space beyond.

Grant McCormick | Spring 2009 | ALA322 | Professor Chad Schwartz

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Arizona State UniversityHerberger Institute for Design and the ArtsMaster of Architecture May 2012BS in Design in Architectural Studies 2010Minor in Urban Planning 2010 Honors and AccomplishmentsGraduated with Cum Laude statusStudy Abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina Fall 2011Attended undergraduate on a four year Provost Scholarship

Chandler Gilbert Community CollegeGeneral education courseworkBegan attending at age 15

Honors and AccomplishmentsAwarded President’s Scholarship at age 16Graduated at age 17 with 56 transferable college credits

Relevant Architectural Work2012 intern at Workplays Studio*Architecture (current)2012 intern at Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue in Barcelona2011 intern at Materia Arquitectonica in Mexico City2006, 2007 carpenter at Stout Precision Development

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