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News
Spring 2012: Work from McLain Clutter’s Winter 2010 studio The (i)Deal City will be featured in the 2012 International Architectural Biennale Rotterdam.
Spring 2012: Cleveland:Mediplex City will appear in Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Futures, edited by Julia Czerniak, from Princeton Architectural Press.
March 2012: McLain Clutter will chair a panel titled Registration and Projection: The Epistemologies of Urban Imaging Technologies at the ACSA 1ooth Annual Meeting, Digital Aptitudes at MIT.
April 2011: McLain Clutter chaired a panel…
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City / School
Summer 2011
Entry for the 2011 Cleveland Competition
Assisted by Bryan Alcorn and Katie Baldwin
City/School is miniature city within the city of Cleveland, and a new home for Campus International School. The scheme imagines a future student body for CIS of 1500 students, and locates the school within a bustling enclave of urban activity. The intent is to integrate the diversity and culture of urban life into the educational experience, while stimulating the surrounding city through the school’s presence.…
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Territory Twister
In-Progress
Territory Twister is a theoretical project sited within the zoned conditions described in Radical Railbanking. The project is located in the southwest side of Detroit, next to Mexican Town and directly adjacent to the popular Mexican Town Flea Market. Territory Twister attempts to gerrymander a material environment for social interaction within an otherwise lifeless neighborhood. The form of the project is determined through an iterative “relaxed” redrawing of the site boundary. The result is a layered boundary that…
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Onondaga Creek
Spring, 2010
This transdisciplinary project proposes that Geographic Information Systems can be converted into a productive tool for architecture and urban design by developing innovative urban modeling techniques using commonly available census and municipal data. Now ubiquitous in urban planning and real-estate development, GIS most commonly uses spatio-demographic data to validate or reify conventional planning practices. This project exploits the ubiquity of GIS by converting data-sets with discrete categories and boundaries into pliable and fluid relational topologies. These manipulations of…
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Detroit Shape Scape
In-Progress
The Detroit Shape-Scape is a theoretical project sited within the zoned conditions described in Radical Railbanking, and aspires to concretize the latent publics implicates in that project. The project is conceived as mini city within the city, housing a programmatic diversity characteristic of a vital metropolis. The program includes interior and exterior public spaces, an expansion of the adjacent Wayne State University, student residences, rentable space for craftsmen and artists, stops for existing and proposed mass transit systems,…
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Hedgehog House
Spring 2009
Hedgehog House is a summer cottage to be built on sloping farm land in south-western Pennsylvania. The region is spotted with aging timber barns that are remnants of dozens of deserted farms. In lieu of their intended function, the barns have become picturesque follies hidden amidst the winding country roads and mountainous terrain of the area. This project exploits the picturesque nature of the region’s barn structures by borrowing the typical building type and distorting it through a…
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Seaport
Fall, 2008
With Thom Moran.
This project was an entry to the 2008 ENYA Competition: South Street Seaport Re-Envisioning the Urban Edge. The competition brief called for the design of a new pier on the East River containing a mixture of community facilities. The authors of the competition hoped that such a structure would help to reconnect the community to their waterfront.
This entry contends that the best way to reconnect the South Street Seaport neighborhood to its waterfront…
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Cleveland: MEDIPLEX CITY
In-Progress
Once the fourth largest city in the United States and a major industrial center, Cleveland has lapsed into decades of sustained decline. The loss of its middle class population and economic base in manufacturing has left the city financially and physically in shambles. Amidst this perfect storm of bad news, one sector of Cleveland’s economy has been growing prodigiously: healthcare. The Cleveland Clinic, the city’s medical namesake, is now its largest employer and a cornerstone of Cleveland’s economy. Throughout…
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Imaginary Apparatus: New York 1966-1973
Spring, 2009
In 1966, under threat of bankruptcy and crumbling urban infrastructure, New York City mayor John Lindsay signed Executive Order 10 – a measure intended to attract the film industry to New York. Major productions such as The Night They Raided Minsky’s and Midnight Cowboy were soon drawn to the city. Simultaneously, the city was drafting a significant amount of innovative urban planning policy. One remarkable aspect common to many of these policies is a tendency to understand the…