This document provides a summary of Brandon McDonald's portfolio, including various projects from his coursework. It summarizes five projects: 1) Art drawings from a drawing class focusing on basic shapes, portraits, and clothing folds using graphite and charcoal; 2) Minimalist posters for an art exhibit using Adobe InDesign; 3) A museum design project in Charleston, South Carolina involving site analysis and 1/32" scale models; 4) A case study of the Chicken Point Cabin reproducing plans and elevations in SketchUp and AutoCAD; 5) A group project designing a television broadcast building for North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus.

1. PortfolioB r a n d o n M c D o n a l d

2. Table of Contents
Art Drawings 4
Minimalist Poster 8
Charleston Museum Project 12
Case Study - Chicken Point Cabin 16
WHVN Television Station 20

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Art Drawings
Course | Drawing I (Fall 2013)
Professor | Peter Geiger
Throughout this class, the focus was on learning how to use graphite and
charcoal to explore everything from basic shapes to facial structure, hand
studies, cars, and the folds and contours of clothing and fabric.
“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your
eyes ache.”
- David Hockney
Hand Study No. 1
Hand Study No. 2 Jacket FoldsSelf Portrait

4. Car Study
Positive & Negative Space Ellipse Study No. 1 Hand Study No. 3 Shapes Sketch (Out of class) Sheet
Ellipse Study No. 2

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Minimalist Posters
Course | D-105 - First Year Studio II (Summer 2014)
Professor | Michael Bissinger
Software | Adobe InDesign
For the second summer session for First Year, we each chose an art
movement to focus on - I chose Minimalism. The goal for this project was
to develop posters that would advertise an art display as part of an ongoing
series, using our chosen genre. For mine, I focused on Dan Flavin and his
use of fluorescent lights. The first poster is for a bus; the second, for a train.
“One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as
plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.”
- Dan Flavin
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The Switch Turns On
July 7, 2014, 8:00 pm
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Follow The Movements Series:
This Is Not a Lecture
July 9, 2014
More than Sticks and Stones:
The Land Art Movement
July 15, 2014
Pure Form + Color
July 11, 2014
What Makes a Ready-Made
July 13, 2014
Russian Constructivism:
The Art of Propaganda
July 17, 2014
Facebook.com/TheMovements TheMovements@TheMovements
“IT'S ELECTRIC CURRENT WITH A SWITCH—DUBIOUS”
Dan Flavin
Few artists can boast having explored a single medium, and an unusual
one at that, as tenaciously and consistently as Dan Flavin with his
signature fluorescent light tubes.

6. illuminationillumination
The Switch Turns On
July 7, 2014, 8:00 pm
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Follow The Movements Series:
This Is Not a Lecture
July 9, 2014
More than Sticks and Stones:
The Land Art Movement
July 15, 2014
Pure Form + Color
July 11, 2014
What Makes a Ready-Made
July 13, 2014
Russian Constructivism:
The Art of Propaganda
July 17, 2014
Facebook.com/TheMovements TheMovements@TheMovements
Few artists can boast having ex-
plored a single medium, and an un-
usual one at that, as tenaciously and
consistently as Dan Flavin with his
signature fluorescent light tubes.
“IT'S ELECTRIC CURRENT
WITH A SWITCH—DUBIOUS”
Dan Flavin

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Charleston Project
For our final project, we had to design a a museum with a visitor’s center
located in Charleston, South Carolina. We were assigned one of five
predetermined districts to study and diagram while visting the city for a
weekend, taking note of public private spaces, foliage, geographical history
and anything else we deemed significant. Using the information we found,
we had to design our buildings using two volumes: a cube and a rectilinear
box. We started off at 1/64” scale, and finally graduated to building 1/32”
models.
“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great
original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Course | ARC 201 - Sophomore Studio (Spring 2015)
Professor | Mary Englund
Final Model on Site (Close Up)
East Face Street View
Sky View

8. Final Model on Site (Full View)
Process Models
Abstract Site Model

9. Your Name Here Your Name Here
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Case Study - Chicken Point Cabin
We were given a semester-long assignment where we had to choose an
existing house and reproduce it in SketchUp, along with plans, sections
and elevations in AutoCAD. I chose Olsen Kundig’s Chicken Point because
the rotating window wall is a unique feature and one I found incredibly
captivating.
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it
begins.”
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Course | ARC251 - Digital Representation (Spring 2015)
Professor | Shawna Hammon
Software| SketchUp, Adobe PhotoShop

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WHVN Television Station
This assignment was a group project in which we could choose any site
and design a television broadcast building for it, taking street conditions
and surrounding existing buildings into consideration. My partner and I
chose the currently vacant lot on Centennial Campus at North Carolina
State University.
“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”
-Arne Jacobsen
Course | ARC302 - Junior Studio (Spring 2016)
Professor | Marshall E. Prunell
Software | SketchUp, Adobe PhotoShop
Model on Site
Basement 1st Floor 2nd Floor Parti Diagram

12. Interiror Render (Main Lobby Space)Exterior Render
Sun and Wind Diagram Organization Diagram Parti Iterations Elevation Studies