Myles McNamara's design portfolio contains 16 projects showcasing his skills in manual arts, illustration, and architectural design using various mediums including hand drawing, 3D CAD, woodworking, and stained glass. The portfolio demonstrates his abilities in conceptual development, technical documentation, form expression, site-sensitive design, and experience design through phases of analysis, concept refinement, and final presentation. McNamara uses both digital and traditional mediums to accurately capture complex subjects and spatial experiences.

1. Design Portfolio
Myles McNamara

2. Orthogonal Drawing (2009) [1]
Subject: Alvar Aalto’s House & Studio at Munkkiniemi (1935-36)
Purpose: Use conventions of orthogonal drawing to explore the characteristics of an existing historic residence.
S outhwest Elevation
S outhwest Section

3. L
iving Room Exploded Axonometric
S ite & Ground Level Plan
[2]

4. Concept Development (2008) [3]
Subject: Time-Sensitive 12-Hour Design Charette
Purpose: Design an artist’s studio from concept sketches
to a presentation-quality model in 12 hours. Develop both
innovative skylighting & integrated solar water heating.

5. [4]

6. Rhino 3D CAD Documentation (2009) [5]
Subject: Design Charette Artist’s Studio Concept
S outheast Aerial Roofless Interior
Purpose: Use 3D CAD to explore the interplay of
materiality & temporal light conditions.
N orthwest Ground-Level @ Sunset
S outhwest Aerial @ Sunrise

7. Rhino for Expressing Form (2009)
A
Purpose: Use 3D CAD to accurately capture and express
coustic Guitar
the form and materials of complex built subjects.
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b) Northeast Facade at Sunrise
dirondack Chair
G uitar Detail:
The behavior of strings
[6]

8. Site-Sensitive Design (2009) [7]
Subject: Boathouse Design on the Charles River, Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Purpose: Use existing site conditions to inform design for a public-access rowing facility
I nterpretive Perspective Sketch Method of Inquiry
U rban-Scale River Plan
P
hase One: 2D Existing Site Condition Analysis
Observations:
1) Natural landscape is defined by 3 meandering rivers.
2) Sightlines of intent & building facades @ Mass Ave
reinforce an urgency of linear, efficient cross-town travel.
3) Bending of these lines is rare but integral to movement.

9. 1) A Memorial Drive automobile underpass gains efficiency
by breaking grade beneath the intersection @ Mass Ave.
2) Where lanes converge, median greenspace is lost, but a
graded beachfront emerges, granting pedestrian access.
P
hase Two: 3D Investigation: How Lines Are Bent
3) Alvar Aalto’s Baker House maintains the primacy of
line in its streetfront walls, but uses a curvilinear facade to
establish a retreated, publicly-accessible garden.
4) Thesis: Urgent travel lines (blue) are mediated by grade change &
greenspace (green) or facade (orange) to permit vital rest & recreation. [8]

10. [9]
P
hase Three Part I: 2D Building Concept Development
Exploring Design Objectives:
1) Select a site where urgent linear intent can be ‘bent’ & transformed.
2) Use the change of intent in the auto turnabout on Memorial Drive as
a ‘bending point’ from which to allow transition into a ‘meander’.
3) Break grade into the riverside retaining wall in order to sculpt
gradually curvilinear spaciousness, and resist the compaction of line.

11. P
hase Three Part II: 3D Building Concept Development
Refining Design Objectives:
1) Develop a ramped circular ‘hub’ as a means to bending street lines inward.
2) Use circumerferential movement along hub to coax movement up & down.
3) Differentiate light & shadow to reawaken in guests a sense of wonder.
[10]

12. P [11]
hase Four: Rough Draft Full Iteration
Refinements:
1) Develop a ‘harder’ linear streetfront datum with gradual passage into curvilinear release within.
2) The invitation of glimpses & gradual immersion should revitalize guests & athletes from the urgency of the street.

13. P [12]
hase Four Highlight: Unfolded Section Drawing. Focus: Experience of Entry Sequence Circulation

14. P [13]
hase Five:
Final Design 2D Series
Clockwise:
1) Urban-Scale
Site & Roof Plan
2) North Streetside & South
Riverside Elevations
3) Circulation Axonometric

15. P
hase Five: Final Design 3D Model
‘Clocking’ Aerial Perspectives Series:
Clockwise: northwest pedestrian street approach to
athlete’s descending entry sequence, finishing at interior lockers
[14]

16. Freehand Drawing (2008) [15]
Comic Book Illustration:
“Boogerkin”: Chapter 3 (2001)

17. Miscellania
M anual Arts: Stained Glass
2004: Copper Foil Technique
C ommissioned Illustrations
© Modern Love 1999-2000
M anual Arts: Woodworking
2009: Eastern Pine
Traditional English Candlebox
B&W Line Art for retail cards Finished w/ Tung Oil
Miscellania [16]