The document provides biographical information about Josh Mings, an architecture student. It summarizes his academic achievements including receiving an Outstanding Thesis Award and having his thesis selected for an exhibition. It also lists the title and timeframe of his thesis project at Columbus Architecture Depository in Columbus, Indiana, which engaged in "praiseworthy competition" with architectural ancestors by combining Eero Saarinen's Irwin Union Bank with a new addition.

1. JOSH MINGS

2. PRAISEWORTHY COMPETITION Columbus, IN Architecture Depository
DSGN5200 - Thesis � Fall 2011/Spring 2012 � Profs. Scott Ruff, Kentaro Tsubaki, Elizabeth Burns Gamard
Outstanding Thesis Award, Thesis Commendation, Selected for Provocations: Ogden 8 2012 Exhibition

3. Twentieth-century philosophy was driven “A good life is one led in praiseworthy competition with one’s
by either/or: Modernism with the abstract ancestors. The best response to the gifts we receive from
and pragmatic, Postmodernism with the previous generations is to create something of lasting value in
material and poetic. Either/or is no longer our own time and in our own way for future generations.”
sufficient. Architecture necessitates a J. Irwin Miller
both/and condition, bringing together
the abstract and material, the pragmatic COLUMBUS Learning from material history
and poetic, and the object and field into
a cohesive whole creating dialogue with
context and disseminating meaning.
In Columbus, Indiana this both/and
proposition exists through the patronage of
J. Irwin Miller. It is a belief that architecture
“reflects what a city thinks about itself and
what it aims to be”. Columbus’ Modernism
responds to previous generations, bringing
together pragmatic and poetic. This thesis
aspires to create an architecture depository,
a record of Columbus’ material history. In
combining Eero Saarinen’s Irwin Union Bank
with a pragmatic-poetic addition, the project
engages in praiseworthy competition with
it’s architectural ancestors.
ANALYSIS/CONCEPT Saarinen Planes/Void

4. GROUND FLOOR The Dialogue Begins
WASHINGTON STREET
JACKSON STREET
ROCHE ADDITION AND SAARINEN OFFICE BLOCK NOT INCLUDED
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FIFTH STREET
MORPHOLOGY A Dialogue with Eero Saarinen

5. FIFTH AND WASHINGTON A sentinel for Columbus’ architectural heritage
LONGITUDINAL SECTION A both/and dialogue with Irwin Union Bank
JACKSON ST WASHINGTON ST
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TRADENAME
PRODUCT
MATERIAL

6. HORIZONTAL TURNS VERTICAL Continuing Saarinen’s Void SECTION MODEL Views shaping planes and void

7. LEVEL 3 Views to architectural landmarks shape solid and mask
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EXHIBITION LEVEL 3 North Christian Church/Miller House

8. SEGREGATION (BOTH/AND) INTEGRATION LA Civil Rights Institute (New Orleans, LA)
DSGN3200 - Integrated Design Studio � Spring Semester 2010 � Prof. Doug Harmon � 16 Weeks
Published in Tulane School of Architecture ReView 2009-2011

9. Segregation (Both/And) Integration explores ENTRY STAIR A “Formal” Welcome
the both/and condition of dualities versus
the traditional either/or. A bridging
gallery and unifying Cor-ten steel facade
integrate segregated community and
institute buildings. The gallery creates
an uninterrupted plaza that serves
both institute and community. Gallery,
community and institute spaces integrate
at the main stair, which through the use
of reclaimed sinker cypress, evokes a front
porch condition for the institute, allowing it
to be both public and private, rarefied and
everyday, segregated and integrated within
the community.
COURTYARD Performance Area/Public Plaza
CONCEPT SKETCH Plaza/Building Integration

10. SKIN AFFECT Conceptual drivers of Form STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM Steel Bridge
Segregate Institute Integrate by Integrate with Mask segregated
and Community Bridging community by creating parts to create
public plaza integrated whole
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Through Institute and Community Buildings

11. PLAZA Public/Performance ARCHIVE Permanent Gallery SKIN AFFECT Cultural Manipulations
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12. COLLISIONS OF DUALITY A New Dance School for the Moulin Rouge (Paris, France)
DSGN3100 - Architecture Design Studio � Fall Semester 2009 � Prof. Kentaro Tsubaki, RA � 12 Weeks
Published in Tulane School of Architecture ReView 2009-2011

13. Collisions of Duality explore the notion MORPHOLOGY A dance of solid and void
of collision inherent in the urban fabric
INSPIRATION
of Paris, France and how those collisions
can inform the Solid/Void relationship in
architecture. The collision of Haussmann's
plan versus the medieval, organic layout of
Paris informs the void space of the building, Merce Cunningham Dancers as solid creating Void space can be used
Ocean void space in between/ by dancers to inform
creating an axial public void. Public functions altering with movements movements during
inhabiting the void space inform the semi- practice and editing
public and private solids of the school and
INITIAL RESPONSE
SOLID MANIPULATION
VOID MANIPULATION
vice versa. As in dancing, where the bodies
of the dancers create void space between
them, the void space can also inform the
dancers in their movements. By breaking up
the program into three solids representing
a group of dancers, a glazed public void Three solids are
Solids manipulated Public spaces become
opens up allowing light to enter the school, created to contain
according to program, partof void, which is
all active program
contextual, and shaped by and gives
a crucial concern for an urban infill project phenomenological needs shape to solids
that typically only has access to light from COLLISIONS Local and Urban
one side. LOCAL COLLISION
Haussmann creates a physical boundary
CONCEPT SKETCH Site Driving Form between Arrondisements. Below Sacre Couer
a seedy nightlife develops, colliding SACRED
sacred and profane Romantic notion of Paris
Sacre Couer
URBAN COLLISION
Haussman’s plan for long axial boulevards
PROFANE collides with an organic street grid built over
Adult stores, Moulin Rouge time to create a new Parisian urban fabric

14. EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC Layers of Construction
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
12" Site-cast two-way post-
tensioned Concrete flat slab
construction
12 X 12 site cast concrete columns
12" Sheer walls as required
INFILL WALL
6" 20 GA metal studs
5/8" Gypsum wall board on
interior side
5/8" Water resistant gypsum wall
board on exterior side
R19 glass fiber batt insulation
SKIN STRUCTURE
Various sizes 20 GA metal studs
as necessary
4x4 tube steel as required for
stability
MOISTURE BARRIER
3/4" DENSGLASS exterior
sheathing
TYVEK vapor barrier
Mounting clips for rain screen
system
RAINSCREEN
Trespa Meteon Facade
System panels
WINDOWS
1" Thick LOW-E
reflective glazing

15. SECTIONAL MODEL Stair through Public Void TRANSVERSE SECTION Void as Activator
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Photo courtesy of Jill Stoll

16. LONGITUDINAL SECTION Interplay/Interruption of Solid with Void
THEATER LOBBY/COURTYARD Void connects with exterior

17. THEATER LEVEL Public Void GROUND LEVEL Solid and Void MUSEUM LEVEL Public Void
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MUSEUM Void becomes horizontal

18. SHIFTED REALITIES A (new) New Orleans Typology (New Orleans, LA)
DSGN4300 - Study Abroad Studio � Summer Semester 2010 � Profs. B. Mouton, AIA/C. Roser Gray, RA � 4 Weeks
Published in Tulane School of Architecture ReView 2009-2011

19. Shifted Realities - A (new) New Orleans MORPHOLOGY Shifts
Typology deals with the various shifts that
need to occur to create a new housing
typology to match the new realities of
New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina while
keeping positive aspects of the traditional
New Orleans Housing typologies, namely
the front porch. With a FEMA requirement THOUGHT SOCIAL ACCESS
to building livable levels above the base flood Appropriation of Shifting of mass above Circulation core at center
level elevation, the ground floor becomes an familiar forms to ground allows for breaks down mass and
open outdoor area for both residents and create both familiar community use of provides solid/void
and unique ground plane, relationship to context
community. Unit geometries are shifted for
strengthening through rhythm
daylighting, outdoor space, and reducing community center
exposure to the western sun.
VIEW COURTYARD UTILITY
Front units shift to Second level unit Utility core becomes
provide back units shifts to create planametric driver
visual connection courtyard for adjacent separating private and
to street restaurant and outdoor public areas of each unit
space for third floor unit
CONCEPT SKETCH Shift of scale
GALLERIES GROUND
Familiar galleries Ground plane shifts up
become shifted to to create sense of privacy
create covered for residents
outdoor space for
each unit

20. THIRD LEVEL Typical 2Bed/1Bath Layout. RESIDENT GREEN SPACE Urban Garden
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UTILITY WALL Plan Driver GROUND LEVEL Public Space
Mech Closet
BEDROOM
Bath
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Closet
KITCHEN
BEDROOM

21. FRERET STREET ELEVATION Shift in Scale
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Through front units

22. RETHINKING HISTORIES The Orleans Avenue Canal (New Orleans, LA) - w/ Drew Mazur
DSGN5100 - Advanced Studio Elective � Fall Semester 2011 � Prof. John Klingman, RA � 16 Weeks

23. Given a historically rich site at the beginning MORPHOLOGY Housing Block
of the Orleans St. outfall canal, histories
of site were reimagined to create an
appropriate beginning for the new Orleans
Avenue outfall canal. The levee becomes
habitable, creating single and multifamily
housing, an exhibition path remembering the
physical history of the site, and a restaurant SITE CONTEXT: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE
as well as a path connecting Lakeview and
City Park. The wetland becomes an area
of repose and passage, a void contrasting
with the newly programmed levee, and also
serving as bioremediation of storm water
run-off before its eventual passage to Lake
Pontchartrain. The exhibition path becomes ADDITION OF SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES
a floodwall, unleashing memory instead of
holding back water, enabling New Orleans to
regain its identity as a water city.
HIGH DENSITY APARTMENTS
CONCEPT SKETCH A new beginning
LIFT
SPLIT

24. SITE PLAN Connecting Lakeview with City Park
ST FOCH
MARSHALL
BLVD
BROOKS ST
ARGONNE
ST HAIG
GENERAL
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MARCONI
POPP
FOUNTAIN
KENILWOR
TH ST
ZACHARY
TAYLOR DR
CITY BARK
DOG PARK
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE The Levee, the Wetland and the Floodwall

25. HISTORIES/PATHS Generators of Form GENERAL HAIG ST Response to Lakeview
Before Hurricane Betsy: Levee
City Park
Before 1900: Wetland
City Park
HOUSING
EXHIBITION PATH Floodwall of Memories
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Parking
EXH I B IT
Pump Station
Post-1970 : Floodwall

26. THE STORY OF BUILDING: SVERRE FEHN’S MUSEUMS Research (Norway)
2011 John William Lawrence Research Fellowship � Summer 2011 � Lecture available on my website
Book available for purchase at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2537931

27. The museums of Sverre Fehn tell a story. NORSK BREMUSEUM Fjærland
A story of building, place and time. One of
modern architecture’s lesser known figures,
Fehn was both a modernist and regionalist,
interpreting Modernist ideals within the
Norwegian lexicon of heaven and earth, life
and death, sense of place, and his notions
of moving the horizon. Many of his works are
lesser known due to their remote locations,
all but one of his museums being located in
the Norwegian countryside that shaped his
approach to building. AUKRUSTSENTERET Alvdal
Fehn tells a story with his museums. The
museum becomes the object due to careful
examination and placement of exhibits.
The architecture becomes a story of place,
of time, one that moves the horizon. The
connection of heaven and earth is always
apparent in the architecture; the way the
museums meet the sky and the way Fehn
brings in and moves the horizon within his
buildings.
HEDMARKSMUSEET Hamar
By researching Fehn’s work, a new
understanding of combining global theory
with regionalist thought will emerge. In
my research, I have prepared a story of
interaction with Sverre Fehn’s museums
and the context that shaped his approach
through sketches, photography, and
experiences. This interaction will serve to
further understanding of the notions of
place and story; phenomenological aspects
of building that make the invisible become
the visible.

28. WALL SECTION NOLA Museum of Hydrology ELEVATION With Global Design Studio 2007
MAIN ENTRY Construction and Concept come together
TECHNICAL/CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS Various Projects (as noted)
Academic and Professional Work � A focus is shown on reconciling concept and construction

29. WALL SECTION Comprehensive Studio Spring 2010 INTERIOR AFFECT Construction enables affect
EPDM MEMBRANE
RIGID EXTRUDED INSULATION BOARD
2X2X.25 STEEL TUBE TO SUPPORT
METAL SKIN @ 6’ O.C.
Cuts into skin externalize public
space and allow views to city
11GA PERFORATED CORTEN STEEL
PANEL, WELD TO SKIN, ATTACH
TO STOREFRONT
1” x 8” RECLAIMED CYPRESS
FLOORING
ACCESS WALKWAY SUPPORT
11GA PERFORATED AND PROFILED
CORTEN STEEL PANEL
Skin mediates weather, while
Skin diffuses natural light to protect allowing the weathering to sculpt
archives/art from UV rays. Internalizes its affect
private spaces while allowing natural light DOUBLE PANE LOW-E
GLAZING
ACCESS WALKWAY
(MAINTAINANCE)
COLUMN BEYOND
14” CONCRETE STRUCTURAL SLAB/
TRANSFER BEAM
(POST-TENSIONED)
Double Skin System provokes
chimney effect around building,
reducing need for HVAC
PRE-CAST CONCRETE PANELS
(SILKSCREENED)
R19 GLASS FIBER BATT INSULATION
5/8” TYPE X GYPSUM WALL BOARD
5 1/2” 20 GAUGE METAL STUDS
@ 16” O.C.
14” CONCRETE STRUCTURAL SLAB
(POST-TENSIONED)
WEATHER-RESISTANT
SILKSCREENING
COLUMN BEYOND
DOUBLE PANE LOW-E GLAZING
STOREFRONT SYSTEM MULLION
8” CONCRETE SLAB
THICKENED CONCRETE SLAB
EDGE/PILE CAP

30. JOSH MINGS www.joshuamings.com � joshuamings@gmail.com
317.531.3207 � twitter: @joshuamings