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01 // LIVE/WORK/FERMENT
in collaboration with Katie Hutt + Maxine Scanlan
SPRING 2025 / Jeremy Magner
MULTI-USE / RESIDENTIAL (dwelling) / INDUSTRIAL (production) / RETAIL(exchange)
REVIT, RHINO, V-RAY, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP + ILLUSTRATOR [
CIRCULATION
CIRCULATION MODEL / DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE
Live/Work/Ferment explores how kombucha fermentation shapes architectural space through production, exchange, and dwelling.
The site on W Jackson Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, sits between active rail lines and underused land. Its industrial history, repeated vacancy, and fires informed a material strategy that embraces wear and shows the passage of time. The project responds to the surrounding historic character and urban energy while supporting a slower, reflective program focused on care, craft, and process.
The building integrates production, public exchange, and dwelling. Permeable groundlevel access and a speculative greenway reconnect the site to pedestrian networks and nearby civic landmarks. Analysis of circulation, prevailing winds, and sun paths informed
...openings, atria, and massing, generating flows of people, air, and light throughout the building. Production occupies the lowest level, taking advantage of thermal stability and shade. Exchange activates the street level with market space, tasting zones, and adaptive gathering areas. Dwelling rises above with private units and shared terraces overlooking a central atrium.
The atrium, centered on a living SCOBY, anchors the program while shaping circulation and airflow. A structural diagrid organizes loads, and mechanical systems integrate with passive strategies. Production, exchange,
and dwelling are connected through spatial, environmental, and programmatic systems, demonstrating how architecture can support process, experience, and transformation.
LIVE/WORK/FERMENT
LIVE/WORK/FERMENT
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02 // VORTEX
FALL 2025 / Jeremy Magner + Chad Manley
NON-PROFIT HEADQUARTER / OFFICE / EXHIBIT / HATCHERY
REVIT (+autodesk insight), RHINO, ARC-GIS, ADOBE
PHOTOSHOP + ILLUSTRATOR
35.972270, -83.865689 ]
ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE / NEW CONSERVATION FISHERIES HEADQUARTERS
NURSERY 01
NURSERY 01
Vortex explores how architecture can respond to natural and human rhythms on a multi-acre rural site for a non-profit conservation organization focused on endangered freshwater species. The studio operated like a professional firm, where all work contributed to shared design development, iteration, and overarching goals, rather than isolated individual projects. I collaborated closely with a landscape studio to integrate the building into a larger master plan, aligning circulation, program, and environmental systems across the site. The building is organized around a clear internal spine that guides movement and programmatic relationships. Public, semipublic, and operational areas are arranged intuitively along this axis, allowing people
and environmental processes, particularly the flow of water, to move in parallel without conflict. A mezzanine creates secondary circulation loops and controlled overlooks, spans and water management strategies. Sections and perspectives reveal how volumes stack, how movement is compressed or expanded, and how transitions support both functional and environmental rhythms.
Circulation diagrams make explicit the coordination between program, people, and water, demonstrating how every spatial, material, and structural decision follows the parti’s underlying logic. VORTEX emphasizes clarity, coherence, and responsiveness, showing how architecture can support complex operational needs while mediating natural processes across time.
PROGRAMMATIC FLUX + FLOW
SITE PROVOCATIONS
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