John McGuire, Architect
Architecture & Urban Design
Strategic Planning & Visioning
Through a participatory process that includes visioning, analysis, goal setting, benchmarking, recommendations, and implementation development, John McGuire collaborates with clients to develop thoughtful strategic plans. Such plans embrace mission priorities, institutional focus, and common institutional expectations. This is a systematic process of envisioning a desired future, and translating this vision into broadly defined goals and objectives, and identifying a sequence of steps to achieve them.
Land Use, Campus, & Precinct Planning
John advises and guides clients on land use strategies and campus plans to best utilize existing resources. These plans anticipate potential needs for future renewal and/or new development.
Program Analyses
It is important to take stock of existing facilities to understand the best way to move forward. Working closely with clients, John reviews existing facilities to verify their ability and capability to meet future institutional objectives and to identify specific new and future facility needs.
Programming
John McGuire understands each client’s strategic objectives with his extensive knowledge of building typology, technology and facility standards. He uses a process that identifies the priorities of space and activity requirements which enhance and support client needs. This process provides clients with a framework for evaluating the unique demand characteristics of their own institution and for arriving at a clear consensus on a facility program. The resulting prioritization of elements, combined with a creative insight into education and pedagogical dynamics, guides an effective program for facilities that creates vibrant and thoughtful places, promoting the mission of the institution.
Strategic Outreach & Engagement
For many clients it is critical to promote an inclusive and community focused process. John assists clients in navigating the appropriate processes for approvals for development plans and projects which require approval from a variety of internal stakeholders, agency representatives, public officials and community members.
Planning
Design Competition
Clients often select the design competition approach to generate new ideas for building design, to stimulate public debate, to generate publicity for the project, and to learn how design teams plan to approach the project. John organizes and leads the competition process from initial project initiation, prepares the competition brief, assists with jury selection, guides the screening of the prospective competition teams, organizes final team selection, and oversees project implementation.
Guidelines & Criteria
Working closely with campus stakeholders, John develops campus/project specific guidelines and criteria for site, architectural, and landscape architecture elements that promote high-quality and context sensitive projects.
Concept Design
To understand the design implications of specific project requirements, Concept Design Scenarios are developed to clarify design intent and project requirements. Concept Scenarios consist of scaled drawings which articulate critical spatial relationships, establish feasibility, and identify the magnitude of needed construction. These scenarios also provide the basis for cost analysis and cost modeling. Concept Design Scenarios are used for new buildings, additions to existing buildings, or existing space reallocations.
Sustainability
In concert with clients and stakeholders, John develops specific client-based approaches to identify and achieve objectives related to overall sustainability and resiliency goals.
Project Oversight
For major campus plans or capital projects involving architecture, historic preservation, and landscape architecture, John guides the design and delivery process to assure that programmatic, quality, and aesthetic intentions are
successfully achieved.
Design
Higher Education & Science & Technology
Butte College
Folsom Lake College
Cabrillo College
Columbia College
Modesto Junior College
San Joaquin Delta College
California State University, Sonoma
California State University, Chico
California State University, San Jose
California State University, San Francisco
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Davis
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Merced
University of California, San Francisco
University of Oregon
Oregon State University, Corvallis
University of Utah
Chinese Academy of Science
University of San Francisco
Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School
Healthcare
University of California, Davis Medical Center
UCSF Medical Center
Alameda County Med. Ctr. Highland Hospital
Sacred Heart Hospital
Cottage Grove Hospital
Eugene Hospital & Clinic
Sacred Heart Hospital
Government/Civic
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
U. S. Department of Defense
City of Medford, Oregon
Fresno County, California
Kern County, California
San Mateo County, California
Thurston County, Washington
Island County, Washington
Whatcom County, Washington
Marion County, Oregon
Lane County, Oregon
Corporate
HTC America Innovation
Cisco
BioMed Realty
Weyerhaeuser
John McGuire focuses on assisting clients to start their projects right; to discover the right project; and to achieve the right project.