Bengals Locker Room

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Client: Cincinnati Bengals

Program: Luxury professional sports locker room and nutrition station

Construction: 2024

Project Credits:

Michael mcinturf ARCHITECTS, Design Lead

MSA Design, Architect of Record

Warm Construction, Contractor

Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Program: Public park and interactive pathway

Construction: 2023

Project Credits:

michael mcinturf ARCHITECTS, Design Architect

THP, Architect of Record / Structural Engineer

Kleingers, Landscape Designer

JRA, Digital Experience Design

DNK, Planning Consultants

Colina Nouă Master Plan

Location: Colina Nouă, Romania

Construction: 2020

Micro-Cabin

Location: Poiana, Romania

Design: 2019

Humpert House

Location: Northern Kentucky

Program: Private Residence

Construction: 2018

Leonard Athletic Center at CCDS

Location: Indian Hill, OH

Program: Atheltics

Construction: 2016

Sleepy Bee Cafe

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Program: Dining and Event Space

Construction: 2016

Early Childhood Center at CCDS

Location: Indian Hill, OH

Program: Early Childhood Education and Recreation

Construction: 2016

Maintenance Facility at CCDS

Location: Indian Hill, OH

Program: Maintenance and Repair

Construction: 2015

Prospect Green

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Program: Multi-unit Residential

Construction: 2015

Cincinnati Country Day Schools - Lower School

Location: Indian Hill, OH

Program: Educational Administration and Media Space

Construction: 2014

Tennis Complex at CCDS

Location: Indian Hill, OH

Program: Athletics

Construction: 2013

Private Residence

Location: Covington, KY

Program: Residential

Construction: 2012

Faith Christian Church

Location: New Philadelphia, OH

Program: Religious

Construction: 2009

Indian Hill Swim Club

Location: Indian Hill, OH

Program: Athletics

Construction: 2006

Cincinnati Country Day School - Upper School

Location: Indian Hill, OH

Program: Education

Construction:

Pavilion

Location: New Philadelphia, OH

Program: Recreation

Construction: 2003

Offices for Procter & Gamble

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Program: Office Interior and Retrofit

Design: 2003

OMV Aktiengesellschaft Visitor Center

Location: Schwechat, Austria

Program: Visitor Center

Construction: 1996

Offices for M3 Properties

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Program: Office Space and Interior Retrofit

Construction: 2004

University of Cincinnati Boathouse

Wilder, KY

Concept, 2004  

Germinating in the practicum studio of the University of Cincinnati’s architecture department, a group of students proposed designing a boathouse for the women’s varsity and men’s club teams.

As professor of the studio, Michael McInturf carried the original idea of the project into his private practice and allowed it to grow within critical practice. The theoretical position of the design began with the student’s study of the rowing stroke and developed through his practice into a comprehensive investigation of the physiology and mechanics of the rowing cycle. The design developed through multiple explorations in sketches, physical models, computer models and animations.

The model began as a singular expression of the rowing cycle as it relates to the pulse of energy generated during the cycle. This diagram is characterized by two curves, each describing individual aspects of the rowing cycle. This initial diagram was then animated through multiple instances and attached to the site where it found itself adapting to the landscape and the site forces inherent on the property. These site dynamics contributed significantly to the development of the building. Physical and theoretical constructs such as flooding sequences, topographic edges, movement patterns and abandoned bridge piers.

ProScan International Corporate Headquarters & Lecture Theater

Cincinnati, OH

Built, 2000

ProScan International is a world-renowned leader in MRI expertise. The corporate office headquarters and lecture theater consolidates their corporate offices into a single location, while also providing a seminar lecture theater for the education of medical professionals from around the world. 

The ten corporate offices, orthogonal and regularized in plan, line the perimeter walls of the space, thereby allowing each office to receive daylight. The lecture theater fills the void formed by the placement of these offices. ProScan views this theater as the image for the recognition of ProScan as a leader in MRI expertise internationally. It contains state of the art audio-visual equipment that requires a blackened spaces, thus spatially dictating the logical placement of the theater in the middle of the floor plate.

The formal strategy of the project incorporates a simple organizational system of two overlapping rectangular volumes within the space. These volumes represent public and private space allocation and imply the formation of a third volume at the center of the interior space. This interior third volume became the lecture theater – the primary focus of the spatial and material experimentation in the project.

The form of the theater is an extrusion of the rectilinear grid of the offices stretched across the theater space, with the individual strips reacting to the directional audio and visual lines of communication of the four major components of the lecture theater: audience, projection system, screen and orator.

Korean Presbyterian Church

Queens, NY

Built, 1999

The design of the Korean Presbyterian Church began in 1995 with the limited partnership of Michael McInturf, Greg Lynn (Hoboken, New Jersey), and Douglas Garofalo (Chicago, Illinois). The project involved the adaptive reuse of the existing 90,000 square foot Knickerbocker Laundry factory, with a 50,000 square foot addition. The lower level of the 1932 two-story factory was renovated into 70 classrooms, while the upper level was transformed into an 800 seat cafeteria, a 600 seat wedding chapel, a library, a day care, and offices.

The addition is suspended above the existing building as an independent structural entity, containing a 2,500-seat sanctuary and a 200-seat choir. Its unique design was realized within the client's limited budget through the management of the forms and dimensions using extremely advanced computer aided design and fabrication technology. An S-shaped lobby/circulation spine punches through the entire complex, shifting the main entrance from the street to the west to the new south parking lot.

The new sections of the building are clad primarily in metal panels, standing-seam metal sheathing, translucent and transparent glazings. The internal circulation cores are rendered in stucco. The expansion of the building provided for the preservation and restoration of the building’s distinctive Art Deco façade, which is a familiar sight to passing Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road commuters.

The Korean Presbyterian Church of New York received an Honor Award by the American Institute of Architects - Cincinnati Chapter, a Citation Award for New Building by the American Institute of Architects - Ohio Chapter, a First Place Bronze Plaque by the Queens Chamber of Commerce Building Awards Competition, and a Progressive Architecture Citation by Architecture Magazine. It has been featured in exhibitions in New York City, Queens, and the upcoming Digital/Real exhibit at the Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. The project has also received wide-spread covering, including articles in Architectural Record, Architecture, A+U: Architecture and Urbanism, Architecture New York, Blueprint, Casabella, Cincinnati Enquirer, deArchitect, Los Angeles Times, Metropolis, Miami Herald, New York Magazine, New York Times, Time Magazine and World Architecture. The Church will also be featured in contemporary architecture, a forthcoming book from Benedikt Taschen Publishing.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Design Competition

The proposal for the conversion of the North American Building to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago considers architecture as a field condition: it is continuous yet varied – a dynamic, interconnected network of elements. In this landscape, variation and adaptability form a porous structure within which fields of information are transmitted, exchanged, modified and mutated, open to the influence of chance encounters and unanticipated adjacencies. The performance criteria of such a place must move beyond functionality in order to truly succeed as a center for innovation.

Instead of relying on the older, hierarchical model of the Big Idea in architecture, pursuing a constellation of smaller ideas will allow the creation of an open field, thereby meeting the School’s mandate for fluid interactivity and maximum flexibility. The existing structure is conceived of as a series of stacked landscapes of technology where speculation on the nature and role of digital media may be critically addressed in the form of experimental work. Here, spatial connectivity, luminous expansiveness and material repetition are interactive elements that establish the field condition.

The vertical data-streaming wall exemplifies the building’s spatial connectivity. Conceived of as a sinuous weave of plastic ribbons, computer monitors, vitrines, and data jacks, this scrim wall located directly adjacent to the elevator banks runs the full height of the building. The wall is a flexible site that can accommodate functions as diverse as displaying video installations, housing critiques, and disseminating departmental and interdepartmental information. In addition, the wall is the spine of the nervous system - conduit that carries lighting, power and data functions to each floor becomes an element within the weave of the wall. This conduit feeds into a secondary system suspended from the ceiling, allowing for flexibility without interrupting floor space or requiring conventional wall jacks.

Open floor plans and the Interlounges create an atmosphere of luminous expansiveness, both physically and metaphorically. Classrooms and critique spaces are situated around the central core. Partitions are limited here to take advantage of the ample natural light that enters each floor from the south and the east. This ensures permeability between the classrooms to maximize opportunities for the dynamic and incidental exchange of ideas and information, which is crucial to a twenty-first century school for the arts.

Michael McInturf Architects + Garofalo Architects

Tibetan Rug

Design Competition

As part of Elson & Company’s Architects Collection, this rug explores the spiritual landscape of Tibetan culture: the idea of the individual as the receptacle of transformation, the link between the spiritual and the physical, and the establishment of collective responsibility.

Private Residence

Cincinnati, OH

Concept, 1997

This private residence investigated possible synthetic landscapes for its rural, densely wooded site. The design mediates the clients’ desire for an octagonal house and their interest in contemporary art.

An analogy was drawn between the clients’ octagonal precedent and the cross section of a tree trunk. Since the growth of a plant is directly related to the available light, the house grew in a time-based computer environment that mimicked the solar conditions of the site.

The resultant form of the pith, cambium and bark layers of the tree/house organized the planning principles of the house.