Thesis: Wentworth Celebration Poster

Thesis: Final Crit

Thesis Statement: Landmarks and historic sites throughout the city have become cliche’ and kitschy, overlooked and then delegated to the realm of tourism. The people, who work and live in the city, are in turn, disassociated from these spaces because they do not engage these sites in their everyday activities. By focusing on one of these detached environments, this thesis will respond to issues of memory, perception, and the potential for the human activity of local cultures to inspire new and vibrant relationships within these neglected spaces of the city. A series of interventions will be developed that link and connect the tourist aspect of these environments with the everyday activities of the city’s inhabitants. The existing infrastructure that links these zones will also be redeveloped, rethought, and modernized. These associations will demonstrate how memory and the sense of place can provide the city’s inhabitants with a strong connection to the site.

Thesis: Studio: Model Making

Me making a 3D perspective model. The camera got shifted near the end and so you can't me making the model as well.

Thesis: Studio

Here it is... on you tube

Thesis: Studio

Our Master Studio space is really cramped. We moved to our student resource room.

5 Master students... 8 hours on a Friday night.......(6pm to 2am)

We have begun recording our activies every day now.... they will be complied into a video at the end of "death week". This is just a test video... a little fast at the moment, we will splice together the fun parts once we have time, for now...enjoy...

Thesis: Finals: Site Plan

Thesis: Finals: Sections

Site on the Boston Common: Re-institutional Center (halfway house) and Cooking School (training school)

Reinstitutional center

Re-institutional center entry + school entry

Thesis: Program: Models

Working model to help develop program adjacencies in the Boston Common.

Thesis: Boston Common Site: Prelim Plan

Homeless Halfway House/ Shelter With Integrated Community Learning Kitchen, Support Faclities, and Restaurant Hall

This plan has been changed since my pin up on Thursday.  The overall idea of the plan is beginning to work, the sections that work with this plan are not what I want the architecture to look like at all.  The form is beginning to draw the city into the space, while directing the eye and user towards the history located on the site.

Thesis: Diagrams: Models

Analysis on the study models I created using Photoshop filters.  The goal of this diagraming idea was to find edge conditions that I can use to derive form off of.  These edge conditions indicate where passage, form, and juxtaposition can occur.

Thesis: Diagrams: Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition diagrams

Thesis: Diagrams: Models

Gummy bear diagrams. Courtesy of George.

Thesis: Model: Process: Streets

Progress of my 1"=100' site model of Boston's Freedom Trail.

I scored the sidewalks, and cut the streets out on the laser cutter.  Each of the 8 pieces took about 16 minutes to cut on the laser cutter.

Some pieces of the model. Each piece is 24x33.

More pieces before assembly.

Pinned up version of site and site analysis.  These photos were taken on my phone.  I will take better photos to show the detail of the model later.  I marked the sites on the Freedom Trail, T-Stations, and the specific sites on the Freedom Trail that I want to renovate.

Thesis: Program: Analysis

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

Thesis: Design Method: Study Models

 

  

  

  

  

Thesis: User Groups: More Diagrams

 

This diagram indicates how I want to lift the Freedom Trail up to create seating spaces, and shelter, as well as "bend/ fold" the trail into the ground to excavate usable program space.

Thesis: Site: History

 

Above is a diagram showing the time-line of what occured on the Freedom Trail in relation to the physical Freedom Trail path.

Thesis: User Groups: Diagrams

Below is a plan diagram representing the integration of local user groups into the Freedom Trail.

 

Below is a section diagram showing the typical situation of user groups on and around the Freedom Trail.

 

Below is a diagram showing the needs of tourists versus locals.

 

 Below are three diagrams showing how the Freedom Trail can be transformed into a spatial idea.