People in Section
The “Bus Load Effect” n. v. adj., (BLE); giving perspective to your design through the use of silhouetted people. By placing people into both plan and section , and interviewing them, your design can be understood on a human scale. It touches back upon the life lessons learned… as Atticus Finch would say “take [...]
Aidan Lindh / Thesis
Aidan Lindh/ Thesis 2010 / Primary Advisor: Carol Burns The increase of technology has augmented convenience, privatizing the spectacle of the news and information gathering rendering it everyday and placeless. In light of this deteriorating relationship between receiver and media communicator, this thesis project will inject the existing Boston Herald building with a new Herald TV/Radio encompassing a newsprint [...]
Megan Yorke / Third Year
Summer 2010 / Landscape Studio/ Professor MacPhail This design for the Jamaica Pond Friends School intended to not only be sensitive towards Quaker beliefs but site responsive as well. Quaker beliefs are deeply rooted in teaching others to be environmentally conscious so this design for the elementary school not only uses sustainable strategies but is [...]
Jake Augunas / Third Year
Fall 2009 / Tectonic Studio / Professor MacPhail The initial phases of this project involved a study into the structural geometry of Hitoshi Abe’s Shirasagi bridge. The steel panels and tubes that composed the bridge are arrayed in such a manner as to infer movement; while the bridge itself does not suffer from this assembly, from [...]
Jessica Corbett / Third Year
Summer 2009 / Landscape Studio / Professor Michael Macphail If you are going to completely recreate nature through landscape design why not recreate a nature that allows for human inhabitance through architecture? My design is a K-4 elementary school located in the park alongside Jamaica Pond, designed by Fredrick Law Olmstead. I have great respect [...]
Kris Landry / Fourth Year
Kris Landry / Spring 2008 / Comprehensive Studio / Ann Pitt Site Location: The site is located in Boston’s South End across from Blackstone Park. Directly adjacent to the site is a community building, an apartment complex, an elementary school and a playground. Design Challenge: As modern technology advances the new generation looks to different [...]
Annie Steele / Third Year
Fall 2009 / Tectonic Studio This bicycle manufacturing/sales/retail company was sited in Jamaica Plain, MA on a corner site for the company Seven Cycles, which produces expensive custom bikes for individuals based on their needs. The main concept in my design was to connect each of the different professions with a main central circulation and [...]
Ryan Philbin – Jesse BN / 2009-10
Studio Chair Sculptures 2009 – Present Chair sculptures cannot be planned, only proposed as a challenge. For any student focusing on meticulous work through the late night into early morning, distractions and mental breaks are necessary. The only difference between designers and everyone else is that we have a studio to create our own temporary [...]
Jason Skibo / Fourth Year
“What exactly do you do here?” Jason Skibo / Fourth Year / Spring 2010 Well, we color a lot. We provide visual stimulation, one 11×17 at a time. We rotate virtual models for hours. We draw with a mouse and keyboard. We photograph. We design t-shirts, magazines and web sites. We learn how to talk [...]
Heather Powers / Thesis
Thesis / 2009 Abstract Installation art has the ability to make us see things that have existed all along. The work of Christo and Jeanne Claude can focus attention on a space or building that was taken for granted the day before. Doug Fishbone’s awkward placement of bananas in a plaza causes people to stop [...]
Brian Slozak / Third Year
Meadow House This project comprised of creating a retreat house within a meadow field. The meadow creates a tranquil and secluded place in which one can withdraw to. The design concept strived to incorporate the house with the meadow by having the meadow act as a datum. The program was split into three distinct zones [...]
Elen Harutyunyan / Thesis
Architecture is a transitional ground for examining competing historical narratives and confronting of complex emotional experiences, as well as a site for cultural critique. From 1915 to today, the programmatic erasure of Armenian culture in present-day Turkey has included the isolation, removal, or remaking of a physical environment that defines Armenian memory and identity. Therefore, [...]
