Portfolio by Adam Cournoyer

Architectural portfolio

Adam Cournoyer

Table Of Contents Project 1 Extending the Spine of Boston Pages: 1-10 Project 2 Sacred Space at Wentworth Institute Pages: 11-22 Project 3 SOWA Urban Development Project Pages: 23-30 2D and 3D Fabrication Modular Shading Device/Vaulted Stool Pages: 31-34 Work Samples Rendering for Sutphin Architects Pages: 35-38 Media Samples Photography Pages: 39-44

Extending The Spine Year: Location:

Forth Year Fort Point Boston, MA

Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spine flows through Back Bay and along the edge of Beacon Hill and into downtown. With the latest developments in the seaport district, another piece of the spine is starting to emerge. However, this is largely disconnected by the fort point channel and the developments around it. My design aims to establish a connection between these broken links. The building works in close relation with the Ceasar Pelli tower under construction to its rear. Playing off of urban geometries of near by towers the design aims to establish a dialog with the spine while maintaining relations with the surrounding mid rise buildings. The facade of the building maintains a dialog at multiple scales through the push and pull of its floor plates. The lower levels engage the pedestrian realm emphasizing the horizontal relations of the building with the extrusion of its floor slabs. As the building changes into office space, the floor plates recede behind the vertical columns, changing the emphasis from horizontal to vertical. This starts the transition into the urban scale, as the buildings height increases the long spanning vertical structure accentuates the verticality of the residential and hotel towers.

Programs: Revit, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, and Illustrator

extending the spine

Hotel Residential

Offices

Commercial

Single Loaded Residential Block

Trans H

sitioning to the Human Scale

extending the spine

Relations at the to the City Scale

Terraced Pedestrian Space

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extending the spine

Section A

The building is supported with a grid of 2â&#x20AC;&#x2122; by 2â&#x20AC;&#x2122; concrete columns. These columns are aligned with the floor plate to create a visual connection to the programmatic relationships. On the base, the floor plate extends past the structural grid to emphasize the pedestrian programmatic relationships of the first four floors. At the fifth the office facades set back into the building creating a distinct separation from the residential tower to the left. This allows the commercial spaces to read differently, acting as a massing that can urbanistically respond to the mid rises in the area. The hotel portion of the commercial tower sets back again to match the residential set back; this relationship is shown in the detail above.

extending the spine

2nd Floor Plan - 37,800 GSF Scale: NTS

Section B

Typical 10th-13th Floor Plan - 23,400 GSF Scale: NTS

Typical 14th-17th Floor Plan - 19,600 GSF Scale: NTS

Sacredness in Nature Year: Location:

Third Year Wentworth Boston, MA

A sacred space is where one can be removed from their surroundings, where they can easily connect with their inner self and the natural rhythms of the environment around them. A sacred space can be created using nature as a medium for a gradual transition from the busy urban environment into tranquility. The gradual transition can be achieved through the manipulation of the landscape and the breakdown of the built form. This creates a layer of nature that carries into the interior of the building, creating a transition between the natural and built environment. Topography surrounding the building reduces sound and increases privacy from Huntington Ave and Ruggles Street.

Programs: AutoCAD, SketchUp, Maxwell Render, Photoshop, and Illustrator

Sacreness in nature FIRST FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR 1. Large Gathering Area 2. Small Gathering Area 3. First Floor Library

4. Second Floor Library

5. Dressing Room 6. Prep Room 7. Woman’s Bathroom 8. Men’s Bathroom 9.Video Room 10. Offices 11. Audio Room

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Sacreness in nature

The primary acoustical device is the topography that surrounds the building. It drastically reduces the noise of daily traffic from Huntington Avenue and Ruggles Street. The trees and surrounding landscape provide a layer of sound reduction further decreasing the noise. The facades of each of the buildings in the center of the sacred space are made up of convex curves to dissipate the sound waves evenly throughout the space. The building is located farther back on the site to allow for a buffer zone.

Sacreness in nature

The three trees in the center of the mass are directly in line with the axis of the two gathering areas to provide shade from direct sunlight. During the winter the trees provide protection from the sunlight acting as a light filter. During the summer the light angle is high enough that the direct sunlight is blocked by the shape of the fenestration. The large curtainwall of the library building faces the north preventing direct sunlight from casting into the library space.

Sacreness in nature

First Floor Structural Plan Scale: NTS

Second Floor Structural Plan Scale: NTS

SOWA Apartments Year: Location:

Second Year SOWA, Boston, MA

The scope of this project was to create a new housing proposal for an underutilized parking lot in the South of Washington Area. The program consisted of middle to high income apartments, studio apartments, and exhibition spaces. The middle to high income apartment building was designed to provide daylight to every unit throughout the year. The units per floor increase as the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s height increases, creating a void in the center of the mass. As the void increases, all that remains is the expanding circulation space between the units. The angle of the south facing wall in the void is sloped at the angle of the summer solstice and its roof at the winter solstice. This angling effect provides direct sunlight into the center of the mass during the summer and indirect sunlight through the winter. The studio apartments have a range of different lighting situations for the artists to work in. The light wells in the center of the work space allow for controlled indirect light. Through rear collaboration space the artists can work in direct sunlight.

Programs: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, and Illustrator

SOWA Urban development Project

Second Floor Plan Scale: NTS

Section Model Cut

First Floor Plan Scale: NTS

SOWA Urban development Project

2D+3D Fabrication Year: Location:

Fourth Year Wentworth Institute, Boston, MA

Shading Device Working in a group of 4, we were tasked with creating a shading device for a single 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122; by 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122; south facing window. In the design phase we came up with a 9 panel system based on a single mold. The design decreases the direct sunlight that previously plagued this particular hallway in Wentworth. Channels were cut in the sidewalls of the topographic form to create a cascade of indirect light. We started the building process at the CNC machine. We used MDF to mill a negative of the form. With the negative we were able to vacuum form the plastic around the negative to make the positive. After 9 repetitions we pinned the system together to create the complete form.

Vaulted Stool Working in a pair, my group my group was tasked with designing a concrete stool from concept to casting. The design took influence from barrel vaulted ceilings. During this process we milled the foam negative on the CNC machine. We took the negative and used this to create the concrete positive. Acknowledgments: Shading device rendering and drawings by Cory Cook. Machines: CNC Router,Vacuum Former Programs: SketchUp, Rhino, Photoshop, and Illustrator

Milled MDF Negative

Vacuum Formed Plastic Positive

Final Aggregation

2d and 3d fabrication - Shading device

Elevation of Panels

Built Form

2d and 3d fabrication - Vaulted stool

Foam Negative Aggregation

Concrete Mold Assembly

Sutphin Architects Year: Location:

Second Year Intern South Boston, MA

As an intern at Sutphin Architects I designed various multi-unit residential projects, developing floor plans and elevations in AutoCAD and renderings using SketchUp and AutoCAD 3D in combination with other rendering software.

Photo: 388 West 4th Street, South Boston Programs: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, and Kerkythea Render

SUTPHIN ARCHITECTs

213 West 5th Street, South Boston

SUTPHIN ARCHITECTs

213 West 5th Street, South Boston

Photography Year: Location:

Second-Fourth Year Massachusetts and Colorado

As architects we have a responsibility to respond to the natural forces around us. It is imperative we understand nature and how it effects the built environment. On the surface there are obvious forces such as wind, light, and weathering. However there are deeper layers of influence in nature we can distill. Through the weathered transformations of the natural form, a certain beauty comes to light. One can stare at a sharp mountain and feel the monumental power of the mass. One can walk through a forest and get lost in the tranquility. We are constantly striving towards the quality these spaces provide us. It is our job as architects to synthesize these qualities with the built form. The pictures in this section attempt to capture the organic beauty of the natural environment. The last spread shows two spaces in the Boston area that work in unity with the environment around it.

Programs: Photos are unaltered Photo: Rocky Mountain National Park, CO

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Lumpy Ridge, Estes Park

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Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs

Estes Park Valley, Colorado

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Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, Boston

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Pier 3, Charlestown Navy Yard

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