Marie Davis Architectural Portfolio
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Table of Contents Off The Plinth - Capstone Studio
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Architecture, Infrastructure, and the City
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Urban Walk-Up Housing
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Site, Space, Program
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Co-Op at Hacin + Associates
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Architectonic Systems [52] Illustrations [56]
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CAPSTONE RESEARCH PROJECT OFF THE PLINTH: Repairing Communal Heritage in Boston’s Monument Landscape
Boston Monument + Memorial Analysis 12 select projects representative of Boston’s landscape
Subject of Commemoration
Most of Boston’s monuments are unchanging objects made of permanent materials like stone and bronze. As such, they are often washed of any trace of conflict in order to preserve a monument’s role as historical consensus.
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Material
Age of Event/Person
History should not be about consensus. It is complicated, scattered, and personal. How can we represent the values and heritage of a complex city with the same repeating forms—bronze statue, bronze plaque, stone plinth, stone plaque.
Age of Monument
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What if we commemorated the memories embedded in our everyday spaces? For instance, what stories are present in your favorite park bench or corner store?
Off the Plinth asks residents to rethink flaws in Boston’s monument landscape and how to create a more open- ended heritage system. The following postcard provides a framework for residents to nominate places they view as important landmarks within the community.
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NS T MEA ODITSTHASTO HBORHO R NEIG CE INTO YOU PLAING PICKSOMA ETH RY. YOU, AND TELL US staircase? Is it a park? A storefront? A bench? A trashcan or a free to include your Feel this place. y of ation Use this space, to sketch out your about your choice. any inform , or memor age
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Often made of stone or bronze, commemorative plaques carry the same permanence and homogeneity as larger monuments. Rethinking Boston’s heritage process also requires a reassessment of locating or marking processes.
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Off the Plinth instead opts for a more impermanent and flexible marking system—one that reflects the scattered and complex nature of memory. Tagging locations giving on the postcard answers, this sticker allows passer-by to scan the QR code and discover the full postcard answer at offtheplinth.net .
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In order to distribute the postcard survey to a variety of residents, I partnered with community groups in Boston such as the Asian Community Development Corporation, and attended events to hand out cards. The project website is an on-going project, updated weekly with new personal landmarks from Boston’s people.
References Field Trip - Monument Lab. (n.d.). Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://monumentlab.com/projects/field-trip Jorge Otero-Pailos, “Creative Agents,” Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism 3, no. 1 (2006): ii-vii. Lower Roxbury Black History Project, (n.d.). Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://roxbury.library.northeastern.edu/ . “Making an Invisible History Visible.” NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Accessed February 16, 2022. https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/. The Memory Project. (n.d.). Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://www.thememoryproject.space/about . Rebecca Solnit, “The Monument Wars,” Harper’s, January 2017. Terry Adkins, Prototype Monument for Center Square - Monument Lab. (n.d.). Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://monumentlab.com/projects/terryadkinsprototype-monument-for-center-square . Tim Cresswell, “Maxwell Street: Fragments of an Attempt at Writing Place,” Making Sense of Place: Place Theory and Placemaking in Practice, Pratt
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STUDIO IV Architecture, Infrastructure, and the City
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ground floor commercial space
raised harborwalk
wetland/ flood mitigation
network of piers
tidal inlet linear park
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Objective To create an urban realm which allows a community to grow, adapt, and change over time, while also preserving the essential characteristics of the surrounding neighborhoods and environmental context.
Boston’s coastline has proved that flood mitigation can serve not only as a climate resiliency system, but also as an enhancement of a neighborhood’s public and green realm. In an area prone to flooding, South Boston’s Reserved Channel holds potential to act in both these ways. By expanding its coast into a wetland and neighborhood park, my project aims to celebrate the Reserve Channel and integrate it into the South Boston fabric.
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Wetland Park
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Pappas Way
Pappas Way
green parking scape
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green scape
bike
bike
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60-100’ (varies)
27’ raised harborwalk
salt marsh
network of piers
sidewalk stormwater planters
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2. Grid System
1. Coastal Flood Risk
Tidal Flood Pathways Boston Coastal Resilience Projects
10% Annual Coastal Flood Risk: 2030s
Reserved Channel
10% Annual Coastal Flood Risk: 2050s 10% Annual Coastal Flood Risk: 2070s
4. Street Extensions
3. Extending the Coast Line
tidal inlet
original coast line new coast line
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5. Roof Plan
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Tidal Inlet
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Cypher Street: Commercial
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Because of its ability to absorb and store water, the wetland acts as a flood mitigation system by slowing the flow of water, and replenishing the groundwater supply that people and plants may depend on. The tidal inlet follows Boston’s flood paths in an attempt to further redirect water from the site into the wetland.
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STUDIO III Urban Walk-Up Housing
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Overview [7] Buildings [14] 3BD Duplex [ 1,450 SQ ] [14] 2BD [ 1,150 SQ ] [42] Studios [ 500-600 SQ ]
Objective To explore the “missing middle” in urban housing – which is neither the single-family home nor the large double-loaded corridor apartment building that dominates residential building types today – through a repeatable prototype.
Although nuclear families only make up 10% of American households, most housing is designed and marketed for this type. Meanwhile, the concepts of public housing, multifamily housing, and social housing all carry negative connotations in the general public.
While standardization has become the norm for housing, there is room for innovation in housing types. In fact, walk-up housing has richer spatial and social possibilities because the code for non-elevator buildings allows for a wider range of solutions, both horizontally and vertically.
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Prototype Street Side
Prototype Back Side
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9’3”
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10’6” 9’3” 10’6” 9’3” 5’
# floors on street side: 4 # floors on back side: 5
This operation maximizes space and efficiency, while also allowing for more interesting spatial conditions sectionally.
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3 BD 3 BD
2 BD 2 BD Studio
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Unit Distribution
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Net / Gross Area Efficiency Site proposal - 78 % Double-loaded corridor on same site - 75 %
Axon & Efficiency Table Marie Davis
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floor 1
floor 0 32
floor 4
floor 2
floor 3 33
full site section
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full site ground floor
private green space public green space 35
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Left Double-height living room in top floor 3BD Below Private Balcony in 2nd floor studio
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STUDIO II Site, Space, Program
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Objective To consider how to give form to public institutions that are supposedly “free to all” in an urban environment.
The proposed site in Boston’s Chinatown already houses a grocery store on one end and a Dim Sum restaurant on the other. Because the fabric of these establishments are typologies of Boston’s current Chinatown, I preserved the facades of these two buildings in the library design.
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Main Library Stack + Reading Rooms
Cafe
Staff Kids Teens
Dim Sum Restaurant
Grocery Store
Auditorium
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As a result, these cultural institutions are archived into the library, just as books are. While the resulting four volumes appear as separate from the outside, the inside is one continuous building. The intersections between these volumes become important in terms of reconciling the programs of a library, grocery store, and Dim Sum restaurant.
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CO-OP AT HACIN + ASSOCIATES I. HYDROW OFFICE Supervisor: Darien Fortier Responsibilites: Draft and review iterations for various rooms in AutoCAD, Rhino, and Enscape Communicate with client about employee needs and programs for whole office, organize and represent information in a legible format
Left Enscape renderings of gym room iterations
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Enscape renderings of shower room iterations
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I. GANSETT RESIDENCE - Lighting Conditions on July 21st
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II. BIOMED OFFICE - Walkthrough of full design
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ARCHITECTONIC SYSTEMS I. WATCH TOWER Objective To investigate wood light frame construction and its expressive potential.
The structure reveals, exploits, and dramatizes the nature of wood frame construction including its lightweight standardized elements, modular planning, simple assembly, and abundance of formal possibilities.
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II. STRUCTURE + EXPERIENCE Objective To exploit the articulation and design of a concrete cladding system to resist thermal heat gain and weather while maintaining a visible open area through the introduction of glazing.
Because they do not have corners, the circular windows accommodate movement by deforming into a shape that is less subject to cracking than rectangular openings. These openings are connected to the walls by control joints, which accentuate the material’s characteristics while concealing the shear wall system.
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Figure Studies
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Portraits
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