2013 Portfolio

hailey casavant-colby architectural portfolio

Projects: Hydrotherapy Center.....................................................1 - 4 Urban Retreat...................................................................5 - 6 Food Museum...................................................................7 - 10 Annex Connector........................................................11 - 12 MIT Media Lab.................................................................13 - 14 Urban Sanctuary..........................................................15 - 16 IDEO.................................................................................17 - 18 Quilt................................................................................19 - 20

Hydrotherapy Center When passing under drapping branches one transitions into a different type of space. There is clarity where the “exits� are located from inside, but from outside, establishing the entrance is a little more vague. There is a single moment amongst the Linden trees at Arnold Arboretum that perfectly encapsulates this idea. Through an opening in this three tree canopy, there is a clear and unclear view of interior versus exterior. Through models and images I have hoped to diagram this moment and progression through various representations of gradients.

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Urban Retreat “this is the task of the house: to reveal the world, not as essence but as presence...A retreat, however, is not a place where the outside world is forgotten; rather it is a place where man gathers his memories of the world and relates them to his daily life of eating, sleeping, conversation and entertainment.”

Christian Norberg-Schulz in The Concept of Dwelling.

An idealized vineyard for an urban couples retreat. An abstraction of Isamu Noguchi’s Kouros 1944-45 sculpture lead to the placement and sizing of all the structural pieces. These run with and in between the existing vineyard and allow for breaks to pass through to the living spaces embedded in the vines.

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Food Museum We travel through the freedom and instability at the beginning of a design process to the precise, clean destination of the final critiques. This is physically shown through the floor plates as well as the elevations and through the specific program designations. Process is shown moving from the bottom floor with relatively soft extrusions (symbolizing the freedom at the beginning of the project) to drastic areas showing the difficulty of desiging a project.

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Annex Connector We travel through the freedom and instability at the beginning of a design process to the precise, clean destination of the final critiques. This is physically shown through the floor plates as well as the elevations and through the specific program designations. Process is shown moving from the bottom floor with relatively soft extrusions (symbolizing the freedom at the beginning of the project) to drastic areas showing the difficulty of desiging a project.

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MIT Media Lab This precedent study allowed my group members and I to understand the south and east facades of the MIT Media Lab. The skin is made up of aluminum panels, glass and horizontal aluminum tubes extended from the building. Because of Cambridge’s law that no more than 50 percent of a building can be glass, (heating and cooling purposes) the “screens” of tubes were installed to provide shade and privacy for the inside.

group members Joshua McDewell Jonathon Stras

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Urban Sanctuary Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issues of how our lives fit into the greater scheme of things. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder why we are here, or what happens when we die. We become spiritual when a power beyond our visible world is revealed. Through my Urban Sanctuary, I give evidence of the connection everyone has to a higher power, his or her inner self, other persons, and nature.

Mausoleum As you reach the top you are surrounded by light and are opened up to a gallery of sorts. Here you are able to reflect upon your contemplative journey with your loved ones and come to the realization that you and your family are not alone.

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IDEO To be able to creatively work at an industrial design firm, there has to be areas of direct connection, indirect connection, and a place to rest and think to yourself. These ideas are expressed through catwalks, a two-story information wall, and individual work spaces. Employees subconsciously flow through the building, providing reflection and conversation between the different main spaces, allowing for limitless productivity.

Circulation Diagram

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Quilt An abstraction of “One Patch” by America Irby’s quilt, I pushed and pulled pieces of her design to what I saw as hierachy. The vibrant red rectangles were defined as structure, while the different colored squares surrounding it were floating in space.

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