hailey casavant-colby architectural portfolio
Design Work: Digital Caveats of Fabrication.....................................1 - 6 Urban Retreat...................................................................7 - 8 Gee’s Bend Quilt.............................................................9 - 10 Food Museum..................................................................11 - 14 Hydrotherapy Center.................................................15 - 20 Senior Collab. Centre for the Arts.....................21 - 34 Master’s Thesis....................................................................35
Digital Caveats A class based on experimenation with the laser cutter. From exported files and different programs used within sketchup, fine tuning of the capabilities of the laser machine allowed methods of folding, cutting, rastering, slicing to produce a series of models that were used in future studios outside of class.
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Urban Retreat 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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“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.�
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Food Museum Through the guided curves of walls and stairs, the process and exhibition of food is experienced. Openings and separation of walls and spaces, along with openings in the floor plates allows hints of food experience and an idea to what the next step beyond is. An organic shape in a rigid, industrial area gives notice to this building and draws attention to the food museum within.
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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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Senior Collaborative Medfield State Hospital
Centre for the Arts Architect: Hailey Colby Interior Designer: Kingsley Catalucci CM: Gary Kantorski
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Concept Statement: Display & Exposure. Designing a Centre for the Arts inspired us to create a form that circumabulates around the existing Chapel building, putting it on display from all angles within the interior. The new structure is formed based on the patterns of the sun and grows from one level at the entry point to four levels at ending point, which creates a persons experience to grow as you move through the space. The classrooms, cafe and small gallery spaces are located within the new structure, while the Chapel serves a dual purpose of a large performance area and a convertible exhibition space.
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First Floor RCP
First Floor Plan
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Chapel: Ground Floor Entrance
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Second Floor RCP
Second Floor Plan
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Third Floor RCP
Third Floor Plan
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Fourth Floor RCP
Fourth Floor Plan
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MASTER’S THESIS: Mindful Meditation
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This thesis is rooted in Mindfulness: the intentional, accepting and nonjudgmental focus of ones attention on the emotions, thoughts, and sensations occurring in the present moment. the meditational focusing on the breath; inhalation
practice of movements of and exhalation.
My thesis means to create a setting that allows for maximum mindfulness; a sublime setting that touches upon the uncanny to heighten all senses for transcendence to an enlightened state of being , with full awareness and a consciousness of mind that is constantly in the immediate present. AKA Mindfulness. It means to interrupt a mindless habitual behavior that many experience daily, and create a new mindful memory within a series of meditational spaces. In the dark, we are unfamiliar with our surroundings; only then are we able to purely reflect on our body and mind.