Representation
A body of work by Jonathan Windsor Corriveau Northeastern University School of Architecture
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The Cube project is a project designed to introduce us to spatial reasoning and fundamental architectural representation through hand and computer generated drawings. We were asked to create a project from a series of predetermined cuts and pieces that defined a 6”x6”x6” imaginary cube and included two distinct, define spaces. My iteration of this project featuresa series of L shaped pieces interlocking in different ways in order to accomplish the requirements.
Carpenter Center
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The Carpenter Center project was created to introduce us to the importance of designing and constructing an intervention in a preexisting space. In this case, we were asked to design a learning space adjacent to Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Within this space, we were asked to include individual, smaller learning spaces, a medium learning space for a group of about 20 people, as well as a larger lecture space. My design focused on incorporating the existing circulation that is experienced when moving through the Carpenter Center into the circulation through my intervention. I also drew influence from basic geometry of the Carpenter Center and included those shapes in my design.
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Christian Science Center
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The Christian Science Center project was created to introduce us to apertures and creating a space that must react with natural light. We were asked to design a pavilion within the context of the Christian Science Center plaza in Boston, Massachusetts, that housed two statues borrowed from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, as well as create a design that highlighted the preexisting architecture within the Christian Science Center. My design focused on emphasizing the verticality within the plaza without interrupting the general flow and circulation of the space. As a result, I created a labyrinth-like structure that directed the eye to the two major vertical elements of the plaza, The First Church of Christ and the Administration Building, while creating a choreographed circulation that also forced an appreciation of the two provided statues.
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The Museum Stair project was a project in which we were asked to design a gallery space within an imaginary preexisting museum to house two paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin by Roger van der Weyden as well as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent. In creating this space, we were asked to design a central stair that connected the three given spaces and created a circulation that caused an appreciation of the provided paintings. My design focused on direct and oblique perspective, diffused and direct light, and a choreographed circulation. After completing an analysis of the two paintings, I designed a space that emphasized the different perspectives from which the painting should be experienced through the use of choreographed circulation and thin, elongated apertures located in the ceiling.
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