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table of contents Wooden Boat School SMFA Faculty-In-Residence Space Dragon Court Village Precedent Study Sojourner’s Library East Boston Housing Other Work

Wooden Boat School Brooklin, Maine Fall, 2019 Brooklin has a rich nautical history and is one of the few places where the craft of wooden boat building still thrives.

This expansion of the Wooden Boat School includes spaces to teach and employ boatbuilding skills. The project focuses on mass timber structures and wood construction. This campus is a series of gabled volumes that reference New England’s vernacular structures. The buildings cascade down the 40,000 sq. foot site, and the circulation, orientation and openings reference the process of the craftspeople of Brooklin.

Partial Elevation

milling

logging

forest

Process as Concept

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Plan

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framing

finishing

water

Section A

Section B

Exploded Axonometric

Boat Building Shed Section

Shed Perspective

Unwrapped Corridor

A dark corridor provides contrast to the cedar clad structures. As you enter, a bright, framed view of the forest draws you in. The density of the vertical slats change, revealing slivers of views and dictating a rhythm of circulation.

The five gabled structures are all angled towards a clearing in the site’s existing forestation. This creates a strong visual connection to the coast without altering the wooded area.

The main shed has as a traditional gable as you approach from the north, and steps down to form clerestory windows that bring light deep into the building.

The three sections continue below, as the floor steps down with the topography, creating three bays.

Flush tongue-in-groove cedar boards and granite bases give the buildings a monolithic quality. A tectonic, open corridor made of black wooden slats at varying intervals slips between the gabled buildings.

Detailed Sections of the Wooden Boat School’s Wall Assembly

SMFA Faculty-In-Residence Space Boston, Massachusetts Fall, 2019 This aim of this project was to design a residential building for the faculty of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Studios in Mission Hill.

The concept of this project is to stitch and connect spaces withing and among the buildings. This stitching manifested as brass plates, which assist with visual way-finding and denote hierarchy. The brass plates become furniture in places and pass between walls, providing subtle connections in more private spaces.

The entrance from the street is marked by an enormous plate that extends past the buildings it is between.

Second Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Stitching Parti

Visual Wayfinding

Public and Private

Brass Plate Sketches

Section A

Section B

Dragon Court Village Precedent Study Eureka Architects Japan, 2013 Worked with David Kim and Ziggy Ribetto Fall, 2019 Dragon Court Village is a residential development in a suburban neighborhood of Aichi, Japan. It is built for nine families and balances privacy and community for a low-density residential program.

Japan is facing increasing numbers of severe weather events due to climate change. Dragon Court Village uses lumber, which sequesters carbon from the atmosphere. Furthermore, the architects altered program placement due to wind simulations in order to create both ventilation and comfortable, sheltered outdoor spaces.

Shared spaces create a rich community among the nine residents. Annex buildings on the ground floor are available to any residents to use, for office spaces or lectures or markets etc. Farmers markets are sometimes held by residents in the public spaces on the ground floor.

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

Third Floor Plan

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Zigy Ribeto

Second Floor Plan Zigy Ribeto SECOND FLOOR PLAN 0

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Ground Floor Plan Zigy Ribeto

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Site Organization Typology 0

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PRIVATE vs PUBLIC

Public Private Spectrum

Wind Simulation

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Exploded axonometric painting of the building’s path.

Sojourners Library Boston, Massachusetts Spring, 2019 The client for this project traveled across Europe and the United States, working in many renowned bookstores. Throughout her travels, she collected many rare books and maps.

She decided to settle in Boston and open her own bookstore.

The circulation for this three story building is through a series of ramps. The path sometimes navigates around program, and sometimes expands to become a room. Along the ramps and landings are areas of rest and areas of acquisition. The “retaining walls” along the ramps become railings, benches and bookshelves. The procession through this building parallels the clients travels, and allows her to share both her collected items and her journey with visitors.

Ground Floor Plan

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Third Floor Plan

Structural Grid

Section The ramp wraps around the courtyard to get to each above level.

Ground Floor Model

Sectional vignettes of moments where the “retaining walls” adapt to the space’s program.

East Boston Housing A New Kindly Use Boston, Massachusetts Fall, 2021 This housing project started with a granular analysis of Eastie as a whole and as an accumulation of effects. The consequences of centuries of unfeeling and shortsighted generation have been clear to its residents - flooded land, poor air, polluted soil, dirty water, inescapable noise, seized property. When coming up with an urban and social framework, many “regenerative” techniques fit the bill, but some questions arise. What does it mean to “regenerate” land that didn’t exist 300 or 100 or 50 years ago? From this, the project became underpinned by the need to consciously decide between de generation

generation and re generation.

Part of this project’s program is the East Boston Corps., envisioned to employ members of the community, teach about climate justice and execute crucial projects that require the action of an organization.

East Boston This Corps. will be “given over” to the community, with a co-operative structure and open meetings and voting.

The activist tradition is strong in Eastie, and closed, top-down approaches haven’t served its people well in the past. The first major project is a piecemeal, citywide effort to change the soil of East Boston, degenerating pollution, poor drainage, water table issues, inviability of farming, etc. This would be achieved through a continuing process of composting, planting native species, crop-rotation, permeating, creating bioswales, etc.

The project took form as 3 bar shaped buildings, home to 56 studios, 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms, with the majority of units being affordable subsidized rental housing. There is a public library, seed storage, stores, and open spaces for anyone to meet, read, and simply exist. Situated on the Greenway, the massing regenerates the alleyway-triple decker typology. Two masonry vessels rise from the ground, carving entrances and public spaces, anchoring beams, letting in light and air.

Basin Sketches Bethlehem Shipyards closes Immigration Act

1984 1965

Boston economy starts shift from manufacturing to service End of World War II Logan Airport starts massive infill project

1945 1945 1940s

Became largest ethnic group after WWI

Settled in Jeffries Point, north of Maverick Sq, Orient Heights

Italians come from North End, Calabria, Sicily

Synagogue Ohel Jacob on Gove and Paris St

Settled north of Maverick Sq and Eagle Hill

Eastern European Jews fleeing pogroms & North, West ends

Rail dock, coal yard, machine shop, candy, shoe, textile, garment workers

Russian, Italian, Portugese

1890-1915 population grew from 36,930 to 62,377

“Ellis Island” of Boston

East Boston Immigration Station Opens

Immigration restrictions slows growth

Logan Airport opens

East Boston Tunnel converted to rail, becomes Blue Line

Population peaks at over 64,000

Start of World War II

LOGAN AIRPORT EXPANSION

Sparked development that disrupted neighbrhoods & quality of life Loud planes, gratuitous emminent domain, etc.

Maverick Mills closes

1955

Fleeing civil wars, drug violence, economic turmoil Vietnam War and Cambodian Genocide refugees

New wave of southeast Asian & Latin American immigrants

P&L Sportswear closes

1986

Housing prices rise, pricing out families with generation spanning roots

Housing market crash

1940 1939 1925 1924 1923 1920s 1920

Maverick Sauare

Luxury housing takes over waterfront, Eastie becoming gentrified

2008

2010s

Covid-19 hits East Boston especially hard

CURRENT LANDFORM

OUR PROJECT

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Suffolk Downs proposals

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EAST BOSTON TIMELINE

SITE Logan Airport

A series of stepped basins with ultra-permeable soil and drainage pipes, designed as part flooding infrastructure, part park. These start at the coastal entrance of the Greenway and appear like leaves off a stem, heading inland.

They act as retention ponds to keep water off the paths, and when dry, they’re filled with seats, mosses, and wildflowers.

1880s

Boston Sugar Refinery opens

INDUSTRIALIZING...

General William Sumner founds East Boston Company

EAST BOSTON UNALTERED

Samuel Maverick is first European settler on Noddle’s Island

1834 1834 1833

1770

1633

Credited with creating granulated sugar

Boston annexes East Boston

1836

Drained swamps, built wharves, moved goods on the waterfront Lived in Jeffries Point, Maverick Sq, Eagle Hill up until 1880s

Potato Famine, over 3500 Irish born in 1855

Irish comprise largest foreign born group

1840s

Parochial School Center of Irish community, remained largest immigrant parish

St Nicholas Church founded (Most Holy Redeemer)

East Boston home to most Canadians in Boston

Hired Canadian, Scottish, Scandinavian shipworkers

Built world-record setting Clipper ships

Daniel MacKay opens shipyard

1844

1845

First railroad to mainland Boston

SECOND WAVE OF IMMIGRATION

Goodwill, Immigrant & Trinity Houses open

1901

1880 1875

Start of World War I First streetcar tunnel to downtown Boston

1914

End of World War I

1918

Noddle’s

Bird Governer’s

Hogg

Apple

The vessels are a patchwork of old bricks, stones, tiles, and other detritus.

Before construction, the people of Eastie are asked to bring fragments - and their memories - in a celebration of their city and themselves.

light streams through holes in the brickwork

Sectional Sketch

vessel, basin and building collide, rippling through the retaining wall

East Boston Cookbook showing trajectory of Eastie’s past and giving recipes for f

beams and balconies punch through the vessel

alleyways lead from the street to the greenway

future action to “degenerate” some of the maladies - pollution, noise, flooding, poor soil

Vessel Perspectives Bremen Street

Ground Floor Plan

Greenway

double 9x9” columns

2x8” acoustic DLT slabs 6x21” glulam beams

pre-fab insulated facade panels

sun-shading devices on projecting beams

Sectional Detail Model 1/4” : 1’ A chunk of vessel was carved from a scavenged pine 4x4. Sometimes the vessels embed or gouge space out from the building, other times the building punches through, allowing light and air to enter units through balcony-windows.

The Ziggurat of Ur

Djoser’s Pyramid

The Great Stupa, Sanchi

Greek Jar Study

Kengo Kuma’s Nest We Grow Perspective and Details

2OO1: A Space Odyssey Narrative Diagram

Custom Walnut Speakers

Uncle Sam

Plaster Models from Fall Semester, 2018