portfolio james quick
introduction
introspection
interruption
interpolation
project 1: interpolation
a house for two clients cambridge, ma career discovery 2010 harvard gsd
Two different lifestyles expressed two different ways. For the Smiths and the Jones, two retired couples living together, the goal was to provide distinctive living quarters for each couple while preserving public space and the opportunity for interaction. For Fields and Corner, a young professional couple that shares a love of film, the goal was provide a house that would act as a setting for their own daily performances. For them, home life transforms into a film. These two distinct narratives are resolved spatially through a core, which houses the only space shared by both clients. This shared volume becomes the place where two distinct lifestyles are resolved as the separate houses overlap both spatially and programmatically.
spatial operation model
circulation study model
elevation sketch
programmatic arrangement
1. Building Envelope
2. The building is lifted on entryway plinths to allow access to public parking.
3. The massing of Fields + Corner residence is split apart in order to separate programs from each other 4. Separate volumes for the private living units for both the Smiths + Jones are embedded into shared public volume. 5. Circulation is added to each client’s unit based on their needs as well as the narrative for each unit.
6. For Fields + Corner, views between rooms are allowed, while views to the outside are limited, enforcing the narrative of a house as a set and life as a film. 7. For the Smiths + Jones, shared space is a requirement. However, privacy is also desirable. Private units are created for each couple, which are linked to a public living space.
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8. Programming adjacencies are organized around a shared media space. On either side of the space is a library and a screening room, but also a kitchen and entertainment space. This middle space is intended to provide the option of socialization between the two clients without requiring it of either of them.
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project 2: introduction
a spatial composition arc 394: architectural design for non-majors syracuse university
Architecture as the end result of process. The project begins with a series of explorations of the orthogonal structure of the square using the four square and nine square systems as a “kit of parts.� Special attention is paid to proportion, symmetry, and the organizational system of the composition. Through a variety of operations, a parti is found and refined. The goal is the creation of a plan which contains an ambiguity between figure and ground. This plan then becomes three-dimensional and the process of refinement continues, the goal of which is an architectonic composition with a clear organizing idea. The end is a series of architectonic models which demonstrate a clear system of proportion and rhythm as well as an ambiguous relationship between mass and space.
figure ground studies
taxonomies
relief model
model no. 3
model no. 4
model no. 7
model no. 10
model no. 11
model no. 13
model no. 12
model no. 13
project 3: interruption
an live/work community for artists boston, ma career discovery 2010 harvard gsd
Balance and Interruption The site is the much-maligned Boston City Hall Plaza, located in the heart of downtown Boston. This project began with a careful site analysis through a variety of mapping exercises, first as a studio group and then on an individual basis. While a wide range of problems became readily apparent through these exercises, many of them result from contextual spatial imbalance. The strategy for improving the spatial experience of Boston City Hall Plaza is to interrupt the existing condition by aggregating a module borrowed from the facade of city hall into the various program elements in a way that results in a more comfortable, human-scaled space that is both sensitive to the site and its occupants.
existing spatial condition
sound mapping
interrupted spatial condition
photoshop collage of aggregated module
early concept sketch
study model no. 1
exhibition/classroom section studies
diagram for placement of public program
iterations of grid
iterations of path
study model no. 2
2. Combine 3 modules into 1 block containing 3 separate live/work units
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1. Borrow a module from the facade of Boston City Hall for the basic building block process diagram
3. Apply generic grid of housing blocks to site as a method of spatial interruption
6. Place classroom and exhibition along linear path linking the various public programs and skirting the grided live/work units
4. Adapt the grid to existing site conditions such as circulation and year-round use patterns.
5. Place public programs, also created from the module, as gateways at all the primary entries onto the site
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
floor plans
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
final model in site
project 4: introspection
a series of drawing studies arc 564: drawing syracuse university
Facture, or the presence of the making. This drawing course involves a series of studies which focus on a variety of issues related to architecture. Beginning with basic gesture drawing exercises, constructive drawing habits are developed and basic assumptions about the role of drawing in the design process are challenged. During a continuous back-and-forth between abstract and representational drawing, issues of process, materiality, media, and facture arise. Abstract exercises encourage experimentation with media and materials, as well as foster an understanding of the roles of connection, marking, proportion, and operations in creating a composition. Gesture drawings begin to focus on the re-presentation of space, which should communicate something about materiality, light and dark, directionality, facture and, ultimately, experience. The photographic joiners use the media of photography to ‘draw’ in-between spaces at a variety of scales and continue to emphasis the issues raised in earlier exercises. The result is a more self critical process, a better understanding of the role that intuition plays in design, and a clear insight into the interconnected relationship between drawing and design.
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making abstracts
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constructed gesture
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gestural expression
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photo joiners
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motif abstract
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phone: (845) 332 0423 email: j.n.quick@gmail.com