P O R T F O L I O
B.S. Arch Portfolio
Wentworth 2019-23
Laura Pease
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01 Boat Building School
Design a boat building school for the campus of Brooklin, ME.
To congregate and celebrate the Mission Hill Community
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To design a boat-building school for the campus of Brooklin, ME. pgs 30-35
02 Housing for Artists
04 De Nieuwe Liefde
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Home made for artists and musicians to coexist their living and working lives. pgs 12-17
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Contents 07 Architectural Photography
05 The Bridge House
Personal hobby of photography with a focus of architectural photos. pgs 48 & 51
Precedent study of LLAMA Architect’s The Bridge House pgs 36-41
Concepts and Site Sketching from Studio Projects.
07 History Theory Scketches
08 Additional Art
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Analytical Sketch Assignments from History Theory 1 & 2 classes. pgs 42-47
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Wooden Boat Building School Professor | Armida Fernandez Fall 2020 Studio 03
Students are assigned to design a BoatBuilding School on the campus of Maine’s “boat building capital of the world” in Brooklin, Maine. The New England town is timeless and run by the heart and soul of the community. The typology of the school needs to respond to the preexisting nature of Brooklin; intertwining the community and land into the school.
Software Rhino, Enscape, Adobe Ps, Ai, Id, Lr
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South-East Elevation
Wood Storage Machinery Building Shed Outdoor Classroom (A) Entry / Shop
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Cafe Outdoor Classroom (B) Meeting Space Classrooms Open Classrooms
North-East Section
Exploded Axonometric displaying the structural relationships from ground to sky. The main structure is made up of a post-and-beam system, with stud walls to duel as structural reinforcement for the envelope, as well as performing as windows to not stray from the timberconstruction aesthetic.
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South-East Section
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Average Daily Shadow Coverage (red=summer sun; blue=winter sun)
The school only operates during the summer, which admits this possibility for dueled conditioned and unconditioned spaces.
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Home For Two Artists: The Mosaic Residence Professor | Samuel Maddox Spring 2021 Studio 04
A sketch Project; to design a residence Located in Nubian Square, Boston, MA. The client are two artist’s; a poet and a musician. The project statement was to design a space for both artist to be able to interact and work with each other in. As experienced this far during the Covid-19 pandemic, orderly and conditioned spaces don’t promote interactions nor inspiration. This residence promotes creative thought, meditation and collaboration through its ferroviteous structure, and open bleeding spaces.
Software Rhino, Enscape, Adobe Ps, Ai, Id, Lr
Urban Context
City Context
The Residence is embedded in a lively active piece of Nubian Boston. To develop a heightened understanding of the access to and excess from the site, this collage merges the roadway, railway, and waterway systems accessing the city of Boston leading back into Nubian Square.
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Concept Sketches
The residence draws influence from the Charles & Ray Eames House, Located in Los Angelos, California for it’s facade. The steel frame and structure design pieced together with glass and metal tiles produces a modern response for the historical ferroviteous structure. This illustration inspired the final facade design where the residence found its namesake: The Mosaic Residence.
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Sun room
Bedroom & Poety Study
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Section Perspective
Circulation
The home is meant to duel as an environment for not only living, but also as a flexible stage space for various performances the artists might have. Different examples of this happening in the space is in the entry the floor is immediately transformed into a metal planar stage. As a guest circles the entry, the grand piano stays within visual and acoustical view. The open floor plan furthers the bleeding of spaces, engaging all in the home through either a visual or acoustic connection.
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Mission Hill Community Center Professor | Armida Fernandez Fall 2020 Studio 03
Mission Hill is a Neighborhood home to one of the most diverse groups within the Boston/Cambridge area. The design of this community center was created with the intention to facilitate the Mission Hill art community through congregation, education, and celebration. We as people will always have an internal communion with nature, and maintaining that relationship esteems us. This building design incorporates the ambiance of the lively city, but also manifests a space for nature to take back over.
Media Rhino, Enscape, Adobe Ps, Ai, Id, Hand-Sketching, Rhino
Process
Concept After examining the site in person, what was initially documented was how the buildings had a disassociation with the vegetation context around them. This building begins to act as not onto a facilitator for community building, but also an instrument to the natural forces that presently exist in the site. Developed was the concept of admitting moments in the architecture where the environment could speak for itself. Programming above ground level opens more apertures towards the sun in the city, admitting more natural light into the Community center.
Process
The Site
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It’s important for the six classrooms to be multipurpose, while also acting as studio spaces to respond to local artists’ demand. Illustrates programmatic masssing in 2D.
Tectonic & Stereotomic
Exploding stereotomic from tectonic elements. Exterior sun shading make up majority of the tectonic structures, while the masses they enclose make up the stereotomic.
Sections
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Circulation
Axonometric circulation diagram layed over exploded floor plans. Guests begin at the street level and travel up a ramp to the elevated front door.
Main Circulation Exterior Stairs Elevator
Sectional Perspective
Mission Hill was a thriving center of Boston and had a vision for becoming Boston’s medical center, initiating the progression of Harvard Medical Center. The decline of the thriving Mission Hill began when their communities became threatened and minoritied. The Anglo-Protistans controlled their neighborhoods with their politicians, threatening their homes, jobs, and lifestyles.
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A community center is where the people have space to meet and collaborate to grow ideas and personal connections. Today, the Mission Hill Community is not one thing; it’s a collage of different people, herritages, and backgrounds. Locals and tourists, students and 401k’s. Let’s create more spaces within the city that promote social wellness, leading with centers for the community.
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Precedent Study: De Nieuwe Liefde Professor | Julio Torres Spring 2021 Studio 04 2500
A precedent sectional model study. An assigned team of students collaborate to research and analyze an assigned existing performance or community center. Our team was asssigned to produce a drawdle study of De Nieuwe Liefde (“The New Love”) by Wiel Arets Architects. My Focus on The project was to develop digital diagrams, Kevin Xiao developed a digital model through extensive reseach, ad Daniel Ries produced our final model. Teammates | Kevin Xiao, Daniel Ries
Media AutoCAD, Adobe Ps, Ai, Id, Hand-Model Making, Rhino
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Site Context
Amsterdam, Netherlands Located partied between two buildings in Amsterdam, Netherlands, this site used to be a winery; the restored structure on the ground level displays the double-heightened space. After years, the owner abandoned the winery; and it stayed abandoned until the city of Amsterdam went through remodeling in its cityscape in efforts to restore the heart and life of the city. The architects created the architecture to be an instrument for social congregations and art expos to reflect the heart of the city.
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Facade Study
The neo-renaissance styled facade integrates into the adjacent building language. Although on the interior, its very plain; very white; our deduction for this was that performances are to art, as the architecture itself is to a blank canvas.
Programming
Reflect the division in the program, the left side opens to the community spaces.
Offices Cafe Meeting Spaces Lounge Area
Acoustic Diagram
The right side of the is where the performance hall is contained. The right drawdle focuses on the main performance space, where we analyzed acoustics. The source of sound begins from this central point rippling outward.
Sunlight Study
(A) expressing Vertical admittance (B) expressing horizontal admittance. Section A
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Precedent Study: The Bridge House Professor | Armida Fernandez Fall 2020 Studio 03 2400
Students choose an existing timber-frame construction to research in efforts of developing a deeper understanding for how timber-framed buildings join together.
Media Adobe Ps, Ai, Id, Lr, Hand-Model Making, Rhino
The Bridge House | LLAMA Architects Located in Port Sydney, Ontario, LLAMA Architects design a home to cross over a ravine like a bridge in the middle of the woods. To withstand the forces projected onto the home’s integrity, the structure uses an invert ‘V’ truss in compression to support the forces stressing the 38-meter beam spanning the whole home.
History Theory Sketches
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Professor | Jennifer Gaugler Wentworth Institute of Technology Fall & Spring 2020-21
For students to develop a deeper understanding behind existing architecture through analytical sketch diagramming.
Media Hand-sketching
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S C K E T C H E S
Chartres Cathedral The geometries of the Chartres Cathedral are desired and replicated in many branches of religious architecture as it plays a major role in the human relationship taking place within. Similarities can be drawn between the Chartres Cathedral and The Stupa at Sanchi; in plan, both the cathedral and Sanchi emphasize circular ambulatory pathways. Centralized circulation brings the user deeper into a contemplative state, admitting them into their personal relationship with the divine. The importance of patience in contemplation is emphasized in the cathedral’s floor where the Labyrinth lays.
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St. Peter’s Cathedral Michaelangelo’s St. Peter’s Cathedral saw harmonious proportions in it’s detailed geometry that connects people with what is larger than them. Michelangelo sculpted the architecture around it’s form - ad quadratum geometry. This geometry created proportions of harmonious balance in a natural way. He accomplished this by overlaying a square with smaller circles on the diagonals of the square. This pattern unlocks the sacred geometry; a pattern of which many religious architecture repeated. This geometry is what emphasizes our bond with our earthly experience to the divine; intertwining our existences. The connection guests feel when visiting St. Peter’s is critical as itself is a devotion to higher or
Baroque architecture was the pivotal time period where art became integrated into architecture. Artists and sculptures found interest in architectural design, and embellished facades with interesting art. To give your art a canvas, and perfected canvas to work on was preferred. For this reason, Baroque architecture examined in both plan and section how to follow an axis with overlapping geometries. Reflecting linear paths along an axis completes the space, admitting a sense of completion and unity when entering the space. Perfected architecture distracts the mind and leads it into a deeper focus and a want to fully understand the moments happening around.
Chiesa Del Santissimo Redentore
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The Long House The Long House was a Native American dwelling constructed as a vernacular response to house multiple families. As families grew, constructors within the tribes sought out systems of efficiency to keep up with the expanding tribes. The Long House was constructed out of the resources and materials found within the site. Natives simplified the dimensions we live comfortably to reach tools and items out of our reach, and developed a comfortably sleep, storage, and living space within the Long House. Constructors kept the back of the house malleable so they could tear down the wall an build additional room for more families. Bed heights and the doorway were scaled to be accessible to accommodate the range of family member heights, and beds and storage spaces were constructed on the sides of the longhouse to maximize space. A vernacular home makes it so tribes can pack, move, and build a new home somewhere new.
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Personal Art
“Dominant”
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The Monadnock Building, Chicago, USA (Laura Madeline Pease CC BY)
2020
Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, Boston, Ma, USA (Laura Madeline Pease CC BY)
2020
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