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CONTENTS 01 Space Development Interpolate: Double House Collect: Film Archive for Union Square
02 Concept Practice Long Room/Tall Room Model 2D to 3D
03 Personal Works
Interpolate: Double House Having deep association with ideas of home and dwelling, the house is the most archetypal of all buildings. This project is investigating creative solutions for two clients who have different needs and characteristics and developing the architectural concept.
SITE Two clients have approached you to design two house on one lot. They are willing to share certain elements. The parcel is 49’x 30’feet and the buildings backyard faces the community parking lot. The City of Cambridge regulated three-story as maximum building height(36 feet). However, the clients and their lawyers have managed to convince the city to allow additional storey if the clients provide access to the community parking lot.
CLIENT Our two clients are selected from two films, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”directed by Wes Anderson(2014) and “Rear Window”directed by Alfred Hitchcock. They will be analyzed how they relate to other individuals in his environment andhow that characters construct a personal set of needs through his interaction with the built environment.
L.B. Jefferies With broken leg, Jefferies basically stayed in his own house in the wheelchair and this form him a hobby-neighbor watching. But this arigin from his profession as a photographer.His nurse comes every and did the massage for him. Sometimes his girlfriend comes andthey will have dinner together. He also calls his police friend when he observed something interesting and probably he would come for discussion. Jefferies’biomolecular and camerais important for his daily hobby.
Zero As a lobby boy, Zero mainly follows Mr. Gustav’s direction. Mr.Gustav is his mentor and idol. Zero would put on his hand made mustache before he went to work. Zero has a girlfriend, she works in a bakery. Sometimes Zero goes to help. Zero only needs a small room for sleep and rest.He is not a luxrious person. Zero owns a famous painting-Boy with Apple, and he is now doing gallery business
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STUDY MODEL From the diagrams, describing the spatial concept of the project through model. Scale: 1/4”=1’
Arial view Eye level view
Detail view: Jeffery, Zero
Axonometric
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FINAL MODEL Scale: 1/4”=1’
Street view
Axonometric
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Top view Front view, Side view
Plan: Second floor(Jefferies) Ground floor(Lobby)
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Stairs connect long room, tall room and narrow room of the gallery
Wall opening of Jefferies
Back side of the house, Staircases outside the last room of the gallery
Wall opening of Jefferies, Top floor
Collect: Archive Theater for Union Square The project focus on collecting two scales and temporalities: the ‘permanent’ archival collection of film within the scale of the institution and the ’temporary’ collection of urbanites in outdoor theater space. Film,place and urban identity are interwined in the design of a film archive and outdoor theater for Union Square, Sommerville, MA.
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SITE Our Site, Ricky’s Flower Market is located at Union Square in Sommerville, an extremely visible and heavily trafficked area. It is wrapped with residential, retail and commercial spcae. The parcel we are proposing to build on is flanked by sommerville Ave on the south and Washington St. on the north.
DIAGRAMS and MAPPING
Circulation among the recreation space Public Outdoor Spcae Connection Path Indoor Recreation Space
The dots represent the circulation of pedestrian and the short lines represent the circulation of vehicles. Red means the rush traffic and green means slow pace.
Tree shadow indicates the position of green space.
The view from uphill park to downhill. The stronger the color the closer the objects.
The view in the Ricky’s Flower Market.
MASSING Elements: Triangle, Falling Ramp, Tunnel Scale: non-scale
DEVELOPMENT Starting from the right bottom corner of the site, combining the massing scheme and trying to duplicate the experience in the Ricky’s Flower Market. Scale:1/16”=1’
The graduated closed indoor space and the ramp going up to the elevated room,
Adding multiple floor layers all in the triangle shape and complicating the circulation by adjusting the ramp and stairs position.
Rearranging the space and circulation by moving all the staircases to the corner.
Moving all the stairs to the middle and utilizing the floor plate corner as space.
FINAL MODEL
Arial and eyelevel view Scale: 1/16”=1’
Street view
First floor lobby and second floor gallery
Detail view: Book store Outdoor theater
Floor plan shifting
Interior view: Gallery stairs going up to the third floor, Close view of the stairs Floor plan shifting, Staris to the under ground indoor theater
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Floor plan: Top floor, Gound floor, Under ground
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Exploded axonometric of different user circulation
Model 2D to 3D Using 20”x 30”foam core sheet as drafting surface and dividing into four 5”x5” squares. Cutting or folding these squares, reassembling these parts and fit within an imagined 6”x6“x6”cubic envelope.
Arial view
Eyelevel view
Detail view
Long Room/Tall Room If tall room symbolizes traditional open linear art spaces, tall room’s vertical space provides creativity of circulation and experience.
Sketches of Arthur M. Sackler Museum By visiting the site, observing describing the moment of“sequential�.
Sketch model
Arial view
Eyelevel view
Detail view
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