LUCCA TOWNSEND
1 - Master’s work 2 - Professional Experience 3 - Personal Work 4 - Curriculum Vitae
BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE Gallery Design Canoe Facility Tent
GALLERY
Final Model at 1/8”=1’-0” (Roofs on)
Final Model at 1/8”=1’-0” (Roofs removed)
Robert Smithson
Tara Donovan
John Chamberlain
Map of Broken Glass
Transparent Film
Privet
Visitors circulate the site, descending and emerging from a dream-world... Entering from Boylston Street, visitors
Second they enter the viewing room for
first encounter Chamberlain’s Privet and
Donovan’s Transparent film. The room is
walk along its downward sloping path
at 6 feet below grade, following the slope of the site.
Visitors then descend another 6
Finally, visitors return to ground level to
feet to a room in which Smithson’s
view Broken Glass from benches in the shape
Map of Broken Glass sits atop a
of continents around Atlantis (the broken
skylight
glass forms Atlantis)
MATERIALITY
SITE... Asphalt
SITE... Chain Link
SITE... Model of Materiality
Materials from the site were reused in organically shaped structures. This mimicked the way each art piece transformed an industrial material into fluid and natural shapes.
CANOE FACILITY
• Visitors can enter the site from three entrances: the existing walkways to the east and west (previously interrupted by the site), or from across the Railroad Bridge onto which a pedestrian path has been designed. • Paths directing visitors weave over land and water • A gathering area attaches to the Railroad Bridge and gives views of the city • A canoe storage area is nested into the slope, canoers paddle down a canal before entering the Charles
PATHS “To soften and blur and finally banish The edges you regret I don’t see, To learn the line I called the horizon Does not exist and sky and water, So long apart, are the same state of being.” -From Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
Paths over the water have a grated metal floor and high curving walls so that sky and water are isolated. The city is removed from view and replaced with art from its inhabitants. This surreal experience makes both the person and city feel nonexistence.
1/8� Model of Path
Visitors enter underneath the BU Bridge, the only place in the world where a plane can fly over a car, over a train, over a boat... And now over a pedestrian.
CANOE STORAGE AREA
1/2� Model of Lockers Canoes hang from a forest of columns. Overhead, layers of semi-transparent material filters light like a canopy. Lockers are inside the columns so canoers can leave material possessions behind.
1/8� Model of Canoe Launch
GATHERING AREA
1/8” Final Model of Gathering Area
Viewing the city from across the river both connects the visitor to Boston, and emphasizes the disconnection due to the Charles.
Columns piercing through the floor connects gatherers and canoers. Both get a similar forest-like experience.
1/32� Final Site Model
TENT
Designed in Rhino
Designed to fold up small and set up into several configurations for different weather conditions.
Tent with rainfly closed for cold, windy and possibly rainy climates
Perfect for the coming apocalypse (This is the roof of the BAC)
No rainfly, doors are rolled up to expose mesh for hot and dry climates
WORK EXPERIENCE
Levenson McDavid Architects (Brooklyn, NY) Cicognani Kalla Architects (Manhattan, NY) Peter Townsend Architect (Manhattan, NY) Duane Park Patisserie (Manhattan, NY)
ONE SHORE DRIVE
Google Sketchup model of an existing job. Levenson McDavid had me learn the program on my own by drawing this house.
BROOKLYN COHOUSING Manhattan Skyline View Roof Deck
Convenience Stair / Elev. Vestibule Game / Craft Room (ping pong etc...) Common Terrace Solarium / Tea Porch
Harbor View
Adult Lounge Future Green Roof
e
8th
nu Ave
Unit Porches
Solar Hot Water Panels
19th
Stre
et
Prospect Park (8 min. walk)
Common Terrace Children’s Room Multipurpose Great Room Café / Community Kitchen
Green-Wood Park Cemetery View
Future Vegetable Garden
Exterior stairs (connecting 4 levels of outdoor common space)
Total Indoor Common Space: 5,000 S.F. Detached Cellar: Bike Storage, Workshop, Music Room
son McDavid Architects P.C.
BROOKLYN COHOUSING 1901 8th Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11215
Work on Brooklyn Cohousing, a multi-family housing space in which occupants live and eat together. The design uses Passive House thermal strategies and a green roof.
Total Outdoor Common Space: 6,000 S.F.
June 21
TREEHOUSE
Reclaimed wood and windows
Plan
View from ceiling platform
Designed for 3 areas of occupation: -Laying down with a view of the water -Sitting on a small bench covered by an overhang -Sitting on ceiling platform
Windows strategically frame views
ONE WHITE STREET REDESIGN
Google Sketchup documentation of changes made to a townhouse in lower Manhattan
UPPER EAST SIDE APARTMENT
Drawings and 3D models for Cicognani Kalla Architects (NYC)
LIGHTING STUDY
Models and Mockups of cove lighting for Cicognani Kalla Architects (NYC)
Model with removable roof shows how light washes walls and hits the floor
Full scale foam core mockups of cove lighting shapes. The client could see what each would look like and choose an option.
HAMPTONS HOUSE
Models for Cicognani Kalla Architects (NYC)
CAKES I spent the weekends of my youth and young adulthood working at a bakery in New York City. I began apprenticing, making whimsical cakes for friends and custom orders.
Vanilla cake with buttercream icing
Chocolate cake with a chocolate Conan decoration A friend requested a Conan cake, I assumed he meant Conan O’Brien. It turned out he meant Conan the Barbarian! So I had to make him another one...
Chocolate cake with a chocolate Conan The Barbarian decoration
PERSONAL
Freehand Photography
Puglia: Selections from a series Film
Lucca Townsend Lucca.Townsend@the-bac.edu 646-438-3271 Education: McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) Bachelors of Science in Psychology and Art History Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts (Fontainebleau, France) Summer Architecture Program 2010 Boston Architectural College Candidate for Masters of Architecture
Professional Experience: Cicognani Kalla Architects, PLLC (NYC) 2011-2012 Model-making, Autocad work, Sketchup Levenson McDavid Architects (Brooklyn, NY) 2008-2009 Autocad work, Material research, Sketchup Peter Townsend Architect (NYC) 2008-2013 Sketchup, Construction
Skills: Adobe, Animation Autocad, CNC, Drawing, Model Making, Rhino, Sketchup, Watercolor
Interests: Bicycles, Camping and Hiking, Clothing and Furniture Design, Painting, Poetry, Running, Sketching, Vegetable Cultivation and Local Food