portfolio megan mole
Megan Mole
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molem@wit.edu
413 888 7440
Ludlow, MA. Miami, FL.
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landscape, interiors
visibility, accessibility and learning
04 boston children’s school of music
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05 john d. o’bryant school intervention
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06 mattapan, boston affordable housing
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07 waypoints for worcester’s unhoused students
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music and form connectivity
humanity and interiors
architecture through symbolism
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02 greater boston affordable housing competition
A combination of interior renders worked to represent the nature of this North Falmouth site, where affordable housing is prospected to be built for the communities summer workers. A combination of single family, multifamily, and community spaces locate themselves along a community green, intersecting a difficult easement on site. Renders work to sell and illustrate the interior spaces in a community in which residents can call home.
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03 instructables makerspace Located in Harvard Square, Boston, the instructables makerspace started with my evaluation of the site and it’s surrounding context. Thin lighting slivers throughout the densely packed environment employed the concept of creating a layered makerspace that offered views into different programmed spaces. The pyramidal facade works to engage community members to participate in the makerspace’s dense program. The facade additionally addresses aspects of natural shading across the whole makerspace. A layered program and seasonal lighting experiments with the pyramidal facade work together to create a total interactive and immersive space made for experienced artists and creators to young children; overall giving access to machinery and space in which the community lacks.
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pyramidal facade studies
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Scanned with CamScanner
Scanned with CamScanner
abstract concept modeling
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04 boston children’s school of music Through the circular rhythm geometry of Jon Sakata’s etude analysis and the public and private findings of my site analysis, my concept focused on a gradient of transformation, represented through floor becoming roof, and public becoming private. As you move through the building, the experiences represent a gradient of transformation as the spacial environments increase or decrease between public, private, and ceiling heights. Where tall arches of ceiling and floor are present, more public spaces are visible, and when the arches create a smaller environment, private space are evident and detached from the public. The structure and geometry of the Children’s School represent the association between organic formation, in its urban environment
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abstract hand drawings
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Boston Symphony Hall site features
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layered plans of arched geometry
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hand drawn - model hybrid
concept modeling
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05 john d. o’bryant school intervention In the intervention of John D. O’Bryant school, originally designed by Marcel Breuer in 1970, this adaptive reuse project worked to preserve traces of Breuer’s succesful facade and circulation strategies, yet integrate safe connections across campus based on safety concerns from students in it’s Boston location. Mixing new classrooms tailored for after school programs and a large amphitheatre to encourage community gatherings, the intervention works to create a hub for like students to gather, practice hobbies, and overall allow safe and visbile connections from building to building across campus.
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06 mattapan, boston affordable housing Understanding a site and societal challenges motivated this multifamily, affordable and sustainable housing project. By creating a system of geometry with specific roof pitches, lighting wells and skylights, these housing units consisting of two connected homes with two units in each are able to maximize lighting and exposure to outdoors. Commercial buisnesses including a barber shop and small family buisness encourage the sense of community in this area. The site merges community connectivity with living and encourages social connections between residents and visitors. Made for working class families, this affordable housing development fosters underground parking for residents and creates safe connections to access to other means of transportation such as bus, train, and walking.
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lighting studies and sustainability strategies
Solar photovoltaics on roof Stack ventilation Rain water collection for interior and irrigation use
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housing elevations
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exterior and interior renderings
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07 waypoints for worcester’s unhoused students With Worcester, Massachusetts having the 5th highest percentage of homeless students, this artistic intervention used symbolism through unrecognizable images to give safety and an identity within the community of unhoused students. Each symbol, a representation of flowers, fruits, bugs, and sayings from different countries of Worcester’s unhoused students serves as hidden symbolism. Unrecognizable for daily Worcester residents, the symbolism sprawls across Main street, representating locations crucial for the unhoused youth. Shedding light across the abundance of exsisting programs, buisnesses and schools offering aid to these students, this simple, yet meaningful system of symbols creates a heavy identity among the city, representing those whose needs and voices often go unheard.
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megan mole
molem@wit.edu
413 888 7440
Ludlow, MA. Miami, FL.