SL Sean Levsque Selected Wor ks
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Sean Levesque Wentworth Institute of Technology Master of Architecture, 2016 Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 2015 Contact: seanlevesque01@gmail.com 757-582-1193 Digital portfolio and additional publications available at: issuu.com/seanlevesque
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Rome From Above Sean Levesque September 2015
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Boston 2024 Olympic Village Master Plan + Innovation Point
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Boston Cultural Center
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Woodland Retreat
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Interstices: Design Build Instillation at Tufts Universuty
Research 30
Facade Precedant Study: Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus
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Public Infrastructures: Chelsea Arts Cooridor + Selected Test Project
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South Boston Master Plan
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Boston 2024 OLYMPIC VILLAGE MASTER PLAN Community Design Studio Summer 2015
In the Summer of 2015, Boston began major design and policy excercies to win the bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. Where to house this tempoary influx of people and, more importantly, what happens to these spaces post Olympics, became a major conversation during the course of this studio. The site we proposed for Boston’s Olympic Village was the South Boston Waterfront, North of the Boston Design Center. The main highlights of the master plan include a central core of activity- where water is brought into the site, with landmark projects along the coastline
Final Model In collaboration with Sam Loso, Kevin Nisbet, & Greg Mcdonnell
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View From Boston Harbour
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INNOVATION POINT AT SOUTH BOSTON WATERFRONT Community Design Studio Summer 2015
Looking towards the Legacy Vision of the Boston Olympic Village, Innovation Point establishes a new district within the South Boston Waterfront that brings together residents, visitors, and creative individuals. This new destination point consists of a public boating house, restaurant, aprtments, and workshop space as well as a library and digital media commons. During the Olympics, this area is intended to serve as a gathering ponint for athletes and officials, providing areas of realaxation as well as venues for communation.
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Below: Process Sketches
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Site Plan- Innovation Point
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Below: Process Sketches | Above: Aerial View
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Below: West Elevation | Above: Building Sections
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Below: Typical Unit Plans | Above: Thrid Floor Plan
View From Boylston Street
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BOSTON CULTURAL CENTER Comprehensive Deisgn Spring 2014
At the intersection of Massachucetts Ave. and Bolyston Street, the Boston Cultrual Center aims to provide a gathering point within the Back Bay neighborhood. The project was intended to explore wood frame construction in medium height buildings while communicating the traditional city building methods of wood piles and masonry. Located on an existing residual site. a number of elevation changes and infrastructual barriers make have produced a site unappealing to the public. The infill of this site along with the proposal of a new pedestrian connection between streets, gives new life to a previously ignored site.
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Below: Ground Floor Plans | Above: Cambria Street Elevation
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Concept Models | Opposite: Detail Elevation
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Detail Wall Section
View Looking Northeast
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The Woodland URBAN RETREAT Site and Environment Studio Summer 2014
Designing within a theoretical woodland site, the idea of trees as a dynamic and naturally occuring spatial definer was a driving element of the project. In keeping the site’s existing tree planting as undisturbed as possible, the architecture of the Urban Retreat implants itself around the void established by the location of the trunks. Contouring around each tree, the building and site design work to establish views and create a relationship with site and architecture.
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Concept Models
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Below: Floor Plans | Building Section
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Above: 1. Site Constraints | 2. Landscape Intervention | 3.Architectural Intervention
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Exploded Axonometric
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Bottom: Buidling Sections | Top: Interior Perspectie at Kitchen
View From Boylston Street
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INTERSTICES: THE SPACE BETWEEN ARCH-I-PELAGO Tufts University Spring 2016
Archipelago is an architectural installation that was created specifically for the Utopian Listening Workshop, dedicated to the late works of Italian composer Luigi Nono, sponsored by Tufts and Harvard Universities at the Tufts Granoff Music Center, March 23 through 26, 2016. The installation probes the interstices between music and architecture – intimate and public; memory and place; poetries sonic, visual, sensorial – created by fifteen graduate students from Wentworth Institute’s Architecture Program under the guidance of architecture professor John Stephen Ellis and concert artists Jung Mi Lee and Jon Sakata. The
placement of the installation between the workshop venues – the Distiler Performance Hall and the Fisher Performance Room – creates a condition of vortices and tides gathering sounds, images, memories, languages, histories, poetics brought from waters of different seas and different peoples. Re-envisioning metaphoric Venetian Campos, not idealized places of harmony, but ones of contrasting and clashing worlds, cultures, ambiences.
In collaboration with: John Ellis, AIA, Dr. Jon Sakata, Jung Mi-Lee, Rima Abousleiman, Claire Andersen, Alycya Boisvert, Brendan Bowen, Robert Carney, Elizabeth Glavin, Anne Harris, Walter Levine, Jillian Lodor, Steven Prestejohn, Holly Hersey, Daniel Quartararo, Laura Smith, and Vichitta Srisouraj
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KEY SOUND TUBE LIGHT TUBE GUIDE POST WALL
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Final Modell
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Kunsthaus Bregenz FACADE PRECEDANT STUDY Materials and Methods Spring 2013
Sectional model and analysis of Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus, exploring the relationship between the facade system employed and the structural system of the building. Built in groups of three, the week long project looked to analyze a selection of buildings and their facade systems through model and drawings. The final model was on long term display in the Wentworth Architecture Department lobby till the summer of 2015
Below: Final Model | Above: Building Process In collaboration with Domenico DeRenzio & Marisa Page
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Perspective View, Observation Tower
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PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURES: CHELSEA PUBLIC ARTS COORIDOR Thesis Studio, Selected Project Spring 2016
Recent precedents in urban design prove that infrastructural systems are becoming perceived as intrusive elements to the success of public life. By approaching this issue from a bottom-up perspective, residual lost spa.ce can serve as a facilitator for meaningul growth within an urban community. Using the city of Chelsea, MA as a test site, a new bike and pedestrian path is proposed to counter the effects of the elevated highway system that slices through the cithy. This new path, serving as the basis for the curation and support of public art programs, allows for a system of strategic intervention strategies to integrae a social nature into these newly percieved public spaces
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SECTIONAL CONDITIONS CATALOG SCALE: 3/16”=1’
Sectional Studies- Making Infrastructure Social
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Below: Curated Public Art
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Epistructure Perspcetive Views
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THROUGH OBSERVATION TOWER /4”=1’
Below: Section Through Observation Tower
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Above: Path Diagram
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Exploded Isonometric
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Final Model