Zachary K. Gaudet Wentworth Institute of Technology | BSA 2021
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Zachary K. Gaudet | zkgaudet@gmail.com | 978-771-3106 | Boston, MA
EDU CATI ON Wentworth Institute of Technology | Boston, MA Bachelor of Science in Architecture 3.55/4.00 GPA (Major GPA: 3.76/4.00) Dean’s List 2019-2021 Merit Scholarship 2017-2021 Hellenic American Academy Alumni Association Scholarship 2017-2018 John and Abigail Adams Scholarship 2017-2018
Class of 2021
EX PERI EN C E I N P RAC TIC E Merge Architects | Boston, MA Design Intern
Summer 2021
Make/Do Studio LLC | Somerville, MA Research Assistant to Samuel Maddox
Summer 2020
Worked closely within a team setting to produce multiple iterations of building massings, floor plans, sections, and elevations for a multi-family residential building in East Boston.
Conducted research encompassing health in the hinterland including the effects of industrialization and the future of the countryside. Catalogued a series of case studies analyzing the condition of the people being afflicted.
Payette Associates | Boston, MA Design Intern
Spring 2019
Produced feasibility studies, drawings, and physical models constructed in the Payette Fab Lab for a new hospital in Henquin, China and a new ancillary building for Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New London, CT.
LEA D ERS HI P Wentworth Institute of Technology Co-Editor and Publication Designer | Wentworth Architecture Review (WAr)
2019-2021
Publications edited include v/10: Memory
Student Mentor | American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)
2019-2021
Varsity Stroke Seat | Wentworth Rowing Team
2017-2019
Competed in the 2018 Head of the Charles River Regatta
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S OF T WARE Excels in Rhinoceros Auto Cad Adobe Creative Suite Enscape
Proficient in SketchUp Revit MS Office Zoom
Experienced with Grasshopper SolidWorks Autodesk Inventor Movie Maker
S KI LLS Sketching Drafting Diagramming
Strong Work Ethic Clear Communication Well Developed Aesthetic
Laser Cutting 3D Printing Woodshop/CNC
PUBLIC AT IO NS WAr v/11: Reunion
Spring 2022
Strange Times
A conversation about Co-Housing between WAr and French 2D | Spring 2021
Light and Shadow
An adaptive intervention to the John D O’Bryant School | Fall 2020
Perpetuity
Photography | Spring 2020
The Architecture of the Outsider
New Orleans Travel Studio | Fall 2021
OddBall Magazine
Fall 2021
Ode to an Alley Cat original poetry The Harvard Urban Review
Summer 2021
Catfish Capital Co-authored with Samuel Maddox and Whitney Johnson The Saintly Review
Spring 2021
To Envy an Oak Leaf | Sympathy for an Oak Tree original poetry Wentworth Institute of Technology
Reimagining the John D. O’Bryant School
Fall 2020
The Interface Between Light and Shadow | with Matthew Messere
Investigations: Architectural Transformations Precedent study on the Palazzo Querini Stampalia designed by Carlo Scarpa | with Matthew Messere WAr v/10: Memory
Magnitude
Charcoal on bristol vellum | Summer 2019
Fall 2020
Spring 2020
Table of Contents Miscellanea..................................................................06 Sandbox...................................................................18 Light and Shadow...........................................................30 Vignette on Preservation.................................................46 Age Defeatist.................................................................48 Health in the Hinterlands.................................................50 Fort Point Co-Housing.....................................................56 Scenes from Japan.........................................................64
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Miscellanea
A paradoxical mixing and matching of narratives and lifestyle, a macrocosm of history and a microcosm of subjectivity
Miscellanea, a contemporary agora, offers a new form of social infrastructure with ample space to contemplate what it means to be an active citizen, and to reflect in the presence of others who define themselves differently than you do. This shared environment, influences the individual to embrace stillness and its potential to develop a sensitivity to place, be it in the drama of light and shadow, the sound of leaves in the wind, or the distant train passing by. While emphasizing the need to be introspective in Boston’s diverse setting, there is also an emphasis on the need to speak out in a public forum. To declare ourselves anti-colonialists after endless economic crises and suppression of rights of all kinds. The dichotomy of these two spaces invite a necessary tension, encouraging citizens to actively think, share, and listen.
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Charcoal Relief
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Iteration of Ideas - Initial Form
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Building Program
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Active Passive
Pedestrian Circulation
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Iteration of Ideas - Synthesizing Form
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Site Plan
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View from Charles River Esplanade
View of the loggia
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Section 1
Section 2
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Floor Plan
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View of the Entry Courtyard
Sectional Model through the Contemplation Space
Sectional Model through the Theater
Sectional Isometrics
View of the Contemplation Space
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Sectional Perspective
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Sandbox
A composition of layered material planes providing transient spaces between the interior and exterior
The sandbox reflects the diverse typological characteristics of Cambridge as a pastiche of geometric components and surfaces proliferating transcalar movement, animating material and experience. The current urban planning of the surrounding context did not influence the building as we felt adhering to the existing was a false return or nod to the past. Instead we drew from Instructable’s three large ideas and Cambridge’s ever changing fabric of illdefined edges of time. What exists between these edges? The expanse for mental and physical movement and the expanse for innovation and creation. We aim to emulate and contribute to the collection of suspended societies expressed in Cambridge’s architecture today.
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Exploded Building Envelope Analysis
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Steel Framing
Concrete Slabs
Egress
Glazing/Aluminum Paneling
Flying Carpet Roof
Copper Lattice
FLOATING WALKWAY
Detail Callouts drawn by Jack Foisey
Section Perspective
TYP. FLYING CARPET ROOF
TYP. STEEL COLUMN, CONCRETE SLAB/FOOTINGS
TYP. SKYLIGHT CONDITION
TYP. ROOF CONDITION
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Program Diagram
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Third Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan drawn w/ Jack Foisey
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West Elevation
South Elevation
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Ground Level Perspective
Exterior Corridor Perspective
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Aging Sequence of Copper Lattice
Reference to the masonry-clad context of the site is reflected in the aesthetic and functional properties of the sandbox in the form of a copper lattice system circumscribing transient spaces and blurring the interior and exterior connection of the building. It is within these spaces which one experiences the passage of time as the material properties of the lattice variegate from burnished copper to patina green. The lattice effectively produces a sense of enclosure as an exterior and interior element as it materializes along the perimeter of the building framework.
Discursive Image on Aging made by Jack Foisey
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10 years
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Light and Shadow Surgically dissolving boundaries, creating direct and indirect interfaces at varying levels of resolution
Through surgical adaptation, the underutilized space in the athletics building provides a new juncture for the cultural arts. Reinventing the space enables the people of the Madison Park School, O’Bryant School, and Roxbury community to converge. Stepping floors, translucent concrete (TC), and landscaping elements create varying levels of transparency between program and community, dissolve previously impenetrable boundaries, and allow for a new relationship between the interior and exterior. The mass-less adaptation imbues the building with a tension as it is seemingly unchanged upon arrival. Instead, the TC panels offer an interior experience allowing light to gently filter into the once artificially lit space. The tension begins to ease as the sun sets and the building transforms into a lantern or beacon signaling its reestablished prominence as a center for culture and gathering.
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Site Matrix made w/ Matthew Messere
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Terminal The existing split-face CMU facade rejects entry to athletic facilities
Existing Transect Analysis
Adapted South Elevation
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Arrival Over-scaled and unprogrammed plaza space; a juncture for activity between the two schools and the community
Threshold A compression of space in anticipation of a grandiose expansion into the public plaza
Perspective of the rescaled plaza and new TC panel wall
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Before
After
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Ground Floor Plan
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Adaptation
25,800 SF
Demolition
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Program Cafeteria 1 Classrooms
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Multipurpose Spaces
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Section Through Athletics Building
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Discursive Image
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Sectional Perspective
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Multipurpose Corridor Perspective
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Vignette On Preservation
“Everything that has been and is no longer we call historical value”
“An object with no other cause than its name, & no other identity
-Alois Riegl
that its form.” (Barthes, 1975) -Peter Greenburg
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“If a work only expresses the person who created it, it was not worth doing”
“The fault lies not necessarily with what is made visible, but with a
-Juhani Pallasmaa
widespread myopia that makes so much else invisible.” -Carol Burns & Andrea Kahn
Spring 2019
Age Defeatist
Sketches of a man, then and now. In acceptance of the changes that became of his once nimble body, he remains a sculpture whose imprint graces the paper. My interpretation of him through graphite is simple yet complex. The shadow of his old self reflects on his aged body. What is ideal beauty?
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Health in the Hinterlands Boston Architectural College Elective Course (HTC2250-IMDS Fall 2020, Session 02) Research Summary
Is it human nature to redefine what nature means? Through human development, nature has changed its role as an earthly byproduct of millenia of global evolution, to the role of natural resource, a commodity to advance the human race. Scientific forestry which developed from 1765-1800, largely in Prussia, led to the understanding that tampering with the complexity of the forest ecology resulted in “a miscalculation that nature can be managed without consequence due to radical simplicity”.1 Over generations of human experience, the landscape has developed a new language, and cannot return to its original state if humans are to continue populating the Earth. This is not to say that humans are solely the problem, instead they are the problem and the solution. The split between humanity and environment that first became prominent during the 17th century has long impeded understanding of environmental issues. Cities and towns have long been seen as the opposite of nature, its counterpart, in the form of opportunity, higher wages, and other benefits. However these benefits are directly accompanied by disadvantageous living conditions. A merger between the two, as outlined
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in Ebenezer Howard’s “Garden Cities of Tomorow,” would provide the benefit of both city and nature, all while limiting the extensive and detrimental expanse of human cultivation.2 This experimental landscape promotes a healthy lifestyle and a stronger community. Unfortunately the current model implemented widely though the world today continues to separate social and natural environments. Nature or natural resources, thus become the product of the operational landscape, which becomes “a source of capital gain, favorable to the private sector and unfavorable to the majority”.3 Social power relations through which metabolic circulatory processes take place are particularly important. If the community or majority was to determine how expansion was to proceed, it would push the ideology of Howard further towards the realization of a ‘garden city model.’
Scott, James C. 1998. Seeing like the state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2 Howard, Ebenezer, and Frederic J. Osborn. 1965. Garden cities of to-morrow. Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press. 3 Brenner, Neil, and Nikos Katsikis. 2020. “Operational Landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene”. Architectural Design. 90 (1): 22-31.
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The hinterland is only recently being included in urban theory and urban study, as it related to the expansion of cities, ecological impact, decline of cultural values, and connection to nature. These landscapes, often as an accompaniment to a city, may take the form of a “supply zone, impact zone, sacrifice zone, or logistics corridor”.1 These zones become the ‘metabolic input’ for cities, and eventually return in the form of waste. A process which continues to be unsustainable and harmful to ecological and human health. Increased globalization fuels the necessity for operational landscapes. The extreme interconnectedness humans experience now due to advances in technology remove any sense of cultural value to mass commodity producing landscapes, which lose their direct connection to locality in favor of higher profit margins overseas. “Distanciation and Infrastructuralisation (robotsed, and mono-functional landscapes) play a crucial role in the social and cultural hollowing-out of the rural region”.2 Global supply chains break the link between cities/towns and hinterlands.
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A broader and more comprehensive study of the hinterland condition can be achieved by utilizing sources outside of scholarly bubbles, which often stray from personal experiences and effects of extracting natural resources. A list of case studies in which human experience is at the forefront confronts humanity and our effects to the environment. The aftermath of intervention often leaves communities riddled with societal strife or intrastate conflict. Pollution and loss of biodiversity have a direct impact on human health, yet its distance from larger populations results in a blind eye to the damage being done, largely by corporations with increased capital gain as their priority. An understanding of how these actors work as well as the steps that can be taken towards healthier environments in the hinterland are essential to curb the threat of climate change, a direct result of humanity’s ongoing detachment from nature.
Brenner, Neil. 2016. “The Hinterland Urbanised?” Architectural Design. 86 (4): 118-127. Brenner, Neil, and Nikos Katsikis. 2020. “Operational Landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene”. Architectural Design. 90 (1): 22-31. 2
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Fort Point Co-Housing
Amongst the new steel frame developments in the Seaport and Fort Point District, a timber mixed-use structure distinguishes itself from the monotony. By adopting a co-housing framework, the building aims to reestablish a sense of community and shared culture that once existed in the thriving artist enclave. Due to the site’s isolation from major roads and pedestrian circulation, a foot bridge weaving through the existing Boston infrastructure was proposed. The timber path produces a foil with the heavily industrialized area and bridges the infrastructure stemming from South Station. While connecting South Boston to downtown, the bridge adjoins the project’s elevated garden, activating it as a green heart and promoting social connectivity between residents and the public. A complex social dynamic reveals and conceals occupants at the building scale down to the unit scale. With the integration of multiple shared community spaces, a new living style in Boston is achieved.
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Proposed Foot Bridge
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Site Path Perspectives
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Third Floor Plan
Section Perspective
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made by Jack Foisey
Corridor Perspectives
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Bay Window
Storage Pod - Passive
Storage Pod - Active
Studio Unit Design
Sun Shader
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1/8”=1’ Scale Section Model made w/ Jack Foisey
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Scenes from Japan
- a country whose urban sprawl embodies a timeless energy and lure
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whose landscapes are as vast as a country of twice the size
Zachary K. Gaudet Wentworth Institute of Technology | BSA 2021