ZACHARY TALMADGE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
SCHOOL DESIGN WORK COMMUNITY DESIGN IN JAMAICA PLAIN BOSTON MA 1 INTERNATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS 11 INTERDISCIPLINARY OUTPOST 21 URBAN SANCTUARY 25 IDEO COMPANY BUILDING 29 FACADE STUDY 37 STUDY OF THE BOSTON COAST 39 THESIS SURREALISM AND OUR EXPERIENCE OF SPACE: THESIS BRIEF 41 PROFESSIONAL WORK PROFESSIONAL WORK SAMPLES 55
COMMUNITY DESIGN IN JAMAICA PLAIN BOSTON MA SENIOR YEAR PROFESSOR: TERRY MOOR SPRING 2014 1
My project for community design focused on creating a functional home that allowed for community interaction as well as a safehaven from the intensity of living in the middle of a highly public area. As a class we created a master plan revolving around the main street, where my building ended up being located. The bottom floor is commercial use. The upper floors are apartments. The priority of each unit is to have a connection from the street side back to the park side where each unit has an individual “back yard.� It provides good daylighting and cross ventilation. 2
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INTERNATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS JUNIOR YEAR PROFESSOR: CAROL BURNS SPRING 2013 11
The headquarters for the ICA was based off a specific site condition on Magazine Beach. In the building the view across the river is obstructed. The only views you get are when you are circulating through the building. As you circulate, the building seems to open up and more light is let in. When you get to the culmination point the view across the river is unobstructed.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY OUTPOST JUNIOR YEAR PROFESSOR: CAROL BURNS SPRING 2013 21
The interdisciplinary outpost was a quick three week project using an apple orchard and a constant slope as influences in the design. The goal for this project was to learn how to manipulate the landscape and use the landspace to create different spaces.
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URBAN SANCTUARY
SOPHOMORE YEAR PROFESSOR: SUSANA PEREIRA DEVOE SPRING 2012 25
The urban sactuary focuses on the idea of memory in order to enhance a person’s experience while visiting a deceased love one. It is simply organized into three spaces: the mousoleum, interior sanctuary, and exterior sanctuary. At a certain time of day, light shines directly down the main entrance, highlighting the pattern on the main mausoleum wall. Each square corrolates to where the urn is put. It represents the special memories that stand out from the rest. The pattern seems to fade away as it gets further away from human height, showing how over time, the details of a memory become harder to remember. These details seem to fade away. Even though the details become harder to remember, the emotions attached to the memory will last forever. 26
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IDEO COMPANY BUILDING SOPHOMORE YEAR PROFESSOR: J.P. ALLEN FALL 2011 29
In the design of the building, it was important to emphasize this relationship between IDEO and the public. IDEO designs products for the public. The entrances are not on the ends of the building. Instead, they are along a public alley shared by IDEO and the public. At one point the public unknowingly walks over a secret prototype building space.
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FACADE STUDY
SOPHOMORE YEAR PROFESSOR: SUSANA PEREIRA DEVOE SPRING 2012 37
Group Members: James Mize Matt Guntrum
We were asked to study and recreate the facade of the MIT Media Lab. This three foot tall model shows the effectiveness of screening in a building.
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STUDY OF THE BOSTON COAST JUNIOR YEAR PROFESSOR: JUSTIN HUMPHREYS FALL 2012 39
These are drawings of land-water conditions on the Boston coast. The two drawings are both freehand and no straight edge was used.
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SURREALISM AND OUR EXPERIENCE OF SPACE: THESIS BRIEF MASTERS YEAR PROFESSORS: MICHAEL MACPHAIL and AARON WEINERT FALL 2014 - SPRING 2015 41
Architectural design can be influenced by surrealist philosophy in order to emphasize the unconscious reactions to the inhabitable environment. It severs ties with the familiar and challenges the importance of systematic and institutionalized rationality and function. When standardization is prevalent, people become content. Everything becomes familiar. It exiles any emotional connection that could be made to the activity or object in question. Progress and learning then become obsolete and there is no way to engage the built environment. 42
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Surrealism utilizes the unconscious mind to bring back emotional connections to what is experienced. It alters what is normally familiar and forces us to figure out what we are facing. Certain spatial and architectural themes throughout surrealist art were studied in order to understand how to create an experience of space from the unconscious. These themes are: the manipulation of space, endless interior spaces, and thresholds. These themes were studied through exploratory drawings and models. The spatial studies transitioned into an understanding of how unconscious space can be beneficial to a boarding school and enhance the learning capabilities of the standard high school curriculum.
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Two out of many sketches studying in the purest form, how to manipulate how our mind perceives space.
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The most important part of the spaces is how the students interact. It engages the students with the environment as well as the curriculum they learn. They corrolate the process of re-learning the environment with the learning of a subject.
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The closest medium I discovered that best resembled light in two dimensions was watercolor. In order to better gauge how colored light fills a space I built small scale spaces and use real colored light. These were explored in many different color combinations as well as various intensities of light.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK SAMPLES EMPLOYER: DANA BIXBY JULY - SEPTEMBER 2013 55
Dana Bixby
Architecture
24 Swamp Road West Stockbridge, MA 01266 Tel: 413-232-7834 Fax: 413-232-7823 Email: dana@danabixby.com www.danabixby.com
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Dana Bixby
Architecture
24 Swamp Road West Stockbridge, MA 01266 Tel: 413-232-7834 Fax: 413-232-7823 Email: dana@danabixby.com www.danabixby.com
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Dana Bixby
Architecture
24 Swamp Road West Stockbridge, MA 01266 Tel: 413-232-7834 Fax: 413-232-7823 Email: dana@danabixby.com www.danabixby.com
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