The Program:
Jazz School (Berklee College of Music)
Art Gallery (Institute of Contemporary Art)
Student Dormitories
The Campus:
By creating ground planes in the air, and breaking the building into blocks like the traditional campus typology, this project seeks to address the question of verticality - how to make verticality meaningful and interesting as opposed to the standard wrapped core and experience of the elevator trip.
Site Plan
The site is at the junction of the colliding grid of diverse Boston neighbourhoods such as Back Bay, South End and Fenway/Kenmore, each with a distinct character. At this important juntion, there is a ‘void’ of activity: the new building combining a Jazz School, an Art Gallery and Student Housing will enrich the site with a new spirit of art and culture which can be traced back to the early Jazz history of Boston.
Site Section
To the East, the High Spine of Boston can be seen with its towering skyscrapers. To the West, only low-rise buildings. The site is at a junction of mitigation between high and low-rise, and is the perfect opportunity to explore architecture that critically addresses the typology of the high-rise building and its relationship to the site and to the human scale.
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| Seats configuration 1: Theater |
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| Seats configuration 2: Landscape |
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| View approaching from along Boylston Street |
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| Render view |
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| 2nd Floor Plan |
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| 6th Floor Plan |
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| 7th Floor Plan |
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| 16th Floor Plan |
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| 17th Floor Plan |
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| 18th Floor Plan |
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| Roof Floor Plan |
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| Model - Entrance landscape |
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| Model - Communal space / transposed ground plane |
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| Model - looking up / elevators |
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| Model - entrance to Black Box / pub |
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| Model - South, showing communal spaces |
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| Model - North, showing gallery making use of diffuse North light |
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| Model - Landscape park / theater |
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Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Master in Architecture
Fall 2012 / Vincent Bandy Studio
