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ATHENAEUM

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dallas tx

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fire data, healthcare, railway exchangei

The firehouse project began by integrating architecture students, with interior design, and landscape architec-ture students. The amalgamation of the different de-

sign ideas, streamlined the workflow of the team and allowed flexibility amongst the disciplines to explore within the established concept. We imagined the masses of Boston discovering to our site almost as if it had its own ever-present gravity. The imagery of the warm inn with its fireplace lit, smoke bellowing gracefully from the chimney, ushering in the weary traveler resonated in our minds. The imagery transformed itself by making manifest the indelible nature of the Firehouse. The goal was to attract people from throughout the Boston metro, and give them a place to express their creative energy. This warm energy would be expressed through the unique and creative individuals throughout the Boston and would serve as a public art exhibition space that could be a shared studio space for aspiring artists within and outside the local col-lege. The connection that this space would share with the Boston Archi-tectural College would be both invaluable to the school, and to the city of Boston. The dialogue of ideas that would occur from multiple profes-sions, would allow for the human interaction between cultures, profes-sions, and disciplines to ultimately be creative. This creative force would cause the site of the Firehouse to be the epicenter for creative culture within the city of Boston.

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This diagram is of all the major fires that have occurred within the city of Boston since 1860. This map shows the fires by loca-tion, intensity, and period. The pattern that took shape was used to develop the envelope and served as a series of deflection points along its striations.

The historical fires throughout Boston become openings in the skin of the Firehouse illuminating the interior during the day, then transforming at night to beckon people into the Firehouse.

We mapped the movement of a signal fire as it danced with the wind, and it was this mapping that formed the firehouse. The idea was to create a spark within Boston to facilitate action between the prevalent culture of business with the arts. This intertwining of the cultures around Boston seals the Firehouse as a focal point within the city. We chose the twisting flames of a fire to be our inspiration. This phenomenon, of the melting culture of Boston entangles visitors, welcoming them to the Firehouse even on the

coldest of nights. Boston has been a light of hope to so many, just as Paul Revere took the lamp and lit the path to a new nation so to the Firehouse will roote itself withing the city.

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The Firehouse, located on the corner of Massachusetts Ave, and Boyslton St places it at one of the most critical points within the city. Newbury Street to the north, is Boston’s fifth av-enue and is the busiest retail district inside Boston, for this rea-

son we wanted to expand our sites boundaries to connect with Newbury St. The propsoal is to develop a dual sided storefront to accommodate pedestrian flow from the prudential center’s business district through the Firehouse and into Newbury St. ROOF GARDEN

Collaboration Studio was a design studio led by Javier Gomez.

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archiecture Brandon Montfort interior design Alyssa Sheen Morgan Stautzenberger Megan Kozlowski

landscape architecture Jared Chase Sam Caskey

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Dr. Debajyoti Pati, Dr. Louis Mills, Kathy Lust, Dr. Cherif Amor

Zaha Hadid, Morphosis, BIG- Bjarke Ingles Group, B. Tschumi, Lebbeus Wood, Alex Hogrefe

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Athenaeum dallas tx

16 The process began by analyzing the influential forces that manifest themselves on the site of the Athenaeum. The primary phenomenon is the proximity to The Park in Dallas. This new park is being paid for by the city of Dallas, and is one of the most ambitious projects in the area. The Park is trying to incorporate uptown Dallas’ living, arts, and entertainment district with downtown Dallas. The design of The Park re-sulted in the termination of Harwood St. into what will now be the central entrance to this new urban oasis. This makes the intersection of Harwood and Woodall Rodgers one of the city’s most important points. This new interchange that merges uptown with downtown is one of the city’s most important locations guaranteeing an increase in pedestrian traffic between uptown and down-town Dallas. The prevalence of these pedestrians and the paths they would create begin to define the geometry of the Athenae-um This geometry was organized according to a simple system that called for an organization of a few key expres-sions. The most important of which is was the flow of pe-destrian traffic through The Park as well as the surround-ing city. The paths are derived from a simulation of the surrounding areas that analyzed major roads and walking paths. The paths were weighted in regards to potential pedestrian traffic with a higher affordance of paths being dedicated to higher potential pedestrian traffic. Thus the overall geometry of the building began to shape itself.

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These paths created numerous intersec-tions and ultimately began to align them-selves triangularly. This triangulation of paths created two positive legs and one negative leg of the triangle. Positive be-ing the physical paths created and nega-tive being the imaginary path between the initial two points. This triangulation would become the second element in the archi-tectural language. The third element would come from an examination of the second in nature. The principle described has a numerous examples in both mathematics and nature only under a different name. The mathematical term for this phenom-enon is fractal geometry.

Comprehensive Studio was a design studio led by Danny Nowak.

CREDITS

Dr. Saif Haq, Daniel Pruskee, Josh Nason

Steven Holl, Morphosis, Peter Zumthor, Zaha Hadid

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Vehicles

The apple grove is apart of the agricul-tural core providing both skill training and food for the community.

Haven for Hope in San Antonio TX inspired many of the design elements for High Cotton. The objective was to cre-ate a community to help heal the homeless in Lubbock TX. In order to do this we felt it was necessary to consolidate many of the resources that are available for the homeless in West Texas. The resources to be centralized were food service, tent shelters, permanent living, laundry, kennel, skill training, and second hand goods. The project was to develop a master plan and design elements that could help facilitate the rehabilitation process for the chronic and situational homeless in Lubbock TX.

Architecture in West Texas represents itself intrinsically in two ways. The sky and the prevailing wind. This brought upon an analysis of the typical domicile like traditions of plains architecture, thus resulting in typical dwellings like the sod hut of the American frontier to the nomadic tepees used by native Americans. This nomadic culture through the implementation of the tepee created a lightweight mo-bile shelter similar to a modern day tent.

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The site manifests itself into two different categories one being temporary, and the other permanent. We have sought to express this by the dividing the campus in to two making the northern most site Tent City and the south-ern site transitional housing for the homeless.

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optimal solar angle for photovoltaic panels

typ. structural wall

rain water receptical

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roof structureoperable skylight

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Urban Tech Studio was a design studio led by David Driskill, and Gary Smith

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archiecture Brandon Montfort Bryan Jacobsen Crystal Lyndstrom

Les Burrus, Frank Morrison, Nancy Norton, Louise Underwood, Jane Henry, Jeff Nesbit, Ben Shacklette, M. Crites, B. Hightower

BIG- Bjarke Ingles Group, Overland Architects, Alex Hogrefe

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The diagram represents all of the major fires that have oc-curred within the city of Boston since 1860. The map indicates the fires by location, intensity, and period. This info graphic was the conceptual framework for the creation of a pattern. The envelope’s design utilized the points of the fires as a se-ries of deflection points along the striations of the firehouse project.

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Adjacency analysis with expansion and square footage requirements, for Fire-wheel Medical Center

Private and public transportation around Firewheel Medical Center

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