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Harvard’s Allston Science Complex Next Phase Studios, Architects

Allston, MA

Childcare Center / Conference Center / Fitness Center

Design Architect: Behnisch Architekten, Germany

Design Team Partner: Next Phase Studios

Size: 1,000,000 sf

Total ground fl oor area: 42,500 sf

Expected completion: 2010

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Dallas Urban Lab University of Texas, Austin

Dean Almy Studio

Proposed masterplan: 450 acres

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Flex Module AFH Chicago Design Team

Re-Locatable Classroom

Open Architecture Network design competition - top 52

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New York, NY

City racks design competition - top 10

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North Texas Station Master Plan

Although the hypothesis set forth by Gregotti

was developed in an earlier period of time, the

task of “building in between what is already

built” is essential to the revitalization of the post-

industrial American city today and to the idea of

architecture as a mechanistic device for urbanism.

“No new architecture can arise without modifying

what already exists, but the interest surrounding

the notion of modifi cation in recent years is

not based on such an obvious consideration, at

least if we view modifi cation as recognizing the

importance of what exists as structural material,

rather than mere background, during the design

process.”

Therefore, the architecture of modifi cation is born

out of the realization of context as something

perceivable, tangible, and editable. By way of this

defi nition architecture becomes intrinsic to urban

intervention, seeking to reveal a specifi c truth

of both the present state of a site and the site

in relationship to its geographical and historical

context.

For this investigation, the main issues in question

appertain to a revitalization of the contemporary

American city within its existing context, with

a disregard to the current building trend of

expansion and sprawl. Much of the inspiration

for this research can be attributed to the theory

of Vittorio Gregotti, regarding architecture as

modifi cation, and the practice of Manuel De Sola-

Morales, regarding techniques of what he refers

to as urban acupuncture.

Through a series of writings, architect Vitorrio

Gregotti develops both theory and strategies

of architecture as he examines the role of the

modernist project in late twentieth-century

building. “The principal drive of development

now addresses the transformation of the urban

and territorial issues, rather than the foundation

of the new.

The conditions of the 80’s and 90’s will be that of

building in between what is already built.” Much

of the historically signifi cant density in U.S. cities

has suff ered depletion due to recent factors of

social and economic decline, particularly in post-

industrial contexts. These factors, among others,

have led to an increase of sprawl and a decrease

of urban density in current development.

Experience:

Wentworth Institute of Technology: [WIT]

Boston, MA 9 / 01 - 5 / 06 - Bachelor of Architecture

Miller Boehm Architects: Boston, MA 6 / 06 - 9 / 06

Carr, Lynch, and Sandell:Cambridge, MA 9 / 06 - 4 / 07

Next Phase Studios, Architects: Boston, MA 4 / 07 - 8 / 08

University of Texas at Austin: [UTSOA]Austin, TX 9/10 - 12/11 - Master of Architecture

Extension and completion [connecting + articulating]

Addition and superimposition

Collage and internal modifi cation [contextual operating]

Simplifi cation and complexifi cation

Subtraction and repetition

The transformation of the infrastructures:“radical urban & territorial transformations & functional and formal modifi cations.”

Qualifi cation of the peripheries:“the reconstruction of left-over areas between the town and the periphery.”

Taxonomy of interventions:

Bernard Tschumi Architects: Interface Flon Railway + Metro Station, Lausanne

Bolles + Wilson: Urban Quartier Christianberg, Copenhagen, Denmark

O.M.A.: Souterrain Tram Tunnel, Netherlans, The Hague

Manuel de Sola-Morales: Stationsplein, Leuven

Alvaro Siza: Bouca Social Housing, Porto, Portugal