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Andrea Bradshaw
Andrea Bradshaw
A Visiting Artist’s Studio International Community Music Within Nature
New Vision Visualizing Music A Peek into the Future Explorations
Andrea Bradshaw
International CommunityHostel at MIT
Project: Design a hostel for international scholars, pro-fessors, and students at MIT, providing both public space and private living space.
Duration: 6-8 weeks
Professor: Joel Turkel
Class: 4.104 Architectural Intentions
Thoughts: The site location provided great views of
Boston, which I wanted to take advantage of without ignroing the MIT campus. The layers of traffic flow, both pedestrian and automo-tive, moving past the site also factored into the plan. The final programming of the public space includes a ground level coffee house with performace space, upper level restau-rant with outdoor seating facing the river, and study space tying together the public and private areas. The lower level living area pro-vides short term housing similar to hostels in Europe, with long term, more private living on the upper level of the building.
Andrea Bradshaw
New VisionA Medical Imaging Device
Project: Design, build, and program a prototype of a medical imaging device for use during proton beam therapy.
Duration: 3 Months
Advisor: Yuri Ivanov
Summer 2008: Internship, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab
Thoughts: The task of building a working prototype of
a medical imagine device gave me an oppor-tunity to combine engineering and design in a new way. Building the prototype gave me exposure to a number of new machines, including the HAAS CNC and ShopBot. Get-ting involved in the shop building, soldering, measuring, and tweaking was a great part of the design experience. On the front end, the MicrChip had to be programmed using C, and the UI was created using FLTK. Talking to the encoders through the chip and then make the information understandable to the user was a new workflow that involved a range of skills.
Andrea Bradshaw
Music within NaturePerformance in the Quarry
Project:Design a performance space for an artist with-in the Rockport Quarry.
Duration: 2 weeks
Professor: Jan Wampler
Class: Architecture in Landscape
Thoughts:The quarry was a study in contrasts. The quiet, natural feeling of the space belied the fact that the entire site was man made. The still water of
the quarry was in sharp contrast to the ocean pounding on the rocks just past the site. The most poignant things about the site were the reminders of its past life: the metal handles attached to rocks, the perfect drill holes still visible. I wanted my performance to have this same feel of history, to be obviously man made but feel natural and unintrusive. Choosing to develop a performance space for the celtic fiddle group Leahy, I used large metal arches to define a space where the performer and au-dience interact, and can also be enjoyed when the quarry is quiet.
Andrea Bradshaw
Visualizing MusicIntegrated Design
Project: Design and build a project with shows mastery of most of the skills taught in the class.
Duration: 2-3 weeks
Professor: Neil Gershenfeld
Class: MAS.863 How to Build Almost Anything
Thoughts: The goal behind this project was to demon-strate mastery of several of the skills and ma-chines taught in the class. My personal goal was to design and build something that rep-
resented a new way to visualize music. The piano keys, which I created using a lasercutter, were to be connected to valves which would allow an air bubble to pass into the vertical tubes containing water, when the key was pressed. The bubble would be sensed by the capacitance sensor located near the top of the tubes and then play the appropriate note, us-ing the modela for cutting out the circuits and assembly language for programming. This was an involved project for the three week time period because the relationship between the water, valves, and pressurized air needed more time to be resolved, but that is a matter of time rather than concept.
Andrea Bradshaw
A Peek into the FutureLiving in the North End
Project: Design an apartment in the North End for my-self ten years in the future.Duration: 4 weeks
Professor: Jan Wampler
Class: Architecture in Landscape
Thoughts: I first became a member of the Boston North End community during the 2006 FIFA World Cup when I cried, laughed, and cheered in the streets with all of the other fans. My apartment
cascades down the side of a building, mimick-ing the movement of fthe beautiful North End fire escapes. The slanted roofs make the expe-rience in each room dynamic, while also taking advantage of the southern sun. My bedroom has a large wall of windows to keep me con-nected to the street life, and my guest room/study is on the same level as the kitchen to keep visitors connected and involved. I have a music room/library at the top of my apart-ment, my quiet sanctuary above the bustle of daily life. Each inch of my apartment is well thought out.
Andrea Bradshaw
A Visiting Artist’s StudioDevelopment of Boston’s Piers
Project: Creating a place for an artist to live, work, and interact with the public as a part of the rede-velopment of Boston’s piers.
Duration: 6-8 weeks
Professor: Angela Watson
Class: Integrated Architecture
Thoughts: Designing for the waterfront required con-
sideration of the industrial nature of the area behind the site and the waterscape in front of the site. The attitude of the new ICA building and the plans for redevelopment also factored in. My design features three large spaces, with the most prominent being the gallery space for the visiting artist. The studio space is on the ground floor to encourage the artist to interact with the public and the site, as well as for prac-tical reasons. The roofs are sloped and sepa-rated from the walls so that the space within the building changes as you move into it and natural light is maximized.
Andrea Bradshaw
ExplorationsOther Work
Project 1: Design a disaster relief shelter to house a team of 4 spending only $50
Duration: 1 week
Professor: Jan Wampler
Class: 4.114 Architecture in Landscape
Project 2: Study in Cubism in different media
Duraction: 2 weeks
Professor: Michael J. Bove
Class: MAS.110 Fundamentals of Computa-tional Media Design
Project 3:Build a website using a database of movie in-formation scraped from wikipedia.
Duration: 4 weeks
Professor: Rob Miller
Class: 6.470 IAP Website Design Competition
Project 1 Photography by Reilly Rabitaille
Project 1 Photography by Reilly Rabitaille
Education
Work Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 2005 - 2009 Candidate for dual degree Bachelors of Science in Art and Design Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Spring 2006 - Received 1 of 12 awards among 200+ students for a designing a creative addition to an Object Oriented Programming assignment.
Relevant Coursework:Introduction to Integrated Design StudioArchitecture Intentions: StudioDesign Studio II: Architecture in LandscapeBSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts Introduction to Design ComputingIntroduction to Building Technology Civil & Environmental Engineering Design I & II
Structure & Interp. of Computer ProgramsCircuits & ElectronicsSignals & SystemsArtificial IntelligenceIntroduction to MechanicsIntroduction to Electricity and Magnetism Multivariable Calculus Differential Equations
Boston, MA June - August 2007 June-August 2006New York City, NY July – August 2005
Worked on projects in MA, NJ, and CT for Parsons Transportation Group and Parsons Infrastructure and Technology, completing tasks including drafting plans, creating soil profiles from boring logs, designing the regrading of parking lots and walkways to meet accessibility specifications, and creating a database to track impacted animal populations.
Parsons Corporation Intern - Parsons Transportation Group
Andrea Bradshaw
ComputerAdobe InDesign CS/Adobe PhotoshopAutoCad/MicrostationAutoDesk 3ds MaxSketchUpMicrosoft OfficeJava, C, C++, Asm
LanguageFluent EnglishInterm.FrenchBeginner German
Worked with Ambient Intelligence group on the initial design of iNKtuitive, an interactive tool that works to blend the physical and digital tools used throughout the architectural design process, submitting a paper to the IE08 Conference.
MIT Media Lab Undergraduate Research Assistant
Robo One Competition Contestant
Competed in the inaugural Robo One IAP competition at MIT, winning the footrace, dance contest, and battle portion of the competition. Designed unique personality and body covering for robot.
Cambridge, MA January 2008
Cambridge, MA January 2007
Term Contact:133 Webster AvenueCambridge MA 02141
732 735 [email protected]
Home Contact:33 Lynn CourtNorth Brunswick NJ 08902
732 940 [email protected]
Cambridge, MA June - August 2008
Developed a device to create an intuitive interaction for technicians working with proton beam therapy through design, drawing, prototyping, programming. Finished the summer with a working, conference ready prototype.
Contestant January 2008Website Design Competition Designed the graphics as a part of the three person team that created reelgood, a third place winning
website in the inaugural competition.
Mitsubishi Electronic Research Lab Intern
