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The firehouse project was in collaboration with two interior design and two landscape architecture students at Texas Tech. The

integration of the different design disciplines stream-lined the workflow allowing each discipline to develop their own ideas within the context of the concept. The site of the firehouse was located in Boston Mas-sachusetts and is apart of the Boston Architectural Col-lege, our goal was to create an atmosphere that would allow the students of the BAC to exhibit their work in a gallery on site as well as provide studio apartments for the fellows within the program. Our site being located on the corner of Massachusetts Ave, and Boyslton St meant that the firehouse would literally be located at one of the most critical points within the city. Newbury Street to the north of our site is Boston’s fifth avenue and is the busiest retail district inside Boston, for this reason we wanted to expand our sites boundaries to connect with Newbury St. We proposed to develop a dual sided storefront to accommodate pedestrian flow from the prudential center’s business district through our site and into Newbury St.

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In addition to the mapping of the signal fire, we diagramed all of the major fires that have occurred within Boston since 1960. This map shows the fires by location, intensity, and period. The pattern that took shape was used to develop the envelope and served as a series of deflection points along the striations of the envelope.

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.

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The idea was to create an ignition within Boston to fa-cilitate an interaction between the prevalent culture of business and the arts. This infusion we interpreted to be almost like beacon. We chose this because the per-sonal phenomenon associated with not just arriving at a destination after a long excursion, but we also wanted to evoke a fiery passion within our design. The idea of a beacon of hope transpired within our intention for the design and with this in mind we began to focus on the light or the fire within the beacon.

We mapped the movement of a signal fire as it danced with the wind, and it was this mapping that formed the lines of force within and our design.

Collaboration Studio was a design studio led by Javier Gomez.

team members

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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02 The process began by analyzing the influential forces that manifest themselves on the site of the Athenaeum. The primary phenomenon is the closness in 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. Essen-tially The Park is trying to incorporate uptown’s living, arts, and entertainment district with downtown Dallas. The design of The Park resulted in the termination of Harwood St. into what will now be the central entrance to this new urban oasis. This potentially 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. The prevalence of these pedestrians and the paths they would create begin todefine the geometry of the build-ing. This geometry was organized according to a simple system that called for an organization of key elements. The most important element was the flow of pedestri-an traffic through The Park as well as the surrounding city. The paths drawn are simple in they are the short-est distance between two points. The paths were also 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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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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Urban Tech Studio was a design studio led by David Driskill, and Gary Smith

team members

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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