Artist’s StudioProspect & Refuge

Cut & FoldStudent Hostel

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Challenged to create a seasonal studiospace for a poet and dancer, at the Christian

Science Center in Boston, Massachusetts,I focused on Slam Poetry and the strong,forceful emotions contained in each line.

I represented this through jagged lines on the exterior and a series of polygons that construct the floor plan. On the dancers side, the lines on the exterior

become more fluid and flow fromone to the other. The floor plan is madeup of a series of overlapping circles to

represent the circular movements adancer makes over time.

Artist’s Studio

Prospect &

Refuge

We perceive areas as either prospect or refuge. Our need for prospect or refuge

can change over time. The time of day,season, year, and our life situation allinuence our need; it is not just a single

momenent, but is a journey where we slowlytrasition from one to the other. In myproject you slowly become seperated

from the rest of of the world, as you travel on a journey though nature and on thewater. As you journey on the water your

veiw of the building becomes moredetailed, thus transitioning you into the

space. Once in the building it is easy tohave views out, while views from the

outside world are obstructed.

Cut&

Fold

Given a tailor sheet pattern, I waschallenged to pick out specic lines to

make a 3D sculptural space. By cutting,folding up, and folding down my 8.5/11”tailor sheet, my design took a form in

which I saw the action of concavity andconvergence. My first model had asimple form, while the section was

elaborate and intricate, thus they didnot work together. I wanted to explore what

a model would look like if it was madevisually similar to the sections.

Student Hostel

Given the task of creating a student hostel in Boston’s Historic District of Beacon

Hill, on famous Charles St, I used the context of the neighborhood to create a

shell that hid a modern interior. Due to the historic nature of the site I did not want to intrurupt the fabric of the neighborhood

and kept with a brick facade that would blend in, with the exception of a small break that gives

a clue to what is inside and inticed people in. Upon entering, the user discovers a ‘surprize inside.’ the interior of the building opens to

an expansive space leading the visitor in and up, through the use of light. Within, I created paths

of interaction for the guests, allowing for people of diverse backrounds to meet and connect.

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Contact Information Erin McKinnon

Wentworth Insitute of TechnologyBachelor of Science of Architecture

(860) 798-6548mckinnone@wit.edu