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Law School News: Joyce And Bill Cummings Of Cummings Foundation To Deliver Keynote Address At Rwu Commencement 4-20-2023, Jill Rodrigues
Law School News: Joyce And Bill Cummings Of Cummings Foundation To Deliver Keynote Address At Rwu Commencement 4-20-2023, Jill Rodrigues
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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New Urban Living: High-Rise Vertical Farming In A Mixed Use Building, Boston, Ma, Zachary Silvia
New Urban Living: High-Rise Vertical Farming In A Mixed Use Building, Boston, Ma, Zachary Silvia
Architecture Theses
The focus of the project is the combination of vertical farming and living in a structure that provides for itself and the surrounding community. Essentially, the result is communal living through vertical farming. To raise awareness and invite surrounding neighbors and workers into the process, the first four floors are dedicated to social interaction and a display of the systems at use. Along the path from a public market, to a café, and finally to a gathering space, visitors walk along a ramp/display of the aquaponic system.
Graffiti Gallery, Mike Delvalle
Graffiti Gallery, Mike Delvalle
Architecture Theses
This project is an architectural exploration of the ability of architecture to enhance the lives of those belonging to stigmatized subcultures, in this case graffiti artists, Skateboarders, BMXers, and Rollerbladers. To do this there is a focus on achieving a spatial justice for these social groups by creating public space that is in fact public, uninhibited by the processes of inclusion and exclusion that plague nearly every public space. More importantly than achieving spatial justice, however, is creating a societal awareness of the positive attributes of these subcultures. After all, it is society that has control over how public spaces …
Tune In: Berklee College Of Music, Center For Music Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, Nicholas Proto
Tune In: Berklee College Of Music, Center For Music Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, Nicholas Proto
Architecture Theses
The design proposal is a center for music technology for the Berklee College of Music. The technology of music will blend with the technology of design to create a new, different place. The concept is to develop generative proposals that break the norms of “everyday life” through the creation of digital tools and processes. The ability to “disrupt someone’s lifestyle” is not done out of negative intentions, but to inspire one to break out and experience something new and exciting. Digital technologies enhance the process to provide key information in order to design and construct.
Boston Modern: Spirit Of Reinvention, Christine Madrid French, Elaine B. Stiles
Boston Modern: Spirit Of Reinvention, Christine Madrid French, Elaine B. Stiles
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, with the Boston Preservation Alliance, Boston Landmarks Commission, Boston Society of Architects, Common Boston, DOCOMOMO US/New England, Historic New England, and Preservation Massachusetts hosted the 2-day Boston Modern Module on June 29 and June 30, 2010. The Module included production of a full-color booklet highlighting significant modern and recent past resources in and around the city of Boston.
Adaptive Housing: Transformation And Growth In The Urban Environment, Kevin Mowatt
Adaptive Housing: Transformation And Growth In The Urban Environment, Kevin Mowatt
Architecture Theses
The proposal for an adaptive housing project and its chosen location arose from two obstacles that all modern cities and the world as a whole, face. The urban environment is revered for its cultural amalgam of people and wide range of demographics; however with this density and diversity comes a shortage of one type or another of commodious housing. Additionally and consequentially, the city must expand and build new buildings, leaving older, unsuitable building vacant. An adaptive architecture would allow families to grow and demographics to shift within the established community, all the while reinvigorating that second obstacle the city …
Fort Point Channel: Maglev Transit Hub And South Station Expansion Master Plan, Steven Seminelli
Fort Point Channel: Maglev Transit Hub And South Station Expansion Master Plan, Steven Seminelli
Architecture Theses
This project entails the design of a Magnetic Levitation (or ‘maglev’) transportation hub that interacts with the urban environment of Boston, becoming a modern terminal for this new form of travel as well as a threshold into the heart of the city. Included is the focus on the junction of many scales of transportation (i.e., maglev, train, metro, bus, pedestrian…) currently present at South Station, while stimulating a community with many levels of commercial development and social interventions.
Architecture Raising Awareness Of The Wider World: A Centre For Haiti In Boston, Thomas Burns
Architecture Raising Awareness Of The Wider World: A Centre For Haiti In Boston, Thomas Burns
Architecture Theses
This project proposes a Centre, an architectural space that will help the people of Haiti, (many of whom live in and around the city), while also educating and engaging others in Haitian culture and reality. This Centre includes a combination of programmatic elements within an appropriate urban setting. The site of this project is in Boston’s Back Bay at the intersection of Commonwealth Ave and Clarendon Street, in between Copley Square and the Boston Commons. With the objective of raising public awareness, this site has the ideal balance between the tourist and local community use. This Centre
Empathetic Design: Transitional Shelter, Anne Marie Loiselle
Empathetic Design: Transitional Shelter, Anne Marie Loiselle
Architecture Theses
Empathetic design is a concept that can be applied to any building type, anywhere. Empathy has implications in all aspects of design from scale, to materials, to organization and circulation. Empathetic design needs to adapt to the people it is built for, and the context it is built in. It is understanding of the needs and concerns of its occupants and provides a bridge to connect people to space. This project explores the concept of empathetic design as applied to a TRANSITIONAL SHELTER. This shelter is so named because it provides more than a temporary place to sleep. It is …