Wentworth MArch 2012 Final Thesis Presentation

                                         

Alex Corbett | Schemes

Initial Sketch - Focus is on the organization and geometries of the site.

The schemes work with extending existing circulation onto the intervention to develop a variety of organizations. Program is accessible from both the esplanade and the intervention. The schemes work with an integration of program, circulation, and public space. Two means of circulation on the southern side detail the contrasting ideas of nature and the city. The spiral path wraps around nature while the rectilinear path borders a programmatic structure. A central path corresponds directly to the esplanade. A program that encapsulates one in nature and directs them to the Esplanade is the idea for the path.

Brown - Path

Yellow - Program

Grid - Public Green Space

White - Central Path

Alex Corbett | March Progression

Working along the lines of Kevin Lynch this drawing outlines the important characteristics of Back Bay. It highlights the important paths and nodes that I am trying to connect via this intervention. One of the important points Kevin Lynch describes the characterized vs uncharacterized locations. Back Bay has many characterized areas they are just lacking a strong connection with one another. My idea focuses on reconnecting the important nodal points of Boston to the Esplanade via new paths and new interventions

On a larger scale the proposal has three seperate interventions. Located at the ends of Gloucester Street, Dartmouth Street, and Arlington Street. The proposal focuses on creating new pedestrian streets leading to each intervention.

With a small scale drawing the focus shifts to the intervention itself. The intervention is located at the end of Gloucester Street. The bridge is to work with the existing urban fabric and the esplanade

Working with the organization of the site the focus was on highlighting existing conditions. The proposal is created by mapping site lines, structure lines, and extended circulation paths.

An expansion of the bridge works its way into the landscape. Nature works its way onto the bridge, meshing with program. It explores how nature and program can interact with one another

The layering of circulation and paths to create organization

How program and nature can be integrated within the new bridge. Exploring the connection between the grid and the anti-grid

Different conceptual drawings exploring organization and mapping

The most recent model works with the integration of program into the bridge. It also shows how existing paths can connect to the new form and how they can be surrounded by the existing nature.

This model explores the structural expression of the bridge. Components of the bridge can be used to create level changes and certain spacial qualities.

The model explores a structural expression and how that structure can extend from the bridge to create form and space

The second iteration expands on the idea of layering and an integrated program. Spaces are starting to form based off varying heights of layered components.

My thesis explores the relationship between nature and the city. This model represents the juxtaposition of both environments and how they can be work together to be beneficial to the human body.

This concept explores the idea of infrastructure protruding through the surface to form space

Concept highlighting the layers of infrastructure and how to expose various structures

Initial bridge concept working with the idea of layering material and an integration of program

Alex Corbett | Mid Review

Visual Abstract - Layering of Infrastructure

Rendered Site Iteration - Micro Scale

Rendered Gloucester Street - Master Plan

Rendered Site Interventions - Macro Scale

Infrastructure as Form, Space, and Sculpture

Modularity / Layering of Infrastructure

Follies - Parc de la Villette - Paris, France

Ring Around a Tree - Tezuka Architects

Infrastructure as Space

Gloucester Street Disrupted

Infrastructural Layering

Revealing Infrastructure

Infrastructure as Form

Site | Program Studies

Approaching two contrasting environments. Biological landscape vs. Commercialized landscape

Dialogue from Back Bay residents applaud Boston's walking paths but feel disconnected from the Esplanade due to the lack of public access.

Highlighting different nodes along Gloucester Street. Looking at ways to possibly connect different typologies

Models and photographs looking at the failures of the city infrastructure in terms of public access to the Esplanade

The idea of two contrasting ideologies contributing to programmatic choices

Looking at the chaotic nature of a commercialized Newbury Street

Alex Corbett | First Review