PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES

PLAN PARTI:

PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES:

Clear circulation with three programatic peaces that allow each to function separately or collectively

SECTION PARTI:

Allowing the void to permeate through the building providing visual connections 

PARTI MODEL:

Review 3/22/12

Exploration Sketches: The beginning development of proposal.

Exploration Model: Playing with materials and program

REVIEW 3 - PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES

PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES: WITH THE CONCEPT OF COLLABORATION, NEGOTIATING, FLEXING MATERIALS AND PROGRAM CAN CREATE A "PERMEABLE BOUNDARY"

UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM:

WITHIN DENSE URBAN COMMUNITIES THERE IS A LACK OF INTERCONNECTEDNESS. BUILDINGS ARE OPPRESSIVE AND MINIMIZE INTERACTION, VISUAL CONTACT AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY, WITHDRAWING FROM URBAN LIFE.

ISSUES ARISE BECAUSE SECURITY AND SOCIAL / ECONOMICAL POSITIONS.

GUIDING DESIGN PRINCIPLES

PROGRAM

CONCEPTUAL MODEL: EXPRESSING HOW CETAIN MATERIALS CAN INFORM THE USER OF THE TYPE OF SPACE AND/OR WHERE TO GO.

CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES

CONCEPTUAL MODELS

BASIC MASSING AND UNDERSTANDING OF PROGRAMMATIC HIERARCHY

Mid Crit Material

Site: Roxbury, MA

Addressing the lack of interconnectedness in dense urban environments by providing

an interactive space that allows for community engagement

Diagrams showing how site will interact through collaboration

Understanding the Surrounding Complexities of the Site

Possible Negotiation

Dynamic Interplay: What is an interactive space?

Representations of different interactive programmatic arrangements and relationships.

Top Six

Beginning Sketches

First Review

Reconstructing complex boundaries that limit the needed relationship between in and out.

This thesis explores a new method that addresses the lack of engagement buildings have with their surroundings in dense, unsafe, urban environments.  Providing a thorough understanding of the importance of interconnectedness, it attempts to negotiate the complexities that arise when trying to create interactive connections between in and out, while still providing protection. The claim is that you can create a free and engaging space in an unlikely environment that presents factors that limit interaction due to the need for control.  The methodology presents a framework that analyzes the specific site conditions in order to successfully respond in a way that reconnects spatially and reunites a community by giving it an identity.  Through collaboration of material changes, landscape and the development of a moveable flexible structure, relationships will evolve to result in fostering a positive environment. Creating an atmosphere that does not close off to but responds to the complex surroundings engages the user with in and out and becomes the essence if this thesis.

Models Exploring Spatial Relationships 

Understanding the complexities of the Roxbury, MA site. 

Understanding complex boundaries of the site that limit the needed interaction to rehabilitate and connection a community with an identity.

An abandoned building

rundown small commercial strip

new and old

heavy traffic and pedestrian traffic

heavy traffic/ central split

an abandoned building

new and old

the dudley bus station

today site is completely gated off and unused

 run down shops