Denise N Weberundergraduate portfolio

Contentsallston village mixed use 3

culinary arts school 7

friends elementary school 11 forest retreat house 15

bicycle manufacturing 19

Allston Village Mixed Use community•spring2011

The purpose of this studio was to address a community within the city at a macro then micro scale. As a class we created a master plan, redesigning the Alston Village community. Then each of us designed a mixed use, apartment and retail, building within the master plan.

Focusing on the small-scale apartment unit, my concept was to create a duplex apartment that had both a street view and garden view.

There is a push and pull on the facade in order to create outdoor spaces. Small balconies that can be stepped out on or the glass door can be slid open to allow the living space to become a void within the building.

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Process Models

CAMBRIDGE STREET ELEVATION1/8”=1’-0” Front Elevation

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*elevation complete in collaboration with classmates Dylan Phaneuf & Sean Curran

DUPLEX SECOND LEVEL1/4”=1’-0”

UNIT AXON1/4”=1’-0”

DUPLEX FIRST LEVEL1/4”=1’-0”

STUDIO APARTMENT1/4”=1’-0”

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Detailed Unit Plans

studio apartment duplex living level duplex sleeping level

DUPLEX SECOND LEVEL1/4”=1’-0”

UNIT AXON1/4”=1’-0”

DUPLEX FIRST LEVEL1/4”=1’-0”

STUDIO APARTMENT1/4”=1’-0”

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Axonometric of Duplex Unit

Culinary Arts School comprehensive•fall2010

My objective was to engage the building with the South End, creating a visual connection to Blackstone Square Park and Washington Street.

The front of the school holds the active elements of the program (teaching kitchens, restaurant, bakeshop); the façade is animated by the activity within. Cooking surfaces and dining spaces pull toward the park into a double-skin façade to create a relationship between inside and outside.

The rear of the site faces an elementary school; I placed the focused learning areas toward that side for privacy. Spaces project toward Washington Street to highlight the library and demonstration kitchen

A centralized circulation spine connects the different aspects of the school. Horizontal and vertical circulation connects spaces physically and visually.

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Process Models

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Detailed Section Model

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Physical Model in Context Interior Perspectives

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Detailed Section

Friends Elementary Schoolsite&landscape•spring2010

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The Friends school is a Quaker Elementary School located on Jamaica Pond. This project is all about integrating the site and the landscape into our designs. I wanted my school to project into various aspects of the landscape.

The program is separated into three bars- classrooms, communal spaces and administration. The classroom bar projects toward the pond. The roof of the classrooms is the earth, allowing the building to be a part of the swale. Creating a place for the academic courtyard and directed views toward the water and the landscape.

Communal spaces (library/multipurpose) open up to the natural curvature of the landscape; providing a protected environment for the children to play.

Administrative offices overlook to road and the drop off sequence. You enter the school underneath the cantilevered volume; pulling visitors in and creating a covered area for entering and exiting the school.

Exterior spaces fit within the landscape; the amphitheater is set into the banks of the pond with a connective dock that extends into the pond.

Process Models and Sketches

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Site Section

Perspectives

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Site Plan

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Forest Retreat House site&landscape•spring2010

The forest is where you go to get back in touch with nature. It is a tranquil environment where you can relax and be hidden from the world among the trees.

A retreat house in the forest is a great place to relax and reconnect with your self and with loved ones. The house I designed is a series of indoor and outdoor spaces and terraces.

There is a transition from the arrival and en-tryway into the living and gathering spaces and then into the bedrooms. Each of these indoor segments are connected to an adjacent out-door terrace. There is always an opportunity to gather together.

The trees determined placement of the spac-es, the tree trunks bordered the house as a containing wall. Tree canopies also determined where spaces were placed, based on light and openings between the leaves.

Conceptual Diagrams

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Site Section

Front Elevation

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SITE PLAN 1’= 1/16”

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Site Plan & Charcoal Sketches

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Site Model

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Bicycle Manufacturing tectonics•fall2009

Seven Cycles is a Watertown, MA based company that designs and manufactures custom bicycles. Proposed is a new facility in Boston for the company to manufacture and sell their bicycles. We learned that the employee has a one on one relationship with the bike they are creating; working on the same bike from start to finish.

I tried to create a relationship between employees and visitors from space to space. A connection is established throughout the building through a system of screened walls. There were several types of wall systems to allow and block views. This strengthens the presence of bicycles and internal communication within the building.

Program is laid out within the building sequentially. Each piece of the program fits within a band of space. Each band is divided by the screen system. The screens act as a place for storage and display within the building. You enter through the display and sales area and move through to the fitting and services rooms. Finally ending up in the large assembly space. Administrative and employee areas are on the second floor overlooking all the activity within.

Process

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Front Elevation

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Detail Sketches

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Denise N Weberdenise.n.weber@gmail.com•203.640.5861