Harvard University; Soldiers Field Graduate and Adjunct Faculty Housing Mistur and Cabrinha's Design Development Studio, Fall 2007 Barbalato, Victor Clement, Alex Student projects Faculty housing Student housing Communal housing Dormitories The new graduate and adjunct faculty housing for Harvard University is situated within the Soldiers Field Athletic Area and overlooking the Charles River provides a radical solution to an otherwise drab construction of dormitory life. Posing a living condition in which students and faculty live together within a communal atmosphere will allow for a diffusion of information that is critical to the success of higher education facilities. The project places students and adjunct faculty within a matrix of two axis, one stressing individually and privacy and the other exploring the potential of the collective whole. Both of the extremes presented within the project are required in a collegiate environment. The two axis materialize within a Social Atrium lined with delicately perched private Apartments and exposed porches. To mitigate the juxtaposition of public and private, the landscape is scooped up form the outside and pulled up into the atrium, climbing its way up the walkways and walls. Together with the landscape, the walkways create a middle ground for the privateness of the apartments to meld with the inherent social environment of the atrium. Through the use of public planters and enlarged semi-enclosed area precious chance encounters and important planned events can take place, both creating a sense of Community. School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007) Mistur, Mark. Faculty advisor Cabrinha, Mark. Faculty advisor 2007 Digital images JPEG2000 21st century Boston, Massachusetts, USA Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Harvard University; Soldiers Field Graduate and Adjunct Faculty Housing
Mistur and Cabrinha's Design Development Studio, Fall 2007
Barbalato, Victor
Clement, Alex
Student projects
Faculty housing
Student housing
Communal housing
Dormitories
The new graduate and adjunct faculty housing for Harvard University is situated within the Soldiers Field Athletic Area and overlooking the Charles River provides a radical solution to an otherwise drab construction of dormitory life. Posing a living condition in which students and faculty live together within a communal atmosphere will allow for a diffusion of information that is critical to the success of higher education facilities. The project places students and adjunct faculty within a matrix of two axis, one stressing individually and privacy and the other exploring the potential of the collective whole. Both of the extremes presented within the project are required in a collegiate environment. The two axis materialize within a Social Atrium lined with delicately perched private Apartments and exposed porches. To mitigate the juxtaposition of public and private, the landscape is scooped up form the outside and pulled up into the atrium, climbing its way up the walkways and walls. Together with the landscape, the walkways create a middle ground for the privateness of the apartments to meld with the inherent social environment of the atrium. Through the use of public planters and enlarged semi-enclosed area precious chance encounters and important planned events can take place, both creating a sense of Community.
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007)
Mistur, Mark. Faculty advisor
Cabrinha, Mark. Faculty advisor
2007
Digital images
JPEG2000
21st century
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY