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Design
Build
Boston 2024 OlympicVillage
Master Plan + Innovation Point
Woodland Retreat
Interstices: Design Build Instillation at
Tufts Universuty
Sean Levesque
Wentworth Institute ofTechnology
Master of Architecture, 2016
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 2015
Contact:
seanlevesque01@gmail.com
757-582-1193
Digital portfolio and additional
publications available at:
issuu.com/seanlevesque
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Rome From Above
Sean Levesque
September 2015
12 Boston Cultural Center
Research
Facade Precedant Study: Peter
Zumthor’s Kunsthaus
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Public Infrastructures: Chelsea Arts
Cooridor + SelectedTest Project
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Boston 2024
OLYMPIC VILLAGE
MASTER PLAN
Community Design Studio
Summer 2015
In the Summer of 2015, Boston began major design and policy
excercies to win the bid for the 2024 Olympic Games.Where to
house this tempoary influx of people and, more importantly, what
happens to these spaces post Olympics, became a major conversation
during the course of this studio.The site we proposed for Boston’s
OlympicVillage was the South Boston Waterfront, North of the Boston
Design Center.The main highlights of the master plan include a central
core of activity- where water is brought into the site, with landmark
projects along the coastline
SouthBostonMasterPlan
FinalModel
In collaboration with
Sam Loso, Kevin Nisbet, & Greg
Mcdonnell
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INNOVATION
POINT AT
SOUTH BOSTON
WATERFRONT
Community Design Studio
Summer 2015
ViewFromBostonHarbour
Below:ProcessSketches
Looking towards the LegacyVision of the Boston OlympicVillage,
Innovation Point establishes a new district within the South Boston
Waterfront that brings together residents, visitors, and creative
individuals.This new destination point consists of a public boating
house, restaurant, aprtments, and workshop space as well as a library
and digital media commons. During the Olympics, this area is intended
to serve as a gathering ponint for athletes and officials, providing areas
of realaxation as well as venues for communation.
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BOSTON
CULTURAL
CENTER
Comprehensive Deisgn
Spring 2014
At the intersection of Massachucetts Ave. and Bolyston Street, the
Boston Cultrual Center aims to provide a gathering point within the
Back Bay neighborhood. The project was intended to explore wood
frame construction in medium height buildings while communicating the
traditional city building methods of wood piles and masonry. Located on
an existing residual site.a number of elevation changes and infrastructual
barriers make have produced a site unappealing to the public.The infill
of this site along with the proposal of a new pedestrian connection
between streets, gives new life to a previously ignored site.
ViewFromBoylstonStreet
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The Woodland
URBAN RETREAT
Site and Environment Studio
Summer 2014
Designing within a theoretical woodland site, the idea of trees as a
dynamic and naturally occuring spatial definer was a driving element of
the project. In keeping the site’s existing tree planting as undisturbed as
possible, the architecture of the Urban Retreat implants itself around the
void established by the location of the trunks. Contouring around each
tree, the building and site design work to establish views and create a
relationship with site and architecture.
ViewLookingNortheast
ConceptModels
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INTERSTICES: THE
SPACE BETWEEN -
ARCH-I-PELAGO
Tufts University
Spring 2016
placement of the installation between the workshop venues – the
Distiler Performance Hall and the Fisher Performance Room – creates
a condition of vortices and tides gathering sounds, images, memories,
languages, histories, poetics brought from waters of different seas and
different peoples. Re-envisioning metaphoric Venetian Campos, not
idealized places of harmony, but ones of contrasting and clashing worlds,
cultures, ambiences.
ViewFromBoylstonStreet
Archipelago is an architectural installation that was created specifically for
the Utopian Listening Workshop, dedicated to the late works of Italian
composer Luigi Nono, sponsored by Tufts and Harvard Universities
at the Tufts Granoff Music Center, March 23 through 26, 2016. The
installation probes the interstices between music and architecture –
intimate and public; memory and place; poetries sonic, visual, sensorial
– created by fifteen graduate students from Wentworth Institute’s
Architecture Program under the guidance of architecture professor
John Stephen Ellis and concert artists Jung Mi Lee and Jon Sakata.The
In collaboration with:
John Ellis,AIA, Dr. Jon Sakata, Jung
Mi-Lee, Rima Abousleiman, Claire
Andersen,Alycya Boisvert, Brendan
Bowen, Robert Carney, Elizabeth
Glavin, Anne Harris,Walter Levine,
Jillian Lodor, Steven Prestejohn,
Holly Hersey, Daniel Quartararo,
Laura Smith, andVichitta Srisouraj
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FinalModell
Kunsthaus Bregenz
FACADE
PRECEDANT
STUDY
Materials and Methods
Spring 2013
Sectional model and analysis of Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus, exploring
the relationship between the facade system employed and the structural
system of the building. Built in groups of three, the week long project
looked to analyze a selection of buildings and their facade systems
through model and drawings.
The final model was on long term display in theWentworth Architecture
Department lobby till the summer of 2015
Below:FinalModel|Above:BuildingProcess
In collaboration with
Domenico DeRenzio & Marisa
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PUBLIC
INFRASTRUCTURES:
CHELSEA PUBLIC ARTS
COORIDOR
Thesis Studio,
Selected Project
Spring 2016
Recent precedents in urban design prove that infrastructural systems are
becoming perceived as intrusive elements to the success of public life.
By approaching this issue from a bottom-up perspective, residual lost
spa.ce can serve as a facilitator for meaningul growth within an urban
community. Using the city of Chelsea, MA as a test site, a new bike
and pedestrian path is proposed to counter the effects of the elevated
highway system that slices through the cithy. This new path, serving as
the basis for the curation and support of public art programs, allows for
a system of strategic intervention strategies to integrae a social nature
into these newly percieved public spaces
PerspectiveView,ObservationTower
SECTION F-F
PROPOSED
EPISTRUCTURE
PROPOSED EPISTRUCTURE
SECTIONAL CONDITIONS CATALOG
SCALE: 3/16”=1’
SectionalStudies-MakingInfrastructureSocial
