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Architectural
Portfolio
Istanbul
Studio
Intervening Within a
Historic City
Fall | 2015
01 | P9
Brighton Freight
Yard
Olympic Village
Proposal
Summer | 2015
01 | P17
Jamaica
Pond
Hydrotherapy
Center
Summer | 2014
01 | P27
Personal
Work | 02
-Carpentry | P39
-Digital Fabrication | P43
-Photography | P45
02
Personal Work
5. 01 | P9
Program | Graduate, M-Arch
Instructor | Weldon Pries
Location | Tophane, Istanbul, Lat: 41.025, Lon: 28.982
Istanbul Studio
Intervening Within a Historic City
Fall | 2015
This project is about defining a new expression of
the city through a series of strategic interventions along
the water’s edge. These interventions break through
the existing infrastructural barriers blocking the historic
community of Tophane from the water. This gesture
would establish a continuous edge for the city from the
historic peninsula through Tophane and catalyze growth
within the community,
The main focus of my exploration has been along
Kılıç Ali Paşa street between the Istanbul Modern and
the neighborhood adjacent. This specific site serves as
a precedent for the other interventions, and by pushing
outwards from the land into the water, expresses the
perpetual relationships of Istanbul to the water and sky.
Its plaza slips into the water, defining a space for the
community to gather along the Bosphorus. Opposing this
the building mass slopes up to end suspended over the
water, asserting its presence on the waterfront.
6. 01 | P11
The proposal consists of four Interventions along the
Bosporus which would return the use of the waterfront to
the once prosperous port of Tophane, provide for cultural
and civic functions, and catalyze the revitalization of the
communities along their axis. While the main focus of the
proposal is centered on an Intervention connected to the
Istanbul Modern Museum due to its relationship to the
main axis from Taksim Square, the other Interventions
would serve a variety of civic, cultural, and commercial
needs of the immediate community in an overall effort to
revitalize the diminishing district.
Intervening Within a Historic City | Istanbul Studio
Fall | 2015
7. 01 | P13
Intervening Within a Historic City | Istanbul Studio
Fall | 2015
In an expression of the aggressive nature of
their interaction the Interventions weave through the
structural remnants of the infrastructure that they have
replaced. The Intervention’s built mass is articulated
as a light structural frame draped with a cladding of
stone, the banded rhythm of which is derived from
the structural grid of the adjacent buildings. Out for
respect of the historic surroundings the cladding of these
Interventions seeks to give the contemporary design an
antiquated quality.
8. 01 | P15
Intervening Within a Historic City | Istanbul Studio
Fall | 2015
The Istanbul Modern Intervention serves as a central
hub for the community; its location is the culmination the
main axis from Taksim Square (an important civic space
for the city) as well as the hinge between the districts
of Tophane and Karaköy. Contained within it are a ferry
terminal, art gallery, commercial spaces, boat docks,
and public plazas. These services offer opportunities for
recreation, transportation, and work for the immediate
community, through their proximity to the Bosporus the
entire city.
9. 01 | P17
Olympic Village Proposal:
Felipe Francisco, Dario Boyce, Olivia Moore, Alexa Ashton,
Makayla Angel
During the anticipation of the possibility of Boston
hosting the 2024 Olympic games this project proposed
a housing development within the abandoned CSX
freight yard in Brighton. Rather then meet the needs
of Olympic housing the proposal looked to establish a
permanent community within the site consisting of low-
rise residential and high-rise mixed-use buildings, which
could meet the immediate needs of the Olympics before
being retrofitted for permanent habitation.
The proposal focused on pedestrian and public transit
through a network of green corridors and bus systems.
To amplify this and make use of the air rights over the
proposed West station rail-line a larger green space pulls
from the revitalized Charles River waterfront through the
site and into the heart of Brighton offering park space to
the larger community.
Athletes’ Village | Felipe Francisco
As part of the larger proposal for the Olympic
Village the Athletes’ Village was developed as the main
typology of low-rise building for the site. The typology
pulls from the Boston town house and triple-decker
styles to create a new housing typology, which integrates
exterior space within the built mass through courtyards
and flexible interior/exterior, partitioned spaces. Each
building fronts onto the pedestrian corridors of the
proposal, encouraging community interaction and
non-vehicular transit.
Brighton Freight
Yard
Olympic Village Proposal
Summer | 2015
Program | Undergraduate, BS-Architecture
Instructor | John Ellis
Location | Brighton, Boston, Lat: 42.356, Lon: -71.122
Felipe Francscio | Rendered
Dario Boyce, Makayla Angel |Drawn
14. 01 | P27
Program | Undergraduate, BS-Architecture
Instructor |Marilyn Moedinger
Location | Jamica Plain, Boston, Lat: 42.319, Lon: -71.119
Jamaica Pond
Hydrotherapy Center
Summer | 2014
Located along the edge of Jamaica Pond, this
design seeks to integrate its function and mass into
the landscape through a layered process of lofting and
embedding programmatic space within the site. The
building seeks symbiosis with the park by organizing its
program around an internal circulation, which serves to
vertically connect the existing network of paths within the
park as well as through active and passive systems, which
help to establish balance with the existing ecosystem.
Programmatically the building pools, meditation
nooks, and nutritionists’ office offers the residents
of the neighborhood surrounding the park a place for
recreation, meditation, and rehabilitation.
15. 01 | P29
Embedded within the shoulder of a hillside the
buildings terraces and bridges allow new views over the
pond while returning some of the building footprint as
a viable part of the existing ecosystem. Additionally
the building controls currently erosive rainwater runoff
and redirects into the pond and flood plain of the valley
adjacent.
Hydrotherapy Center |Jamaica Pond
Summer | 2014
17. 01 | P33
Hydrotherapy Center |Jamaica Pond
Summer | 2014
The building wraps around the hillside, moving from
the lower embedded cool spaces to the lofted hot spaces
around a knuckle, which defines the main entrance. The
program of the building is based around this with spaces
requiring heat such as the thermal baths lifted above
the tree cover and oriented towards the southwest, while
service spaces and cool spaces such as the pool make
use of the thermal mass of the hillside to passively cool
the space.
18. 01 | P35
Hydrotherapy Center |Jamaica Pond
Summer | 2014
The building presents its front to the main route
of travel through the site, a bike path along the pond’s
edge. While at other entrances the building acts as part
of the landscape, at its front it makes a forceful presence.
Here the building protrudes over the path in a monolithic
fashion, this is done to give the building presence and
encourage a sense of discovery and wonder.
20. 02 | P39
Shaving Stand
Bent Lamination
Spring | 2015
An amalgam of scrap material, this shaving stand
offered an opportunity to explore steam-bent lamination.
To create the arm of the stand, a formwork was first made
which the steamed layers of mahogany and bass wood
could be pressed into to generate the curvature within
the wood. Once the wood was dry they were glued and put
back into the form resulting in its final shape. In contrast
to the smooth curvature of the arm the “rusticated” base
is made from a piece of live edge cherry, with a patinated
copper insert to hold the Soap Bowl.
21. 02 | P41
Jewelery Box
Band saw Box
Valentines Day | 2015
This box was made by first creating a blank of
laminated layers of Baltic Birch plywood and Mahogany.
Its form was then cut from the blank on the band saw,
which constrained the boxes shape to the curvatures
the saw could achieve. The front and back faces of the
drawer were cut off allowing the core to be hollowed out.
Its faces were then glued back together, completing the
box.
22. 02 | P43
Christmas 2015
3D Printed Ornaments
Fall | 2015
As part of a yearly tradition of made gifts, these
3D printed ornaments make use of biaxial symmetry
in order to push the limitations of PLA printings, Their
symmetrical design allowed for the ornament to be
printed without the use of the support material normally
necessary with such steep overhangs due to the ballast
offered by the opposing tendril. Conceptually its design
intent was representative of icicles twisting to a central
point.
23. 02 | P45
Location | Tophane, Istanbul, Lat: 41.025, Lon: 28.981
From the endless horizons of the sea to the filtration
of light through grape leaves on a busy street, this
collection of photographs taken both domestically and
on my travels to Bermuda and Turkey express my interest
on the atmospherics effects of light, mass, color, space,
time, and their respective antitheses on the perception
of space.
Photography
Atmospheric Detailing
2014-2015
24. 02 | P47
Atmospheric Detailing | Photography
2014-2015
From left to right
Location | Brighton, Boston, Lat: 42.352, Lon: -71.110
Location | Galata, Istanbul, Lat: 41.025, Lon: 28.974
Location | Ireland Island, Bermuda, Lat: 32.327, Lon: -64.833
