The document summarizes several design projects by Brandon Montfort including the Firehouse project in Boston, MA, the Athenaeum in Dallas, TX, and High Cotton in Lubbock, TX. The Firehouse project integrated architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture students to design a community space. The goal was to attract creative individuals to the space. The Athenaeum design was influenced by pedestrian traffic patterns near a new park in Dallas. High Cotton was designed to consolidate resources for the homeless in Lubbock, TX, incorporating tent shelters and permanent housing. Infographics depicted fire patterns in Boston and transportation/healthcare data.

1. ARCHive
acollectionofprojectsby:
brandonmontfort

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dallas tx
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3. The firehouse project began by integrating architecture
students, with interior design, and landscape architec-
ture students. The amalgamation of the different de-
sign ideas, streamlined the workflow of the team and allowed flexibility
amongst the disciplines to explore within the established concept. We
imagined the masses of Boston discovering to our site almost as if it
had its own ever-present gravity. The imagery of the warm inn with its
fireplace lit, smoke bellowing gracefully from the chimney, ushering in
the weary traveler resonated in our minds. The imagery transformed
itself by making manifest the indelible nature of the Firehouse. The goal
was to attract people from throughout the Boston metro, and give them
a place to express their creative energy. This warm energy would be
expressed through the unique and creative individuals throughout the
Boston and would serve as a public art exhibition space that could be a
shared studio space for aspiring artists within and outside the local col-
lege. The connection that this space would share with the Boston Archi-
tectural College would be both invaluable to the school, and to the city
of Boston. The dialogue of ideas that would occur from multiple profes-
sions, would allow for the human interaction between cultures, profes-
sions, and disciplines to ultimately be creative. This creative force would
cause the site of the Firehouse to be the epicenter for creative culture
within the city of Boston.
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This diagram is of all the major fires that have occurred within
the city of Boston since 1860. This map shows the fires by loca-
tion, intensity, and period. The pattern that took shape was used
to develop the envelope and served as a series of deflection
points along its striations.
The historical fires throughout Boston become openings in the
skin of the Firehouse illuminating the interior during the day,
then transforming at night to beckon people into the Firehouse.

5. We mapped the movement of a signal fire as it danced
with the wind, and it was this mapping that formed the
firehouse.
The idea was to create a spark within Boston to facilitate
action between the prevalent culture of business with the
arts. This intertwining of the cultures around Boston seals
the Firehouse as a focal point within the city. We chose
the twisting flames of a fire to be our inspiration. This
phenomenon, of the melting culture of Boston entangles
visitors, welcoming them to the Firehouse even on the
coldest of nights. Boston has been a light of
hope to so many, just as Paul Revere took
the lamp and lit the path to a new nation so to
the Firehouse will roote itself withing the city.

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7. The Firehouse, located on the corner of Massachusetts Ave,
and Boyslton St places it at one of the most critical points
within the city. Newbury Street to the north, is Boston’s fifth av-
enue and is the busiest retail district inside Boston, for this rea-
son we wanted to expand our sites boundaries to connect with Newbury
St. The propsoal is to develop a dual sided storefront to accommodate
pedestrian flow from the prudential center’s business district through the
Firehouse and into Newbury St. ROOF GARDEN

8. Collaboration Studio was a design studio led by Javier Gomez.
team members
archiecture Brandon Montfort
interior design Alyssa Sheen
Morgan Stautzenberger
Megan Kozlowski
landscape architecture Jared Chase
Sam Caskey
CREDITS
Dr. Debajyoti Pati, Dr. Louis Mills, Kathy Lust, Dr. Cherif Amor
Zaha Hadid, Morphosis, BIG- Bjarke Ingles Group, B. Tschumi,
Lebbeus Wood, Alex Hogrefe
SPECIALTHANKS
THOUGHTS

9. Athenaeumdallas tx
16 The process began by analyzing the influential
forces that manifest themselves on the site of
the Athenaeum. The primary phenomenon is the
proximity to The Park in Dallas. This new park
is being paid for by the city of Dallas, and is one of the
most ambitious projects in the area. The Park is trying to
incorporate uptown Dallas’ living, arts, and entertainment
district with downtown Dallas. The design of The Park re-
sulted in the termination of Harwood St. into what will now
be the central entrance to this new urban oasis.
This makes the intersection of Harwood and Woodall
Rodgers one of the city’s most important points. This
new interchange that merges uptown with downtown is
one of the city’s most important locations guaranteeing an
increase in pedestrian traffic between uptown and down-
town Dallas.
The prevalence of these pedestrians and the paths they
would create begin to define the geometry of the Athenae-
um This geometry was organized according to a simple
system that called for an organization of a few key expres-
sions. The most important of which is was the flow of pe-
destrian traffic through The Park as well as the surround-
ing city. The paths are derived from a simulation of the
surrounding areas that analyzed major roads and walking
paths. The paths were weighted in regards to potential
pedestrian traffic with a higher affordance of paths being
dedicated to higher potential pedestrian traffic. Thus the
overall geometry of the building began to shape itself.
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tions and ultimately began to align them-
selves triangularly. This triangulation of
paths created two positive legs and one
negative leg of the triangle. Positive be-
ing the physical paths created and nega-
tive being the imaginary path between the
initial two points. This triangulation would
become the second element in the archi-
tectural language. The third element would
come from an examination of the second
in nature. The principle described has a
numerous examples in both mathematics
and nature only under a different name.
The mathematical term for this phenom-
enon is fractal geometry.

11. Comprehensive Studio was a design studio led by Danny Nowak.
CREDITS
Dr. Saif Haq, Daniel Pruskee, Josh Nason
Steven Holl, Morphosis, Peter Zumthor, Zaha Hadid
SPECIALTHANKS
THOUGHTS

12. Vehicles
The apple grove is apart of the agricul-
tural core providing both skill training and
food for the community.
Haven for Hope in San Antonio TX inspired many of the
design elements for High Cotton. The objective was to cre-
ate a community to help heal the homeless in Lubbock TX.
In order to do this we felt it was necessary to consolidate
many of the resources that are available for the homeless
in West Texas. The resources to be centralized were food
service, tent shelters, permanent living, laundry, kennel,
skill training, and second hand goods. The project was
to develop a master plan and design elements that could
help facilitate the rehabilitation process for the chronic and
situational homeless in Lubbock TX.
Architecture in West Texas represents itself intrinsically in
two ways. The sky and the prevailing wind. This brought
upon an analysis of the typical domicile like traditions of
plains architecture, thus resulting in typical dwellings like
the sod hut of the American frontier to the nomadic tepees
used by native Americans. This nomadic culture through
the implementation of the tepee created a lightweight mo-
bile shelter similar to a modern day tent.
HIGH COTTON
Revit, Photoshop

13. The site manifests itself into
two different categories one
being temporary, and the
other permanent. We have
sought to express this by the
dividing the campus in to two
making the northern most
site Tent City and the south-
ern site transitional housing
for the homeless.
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solar declination
winter solstice
optimal solar angle for
photovoltaic panels
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15. Urban Tech Studio was a design studio led by David Driskill, and
Gary Smith
team members
archiecture Brandon Montfort
Bryan Jacobsen
Crystal Lyndstrom
Les Burrus, Frank Morrison, Nancy Norton, Louise Underwood,
Jane Henry, Jeff Nesbit, Ben Shacklette, M. Crites, B. Hightower
BIG- Bjarke Ingles Group, Overland Architects, Alex Hogrefe
CREDITS
SPECIALTHANKS
THOUGHTS

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The diagram represents all of the major fires that have oc-
curred within the city of Boston since 1860. The map indicates
the fires by location, intensity, and period. This info graphic
was the conceptual framework for the creation of a pattern.
The envelope’s design utilized the points of the fires as a se-
ries of deflection points along the striations of the firehouse
project.
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18. archIVEby: brandon montfort