BVC Tower, Boston MA, 2025
Scale: 1/16”=1’
Model Materials: Museum Board, Chip Board, Acrylic, 3D Print, Basswood, Metal Mesh
Core III Integrate with Professor Adam Frampton.
1-4: Exterior Views
5: Interior variance and structure
6: Floor Plans
7: Transverse Section
8: Longitudinal Section
9: Shaded Elevations
10-12: Facade Model at 1/4”=1’
13: Cut away theater to facade
14-15: Theater assembly detail
16-17: Tower assembly detail
18-19: Structural model at 1/32”=1
20: Initial visual study
This proposal for Berklee’s vertical campus seeks to establish the institution as an incubator for art and music at the cutting edge of the medium. The campus is bifurcated into a combinable theater and black box near street level and a varied vertical campus hanging above. Between these two, a campus common space is created for the students.
The theater and blackbox are placed coplanar to each other to allow for the combination of spaces, accommodating 1500+ seats, as well as collaboration and equaling between students and visiting acts. As the public enters from the street below, they are brought to a sky lobby that spans the width of the tower; as they ascend around the theater spaces they enter a more technical space where back of house and front of house meet.
The campus above the theater seeks foster spontaneous and diverse collaboration. Structurally, the tower consists of floors hanging from a truss at the top of the tower and supported by the two super cores. Each floor plate is hung by 10 thin steel columns, creating an open plan for each level. From this standardization, a collection of floors that are used and programed uniquely from one another emerges. The figures within each floor contain static programs and are noted by their wooden walls. The in-between space then becomes flexible and space in which the rigid programs spill into, noted by their exposed ceilings and technical finishes. A variance in floor to floor heights further create unique spaces, such as rehearsal rooms with 30’ ceilings and multilevel recording spaces.
The BVC tower by default blends into the urban fabric of Boston, waiting for the students to make it their own.
Mies, Behrens, Stirling, Gropius.
A tour of some masterworks and a collection of images of the Neue Nationalgalerie, a project that has occupied my mind since I’ve started studying architecture and impressed me beyond belief in person.
Twin Studios, Fort Point Neighborhood, Boston MA, 2025
Scale: 1/16”=1’
Model Materials: Acrylic & 3D Print
Project II BLOCKOUT with Professor Jon Lott @harvardgsd@harvardgsd_architecture
Twin Studios is a pair of 20,000 Sqft film studios in the Fort Point community in Boston, MA. This project desires to embrace the bigness of a large, flexible, and vacuous space for filmmaking and inserting that within the urban fabric. The relationship between the vacuous and big is mediated by supporting programs. This takes the form of an inscribed square volume within another. This single unit is then twined and stacked precariously on top of the previous. Within surrounding each studio unit are bands of program within resultant truncated triangular spaces, additionally serving as a gradient of insulation from the perimeter for each studio space
Structurally, the studios are supported by trusses spanning the 120’ X 120’ interior space.
Columns at the perimeter of the inscribed square have attached beams to support the program bands. The roof trusses of the lower studio extends and rotates to become the floor trusses for the elevated studio. Where the squares overlap there are large concrete columns that support the shared loads and provide a grand entrance to the lower volume, operable doors allow for trucks to enter the space and for it to expand into the plaza as needed. Additionally, in this overlap are vertical circulation cores, one for the front and back of house.
Alongside and supporting the twin studios is a 136-seat theater with a 25’ screen existing as
an Independant cinema as well as a space to view draft edits of the work being shot inside, connecting the private and public. This connection is continued in how it almost reaches the ground, with a private screen on the interior and a public screen on its outside face “almost” at human scale. The theatre and its supports look like a haphazardly balanced set of volumes supporting the studios from falling, providing an “imminently cinematic” precariousness that it might just collapse if you wait long enough.
Artist Infill, Fort Point Neighborhood, Boston MA, 2025
Scale: 1/8”=1’
Model Materials: Acrylic, 3D Print, Paper Cladding
Project for Core II with Professor Jon Lott @harvardgsd
This project aims to give artists a home in the Fort Point community in Boston, MA. Taking the form of normative local building, the structure is transformed through the insertion and manipulation of programmatic pipes. They first bend the brick facade to create public space and then serve as pivot points for the facade to open entrances to the public.
Three pipes are inserted along the building’s X,Y,Z axis and serve as spatial organizing devices, circulation, and pathways for piping and ductwork for compressed air, water, exhaust removal, electricity, coolant, and air handling. Within the pipes, heavy machinery, workstations, and various tools are placed to create a highly concentrated area of production. This concentration opens the interior of the building up to completely free interior organization. When an artist’s needs a plumbed utility, it can be drawn from the main pipes via conduits on each floor to their work area, when a larger piece of machinery is needed such as a lathe or laser cutter the artist navigates through the two horizontal pipes and mingling with other artists.
