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Urban site plan / Figure-ground (proposal in black). |
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The Wolfflin Tradition and Architectural Production: Boston Theater Consortium Tower The purpose of my thesis was to investigate the use of Wolfflin's five Principlesof art history within the framework of a specific "contextualist" design process. Richardson's Hayden Building, incorporated into the site, the Marshall Field Store in Chicago, and his other works were all subjects of the thesis--investigated through a developed method of urban and architectural analysis. This synthetic procedure was primarily based on the Principles and their implications to the analysis and design processes. The intended objective was to design the new tower based on the developed processes and their implications, and strive to answer how Wolfflin's methodologies of art historical analysis could interact, extend, validate and increase the applicability of a contextualist design process, one particularly aligned with Collage Theory theories of urbanism. |
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site: |
Hinge Block, Washington Street, Boston |
design: |
1995-96 |
area: |
approx. 170,000.00 sf. |
design responsibility: |
Anthony Frausto-Robledo (Erik Thorkildsen, Advisor) |
statistics: |
29 Story tower, approximately 170,000 gsf, of mixed-use development, consisting primarily of offices on the main tower floors, private hotel on the top floors and a history center for the Boston theater district on the lowest floors, along with retail. The new tower adjoins a new urban market square in the same vicinity of the old Boylston Market and creates a major urban room at the intersection of three neighboring districts: Chinatown, the Theater District, and the New England Medical Center's sprawling urban site. Lining the new market are retail and housing; a new subway station access point is also provided. |
awards: |
Thesis Commendation and nominee for Best Thesis Award |
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