Kevin Kelly2014 Summer Portfolio

Project 1:Urban Retreat

Project 2:Hydrotherapy Center

Project 3:Dance Studio

Project 4:Outdoor Pavilion

Boston Olympic HousingProf. Tom Lesko

Senior StudioSummer 2015

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The strategy behind this mixed-use building is utilizing architecture to give off an inviting and transparent atmoshere to the passersby. The roof overhangs project outwards to engage the neighborhood while allowing privacy for the upper floors, as well as providing shelter to those not fully within the building.

The boundary between inside and outside is further blurred with passages going through the building, allowing you in without having you make the decision to go inside. This makes the struc-ture less intimidating and more transparent

The project takes inspiration from the Design Research Store in Cambridge, MA. Utilizing the vibrant use of light and glass, the Promenade Housing unit takes advantage of these characteristics to fully envision a mixed-use building em-phasizing the fusion of public and private.

Through the countless points of entry and the drawing-out of the process of enter-ing, passersby are less pressured to make the decision of entry and thus are more inclined to interact with the commercial spaces on the ground floor. The amount of glass not only aids in transparency, but also allows light within to reflect outwards, making it friendlier and safer at night.

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This structure is one of several buildings along a promenade street running through a planned Olympic Housing district. This city district, located in South Boston just south of the Innovation district, was designed to hold up to 4,000 athletes and staff, as well as commercial spaces, restaurants, parks, a medical facility, farmer’s market, and athletic center. The promenade lies at the heart of the district, connecting a riverside park with a central monument ans allows ac-cess to the farmer’s market, 3 parks, and two central nodes of circulation. With such a central position, it is imperative for the buldings along this street to evoke transparency and invitation to stimulate circulation throughout the district

Museum of Wooden ObjectsProf. Troy Leonard

Comprehensive StudioSpring 2015

For this project, the task was to create a museum for wooden objects that caters not only to being a museum, but also holding classrooms, a wood laboratory to hold wood samples, as well as allow for flexibility in hosting other functions. To this degree the project would require not only a large & formal space that exceeds two stories, but also a host of smaller rooms and exhibits that require an element of separation from the main room, as well as facilitate circulation between these spaces.

The solution for this task would be to create a large “threshold” wall that would act not only as a divider but also as a cen-tral exhibit to both hold as well as showcase wooden objects and materials. The thickness of the threshold wall provides insulation between the different rooms, as well as provide space for HVAC and other systems through the wall. The systems located in the wall utilize the central positioning of the threshold wall to easily and pragmatically reach the different areas of the museum, as well as give effect and temperature to rooms that are adjacent to system placement (ie, the running of water near a threshold opening creates a soothing, watery feeling as one enters the driftwood exhibit).

Due to the difficulty of attaing sunlight in the space, the building relies less on windows and more from a central skylight by which sun can directly enter into the space. The building slopes upward and out to create a cup for sunlight to stream in and be shared by the adjoining spaces. The rooms south of the threshold wall are able to enjoy more of the southern light, while the upward light in the main room means that light can enter a space without damaging the wooden objects on the walls (which horizontal light would otherwise be able to reach and damage).

On the exterior the noises from Cambria and Boylston street are silenced by a ground facade of wooden soundproofing that effectively provides quiet as well as demonstrate the power of wooden materials, acting as a “first exhibit” as it were for the museum. The vertical circulation spaces are mad of a red brick to frame the wooden facade as one ap-proaches from Cambra street, and the upper stories project outward to create more space as well as make room for the central skylight.

Project 1: Urban RetreatProf. Lora Kim

Design IV A519 Site & Environment StudioSummer 2014

This design caters to an urban couple wanting a retreat to the meadows south of Boston. The concept behind this design was the use of the meadow’s horizontality refected in the terracing of land through retaining walls. The program was laid out with a central structure surrounded by smaller exterior program spaces. Circulation was drawn through and around the structure, allowing the individual a chance to wander through the area.

The topography follows a 1:12 linear slope, that descends in the direction 30 degrees west of south.

The structure stays low to the ground, and the circulation follows the original topography to demonstrate aconnection between the structure and the site around it.

From the parking area, the viewer has two choices on where to go to. The first is to head to their right up the exterior staircase to the sculptural garden in the back. The second choice is to continue on towards the interior spaces. This leads to a dining area to welcome and entertain guests.

Going upstairs leads to the main living area. This spaces looks out onto the site, where the meadow is integrated into the space, as well as offering a view onto an exterior program space.

Project 2: Hydrotherapy CenterProf. Lora Kim

Design IV A519 Site & Environment StudioSummer 2014

Located in the Arnold Arboretum, the challenge was to design a hydrotherapy center that could be grounded into the site. The concept driving this design was the use of light and color to define space in volumes. The color would be determined by the conditions inherent to the site.

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The main strategy of manipulating light was the use of panels suspended from the roof. These panels would make use of diffused light to send colors into the spaces. The panels would be held up using a grid structural system overhead. The pan-els would be suspended at different heights to model a unique typology related to the site.

After documenting the color and light levels of the site modularly, several color and light studies were made to determine the best way to carry out the concept. This includes a light study where light was diffused off of colored panels to hit white paper, revealing a spectrum. Another study related color to space through volumous section models.

With the light and color studies concluded, diagrams were drawn up to relate color with program. Rather than assign a program to a specific color, the strategy used was to determine what sensation each program must emote. These sensations were then used to to determine which colors were best suited in carrying out these sensations.

Responsive ArchitectureSpring 2016

Bioluminescent TechnologyProf. Sotirios Kotsopouloss

-Utilizing Organic means, our project will illuminate public areas to provide safer, interactive areas

-This has the potential of even utilizing technology to change color or level of brightness in response to stimuli

The idea behind this group project was to examine ways where architecture can respond to dark city areas to make them safer and more interactive with the city.

This project utilizes an auto-illuminescent plant to light up areas around the city. Not only will this interaction detract criminal activity by populating the area by interaction, but by utilizing a biologic reaction will safe money on electricity, thus allowing it to be planted in low-income areas where the crime rate is greater.

This project is currently ongoing, to examine how this technology can be utilized in an architectural form.

Precedent: Starlight AvatarBIOGLOW

Precedent: White Noise/White LightHoweler + Yoon

Design III A469 Fall 2013

Project 2: Ballet StudioProf. Terry Moor

This design upholds the circulation space as the most vital component of the ballet studio. With the circulation space molding with the performance area, the design not only brings the performance out of an enclosed space, it also highlights the connection of dance with movement.

The building is split into the seating area, the circulation-performance space, and the administrative areas. The placement of each area allows for connections that enhance the practicality of the program spaces. The performance seating lies right in front for quick and easy access to seats. This opens up to the circulation area that takes advantage of southern lighting for brightnness. In back are the administrative spaces that are accessible from the rear path and reduce excessive noise in the performance area.

Looking onto the performance area, the light from the upper floors radiates down to help illuminate the dancers below. The seating area is placed in a shallower room for sound to funnel into it.

Behind the Ballet stu-dio, the rear path be-comes a parkway that provides entrance into the backstage and administrative areas. It continues along a path that leads to be-hind the library and to the school beyond.

Design III A469 Fall 2013

Project 1: Dance PavilionProf. Terry Moor

To create a pavilion that granted priva-cy while still having a connection to the landscape, I sunk the performance area into the ground and utilized existing circu-lation to tie the pavilion into its location. Like a heart, the circulation brings view-ers into two separate chambers that ca-ter to a public space and a performance space. An upper bridge brings separation between these spaces, and provides a platform for viewers to look down onto the performance.

The pavilion is surrounded by metal poles loosely bound to a gridlike arrangement. These poles are able to hold up a tarp that can block out excessive sunlight and provide rain cover. This function allows the pavilion to be used throughout the year, even in winter where the pavilion’s placement in the ground provides insu-lation and protection from the wind and cold.