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Mark Mulligan Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Architecture |
Core Studios
Third-semester Architectural Design Studio The studio focuses on integrated design of a single institutional-scale building in an urban context. The program calls for a 21st century library/mediatheque for a site in Boston’s South End. The semester is structured with a number of design exercises addressing site strategies, circulation and egress, structural and environmental design, façade systems, furniture and lighting design, so that the final project emerges as a well articulated building proposal.
The studio focuses on the design of housing as a major component of urban design. Students are asked to select a site within Roxbury, a blighted district in Boston, and propose how mass housing (minimum 120 units) might be used to piece together and revitalize the now-fragmentary neighborhood. The early part of the semester is divided between precedent studies of housing typologies and analyses of urban development patterns and infrastructure. |