Located in a dense historic district in downtown Boston, Suffolk University embraced the once magnificent, but now abandoned, Modern Theatre as a way to meet the needs of its expanding theater program. Working with the City of Boston, the University agreed to restore the original masonry façade and replace the deteriorated theater with a new one, thus also completing the City’s final phase of a comprehensive multi-theater restoration endeavor. The reconstruction of the Modern Theatre revives a city landmark and the project is reinvigorating the neighborhood by bringing new uses to the site, while honoring and maintaining the building’s period look.
This project explores the notion of programmatic extremism in a design incubator facility where a central defined figure that contains a vertically integrated manufacturing/workloft arrangement occupies the void and recoups the emptiness left by an existing ice storage facility.
Design Incubator - Theatre of Production - Rendering - Exterior
Designer: Alan Lu
Project Name : Design Incubator – Theatre of Production
Location : Boston, Massachusetts, US
Use : Design based Business Incubator / Fabrication Facilities
Site Area : 3790㎡
Bldg. Area: 920㎡
Gross Floor Area : 4600㎡
Bldg. Coverage Ratio : 80%
Gross Floor Ratio : 50%
Bldg. Scale : Stories above Ground: 8
Stories below Ground: 1
Structure : Concrete / Steel Structure
Max. Height : 53m
Landscape Area : 2800㎡
Parking Lot : Underground Parking for Cars
Exterior Finish : Vulcanized Rubber Cladding
Complete year : Proposal Completed in 2011
Software used: Autodesk Maya, Digital Project/Catia, Rhino, Vray Render and Maxwell Render
Located in Boston’s economically challenged Dorchester neighborhood, the project was built on a 6 acre urban site composed of 54 parcels bought from city and private owners. The project occupies both sides of Dudley Street, with the building, outdoor playgrounds, gardens and parking on the north side and an athletic field on the south. The project site is serviced extensively by public transportation, including five MBTA bus lines and a recently renovated train platform, through which a million-plus people pass monthly on commuter rail.
The Boston Society of Architects plans to move from its current location on 52 Broad Street to a new space at Atlantic Wharf, as part of a major transformation of the 1867 institution. As part of an open design competition, the BSA selected Höweler + Yoon Architecture’s proposal entitled: Slipstream Public Exchange.
Courtesy Höweler + Yoon Architecture
Design Team: Höweler + Yoon Architecture: J. Meejin Yoon, Eric Höweler (Principals in Charge), Ryan Murphy, Parker Lee, Liu Xi, Thena Tak, Cyrus Dochow.
Brian Healy Architect’s proposal for the Korean Church of Boston is based on the decision to reuse and extend the life cycle of the existing church building as much as possible. This helps conserve resources and reduce waste and the environmental impact of both demolition and construction. The plan also reorganized the church’s existing spaces to minimize the proposed size of the needed addition. The new Children’s Chapel and Education Center has the possibility of obtaining Silver LEED rating under LEED v2.2 which had jurisdiction when the project started.
Korean Church of Boston external view
Architects: Brian Healy Architects
Client: Korean Church of Boston
Design Team: Brian Healy – Design Principal; Paxton Sheldahl – Project Architect; Tom Rourke, Gerry Gutierrez, Tala Klinck , John McDonald, Alec Templeton, Steve Mayer, Matt Pierce, Chris Muskoft, Bohseung Kung , Heike Baraungardt
Structural Engineers: Richmond So Consulting Engineers
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