Below are two student architectural projects: an apartment in Berlin and a Performing Arts School in Boston.
This design for an apartment building in Berlin marries modern German architecture with the traditional fabric of the Berlin streets.
This diagram shows the floating floor panels that work within a more traditional shell to provide dynamic separation between public, semi-private, and private spaces within the apartment.
This diagram shows the sectional separation from one space to the next as one moves through the apartment space. The shifting levels provide visual connection while still allowing for defninite separation and increasing privacy— the higher a space is, the more private it feels.
The footprint of the building seamlessly connects to the existing fabric.
The floorplans show how the spaces are distributed throughout each of the floating floor panels.
They also show how each of the two side-by-side units relate to one another; the shifted levels allow for maximum privacy for all tennants.
These sections show the relation of spaces moving from front to back through the building, as well as side by side across the front. The level shifts provide privacy within an individual unit as well as from one unit to the next.
With each apartment being slightly staggered, winter gardens feel very private. These stacked gardens also create a "green wall" up the middle of the building, creating a feature on the building's facade.
This project thoughtfully folds a performing arts high school into the Boston's urban texture.
This area plan shows how the school footprint (in black) fits into the rest of the urban fabric (in gray). The building takes advantage of the available corner, with "performance spaces" facing the streets and "preparation" spaces facing the green space behind.
This diagram shows the distribution of space types throughout the footprint of the building. The green spaces are the "performance" spaces, where students will demonstrate the skills that they have developed throughout their studies at the school. The gray sections represent the "preparation" spaces, where students have their academic and art lessons. Black spaces are the service spaces, such as hallways, bathrooms, and storage closets.
The floorplans show in detail how the spaces are distributed throughout the school. In the fatter wing, the formal performance spaces are at the front, facing the park across the street and inviting the public in to server as an audience. Practice rooms and art studios are on the back side of this wing, providing students the private and focused environments they need to perfect their crafts.
In the narrow wing, public learning spaces such as the library and computer lab face the residential street. These spaces double as impromptu or informal performance areas, through with a more private street across from them, there is less opportunity to draw in viewers from the public. Formal academic classrooms are placed on the private side of this wing.
The four disciplines housed within the school (theater, music, visual art, and dance) are each separated onto their own floors. Each focus has practice rooms and a performance space of their own.
In the private areas throughout the school, the floors are traditionally stacked and separated, but in the more public areas, the floor plates shift forward and backward to allow for interaction from one floor to the next. This allows students from different concentrations the opportunity to see the work of others, and it creates potential for combination or complementary performances as well.
The school's facade expresses the dichotomy of the public and private areas. Preparation spaces are enclosed with a concrete exterior, while the performance spaces are encased in glass, allowing the public to see into the school and appreciate the art within.
Wooden accents separate one performance space from the next, allowing viewers to focus in on any given performance.
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