Summer Program | Design Discovery
Harvard GSD | Prof. Jeffrey Klug




Working on a plot that has been nearly entirely demolished in Dorchester, MA, the relationship with the remaining family home became a significant part of the design. The gallery and community center features exhibition areas that would swirl around the central atrium and serve as the primary circulatory system. The former family brewery at the corner of Savin Hill Avenue and Saxton Street, considered a social catalyzer by the surveyed community, was also re-accommodated.

Witnessing collaboration with landscape architecture and urban design students and their specific approach to site surveying helped me develop broader design considerations.


Survey and re-interpretation | Plans & sections from surveying le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center






Urban analysis | Understanding the urban geometries




Acrylic on paper | Internal organization

Massing models | Iterations of the relation to the existing




Volumetric models | Circulation

Volumetric models | Programs



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