Studio Final: Concept Statement
The vision of this new center is to establish a new look and a new vision for both the Boston Architectural School and Architecture. The pedagogies for teaching in the electronic age allow a more flexible and accessible forum for understanding the profession. With ever increasing reliance on the development of internet and vision producing representations including modeling of architectural ideas it is important that this center represents this emergence.
Increasingly there is a desire to see the proposed new construction juxtaposed with existing environments. These environments represent an ever growing urban context and a diminishing natural environment. However, it will be the challenge in this new Long Distance Design center to provide a flexible teaching example while providing environmentally responsible methods of construction.
The existing site is underutilized. With a revitalization in student housing now underway in the Boston area, it places pressure on schools to provide adequate transient facilities for their programs. Boston Architectural College has developed a series of intensives that area held each term and require a week stay per term. By providing a place where students can live and learn in an urban environment within their disciple can make practical application a beneficial process to students and teachers.
By offering a covered plaza area towards the Massachusetts Avenue and Bolyston Street the new Long Distance Center will provide a place for presentations and musicians from the local Music School to participate and bring a new dimension to the life of the center. Likewise the solar heated exhibition space will provide a temperature controlled environment for functions during the colder or hotter months of the year.
The proximity to other institutions provides external resources and provide a center where events can be coordinate and sponsor functions which will display the highlights of this new center which employs as many “Green” building contextual resource for inclusion and highlighting of the new technologies shown in this building. This center of learning and living has the ability demonstrate that architecture can respond to the human needs at different levels
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