Architectural Design Portfolio

A R C H I T E C T U R A L D E S I G N P O R T F O L I O

DOUGLAS NEIL CLARK

TA B L E O F CO N T E N T S

HAND DRAWINGSField Sketches

FRIENDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUrban & Environmental Integration

NEW PIONEER SQUAREUrban Planning

OCCUPY U.N.M.Arch Thesis

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The following Design Studies come from my Master of Architecture Thesis year as well as my Junior and Senior

studio projects at Wentworth Institute of Technology.

These studies & designs demonstrate my proficiency and aptitude as a Junior Architect because each is nonpareil in

theory & design.

To express is to drive.And when you want to give something presence,

You have to consult Nature.And there is where Design comes in.

LOUIS I. KAHN

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CARRÉ SAINTE ANNE

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Site Documentation + Urban StudyStudy Abroad: Montpellier, France

BIBLIOTECA SANT ANTONI

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Site Documentation + Urban StudyStudy Abroad: Barcelona, Spain

Located within Arnold Arboretum, the M. Victor and Frances Leventritt Garden and Pavilion was a focus of study for our Site and Landscape Design class. Graphic representation of the pavilion was achieved through hand drawings and the use of AutoCAD.

M. VICTOR AND FRANCES LEVENTRITT GARDEN

Site Documentation + Landscape Design Study

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M. Victor and Frances Leventritt Garden Junior Year, Summer 2010

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Located within the Emerald Necklace of

the greater Boston area, Jamaica Pond is

home to the site of the Sidwell Friends

School. The school rests on the cusp of

the natural and urban setting. Together,

they are melded through sets of linear

walls. These walls provide structure,

control circulation and program, create

seating and cubby spaces, separate pub-

lic from private, manipulate landscape

to promote vegetation growth as in a

grey water system, and maximize light-

ing all while promoting environmental

stewardship.

FRIENDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUrban & Environmental Integration

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Existing site conditions diagram.

Approach to site: mending of the urban and natural condition.

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The following sketches, diagrams and collages are site, design and structur-al wall studies. The Importance of in-tegration with the environment and structure were significant in the way that the building needed to positively contribute to the surrounding envi-ronment.

Walls were devised to manipulate landscape and promote growth on the site. Classrooms are lifted from the ground to reduce disturbance of the urban environmental impact upon the natural environment. Pas-sive design strategies were employed to increase building efficiency.

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Bas-relief model, breaking site topography into distinct sections, marking site forces and axis.

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Site + Building Plan

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West-East Section - Main Entry Circulation

West-East Section - Classroom’s and Science Garden

South-North - Site Section

Sectional model of the Sidwell Friends School.13.

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Urban Integration Diagram15.

Structure / Bio-Swale Diagrams16.

Passive Lighting Systems17.

Main circulation corridor.

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Main Entry Perspective

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Science Garden / Exterior Classroom perspective

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Classroom interior perspective

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Problem Statement:

Pioneer Square was once the heart of Seattle; the point where the city once grew and thrived from. The historic district has lost its appeal and identity within its greater context of Seattle. It can be observed that, in-between Downtown Seattle and Century Link Field, the density of inhabitants drops within Pioneer Square. With the devel-opment of two stadiums along with the increased presence of bars and nightlife on the fringe of this area, crowds turn to Pioneer Square as the go-to place af-ter a sporting event. This development has in turn created a non-ideal setting for families to inhabit, slowly diminishing the population, property value and ap-peal. The question at hand is how one re-activates this once thriving hub of Seattle to create a dialog between the city of Seattle and its origin.

NEW PIONEER SQUAREUrban Planning

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The goal was to generate a viable and sustainable community through the creation of shared cour tyard spaces, increased accessibility, flexibility of program on the street level and the creation of public edges conditions that allow both outlook and shelter. On the other hand, the creation of an enter tainment promenade was in-order to mitigate game-day ve-hicular and pedestrian traffic. Distant visual connections strengthen the promenades use as well as a “grand-carpet” that suggest movement and places of gathering for vendors. The enter tainment and residential zones are stitched together via landscape features and patterns. Precedent was taken from landscape architect, Burle Marx

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Site - Pioneer Square, Seattle25.

S-1 West-East Section. Superblock & Promenade

S-2 West-East Section. Residential Blocks

Greenway - Residential Section

Central Promanade Square Elevation Section of Typical Residential Modual

1st Floor A: Car Port

Typical Residential Modual Plans

2nd Floor: Residence A 3rd Floor: Residence A

4th Floor: Loft Residence B / C

5th Floor: Loft Residence B / C

1st Floor B: Laundromat 1st Floor C: Bar/Restaurant

Identifying major visual landmarks and destinations.

The creation of a new landmark and public space within Pioneer Square.

Programmatic edges defining residency/privacy and commercial/public use.

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Aerial Isometric collage Promenade perspective

Interior super-block perspective

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The following project speaks of archi-tecture’s ability to engage in commu-nication and activism between insti-tutionalized organizations and public interest groups. The fact of the matter is that architecture becomes slave to a system that dictates its actions and abilities through institutionalized power. Standards and provisions dictated by the institution effect the outcome of the architectural process. The question I present is; if institutions and politics have the ability to effect architecture, can architecture have the same influ-ence on institutions and politics?

What can Architecture do for those who are suppressed by the very institu-tion they seek change from?

Architecture can become a vehicle in which one can bring occupation and protest at the forefront of institutional-ized space by means of direct engage-ment of dialogue and action.

OCCUPY U.N.Architectural Disobedience

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The headquarters for the United Na-tions is located in the city of New York within the borough of Manhattan. This highly politically charged site is home to world’s debates and discussions of poli-cy and resolutions. Not only does Man-hattan house the U.N., it is the birth-place of the Occupy movement. This site was chosen as an instance where public interest could be brought face to face with one of the most influential in-stitutionalized figures and by no means is limited to this one site. Instead, the site was chosen for its richness in po-tential to bring about the idea of public and political discourse and disobedi-ence to bring about change.

The United Nations seen here lies in international territory and creates a physical boundary between the city and itself. The public is granted access only on particular occasions but for the most part, is barred from entering. Demonstrations and protests are redi-rected and occur a few blocks North of the site, directly disabling the protests ability to convey concern to authority figures. This diagram demonstrates the public access intervention.

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Programmatic, structural and implemented approach to site. Prospect-Refuge: defining interfacing office typologies.

Seige Tower ConceptSiege Tower Concept

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1st Ave

42nd St.

Breaking Barriers - Threshold Perspective39.

Vertical Public Park40.

DOUGLAS NEIL CLARK

M.ARCH 2012

WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY