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PATRICK O. DAWSON

CONTINGENCIESThis project was a cultivation of two core ideas regarding an approach to a two family house. One was to inhabit the site with an ethereal presence for the hikers that would pass behind the residence; as well as the occupants’ enjoyment of the land that it sat on. The second was to experiment with what we consider to be standard living conditions. To do this, the house at no point sits wider than 6’, with more public spaces responding with double heights or longer views of the inner public courtyard, or exterior panoramas.

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468 HARRISON STA roof structure designed to cover the SoWa Market located on 468 Harrison St in Boston. The design was to be created utillizing a single type of structural element - in this case - a truss. Keeping in mind technical elements such as load pathways, weight of separate elements, different environmental load forces, the structure aimed to communicate a sense of elegance that enveloped the market while maintaining a transparency that would respond to the urban environment it resided in and to the rotating vendors and merchants that would set up their businesses within.

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RECREATION CENTERBeginning to experiment with materiality, ETFE thermoplastic became a defining factor in this recreation and office complex. The flexible, organically shaped material would house mandatory aquatic-based program that could only be accessed by ramps up through 20’ thick concrete floors, where the remaining program sat housed inside of. Entrances into the building also relied on ramps into the spaces, through either an office oriented entrance or facilities oriented entrance which were determined on the basis of an analysis of the urban site locaed in the West End of Boston

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ETFE Bubble

Exercise

Pool

Locker Rooms

Yoga Room

Lobby

Offices

Kitchen

Cafe

Sauna

Tanning

Multipurpose

Weights

Load Bearing

Program DiagramStructural Diagram

Commonwealth Path

JFK Path

North Station Path

Haymarket Path

Business Entrance Facility Entrance

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Cube Pools Within Pools Pulled Climate Wrapper Ramps Into Slabs,Up Into Pools

Building Concept Diagram

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Locker Rooms Yoga Room Tanning Weights

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WATCHTOWERThe watchtower was built with the intent of learning about light timber framing construction, focusing on platform framing. Under the given parameters of specified cantilevered overhangs, angular pitched rooves, floor, stair, and landing drawing conventions, the design that typically resulted from the restrictions assign was a rectangular form. Deciding to innovate a new approach to the same project, this design sought to utilize a triangular form, which in turn caused a unique, rhombus stair landing to be drafted, and custom built while also meeting framing plan standards.

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ARCH 2240Patrick Dawson + William Kershner

CITY BLOCK PROPOSALStarting with massing models of the performing arts school, experimentations with materials continued as I synthesized knowledge of plaster, clay, silicon, concrete, and plastic resins to create a curvilinear form to accentuate and celebrate the arts center. After being assigned additional residential, office, and retail spaces to add into the existing school site, the concept for the entire complex became one concerned with dissolution of form. One end of the site would begin as largely rectinlinear, graduating to more organic designs at the opposite end of the block, while maintaining six key views that permeate across the entire site, allowing a rare kind of transparency to exist within an urban environment in Boston’s South End.

Silicon Mold Plastic Resin Casting

Foam, Wire, Plaster, Concrete Wire, Clay, Plaster, Paint

Figure Ground Diagram

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Dissolution of FormOrganicRectilinear

COLLAGESFor fun, friends, and flyers.