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Lucas McCarrellTRANSCRIPT
Lucas McCarrellSelected Works + Resume
2009-2014
Lucas [email protected]
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The Rural Studio began the 20K House project in 2005 as a response to the issue of affordable housing in the rural South. For many, the practical answer to this problem is the mobile trailer home - yet these depreciate in value, negatively affect the environment, and tend to be poorly constructed. The Rural Studio’s goal is a site-built, small house that can be fully delivered for $20,000 (including materials and labor).
Objective: Our team’s task was to fully design and construct the first two-bedroom 20K House. Essential to the home is the vernacular “big hat” hip roof with a vented attic - the roof helps protect the house on all sides from the elements while allowing heat to rise and escape, keeping the inside cooler. The two porches, located on opposite and opposing sides of the house, create opportunities for site-flexibility and passive strategies - one porch always has sun in the winter and the other is shaded during the summer. By the nature of their placement, the front porch acts as the social, public space of the house while the back porch performs as the intimate, private outdoor space. They also serve as extensions of the open living space, which helps the small house in feeling more spacious. Nine foot ceilings and 2x6 stud walls insulated at R-21 provide a cool interior environment.
Rural Studio: 20K House v.132013-2014, 5th year thesis project - Professor Andrew Freearwith Dylan Moore, Margaret Shariett, and Taiwei Wang
LIVING SPACE
PUBLICPORCH
PRIVATEPORCH
sunset 06/21 sunrise 06/21
sunrise 02/01sunset 02/01
DAY SPACE
WINTERPORCH
SUMMERPORCH
NIGHTSPACE
NIGHTSPACE
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Sylvia’s HouseThe double-cantilever over both porches was achieved by a carefully engineered ‘step-down’ truss system. The interior living space is an open plan, with visual connections to both front and back porches.Images courtesy Timothy Hursley
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The Cardiovascular Research Center of Boston inhabits a fairly unique site; with the culturally rich North End immediately to the north, the tourist-laden Quincy Market to the south, and the highly trafficked Government Center to the west, the site demands attention to the pedestrians who frequently walk between these populated nodes.
Objective: While holding a unique edge condition to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, the Cardiovascular Research Center of Boston simultaneously challenges the insular, confined environment of the typical hospital while offering enclaves of anxiety relief for those who visit. The creation of a “thoroughfare” of pedestrian traffic, formally framed with a series of columns, posits an urban gesture that frames the heavy foot traffic at street level. The research center also accommodates indoor civic space with dining and lounge options - this is intended to generate a more normative, active environment to soften the anxieties commonly felt by patients and visitors to institutional buildings. The diagrams to the left describe the massing: the civic space, waiting rooms, and pedestrian thoroughfare are denoted in blue; the patient care units and nursing are denoted in green; the doctors’ private offices are denoted in purple.
Cardiovascular Research CenterFall 2012, 4th year competition - Professor Kevin MooreHistoric North End, Boston, Massachusetts
Lucas [email protected]
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A few issues face the town of Las Vegas, New Mexico: little new industry, a declining population, and many youth involved in gang activity and drug usage. The two school districts within the town are strictly divided by class, race, and income in what the town considers the “tortilla curtain”. Many of their after school activities have been cut to save money.
Objective: The Las Vegas Community Arts Initiative is intended to be a program in which the making, sharing, and learning of art can be facilitated as well as respond to the need for after-school activities for the community’s youth. It is centrally located in the city’s newly established Arts and Cultural District and in the West Las Vegas school district. An abandoned one story parachute factory is to be adapted and redeveloped for use within the burgeoning artist community.
The project aims to revitalize the economic sector by concentrating the creative market both physically and in human capital, sustain a positive quality of life based on the region’s culture, and encourage local youth to become more involved in the creative process and the community as a whole. The adaptive reuse of the space is intended to be subtle, allowing the activity in and around the building to ultimately drive its social and urban gesture.
Adaptive Reuse: Youth Arts InitiativeSpring 2012, 3rd year Americas Studio - Sheri SchumacherOld Town Plaza, Las Vegas, New Mexico
Lucas [email protected]
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My creative passions are not limited by the purely architectural realm - I also enjoy working with wood and watercolor paint to realize certain explorations. Both hobbies began when I was a teenager, and I continue to develop these as a skill set that is both creative and logic-based. Since this mode of “learning by doing” is intimately related to the practice of making architecture, I have included it here.
Other Endeavors: Woodcraft + Paintingvarious explorations, 2010-2014
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