Case Study: Carpenter Center

24, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

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Case Study: Carpenter Center

24, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

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Type

Cultural › Gallery
Educational › Other

YEAR

1964

For the case study of a precedent building, we were
given the Carpenter Center in Harvard, Mass. designed by LeCorbusier. This building is
used as a mixed art studio containing studio space and exhibition space.
The shape of the studio spaces is organic and breaks
away from the rigid system of organization set up by the structural columns
that run through the height of the building. It contains a 2 story central ramp
that divides the building and connects it to the two sides of its site. It was
designed as a means of circulation for the students, but is rarely used. Made
from cast concrete, the score lines from the molds become a façade design. The
building breaks the axis of the street and surrounding buildings by rotating
itself, thus creating more public space at ground level.

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Case Study: Carpenter Center

24, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Case Study: Carpenter Center

24, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

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