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Photography
Design Project
Larsen Masterplan
Year Three
Outdoor Space Revisited
Neue Tacheles
Year Two
Culinary School
Watch Tower
Year One
Outdoor Space
Thick/Thin House
John Morana
Table of Contents
Outdoor SpaceFundamental Representation
Outdoor SpaceRevisited
Neue TachelesStudio Abroad
Larsen MasterplanHarvard Graduate School of Education
Thick/Thin HouseFundamental Design
Culinary SchoolSite, Space, and Program
Watch TowerStructures 2: Tectonics
The StairPhoto Basics for Non-Majors
Design ProjectAdvanced Architectural Communications
Education Projects: Architecture
Professional Projects: Architecture
Educational Projects: Art and Design
John Morana774-287-3022 jmph250@gmail.com
Outdoor SpaceThis project sought to fill the empty space in front of Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center on Harvard University’s Campus. The outdoor space would be able to serve both small groups of people in intimate settings, as well as large groups for tours, lectures, and discussions. Both of these activities would be able to take place simultaneously as well as accommodating people wandering through the space on their way to other destinations, or just enjoying the day in the space. This project took Le Corbusier’s idea of the Brie Soleil and rotated it. This created ramps with which the space could use to form multilevel and multi-use spaces.
Thick/Thin HouseThe Thick/Thin Project House was a study in the ideas of Thick/Thin as prescribed by Louis Kahn’s Fischer House. The Fischer House was analyzed and then emulated to best put forth the ideas of separating the servant spaces from the served, but also separating the public from the private. A private cube was achieved, while another cube became more so a domain of the public. As with the Fischer House, this study complemented circulation with views.
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Culinary SchoolThe Culinary School sought to block out the undesirable nature of a main artery with solid space. It related to the different zones of the site by responding with different amounts of solidity. Most solid facing the artery while the most public being presented to the small street community. This created a building divided in both plan and section that related to the zone in which it is found.
Solid Space
Circulation Space
Displayed Space
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1st
2nd
3rd
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Section 1
Section 2
Elevation 1
Section 1
Section 2
Elevation 1
Outdoor Space: Revisited
After spending a few semesters on other projects, I returned to my first project to see how I could improve it. Remembering the criticism , I sought to create a regular grid that would flow into the surroundings more, rather than be contained by the site boundaries. The result was an expanded grid that had better circulation through and around the space. The grid of squares originally developed had to be changed to a grid of rectangles which better suited the proportions of the Carpenter Center and the site.
Watch Tower: An Exercise in Wood FramingStructures 2: Tectonics taught typical building systems and had accompanying projects for hands on learning. The Watch Tower focused on wood framing and followed standard building practices in the medium. Plans and sections were drawn, and then a scaled physical model constructed out of balsa wood.
Neue TachelesThe Kunsthaus Tacheles was a ruined, derelict building turned art center in Berlin, Germany. After World War II, artists moved into the partially destroyed building, becoming squatters, and set up homes, studios, and businesses. This project sought to capture the spirit of the Tacheles and create a new multi-use building for an artist community to adjoin the original. A strict grid was overlaid to follow the ideas of modernism and the machine, and two separate circulation systems weave through the building to keep the artist’s spaces private from the public spaces. This creates independent but united programs through circulation.
John MoranaBerlin Studio
Prof. Bruno Rover
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
Circulation Diagrams
Public Circulation
Private Circulation
Vertical Circulation
Ground Floor
First Floor
Basement
Second Floor
Third Floor Fourth Floor
Fifth Floor
Grid
Hotel Room
AtelierSecond FloorFirst Floor
AtelierSecond FloorFirst Floor
Firm Space
Appartment
Roof
John vvBerlin Studio
Prof. Bruno Rover
Gallery/ Exhibition Space
Theatre
Firm Space
Hotel
Ateliers
Appartments
John vvBerlin Studio
Prof. Bruno Rover
Gallery/ Exhibition Space
Theatre
Firm Space
Hotel
Ateliers
Appartments
John vvBerlin Studio
Prof. Bruno Rover
Gallery/ Exhibition Space
Theatre
Firm Space
Hotel
Ateliers
Appartments
Intersection
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407 2/3
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59 1/3
35 1/3
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23 1/3
52 1/3
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311 1/3
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74.36%
14.38%
11.26%
56.85%
8.31%
34.84%
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87 1/3
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2 1/3
4 1/3
20
23 1/3
82.06%
7.25
%
10.68%
61 2/3
49 2/3
32 2/3
50 2/3
104 2/3
34 2/3
26
36
73 1/3
270 2/3
289
68 2/3
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8 1/3
4 2/3
6 1/3
63.93%
17.74%
18.35%
Average Speeds in m.p.h.
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The Life Cycle of the intersection between Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue can be taken at several different scales. The smallest of which is the time it takes to pass through the intersection. Next, what passes through over the course of a day. Finally, what happens to the intersection over the course of its entire life. These different scales can be felt through experience, quantified through numbers, and theoreticized through predic-tions. Much like a tree, an intersection will grow, flourish, wither, and die during the course of its Life Cycle
The smallest scale can be felt through experience. As one approaches the intersection via Massachu-setts Avenue, one can see the trees, the intersection grows. Then in the middle, it feels like a forest, and as you leave the trees stay behind you, dying.
The second scale was a average of how many cars, bicycles, and pedestrians pass through the inter-section during the period of 7 pm to 8 pm over the course of three days and which route through the intersection they took.
The largest scale charts the life span of the intersection through speed, volume, major events and predicts an eventuality for the area in the unforeseeable future.
1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
Average Height5’6”
1900
Average Height5’10”
2010
Car Reduces Bike to Toy
1920s
1966Jogging
Introduced
1908
Model T Enters Production
2011
1857-1882The Filling of the
Back BayFirst Map of Mass
Ave:1882
1950-1970Creation of the
Suburbs
Life Cycle of an Design Project: Architectural Communications
Advanced Architectural Communications is a course focused on Graphic Design . The site of Massachusetts Avenue was to be analyzed through the lenses of scale and time. The intersection between Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue was chosen as it was seen as a Green Axis intersecting with a Transportation Axis. The following board was created expressing this intersection through data and graphical analysis.
Larsen Hall: MasterplanLarsen Hall is on the Campus of Harvard Graduate School of Education. The building as it stands currently has a sunken courtyard surrounding the lower level, which in turn is surrounded by more classrooms. The master plan for this building is to cover this courtyard as it is it is infrequently used. The covering of the courtyard would add valuable square footage to the building interior which would be used for campus recreation and soft seating areas for studying students.
UP
UP
UP
3,249 SFG06 603 SF
G01
45 SFG05D
110 SFG05H
26 SFG05I
368 SFG10A
398 SFG10B
73 SFG08B
1,955 SFG08
79 SFG08A32 SF
G08D
66 SFG08C
73 SFG09C
438 SFG02C
720 SFG02
56 SFGEV01
148 SFGS01
135 SFGS02
236 SFG07
39 SFG11A
89 SFG04
186 SFG03
144 SFG02B
149 SFG02A
24 SFG02E
16 SFG02F
25 SFG06A
26 SFG02G
15 SFG02H
6 SFG02I
6 SFG02J
16 SFG02K
13 SFG02L 35 SF
G02M
3 SFG02N
24 SFG02O
15 SFG02P
14 SFG02Q
45 SFG05A
44 SFG05B
45 SFG05C
45 SFG05E
43 SFG05F
73 SFG05G
73 SFG09D
96 SFG09B
96 SFG09A
HGSE PROGRAM
ACADEMIC / FACULTY
ADMINISTRATION
CAMPUS LIFE / EVENT
CIRCULATION
CLASSROOM / MEETING ROOM
RESEARCH AND OUTREACH
STUDY SPACE
SUPPORT
0 5' 10' 20' 40'
165 Seats
Appian Way
638 SF1
BreakoutRoom
408 SF2
395 SF3
BreakoutRoom
419 SF4
BreakoutRoom
413 SF5
BreakoutRoom
332 SF6
BreakoutRoom
334 SF7
BreakoutRoom
232 SF8
187 SF9
194 SF10
617 SF11
BreakoutRoom
2,660 SF12
165 SeatConference
Hall
1,773 SF13
SoftSeating
1,984 SF14
SoftSeating
688 SF15
576 SF16
109 SF17
74 SF18
148 SF19
135 SF20
79 SF21
64 SF22
31 SF23 14 SF
24
73 SF25
39 SF26
26 SFG02G
35 SFG02M
15 SFG02P
14 SFG02Q
0 5' 10' 20' 40'
Appian Way
Existing Proposed
This project sought to display the geometric beauty of staircases and highlight the contrast of the staircase as seen from above and below. The project paired the photos together in diptychs to emphasize this point.
The Stair: A Photography Project
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