Travis Barclay Design 1Portfolio

The Bird Blind- A Central park ExperienceThe bird blind is designed to give visitors and joggers a place to relax and veiw the birds of Cen-

tral park. their is an exibition where students and visitors can go and profesional bird watcher also have a private bird blind to do their bird watching.

SiteThe is located in Central Park on the East side of Manhatten

at 90th Street just off of 5th Av-enue. The dimension of the site is 60 by 120. the 120 is divided into two, 60 from the edge of bridal path into the water and the next 60 towards the road.

An Analysis of BuildingCarpenter Center

Architect- Le Corbusier Location- Cambridge, MassachusettsThe Carpenter Center is designed to house classes in architecture, film, and other arts. The Carpen-

ter center is an visual art center at Harvard University.

Le Corbusier designed this building using his 5 points of ar-chitecture, (1) the pilotis elevat-ing the mass off the ground, (2) the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bear-ing columns from the walls sub-dividing the space, (3) the free facade, the corollary of the free plan in the vertical plane, (4) the long horizontal sliding window and finally (5) the roof garden,

restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.

Ulysses S. Grant- Visitor Center and ArchivesThe Visitor Center is designed adjacent to the Grant’s Tomb. The site is located along Riverside Driveon the upper west side of Manhatten. The center is intended to educate the visitors of the

Grant’s Tomb about general Grant’s life and contribution to the US, as well as to provide services to visiting the monument more pleasant. The Archive contain Civil war documents and objects