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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Elevation 1

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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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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.

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Average Height5’6”

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Average Height5’10”

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1966Jogging

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Model T Enters Production

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1857-1882The Filling of the

Back BayFirst Map of Mass

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1950-1970Creation of the

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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.

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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

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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

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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