design portfolio

Rebecca Leroux

table of contents

. performance space

. water works

. sun shade

. art gallery

. dance studio

. creative works

performance space

Sited on the strip of land that lies in be-tween Chinatown and the fi nancial district, this pavilion’s pattern was inspired by tradi-tional Chinese window screens. This space would allow for gath-ering and would serve as a gateway between the two vividly different spaces. It allows for a covered space and an open feel.

water works

This natatorium is for public use in the Arnold Arboretum. The concept behind this building was inspired by the layers of the arboretum. The facade mimics the arboretum by allow-ing most of the light to come from the top. As a visitor or athlete to this building you can experience each layer both indoors and outdoors.

The siting of this struc-ture intersects an exist-ing pathway. It was designed so that you can still walk the existing path, but now you over-look the lap pool as you cross over. A secondary walk way was created to replicate a existing one, but to recreate it by allowing people to walk above, at a different layer of the arboretum while watching the skaters skate next to you.

water works

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Diving Pool

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LockerRoom

LockerRoom

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PoolEquip.

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Open to Below

Lobby

Office

Office

OfficeBath

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Seating Area

Mezzanine

Upper Rink

Lower Rink

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sun shade

In groups, we were chal-lenged to create a shading device for a hallway in our department that catches a lot of afternoon sun. Our design was to use rotating panels that could manipu-late the light. The fi nal built piece was constructed of recycled cardboard boxes & newspaper, scraps of colored acetate, dowels, and rubber bands, keeping our project green. Our design created a modern stained glass feel allowing for diffused light.

art gallery

This building is sited on a fairly steep slope in a unknown vineyard. The design process began with the vineyard as well as the building. Both the vineyard and the building shaped each other. The building’s dimensions refl ect the pattern and system of the vineyard. Later in the design, the building shifts in this pat-tern forcing the vineyard to shift as well.

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Kitchen

Men’s Room

Women’s Room

Office

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This is designed as a gallery to house a painting and a sculp-ture. The two separate boxes each have one light feature to refl ect the choice of painting and sculpture. Albers Inter-action of Color is a painting created to bring the view-ers eye upward towards the light. In this, large, linear light catches bring a soft glow from above not to disturb viewing of the painting. Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure allows small pockets of light, here refl ected in the lattice.

art gallery

While the building isn’t very big, the visitors follow a fairly long linear path. They shift direction as the build-ing shifts, both in plan and in section, making note of your change in functional-ity. The vineyard interacts with the building through the seasons as the vines will grow strong up the lattice in the front of the building to shade it in the warm sum-mer and allow the southern sun to shine through in the winter.

art gallery

dance studio

This building was designed to function as a series of studio spaces for the Anti Gravity dance team in Boston’s North End. Anti Gravity has a unique style of dance, in which they use un-usual tools to allow them to have a very new urban style. This piece was designed to be a box inside a glass box, to allow for a perfor-mance to be seen from both sides. The performance of the dancers, and the perfor-mance of the everyday city.

The buildings core runs along the left hand side of the building, acting as a noise barrier to the rest of the North End. The more public programmatic pieces run through the center of the horizontal circulation. People can walk around all of the studio spaces and have selected points where they can get a peak of what is going on inside. Other times, people can only see the silhouette of the dancers through frosted glass panels.

dance studio

creative work

A small collection of artwork done between 2005 and 2008.From left to right:water in movement (oil pastels)(oil pastels)fi gure study (charcoal)drawing from photograph (charcoal)(oil pastels)shadow and light (char-coal)