JOSEPH FELDMAN
Architecture Portfolio | Northeastern University
Urban Walk-up Housing
The Urban Walk-up Housing project aims to provide housing space primarily for Graduate Northeastern students and some space for other residents. My goal, which was heavily inspired by the project titled Artist’s Atelier in Argentina, was to create a building that displayed a hierarchy of intimacy and allowed for the creation of a large community, smaller communities, and individual (private) spaces. Also, this project’s use of light is crucial for developing the space “inbetween” or the void spaces created from the forms of the buildings. The use of curves also allows for a much more intimate feeling at every level of the building.
The question of what is a community and how can we design to create them is an idea that is explored heavily in this project. It challenges the values of efficiency in a world where we need to connect more rather than be separated.
ARCH 2140: Urban Institutions Spring 2022
Professor: Isadora Dannin
Chinatown Library in Ruins
The Chinatown Library project sought to help us develop a sense of larger scale urban design while also accounting for its much larger community. In particular, the Chinatown community was very fun to design for. We were tasked with integrating a program that we noticed during our many visits with a Library. This project also alllowed us to develope a sense of community and culture in design. The program I chose was communal green space embedded intermittently into the building. However, I focused my design to a more abstract depiction of a far away, apocalyptic future. To me, a Library is something that isn’t just built. It is something that grows with the community, following its construction.
The demonstration of how green space can overwhelm and take over a building was something I wanted to pursue. The idea that far past human life a building can retain its values in a society is fascinating.
ARCH 2130: Site, Space, and Program Fall 2022
Professor: Matt Okazaki
U T S I D E OUTSIDE OUTSIDE INSIDE INSIDE
Y-Form MODULE
LARC 2130: Designed Urban Ecologies Spring 2024
Group Members: Amanda He & Selina Lee
The Y-Form Module is a prototype of a modular coral reef system for the San Juan community. This project sought to accomplish two goals. One, create a coral reef system made of modules that was easy to install and expand upon. Two, connect the system’s logic to the local San Juan Community, offering a way to increase interaction with the beach and limit car lanes. These modules can be connected and built upon, or placed randomly as a chain. Regardless, they aim to improve the local fish ecologies and allow people to understand these processes via interaction on the surface.
Modules are placed on the beach as a playground for kids to climb and learn about at the same time. They contain scriptures of Fish depicting how the fish are interacting with the coral down below. Keeping the community involved in this project was the priority and allows them to feel connected with saving the fish ecologies.
Professor: Judith Rodriguez
Chinatown Smoking Pavillion
ARCH 2130: Site, Space, and Program Fall 2022
Professor: Matt Okazaki
The Chinatown Rest stop project was the first project of our second year. For the first time, it introduced us to real-world design. It was also our introduction to the focal point of the semester: Chinatown. For this project, we were tasked to create a pavilion housing a public restroom and a program we saw needed more attention in the community. For my project, I chose to focus on the program of smoking. The Chinese community is among the biggest consumers of cigarettes and smoking has long been a tradition in their culture. From my many visits to Chinatown, I would always see many groups of people socializing and smoking together. However, this project was not meant to promote smoking in any way. Instead, it recognizes that people are going to smoke regardless and therefore should be designed in a more comforting way. So I created an indoor smoking area that metaphorically acts as a filtration system for people and displays real smoke dissapastion at the same time. This would give the Chinatown community a much needed place for people to socialize, smoke, and use the bathroom.
The structure of this building is two giant, inward-facing walls. They start to meet and are interrupted by a permeable wall acting as a “filter.” The left portion of the building is reserved for normal outside use and seating. The middle is the smoking section of the building. Finally, the right side of the building is used for bathrooms. The two giant middle walls act as impermeable walls to separate the smoke from the other program.
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JOSEPH FELDMAN