1. DESIGN | Jamaica Pond Friends School
Location: Jamaica Pond
Instructor: Maryanne Ocampo
The Jamaica Pond Friends School is a childrens’ school designed
for the Quaker Religious society, ages K-8. The site is located within
the context of Jamaica Pond Park, designed by landscape architect
Frederick Law Olmstead.
The design integrates the existing circulation needs of the
surrounding community as well as the programmatic needs of the
students. My design is organized upon flows that use the landscape
to shape the architecture and the architecture to shape the spaces.
3. DESIGN | Urban Sacred Space
Location: Downtown Crossing, Boston MA
Instructor: Bruce MacNelly
Sacred Space can be defined as a space that
makes a symbolic link between the metaphysical and the
divine. It is a place where one is temporarily removed from
the comfort of their everyday lives, into a state that allows
them to positively register his or her own meaning within
the larger context of the world. My goal with this thesis is
to question if the concept of the “Ineffable” can be repre-
sented within the material world of the contemporary city,
in which the Ineffable is inevitably, non-existent. The design is
of an Urban Crematorium, and a Public Worshiping Chapel
to be located in the historic site of Downtown Crossings.
The concept for the design was based on a play between
public and private and light and dark.
