Camille Wimpe
Design
Spring 2021 | Professor Tim Love
This walk-up housing project work is designed to accomodate graduate-level students who attend Northeastern University, which does not currently offer housing for graduate students. The walk-up housing module was designed first as a singluar piece, and then aggregated on the site.
The module // Designed with a “rift” along the East-West axis, the module takes advantage of the exsiting alley-level which is typical of Boston neighborhoods. As seen in the ground floor plan, the plan carefully mediates the transition between the public road and sidewalk, and the private space of the unit. The lobby - in white - extends closest to the sidewalk, while the units themselves are set-back behind a layer of landscaping and patio. On the upper-levels, many of the units span across the rift, which allows the sleeping spaces and living spaces to be on different levels. Each module accomodates seven units, ranging from two to five bedrooms each, to respond to the varied preferences and needs of graduate students. Each unit is also equipped with an outdoor space, which is either a balcony or small yard/patio for apartments on the first floor.
The site // Located on Northeastern’s campus, in what is currently a parking lot between undergraduate housing and the typical “alphabet-city” walk up housing of the Fenway neighborhood. To mediate this difference, I decided to leave the Southern edge of the site open, to create a shared openspace for both graduate and undergraduate students.