The studio will explore the Symphony Hall area in Boston, where a diverse interplay of student and professional activities occur. These activities including, commerce, culture, leisure and education, take place at different densities and scales both day and night. The intermingling of diverse people and actions in this area seemingly results in a higher sense of individual identity, which allows them to interact and participate in their community meaningfully.

The project will include work, performance and dwelling spaces for local groups involved in some creative cultural activity. The scope of this project allows us to question and explore the relationship between work, performance and dwelling. Students will focus on a series of individual propositions based on the identification of cyclical and permanent urban and natural forces through time.

Time spent in this neighborhood will allow us to experience and identify how we personally understand this place and its activities in relation to programmatic issues you have in mind. The selection of your site should be based on this understanding.

Exploratory tasks will emerge in the form of "working" life-scale interventions that alter a specific tangible phenomenon (such as light or sound), which changes the spatial quality of a given space. The experience gained from this physical alteration will constitute the specific character and quality of your architectural investigation.

Architectural language will be derived from the experience of materials, apace and tectonic in a progressive understanding of contextual forces such as light, sound, gravity and movement.