CSX Rail Yards are Focus of Yale Studio
Tim Love, Utile Principal, recently completed coordinating and teaching the second year studio at the Yale School of Architecture. Love, a Visiting Associate Professor at Yale for the Spring 2009 semester, directed the design work of 58 students with seven other instructors. In addition to Love, Alan Plattus, Peggy Deamer, Andrea Kahn, Ben Pell, Makram El Kadi, and Ljiljana Blagojevic also taught studio sections.
Teams of two and three students designed mixed-use development proposals for a 77-acre brownfield site owned by Harvard University in the Allston neighborhood of Boston. The site, currently housing a CSX freight rail yard and other industrial uses, was envisioned as a commercial development that would create productive synergies with Harvard’s proposed new science campus. The studio program required non-affiliated student housing to meet the needs of both Harvard and Boston University. The brief also included live/work loft space for creative economy businesses and high technology and life science start-ups.
Students were asked to integrate sustainable design strategies into their urban proposals with a specific emphasis on site-wide storm water approaches. Alex Felson, a landscape architect with a joint appointment with the School of Forestry and the Architecture School, served as a roving critic for this aspect of the studio program.
Robert AM Stern, Ken Greenberg, Barbara Littenberg, Patrick Pinnell, Kevin Daly, Robert Culver, Claude Cormier, and Nathalie Beauvais, among many others, were guest critics during the semester.
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