BFA Architecture+DesignUMass Amherst 2012
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Spring 2012Design 6Joseph KrupczynskiProject Team:Angela Degeorge and Jenn Levy
2383 Main StSpringfield, MA
A New Community Center
The New North Citizen’s Council is a non-profit who advocate for the rights of the predominantly Latino population of Springfield, MA, where the organization is located. This design proposes a new headquarters where their current offices are now located. It provides a larger amount of office space than their current building, an open and accessible lobby, spaces for retail and small business, a large space for the community to host gatherings, paired with a kitchen, and an outdoor plaza. Additionally, facing the plaza are enclosed spaces for stalls, to promote the development of a farmer’s market. If implemented, the design would ideally achieve LEED Silver.
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Spring 2012Design 6Joseph Krupczynski
WesternMassachusetts
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Spring 2011Design 4Kathleen LugoschProject Team: Kevin Sheehan
Fort Point ChannelBoston, MA
City & The Sky
The night sky over Boston at the time of the installation.
Constellations are abstracted into geometries.
The geometries are reduced to create barriers.
Barriers create a network of paths along the barge.
It is a common sentiment that the city skyline at night can reflect the glow of the stars. This notion shaped the design of my submittal to the shiftBOSTON BARGE 2011 Competition. Using the positions of the stars visible at the time and location of the installation, a web of abstract geometric walls creates a maze atop the barge. Fabric meshes serve as the walls of the piece and while defining the spaces of the barge, also layer and mask the views the city. Simultaneously documentation, mapping and screen, the project serves to create an array of unique spaces atop the Boston waterfront.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012Independent StudyJoseph Krupczynski
Pioneer Valley RegionMassachusetts
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Demographic Information was provided by 176 of the 215 people who participated in the 22 Community Dialogues conducted throughout Hampshire & Hamden Counties
SOME COMMUNITY IDENTIFIED SOLUTIONS + ACTIONS
LIVE • Develop tools to educate the wider public on the benefits of Affordable Housing • Hold workshops on tenant rights, access to affordable housing, section 8 vouchers and alternative rental options
PROSPER • Create more job training programs that meet the needs of the current job market• Create programs for more parent involvement in schools • Support more culturally relevant school curriculum
CONNECT• Establish a Regional Citizen Advocacy Group for Transportation • Advocate for lower bus fares and push for more transit equity • Develop community-based car sharing programs
GROW• Work with farmer’s markets to have them accept EBT (food stamps)• Start gardens at schools and in the community • Develop educational programs on healthy cooking
REGIONALPRIORITIES
For more information on this project please visit us at:www.SustainableKnowledgeCorridor.org
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HILLTOWNS SMALL CITIES URBAN CORES VALLEY
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Local Priorities+ AFFORDABLE HOUSING+ TRANSPORTATION + RENEWABLE ENERGY
Local Priorities+ AFFORDABLE HOUSING+ TRANSPORTATION + LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD
Local Priorities+ AFFORDABLE HOUSING+ BETTER SCHOOLS+ TRAINED WORKFORCE
Local Priorities+ MORE JOBS+ BETTER SCHOOLS+ LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD
Local Priorities+ AFFORDABLE HOUSING+ TRANSPORTATION+ MORE JOBS
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This project was a collaboration between UMass Amherst, the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and United Way. The goal was to create a master plan for a more sustainable Pioneer Valley Region, a plan which would be guided by input from the people living in the region, specifically communities who were not typically engaged in planning processes. Our task was to design, run and record a series of engagements with these communities and compile their feedback for use by the PVPC and United Way.
To garner useful feedback from the communities, we provided them with twelve priority cards, which they were asked to rank (above). The cards were split into four categories: Live, Prosper, Connect and Grow. The input from over 200 participants was quantified and displayed in graphics (top right). In order to verify that our work had targeted underrepresented communities, we compared the demographics of our particiapants to those of the Pioneer Valley region (right).
PROSPER GROWLIVE CONNECT
EMPLOYMENTOPPORTUNITIES
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BETTER SCHOOLS50%
ACCESS TO LOCAL,HEALTHY FOOD
36%HOUSING THATIS AFFORDABLE
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SAFE & WALKABLECOMMUNITIES25%
TRAINED WORKFORCE39%
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EQUALOPPORTUNITIES25%
DIVERSE &INCLUSIVECOMMUNITIES21%
The Sustainable Knowledge Corridor is an exciting project to encourage healthy and sustainable communities. This summary presents the results of a series of community dialogues focused on housing, education, transportation, employment, health, and the environment. This participatory effort aims to create a sustainable future for Hampshire and Hamden counties and throughout the bi-state region.
SUSTAINABLE KNOWLEDGE CORRIDOR COMMUNITY PRIORITIES
OUR COMMUNTIES ARESUSTAINABLE WHEN... .
ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS’ RESULTS
OBSERVATIONS + CONNECTIONS
Housing Healthy Communities
Economic DevelopmentEducation / Training
Transportation Civic Life
Environment / EnergyFood Security
Values in this chart represent the percentage of participants who selected these priorities
LIVE: While “Diverse & Inclusive Communities” was not always selected as a top priority, many participants mentioned that diversity in communities is often dependent on access to affordable housing.
PROSPER: Nearly everyone saw the issues in this category as connected, explaining that better schools lead to a more trained workforce, which will hopefully mean more people can access good jobs.
CONNECT: Many people noted how poor bus service was keeping people from accessing jobs and healthy foods. Solving transportation issues are key to improvements in personal health & the local economy.
GROW: Community gardens and youth development were important parts of the Food Security conversation. Many participants also noted how successes in the other categories would have positve impacts on the environment.
IMPORTANT “WRITE-IN” PRIORITIES
COMMUNITY BUILDING:Connecting with neighbors and families to promote healthy communities
ADDRESSING RACISM:Develop local strategies to combat racism in all its implicit and explicit forms
HEALTH SERVICES:Equal access to affordable health care--particularly in local communities
LOCAL CONTROL:Provide more opportunities to participate and contribute to local planning decisions
CLEAN, SAFE,RENEWABLEENERGY
May - July 2012ADP BodegaStudio Projects
Holyoke, MA
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The Alliance to Develop Power, a non-profit organization based out of Springfield, MA, hoped to reopen a foreclosed supermarket in nearby Holyoke, MA as a local, organic food market for an area considered a food desert. My work for this project involved measuring existing site conditions and dimensions, drafting existing and proposed conditions and creating promotional graphics.
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2009 - 2012
Urban EarthworksExperiments in WoodFPM // FM
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Sculpture is, inherently, a destructive act. The artist cuts, sands and carves the wood until it resembles a form they deem “more aesthetically pleasing”. These works attempt, hypocritically, to express sympathy for the material they destroy, to allow the processes applied to the wood to leave a mark.
FPM // FMFeet Per Minute (below) is a piece created through the process of photographing my own foot, once every hour, for two days.To create Fan Mail (left) a hundred people were given envelopes containing instructions to fill them with whatever they wanted and were able to fit in the envelope, and then return them. The plastic bags contain the contents of each envelope.
I appear four times in this portfolio!Can you find them all?
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288 Belchertown RdAmherst, MA 01002