Spring 2019 / Harvard Graduate School of Design
In collaboration with Jessica Lim
Options Studio with Jeanne Gang and Claire Cahan
Site: Woodshole, MA
In collaboration with Jessica Lim
Options Studio with Jeanne Gang and Claire Cahan
Site: Woodshole, MA
a swell, a swope
Revitalizing the Marine Biological Laboratory’s largest residential building — the Swope Center — on a campus that sees a fourfold population swell in the summer and near-zero numbers in the winter. How do we design housing for cyclical change?
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