Lec 1 | MIT 4.125 Architecture Studio: Building in Landscape

The first project for the semester

was designing an outside place in a quarry north of Boston,

in Rockport. We had gone to the quarry, and the students were asked to find a place in the quarry

that they liked, photograph it, sketch it, understand it, bring it back to the studio

and then design a classroom for themselves and me that was sheltered,

not enclosed, but the idea was, making a place in the quarry that was neither

natural, nor was it to appear to be built. It was to fit into the context of the quarry.

they were welcome to use any materials that they thought would related to the quarry.

When they came back from the quarry, I think asked them to do their first design, and their first ideas

for the quarry.

So what you're about to see is the very first pin-up of the semester, of this very first project.

Student: What I

saw that was the impressive thing about the site was how nature is