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F. G. Peabody Terrace, Married Students Housing, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Sert, Jackson & Gourley, 1962 - 1964
Landscape Archs.: Sasaki Assocs.

An icon of the modernist era, Josep Lluis Sert's high rise concrete towers have rarely been regarded as friendly neighbors to the traditional Harvard Houses lining the North bank of the Charles River. Bruner/Cott's mission was to reorganize the site and to provide a transition to the surrounding neighborhood. This included a full upgrade of selected building systems and architectural redesign of 500 apartments including all public spaces. Exterior repairs to the concrete building envelope and complete replacement of the original window walls were all performed within the context of Sert's historic design concept. Cost for the renovation work was three times that of the original buildings.

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The exclusive home of Josep Lluís Sert in Cambridge is one of the unique designs in his career. The excellent distribution of space through the interaction of patiosaxisas one of the main features of the house. Combines light and shadow. Use a strong inside-outsiderelationshipwith large windows and expansions.

Through the use of the ideals of Modulor LeCorbusier get comfortable for a more harmonious life.

The house is situated within a plot owned by Harvard University in the extreme northeast of the town of Cambridge.

The plot, trapezoidal, with an area of 925.5 m2. The total surface area of the home, patios, is 202.35 m2, depending on the land in terms of rethinking. This is in addition to a basement of approximately 72 m2 in the rectangle of the bedrooms. The area occupied is thus 21.8%, and the house keeps the rules of separation of 20 feet and 10 streets in the plot adjacent to the side of the garage.

The basic rectangle defined by walls of brick and wood fence in the short sides of 12.83 x 31.22 m, with a "bulge" of 2.03 m wide at the northeastern side to complement the dimensions of 14 , 86 m, that is fifty feet wide where Sert mentions that "the house can fit into a typical plot of 50 x 100 feet." The central courtyard is square and is 7.32 m side, double 3.66 m, equivalent to 12 feet, like the rest of the steps of the house derives from Modulor of Le Corbusier.

The topography of the map indicates a gap of 22 cm between the extremes of the yards northwest and southwest, but occurs once leveled the house, the ground showed a slight decline towards the southeast, following the slope of Irving Street.

"As a bridge between the Tigris and Charles, here are the views of my home in Cambridge in the Harvard area. It has two sides, like a reversible raincoat. The exterior is red brick and features a wooden fence, and are the most common materials in the city. The interior, however, is completely white. Before deciding on a house with a yard of a single plant studied various types. Through the walls that protect them, the yards can be quite cold and windy days but sunny. (...) It is a house that was meant as a gruyer cheese-cheese with more holes, more courtyards that house. "(...)" One journalist wanted to know what style of house believed to belong mine, and I replied: 'Write ranch house Pompeian!.

It is well known that all architects have difficulties in designing your own home, so we should not be surprising that this Sert fifteen variants, at least, of the solution plan can be seen in the sketches preserved. The sketches show different solutions and questions about the access. The same applies to the configuration of the covers: a two-pronged, with a slope, slopes that are at the bottom, etc.. Always keep a central skylight and walls with a textured coating wood.

Sert worked from the outset with the idea of enclosure bounded by walls. The geometry of the square courtyard suggests a static form and with great indifference topology. It is also the only one paved and there are a very special tree deciduous (marked by red stems and leaves very visible in winter). It is an object-yard, rather than unite, separate.

Sert's house is also immediately available and construction would be forming a potential front street. In fact, the discovery of the courtyard as a resource for privacy and density in turn leads to Sert to propose a new urban morphology applied to several cases. The continuity of the fabric of a low altitude allowed subtractive design, emptied the "urban carpet" with shared courtyards and plazas that give identity to the units.

That inspires the architect to the design of your project, what forms refers to the construction, which attempts to evoke emotions or situations, everything is part of a main idea of three consecutive yards and a respected urban fabric and a style dedicated andalusia direct environment of a neighborhood.

"The more scarce and more expensive will be the land in urban areas, we should give more attention to the types of Mediterranean courtyard home (...). The reasons are simple: put a fence almost beyond the limits of the plot takes a better spot that has become very valuable. Moreover, both the interior and exterior spaces are more private and quiet. And finally, all rooms have good views, no matter what he's beyond the walls. "(JL Sert, 1958).

Regarding the distribution of the house, the access is within a corridor which guides directly to the public or to private. It also has visual and lighting of the courtyard. The living and dining area located on the right side of the plant, with an amplitude that corresponds to the space used for sleeping, that is, as the area where the housing containing the same area then the axis of the courtyard dividing generating a harmony and a classical symmetry. As for the wet area of the kitchen is directly connected to the dining room and access service for the garage. Illuminated, as

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