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Kristen McIntosh

Kristen McIntosh

Pittsburgh, PA, US

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Transitional Housing: Out of Foster Care Youth

Improvisational Architecture
The concept for this housing project was inspired by taking the unique improvisations
and dynamics of jazz music and relating it to the different dynamics of architecture.
Jazz improvisation is free, uninhibited, and without structure; something done without preparation. Through the use of programmatic spaces, cantilevered deck spaces,
sporadic interlocking planes and various materials, I captured the abstraction of
improvisation.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US