Project Statement

NusVu is an innovative website designed to create a more functional communication line with students and coaches. This project is intended for students to share the individual work they are proud of, announce clubs or events, get advice from previous students, and connect with coaches.

Precedents



Alumni Meeting Calendar

Word jumble of advice for students

Alumni column

Alumni Column Example

Design Precedent 1

Universal Hub

A Boston-based local news website that updates terrifyingly frequently. They report lots of Boston-area happenings, such as crime, MBTA updates, business development, and Storrowings.

Process Note

We considered implementing certain APIs into NusVu, such as weather and MBTA alerts, but to do that we would have to either do a lot of coding we didn't have time for, or pay for a Wordpress plan, so we never got around to that.

Alumni column design prototype

Thesis

In 2001, a duo of Norwegian DJs under the name "Nightcore" began to play sped-up trance and Eurodance tracks. Since the late 2000s and early 2010s, nightcore exploded in popularity across Youtube due to its ease of creation. In 2019, 100 gecs released their debut album, "1000 gecs", crystallizing the essence of the previously established "hyperpop" genre to an energetic, synthy, genre-bending extreme, influenced heavily by the nightcore boom. Great, Beating Node is influenced by the "weird" aesthetics of 100 gecs and the musical style of 2010s nightcore, hyperpop, eurobeat, and chieptune, creating an intentionally overproduced, highly melodic mess (positive). The music video, in a similar vein, is intentionally over-edited, chaotic, and genre-bending, incorporating multiple forms of media in each scene with a heavy emphasis on video editing to evoke a homemade, charmingly aprofessional feel.

Auditory Precedents

100 gecs

Toby Fox

Brainstorming

Brainstorming

Visual Precedents

Cows & Cows & Cows - Cyriak

I Would Rather - Jazz Emu

Pumpkin Cowboy - Brian David Gilbert

Hand Crushed By A Mallet - 100 Gecs

(and many more)

Sketches

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Thesis

In 2001, a duo of Norwegian DJs under the name "Nightcore" began to play sped-up trance and Eurodance tracks. Since the late 2000s and early 2010s, nightcore exploded in popularity across Youtube due to its ease of creation. In 2019, 100 gecs released their debut album, "1000 gecs", crystallizing the essence of the previously established "hyperpop" genre to an energetic, synthy, genre-bending extreme, influenced heavily by the nightcore boom. Great, Beating Node is influenced by the "weird" aesthetics of 100 gecs and the musical style of 2010s nightcore, hyperpop, eurobeat, and chieptune, creating an intentionally overproduced, highly melodic mess (positive). The music video, in a similar vein, is intentionally over-edited, chaotic, and genre-bending, incorporating multiple forms of media in each scene with a heavy emphasis on video editing to evoke a homemade, charmingly aprofessional feel.

Auditory Precedents

100 gecs

Toby Fox

Brainstorming

Brainstorming

Visual Precedents

Cows & Cows & Cows - Cyriak

I Would Rather - Jazz Emu

Pumpkin Cowboy - Brian David Gilbert

Hand Crushed By A Mallet - 100 Gecs

(and many more)

Sketches

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

1) How can we structure our video to support the mixed media collage aesthetic?

2) How can we use these visuals in a refreshing and new or unique way?

3) How to balance mixed media and different forms of video content?

Seeking feedback on:

Precedents

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Project Statement

My project is a chair that adapts to your space and your style with cubes that can be arranged in different configurations. Each cube has "peg" like features as well as hole shapes in the cube so that the cubes can fit together.

Sketches

Prototype 1

Prototype 2



1) What other methods could I use to attach the blocks together?

2) What material or colors should I use?

4) What types of chair configurations would be helpful would you like to have?

Seeking feedback on:

Project Summary

In Boston, there are multiple empty or deserted lots that communities don’t use or don’t care about. When spaces go unused, they may become unsafe or simply useless. We aim to turn these unused empty lots into areas that people and communities can use and enjoy while also being safe. On the right is Lederman Park, a site that we are focusing on and are trying to improve.

Lederman Park

Why this site

When selecting a site, we wanted to find a place in a high-traffic area that wasn't currently being used. We also wanted to find a place that already has development around it such as restaurants and other entertainment. After researching places around Boston and Cambridge, we came across Lederman Park, located on Sturrow Drive across from MGH. It sits next to the Charles, meaning it's right next to part of the Charles River path. It already has baseball fields around it in a neighboring park but Lederman itself remains empty and overgrown. It has the potential to become a highly used space as many people drive past it every day or walk by it when they are walking along the Charles.

Location

Cambridge

Boston

Neighborhood Context

Hospitals

Parking

Hotels

Greenary

Our Site

Next to the Charles, MGH, baseball and soccer fields, museum of science, industrial areas

Entrance Points

Pedestrian Circulation

Around 6825 sq meters

Size of Our Site

Sketches Before Site Visit

Site Visit Summary

Users + Activities

• Dog owners and joggers mainly use the space
• Activities at the space are dog walking, playing with dogs, jogging, baseball, walking, nature viewing

Pedestrians

• Most people were positioned along the Charles River path next to the site
• We found that only about 5 people walked by when we were there for 30 minutes, two of which had dogs.

Parking

• Very little amount of parking along the side, as well as handicapped parking in front and drop-off parking in front.

Space

• Forgotten, empty, overgrown, unmaintained feeling

Zoning Diagram

Iteration #1

Zoning Diagrams

Circulation

Playground Structure

Precedents

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Dimension Drawings

Conceptual Models

Next Steps

• Keep 3D modeling the structures.
• Talk to people who use the area.
• Learn more about zoning laws at our site.
• Choose what materials to use.