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Upon observing both Copley Place and Prudential Center Malls, and Newbury Street, distinct differences between the two become apparent. On the first floor, the shopping centers of Copley Place and the Prudential Center have wider walkways spanning…

In my sketches, I wanted to capture how the people in the area and lights in the mall shaped my experience—essentially creating “illusions” of what the spaces entailed.

On Newbury St., stores were relatively removed from the street; many had…

My sketch was done as if I was a cartography making a map of the city. My focus was not on how individual buildings appeared but rather how locations related to each other spatially. After finishing my sketch, I took a look at an actual map to find a…

Copley Place and the Prudential Center were most similar in their spatial layouts, and Newbury Street tries to copy that, however only Copley Place features a space for reflection and integrates nature.

Both Copley and the Prudential Center…

While Newbury st and the Copley and prudential malls are very close geographically, they represent very different shopping experiences.
Copley malls and the prudential center represent a standard mall experience. The physical design involves lots of…

To me, a juxtaposition of Boston’s Newbury Street and Prudential Center ties in very neatly with the comparisons we’ve been drawing between urban and suburban landscapes. Obviously both sites exist within an urban environment. But the slight…

The theme that I focused on in my sketches and observations was the notion of inside/outside. I found that the two spaces each conveyed a sense of an interior and exterior, blurring the lines between what is actually outside or inside throughout the…

I'll admit that I thought what I was going to learn from this assignment was that street-level commerce produces a convivial, integrated atmosphere whereas enclosed galleries make for predictable, contrived shopping—an opposition implying that wholly…

For this sketch, I tried to switch up my approach from my last sketch. Instead of doing a view from above, I picked a view from one particular spot and tried to incorporate a more abstract idea of space. I tried to focus on perspective and angle. I…

Copley Place and the Prudential Center make use of a lot of natural light let in by atrium- style ceilings and large windows. The white-accented walls reflect the natural light in a way that makes the entire mall seem bright, clean, and airy. The…