Chris

Whittle

Architectural Works
2005-13

Table of Contents
Whittle Dream House

2008 Spring Colonial

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Alaska Cabin

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St. Botolphs Church

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Mechanics Hall

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Worcester City Hall Basement Renovations

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Worcester Technical High School Painting Dept.

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Saint Johns Church, Worcester

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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Parish of All Saints Ashmont

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Cut-Fold Origami

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Christian Science Colonnade Building

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Parker-Terrace Site

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Church/School Complex, Texas

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Prototype for Basilica in ArchiCAD

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Whittle Dream House

Personal

This house design on a 90 x 90 lot was

supposed to be my dream house to build and
reside in. It is the motivation for pursuing an
architecture career. It consists of three
bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, a full basement, two living rooms, a breakfast and dining
area, and a backyard swimming pool.

SketchUp model

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Elevation of House in AutoCAD;
Annotated draft of first floor plan;
ArchiCAD model

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Front (view from south)

View from east

Rear (view from north)

View from west

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Annotated Second Floor plan

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Annotated floor plans for basement and first floor

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ArchiCAD BIM models of rear of house

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First Floor detailed CAD drawing

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Equinox Shadows

Summer Solstice Shadows

Winter Solstice Shadows

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2008 Spring Colonial

Worcester Technical High School
Done as a community service project for the Matthew
25 Ministry, a Jesuit-sponsored program which
rehabilitates old homes and sell them as low-income
housing. This particular project is a new building.

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Aerial persepective in Sketchup;
Front elevation in Sketchup;
Basement plan in AutoCAD.

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First and Second floor plans in AutoCAD

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Elevations in AutoCAD (Following pages: Sketchup models)

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Equinox Shadows

Summer Solstice Shadows

Winter Solstice Shadows

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Alaska Cabin
Worcester Technical High School
Prepared a 3D Sketchup model based on CAD drawings of the summer home of one of the instructors.

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Saint Botolphs Chapel Personal

This is an imaginary, scaled-down parochial version of
St. Botophs Church in Boston, Lincolnshire, UK.

Elevation (left) and floor plan (right)

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Mechanics Hall

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester Technical High School

Began work on facilities drawings as part of a multiyear
community service project of Worcesters premier concert
and banquet hall originally designed by architect Elbridge
Boyden in 1857. Worked on during senior year.
(Clockwise from left) Interior; detail of organ;
Aerial view of balcony

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Worcester City Hall Basement Renovations

Worcester Technical High School Produced CAD drawings for community service project during senior year.

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Worcester Technical High School Painting Dept.

Designed a mock house to assist students on how to paint.

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Saint Johns Church

Worcester, Massachusetts

Pro Bono/Personal
Produced digital 3D models of interior of parish
church sanctuary in conjunction with the parishs
175th anniversay.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston

Wentworth Institute of Technology Fall 2012 ARCH 155

Professor: Thomas M. Lesko, Architect
Historical Documentation/Abstraction
Students were asked to document an important Boston
architectural landmark through hand-drawing and writing
an essay on the building.
For this project, I chose to document the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum in Boston, across the street from the Back
Bay Fens. The original Venetian Villa (1903) was designed by
Willard T. Sears and the most recent contemporary addition
(2012) was designed by Renzo Piano.
Additionally, students were asked to pick apart the threshold
of the revolving door of the Piano addition and make and
abstraction of it.

(Top)
Freehand sketch of the Venetial Villa at the Gardner Museum
(Bottom)
Freehand sketch of the Renzo Piano addition at the Gardner
Museum
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Hand-drawn site plan of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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Abstractions

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Parish of All Saints Ashmont Dorchester, Mass.

Wentworth Institute of Technology Fall 2012 ARCH 155
Professor: Thomas M. Lesko, Architect
Historical Documentation
Students were asked select a moderately-sized Boston
architectural landmark and document it through handsketches.
For this assignment I chose to document the Parish of All Saints
Ashmont in Dorchester, Massachusetts. This Anglo-Catholic
parish, consecrated in 1895, was the first church designed by
Ralph Adams Cram and a complete historic preservation was
completed in 2015.

(Left) Floor plan of church

(Above) Color illustration of bell tower

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High altar and design intervention of bell tower.

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Cut-Fold Origami
Wentworth Institute of Technology Spring 2013 ARCH 175
Professor Alexandra Dupnik
Students were asked to take a dress pattern and follow directions
in where to make cuts and folds. These resulted in the design of
abstract models that resemble Japanese origami.

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Christian Science Colonnade Building

Boston

Wentworth Institute of Technology Spring 2013 ARCH 175

Professor Alexandra Dupnik
Intervention
Students were asked to visit the exterior of the Christian Science
Colonnade Building (designed by I. M. Pei) and document an area
between four columns, where in turn students were asked to
design office space for a disabled poet and professional dancer.

(Above right)
Hand-drawn elevation/section of alcove
(Left)
Sketchup model of design intervention on site

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Axonometric hand-drawn view of intervention

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Photoshop montage

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Photoshop montage of southwest elevation/section

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(Left)
Model of existing conditions
(Right)
Hand sketch of Christian Science Church from observation

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Parker-Terrace Site Mission Hill, Massachusetts

Wentworth Institute of Technology Fall 2013 ARCH 210
Professor Jennifer Lee Michaliszyn
Design Intervention
For this project, students were asked to intervene on a slopped
vacant lot owned by the City of Boston in the Mission Hill
neighborhood. Initially, I chose to make a pathway with four
different activity areas: a cocktail patio, a childrens play area,
a recreational area, and a picnic area. The program was then
revised to have an enclosed restaurant with indoor and outdoor
spaces.
(Bottom left) Hand-drawn section of intervention
(Right) Hand-drawn site plan of intervention

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Hand-drawn perspective of site plan invervention

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(Left) AutoCAD drawing and (right) physical model of site plan intervention

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(Top)
Perspective view from cocktail patio on Terrace Street
(Bottom)
View from cocktail patio facing recreational area and
the path uphill to Parker Street.

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Final Site Design Plan

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Elevation of First Design Facing Terrace Street

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Rear of First Design

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Proposed interiors of First Design
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Calculations of First and Second Designs

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Hand-drawn elevation of Second Design facing Terrace Street

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Hand-drawn section of Second Design facing Terrace Street

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Elevation of Second Design facing north (towards Boston proper)

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Elevation of Second Design facing south (towards Roxbury)

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Elevation of Final Design facing Terrace Street

(Model in Sketchup and Photoshop)
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Section view of dining room with winter shadows

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Section view of dining room with equinox shadows

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Section view of dining room with summer shadows

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Perspective view of the rear canpony facing southeast (the old Mission Hill Brewery and Dorchester)
Sketchup model

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Sketchup models of rear canopy

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Sketchup models of cocktail patio

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In-Progress Works

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Church/School Complex, Texas Imaginary

This project is about the construction of a Catholic parish and
school complex in the Texas heat. The sanctuary is to seat 500
while the parochial school serves 200 students in grades K-12.
The church and school are bound by common walls and a
common roof.

(Left)
Sketch of sanctuary
(Top right)
Sketch of high altar

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Sanctuary and school space (shown empty)

(Previous top left) Exterior with bell towers; (Previous top right) Section view of sanctuary;
(Previous bottom) Church sanctuary enclosed with first floor of school without exterior walls
Sketchup models
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Axonometric section view of the sanctuary and the stairs on the school side of the building. The classrooms are to be
located in the center while the circulation areas will be on the outside of the structure.

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Prototype for Basilica in ArchiCAD

Personal

These computer models are the beginning stages of the development of Roman Basilicas for Catholic worship.

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Floor plan of basilica in ArchiCAD

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View of sanctuary from nave

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Aerial view of nave

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Side altar and pulpit

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Choir stalls are ADA compliant

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Bishops throne (imported from Sketchup)

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Full sanctuary view with altar rail

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