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3.4.2<br />

600 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA<br />

For Michael LeBlanc, the design principal of the<br />

project, “the biggest role that the renderings play. . .<br />

is in the approvals process.” The style of the rendering<br />

depends on the party sought for approval;<br />

in some cases, abstraction is preferable to photorealism<br />

because it requires the viewer to impose their<br />

own vision onto the project. Renderings produced<br />

for 600 Harrison Avenue for the Boston Landmarks<br />

Commission required that particular attention be<br />

given to addressing the materiality and scale of the<br />

surrounding context; ultimately, these “constraints”<br />

became opportunities that motivated some of the<br />

overall design decisions. 6<br />

project<br />

office<br />

type<br />

size<br />

image by<br />

client<br />

process<br />

purpose<br />

time frame<br />

software<br />

fee<br />

ownership<br />

600 Harrison Avenue (Boston, MA); residential,<br />

retail<br />

Utile, Inc. (Boston, MA)<br />

Architecture and Planning<br />

36 employees<br />

Utile, Inc., 2013–2014<br />

Utile, Inc., architect<br />

Multiple rounds of revisions through design and<br />

rendering process<br />

Approval with Boston Redevelopment Authority,<br />

Boston Landmarks Commission, marketable image<br />

for Utile, Inc., also circulates in online press. Image<br />

supplemented with site analysis and photographs,<br />

proposed site plan-elevations-sections including<br />

surroundings, summary of relevant development<br />

criteria 5<br />

1 week<br />

Software: 3D model (SketchUp, Rhinoceros), 2D<br />

rendering (Kerkythea, Maxwell), post-processing<br />

(Photoshop)<br />

Approximately $3400<br />

Images are owned by Utile, Inc. but clients can use<br />

them as part of media related to project<br />

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