ArishaNotta
Studying design, architectural history and the care of buildings that carry cultural memory.
Design, heritage, preservation
Boston, MA
2028
About
I’m interested in how buildings hold culture, history and identity, and in how we draw them, use them, and keep them.
Index
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A masonry threshold that slows the move from street to courtyard, studied in plan and section.
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Measured: Beacon Hill Doorways
A hand-measured survey of doorway surrounds, redrawn in ink at a consistent scale.
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An adaptive reuse proposal that keeps the shed reading as one continuous length.
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South light tracked across one room for a year and drawn as stacked sections.
From the journal
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Sustainable Design Starts With the Buildings We Already Have
Embodied carbon, the order a retrofit should follow, why replacement windows rarely pay, and what has to change before reuse becomes the…
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Reading Boston’s Architecture: A Walk Through Beacon Hill’s Details
An hour on Beacon Hill, read slowly: brick bonds, purple window glass, Federal and Greek Revival doorways, granite lintels, cast iron and…
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Lime vs Cement: Why Mortar Choice Matters in Historic Masonry
Cement mortar is stronger than lime, which is exactly why it damages historic brick and stone. How mortar really works, and how…