Urban Tissue

Boston Seaport is experiencing urban renewal as a post-industrial port where the waterfront has become a prime location for design and innovation. The brief consisted in creating a mixed-use development and a design and technology school. Daylighting and scale were design tactics for mediating the reformed granaries and the new development in the area through terraces and court- yards on the residential, commercial and retail. Also, extending the green belt through the site to connect the site from the harbor to the water- front and to create public space for the different users. The school began as an extension of the neighborhood vertically and horizontally, a transition space that could be accessed via the bridge, the site or dropoff area. This created a divide between public (auditorium, multipurpose, gym) and the studios, library and workshops. Stacking vertically and allowing the planes to become public space for the students/ and or community. The roof would unify the solids and voids and allow clerestories to illuminate the studio, classrooms and library. Despite being under the bridge the roof’s ondulation consider the southern light.