HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF DESIGN TRANSFORMING
MELNEA CASS
BOULEVARD:
ARCHITECTURE TRANSPORT AND REGENERATION IN
CENTRAL BOSTON
CONTENTS
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FORWARD
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RESEARCH & PERSPECTIVES
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Introduction, Process and Acknowledgements by Nathalie de Vries & Fokke Moerel
The User Perspective Group The Communal Perspective Group The Commercial Perspective Group
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PERSPECTIVES & URBAN PROPOSALS
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ARCHITECTURAL PROPOSALS
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Road to Roxbury / David Pak Architecture, Transport & Regeneration in Central Boston / Xin Li Reactiving Systems - Living and Learning Processes / Adriana Chรกvez Reframing Collective Space - Open School on MCB / Einat Rosenkrantz Convivial Heights - A New Typology / Garen Gary Srapyan Presence(ing) Roxbury - Defining the Boundary Condition / Joseph Ross Formal/Informal Transitory Supermarket / Laura Haak Univer-City / Young-Jae Kim Roxbury Living Room / Nicolas Lee Trancending Transitions / Felix Luong Productive Synergy / Chen Hao Lin
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Connecting Boundaries / The User Perspective Group 1 Reframing Collective Space / The User Perspective Group 2 Open-Space Connection / The Communal Perspective Group Roxbury YOYO / The Commercial Perspective Group
TRANSFORMING MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD: ARCHITECTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGENERATION IN CENTRAL BOSTON A STUDIO RESEARCH REPORT OF THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Option Studio, Harvard Fall 2012 Nathalie de Vries, Fokke Moerel
FORWARD AMBITION
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People have growing awareness about how they want to organize the environments, in which they live, work and trade. Users and owners of houses and commercial buildings are nowadays evolving from anonymous persons or target groups with predictive behavior into serious partners in all stages of the development and construction of projects. This includes also a growing awareness of what is high quality in architecture. But how can architects integrate these expectations into their designs and make sure this pluralism of ideas can be used in a fruitful way? How can they make sure buildings and urban designs that are created in this process will also benefit the community as a whole? How can this attention for the more individualistic needs of users be combined with the equally strong collective need for healthier and more equal living conditions in cities? Can architects design tools and processes for living environments in constant change, provoking, inviting, interacting, and comfortable, intriguing cities? Can these designs be made in such a way that they are financially and commercially viable and at the same time culturally and socially ambitious?
SITE The site for this project has been Melnea Cass Boulevard in Boston. The Melnea Cass corridor is targeted to become an urban civic anchor for the Roxbury neighborhood. It poses an interesting case study of urban history and transportation planning in Boston. In the late 1960s and early 1970’s, Roxbury was an active African American neighborhood slated to be the home of an eight-lane elevated highway. Many areas were cleared for the highway construction. After community activism killed the project to save the neighborhood, a multi-lane grounded boulevard was constructed instead and named after a local community activist who stopped the highway project, Melnea Cass. The resulting wide boulevard, lined with vacant plots, parking lots, and low-density programming became a physical and psychological barrier disconnecting Roxbury from downtown Boston. Roxbury has never recovered to its original vibrancy before highway construction began. That perceived divide was made even deeper, when the City moved the Rapid Transit trains travelling down Washington Street to Dudley Station to the Amtrak train tracks in the eastern part of the City in order to improve service reliability. Consequently, by removing this train line, the Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan area became a 10-mile area in Central Boston without access to public train transport. As a result, Roxbury is located between several already gentrifying areas, but is lacking the strong identities and easy access to downtown on public transport that helped the other parts of Boston redevelop. But the tide will turn: The Boston Transportation Department is heavily focusing on public bus transport initiatives and more pedestrian friendly infrastructure there. The recent MBTA operating deficit of $185 million does not allow the budget rapid train transit expansion into this area – a key element that has spurred redevelopment in other parts of the city. Furthermore: Through initiatives like the Complete Streets program, Urban Ring, South Harbor trail, and procurement of Parcels 9 & 10, the Boston Transit Authority believes there is a huge potential for regeneration along Melnea Cass Boulevard. However, there are many projects, but not yet a coherent vision on the larger scale that unifies these projects. However controversial the developments for this area might be, the complex conditions and the sense of urgency among both the local community as well as the government and commercial stakeholders turned out to be a fruitful ground for architectural thinking by the GSD students. The potential for transit initiatives to promote a vibrant urban condition along Melnea Cass could be used to create a mixed-use program. Their search for a personal vision and architectural language on what is essential in architecture could be tested in an area that is in desperate need of redesign. The sites for the architectural designs were mostly placed along Melnea Cass Boulevard. Students also studied
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the relationship with the development of Central Boston, and also used it to change the layout of the plans for Melnea Cass Boulevard itself. They attended community meetings studied results of recent RFQ’s, also talked to city planners and designers that already worked in the neighborhood. They were asked in the studio to create mixed-use programs, thinking about the following questions:
What aspects of the project need a personal approach, where is need for collective initiatives?
How to deal with the car-culture?
Where is DIY interesting and when does it interfere with the public interest?
What should be made specific in user-friendly architecture and what not?
How can we create a vision on the complete regeneration of the area, rather than create a sum of parts? Can you create architecture that includes users in its design? PROCESS
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Since the project was ‘around the corner’ of GSD, frequent site visits were made. A diverse group of local stakeholders have given the students a wealth of information, showed the studio around in Roxbury and some of them also attended the reviews. Research has been done in teams. Each team studied the implementation of a possible scenario from a different perspective. These perspectives were the User Perspective the Social or Community Perspective, and the Commercial Perspective. These were translated in master plans for the future development of the Melnea Cass Boulevard and its surroundings. Based on the scenario studies, students individually developed their programs strategies and architectural designs for a better Roxbury. We know that strongly defined architecture can be used to catalyze the development of neighborhoods and cities and inspire active involvement of the community and future users. Adaptive and changeable design solutions like framework or cask designs can present flexible alternatives with a more open-ended appearance. On a larger scale of thinking, structuralist architecture or interactive design programs can help to develop strategies for interaction between architecture, developers and users. In this publication, the students show their visions and ideas. They could be useful for Roxbury, but they also contain aspects that can be used on other similar sites around the world.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank all the people that have supported and enriched us before and during the course of the studio. Vineet Gupta, Director of Policy and Planning, Boston Transportation Department, for providing a lot of information, giving a presentation and attending all the reviews. Nader Tehrani and Katherine Faulkner of NADAA, Boston, who provided us a lot of information and digital plans, received us in their studio and attended the final review (Nader). Kamren Zahedi, developer Urbanica, for meeting us on the site and attending the review. Tomas Leeser and Florian Idenburg, architects and Harvard Design Critics, Professor Alex Krieger, GSD and Karen-Lee Bar Sinai, Loeb fellow, for attending the reviews. Darnell Williams, of the Roxbury Strategic Masterplan Oversight Committee, for his inspiring lecture. Fedele Canosa, senior architect at Mecanoo, Delft, for his lecture about the new Dudley Square Townhall . Hugues Monestime, senior planner for Community Planning, Boston Redevelopment Authority, for being interviewed at City Hall. Russell Tanner, Director of Real Estate Madison Park Development Corporation, Non-profit Community and Economic Development Corporation (Phone Interview). Dana Whiteside, Deputy Director for Community Economic Development Boston Redevelopment Authority (Phone Interview). Michelle Boyers, Chief Operating Officer, Orchard Gardens School (Phone Interview). Scott Hamwey, Planner for MassDOT (Phone Interview). Neiel Israel, Harvard employee and former Roxbury resident, for attending reviews and providing a local perspective. Kelly Tigera, MVRDV Business Development, who collected the material, contacted and interviewed the stakeholders. And last but not least: Felix Luong, Teaching Assistant of the studio who produced this book. 7
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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
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[MELNEA CASS OVER TIME] FOUNDATION OF BOSTON (1630) HARVARD (1636)
BOSTON COMMONS (1634) BOSTON A SEAPORT TO WEST INDIA AND CHINA
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2.BOSTON COMMONS [1634] 3.EMERALD NECKLACE [1878] 4.ELLIOT METROPOLITAN PLAN [1893]
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THE LONG WARF (1711)
5.URBAN RENEWAL PLAN [1950] 6.MELNEA CASS BLVD [1970]
WAR WITH FRANCE (1744-1748) 1750
FRENCH INDIAN WAR (1754-1763)
7.BIG DIG / GREENWAY [2000’S] REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775) ECONOMIC PROSPERITY (1790) 1800
CITY EXPANSION [INFILL] PACKETS MADE TRIPS FROM LIVERPOOL TO BOSTON (1840) PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY (1848)
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IRISH MIGRATION - 35.000 (1850) BACKBAY FILLING (1855)
SETTLEMENTS OF INDUSTRIES -BEGINNING AT - (1850) IRISH MIGRATION - 50.000 (1860)
PLAN TO INFILL THE SEAPORT AREA (1870) SEWER SYSTEM (1878)
GREAT FIRE AT DOWNTOWN BOSTON (1872) OLMSTEAD’S EMERALD NECKLACE (1878)
ELLIOT’S METROPOLITAN OPEN SPACE PLAN (1893)
1900
COLLAPSE OF PRICES (1921) GREAT DEPRESSION (1929)
BOSTON POPULATION
HOUSING ACT (1949)
1950 BOSTON M.A. AMONG THE BIGGEST USA’S M.A.
CENTRAL ARTERY (1950) ROAD 128 (1956)
BOSTON AMONG THE BIGGEST USA CITIES
URBAN RENEWAL PLAN (1950) CALLAHAN TUNNEL (1961) CITIZENS VS HIGHWAYS (1970) 1960’S RECOMMENDED AS INNER BELT HIGHWAY 1970’S ABANDONED PROJECT > CROSSTOWN ST
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RESEARCH & ANALYSIS - THE USER PERSPECTIVE
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[GENERAL MAP: CONNECTIVITY IN BOSTON AREA] LARGER INFRASTRUCTURAL SYSTEM: LOGAN AIRPORT, BOSTON PORT AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
AIRPORT BUS RAIL MBTA CYCLE PATHS FERRY PRIVATE CAR OPEN SPACE
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ROXBURY DEMOGRAPHICS : POPULATION GROUPS PHOTOGRAPHS / ETHNIC AND CULTURAL
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS - THE USER PERSPECTIVE
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[GENERAL MAP: CONNECTIVITY IN BOSTON AREA]
[MELNEA CASS SCALE COMPARISON]
MELNEA CASS BLVD 4.8 Mi
HIGHLINE PARK 3.4 Mi
7.72 KM
LARGER INFRASTRUCTURAL SYSTEM: LOGAN AIRPORT, BOSTON PORT AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
VENICE BEACH 4.6 Mi
5.47 KM
BOSTON GREEN BELT 8.1 Mi
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DATA SOURCE: YELP
MELNEA CASS PROXIMITY ANALYSIS
[INTERNAL CONNECTIVITY] [INTERNAL CONNECTIVITY] PERFORMANCE: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRANSPORT - HYBRID PERFORMANCE: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRANSPORT - HYBRID
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5 min walking radius from Bus Stops
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PERFORMANCE: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRANSPORT - HYBRID INFRASTRUCTURE 10 min driving radius from Boston
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COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS
urban fabric
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS mbta subway system
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS mbta subway system
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS
commercial land-use parcels
mbta subway system / commuter rail
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS
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COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA
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industrial land-use parcels
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA institutional land-use parcels
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA open-space land-use parcels
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COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS mbta subway system_1 mi radii of access
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS - THE COMMUNAL PERSPECTIVE
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS mbta bus system
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS official bike trail system
COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS bike and pedestrial paths
TEMPORAL TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN FABRIC
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POTENTIAL SITES ALONG MCB
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CURRENT DEVELOPMENT PARCELS
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CONNECTING BOUNDARIES AUTHORS PROJECT
David Pak, Xin Li Urban Proposal for Melnea Cass Boulevard
SUMMARY
Connecting Boundaries is an urban proposal aimed at revitilizing Melnea Cass Boulevard through increased density and a network of elevated parking spaces aimed at alleviating the traffic in the area. The proposal includes projects from Northeastern University, Boston Medical, and Private development. We envision Melnea Cass Boulevard to continue to be a busy commuter line, but would have the potential to attract people to stop and visit all of the program in the surrounding area. As car culture is replaced by mass transit systems, the elevated parking structure could later be infilled and transformed into other types of programs. The project also proposes a new Melnea Cass Square to be located at the intersection of Washington and Melnea Cass Boulevard to act as a meeting point between the neighborhoods of South End and Roxbury.
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NEW NORTHEASTERN CAMPUS HOUSING LAYER
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MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE USER PERSPECTIVE - GROUP 1
PROPOSED URBAN PLAN
NEW MELNEA CASS SQUARE
SCALE COMPARISON WITH DOWNTOWN BOSTON MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE USER PERSPECTIVE - GROUP 1
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Mixed-use Development
Community Center
Community Gardens
Farmer’s Markets Stadium
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REFRAMING COLLECTIVE SPACE
URBAN POLY-STRATEGIES ALONG MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD AUTHORS Adriana Chávez, Einat Rosenkrantz PROJECT Health and Innovation Campus PROGRAM Public Space, Innovation and Research Center, Community Center, Retail, Restaurants, Housing, Amenities. SIZE 4 km SUMMARY
“It is not only a building but a fragment of the city. Not just physical but all its history, geography, structure, and connection with general life.” Aldo Rossi Melnea Cass Boulevard, possesses a vast amount of open and green spaces, however, people don’t recognize them as such.The project aim is to weave the urban fabric of South End and Roxbury with Melnea Cass Boulevard by introducing a new interconnected system of infrastructural nodes related to public health. These nodes have different programs and layers, which together, create a campus that holds education, sports, housing, medical services and retail which invites people to enter. These nodes are strategically situated in open spaces of the boulevard, breaking the horizontality of it and becoming the framing of new public spaces and social interactions around them. Moreover, the project generates alternative pedestrian paths that connect the different pieces of the public health urban campus together with the current and new users of the site.
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MAN UFA WH CTU RIN TR OLE G AD SA LE E
SINGLE YOUNG
INFRASTRUCTURAL NODES
SINGLE ELDERY
TION
PEDESTRIAN PATHS
UFA WH CTU RIN TR OLE G AD SA LE E
IL TA E RE AD TR
10%
2%
9% 5%
4% 5%
2%
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE USER PERSPECTIVE - GROUP 2
TI
TRUC
CONS
TRUC
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MAN
10% RE FIN AN AL ST CE AT E
PU AD BLIC MI NI S.
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8% 6%
L NA S IO SS VICE E OF SER PR
ION
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OMO ACC D OO F %
10%
TRANSPORT WAREHOUSING
ADMINI S SUPPOR T
AL ON ES SI ES RVIC F O SE PR
4% 5%
URBAN GRID
N
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CONS
5%
2%
ION
RUCT
FAMILY
D OMO ACC D OO F %
IL TA E RE AD TR
HEALTH AND CARE
21 % N
FOOD MARKET
11
CAMPUS
10%
ION
OMO ACC D OO F %
ON
ATI
D OMO ACC D O O % F
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10%
L NA IO CES SS FE ERVI O S PR
11
4%
ON
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POTENTIAL PROJECT INPUTS
8% 6%
AL ON SI ICES ES 10% OF SERV YOUNG COUPLE R P
C HEALTH CARE HEALTH 4% CARE CAMPUS
4%
21 %
10%
11
8% 6%
DAT
8% 6% 4%
ROGRAM
COMMUNITY CENTER
21 %
IO
21 %
FI AL NAN ST CE AT E
AT
N
SOCIAL INTERACTION
IL TA E RE AD TR
UC
IO
TRANSPORT WAREHOUSING
ED
AT
[20 min]
SINGLE ELDERY
Education
UC
district COMMUNITY PU AD BLIC MI NI S.
[5 min]
ED
ADMINI S SUPPOR T COMMUNITY
HEALTH AND CARE
Studio
46 %
RE
CAMPUS PROGRAM
USERS
PROJECT MAYOR STRATEGIES
COMMERCIAL RESTAURANTS
Education
[10 min]
HEALTH CARE HEALTH CAREinnovation CAMPUS
IO
ADMINI S SUPPOR T
[5 min]
PROGRAM
COMMUNITY CENTER
CASSES WORKSHOPS
WORK_ STUDIOS
Classes
COMMERCIAL COMERCIAL
UNDERGROUND PARKING
[5 min]
[M:50.8%]
[20 min]
U
[20 min]
ELDERY
AGE
[census 2010]
IL TA E RE AD TR
WORK_ STUDIOS
Studio[ 4 SINGLE ]
[F:49.2%]
TRANSPORT WAREHOUSING
OL
AT
ED
innovation district HEALTH AND CARE
SINGLE MOTHER
4
PROJECT MAYOR STRATEGIES
[10 min]
SCHOOL
+65
12.8%
social incubator
UNDERGROUND PARKING
AFRICAN
[ - 18 YEARS : 25% ]
8.5%
13.1%
10-19 YEARS
WORK_ STUDIOS
gardens
55-6
CA TI SINGLE YOUNGALONG MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD ON REFRAMING COLLECTIVE SPACE FAMILY Education
SINGLE YOUNG
UC
MOTHER
4
35-5
innovation district
[census 2010]
15%
PROJEC
9.8%
9
10-1
young inovation
ORCHADS GARDEN
sport
59,790 POPULATION
PLA
LIC
46 % 49.2%/50.8%
HEALTH AND CARE
[ 3SINGLE ]
public plaza
URBAN POLY-STRATEGIES
LTH CARE AMPUS
ED
[ mostly residential]
6.5%
[census 2010]
[ 43% , 30-50 PUBmin]
28.3% 27.6%
20-29 YEARS
SPORT FACILITIES
LAND USE
[BOSTON GIS]
40%
LATIN IDENTITY
pedestrisan paths LOW-SCALE MULTIPLIER
new programatic nodes YOUNG COUPLE SPATIAL OPORTUNITY
housing
C
6%
cultural-local perspective
[ total 20,005 ]
2% L 3%
IA
RC
E OM
ITUT
MIX-
[census 2010]
New physical framework
WORK_ STUDIOS
USE
HOUSING
VACANT
3 . 1 % OTHER 3 . 2 % TWO OR MORE 1 . 2 % ASIAN
AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY
HEALTH CARE CAMPUS
7.6%
2%
ZA
TRANSPORTATION
15% CAR POOL
[10 min]
[617,594]
29.8%
PATH
5%
Education
10% BOSTON
LATIN
55.6%
$ SCHOOL
NTIAL
RESIDE
0.1% 0.2%
Re-inhabitation
SIN G -SP ORT
1200
cultural-local assets
HOU
ON
[census 2010]
[ for +25 years old ]
previous knowledge
RECR
VACANT
EDUCATION
13% LESS 9TH
small business [2000]
46 %
NONE
29%
[ 3rd lowest ]
IAN
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
36%
COLLEGE DEGREE
30-44 YEARS
OCCUPIED
18%
9TH12TH
40%
20-34
FAMILY
15,331
INCOME
[Roxbury 2005]
DRIVE TO WORK
[ to work alone]
[ 4 ]
[5 min]
GA
5%
$
6%
L
9%
10%
MANU FACT WH URIN TR OLE G AD SA LE E
[persons per sq mile]
92.4%
COMMUNITY % USERS
TION
EDES 40% PDRIVE TR
Studio
[ 21% Boston]
NA
AL ON SI ICES ES OF SERV
PR
CONS
WALK/ BIKE
< 9% BACHELOR
18%
MU
PU AD BLIC MI NI S.
4% 5%
2%
10%
FI AL NAN ST CE AT E
[census 2010]
[ $1,400 average ] [60% residential]
COUPLE
TRUC
4%
[ 3 ]
COLLEGE NO DEGREE
33%
OM
8% 6%
[ 2YOUNG 11 ]
ORCHADS GARDEN
N
$30,654
29% poverty [annual income]
TION
MODA ACCO OD % FO
cC
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IO
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PU AD BLIC MI NI S.
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OCCUPANCY-TYPE
UNDERGROUND PARKING
19.4%
SINGLE FAMILY
$
UC
ADMINI S SUPPOR T
WORK_ STUDIOS
WORK_ STUDIOS
WORK_ STUDIOS
GA RD EN
MM UN AL
UNDERGROUND cC PARKING O
FOOD MARKET
M
RA
OG
TWO FAMILY
25%
BOULEVARD PR
3 0%
ED
TRANSPORT WAREHOUSING
COMMUNITY CENTER
15%
26.2 %
SI SPO RT
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
IL TA E RE AD TR
COMMUNITY CENTER
CONDOMINIUM UNITS
HOU
NG EEN 9%GRBOSTON -
70% RENTED / 30% OWNED
29.4%
URBAN DEVELOPMENT BIKE/PEDESTRIAN street activity
PUB
HEALTH AND CARE
NEW
THREE FAMILY
ZA
PLA LIC
USERS
20%
5%
URBAN NODES
EDUCATION re-envisioning framework
AN P ATH
CONNECTIVITY
CREATIVITY expanding present conditions
STRI
FLUCTUANT SCENARIO Income-revenue Flows
SOCIAL CONFIGURATIONS community backbone
PEDE
W NE
M
RA
OG
PR
WORK_ STUDIOS
GA RD EN
30%
[ 3 ]
E SPORT FACILITIES
15%
ALONG MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD CONTINUITY 30 %
[ 2 ]
HOU SIN G ENSPO RT
GRE
AN AL GARDEN ORCHARDS ORCHADS C
LIC
PUB
[ 1 ]
SPORT FACILITIES
ZA PLA
NEW
09
5%
WORK_ STUDIOS
PEDE
rdens
MIX HOUSING DEVELOPMENT 33
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MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE USER PERSPECTIVE - GROUP 2
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AUTHORS
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MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMUNAL PERSPECTIVE
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMUNAL PERSPECTIVE
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MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMUNAL PERSPECTIVE
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMUNAL PERSPECTIVE
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MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMUNAL PERSPECTIVE
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMUNAL PERSPECTIVE
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ROXBURY YOYO AUTHORS PROJECT PROGRAM SIZE
ChenHao Lin, Felix Luong, Nicolas Lee, YoungJae Kim Melneas Cass / Roxbury Master Plan / Commercial Perspective Development Public Space, Gallery, Housing, Education Center, Swim Hall, Sports Center, Offices, Squares, Recreation areas, Commercial, Retail, Parking, Restaurant, Cafes, Parking 800,000 M2
SUMMARY
Roxbury exisiting conditions may not constitute that of a lively great city. The city is home to many low income families with no room to grow. One of its main boulevard is nicknamed the “cross-town corridor” in which it is literally only used to pass this area of the city leaving it used and neglected. Melnea Cass Boulevard has abondoned it’s people and needs propper restoration of life and commerce. With it’s proximity to downtown Boston, South End, Northeastern Univerity, Boston Medical and Boston’s Industrial District, the project has taken a commericial perspective to plan the regeneration of this Melnea Cass Boulevard and its relationship to Roxbury. We have taken this forgotten and overlooked boulevard and discovered its potential to connect to its neighbors. Hence its concept the “Roxbury Yo-Yo,” the project aims at bouncing and retracting its relationship within the segregated districts. By providing the identified specific shortages, lack and potential programs, each zone will develope according to their new affair to compose its new diverese life. Rather than working top-down, a bottom-up approach is taken from developing at the local level. As Roxbury has also attributed to poor health, our master plan has injected a running track and continuous recreation space as it’s iconic program. It will serve as junctions between districts and connect to greater Boston’s green belt. With the vehicular traffic dispersed throughout the zones, Melnea Cass Boulevard will be home to its people.
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MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
NORTHEASTERN
SOUTH END
SOUTH END WASHINGTON ST.
BOSTON MEDICAL
ROXBURY
DUDLEY SQUARE
ROXBURY
INDUSTRIAL ZONE
MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD ACTS AS A DIVIDER
BOULEVARDS SHOW DISTRICT SEGREGATION
FAN PIER
RUGGLES
EXISTING SOUTH BAY HARBOR TRAIL
RUGGLES STATION
8 19 43 47 CT3
EXPANSION OF TRAIL WITHIN MASTER PLAN
RUGGLES STATION
8 19 43 47 CT3
SL 1 8 19 47 DUDLEY SQUARE
SL 1 8 19 47 DUDLEY SQUARE
CURRENT BUS CONGESTION
BUS REROUTE PROPOSAL
13100
27000 11700
28400
35500
10400
PROPOSE TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTION RELIEF
DAILY CAR COUNT AND TRAFFIC ALONG MCB
SOUTH END
NE
SOUTH END
NE
MEDICAL
MEDICAL
SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT COMMERCE
SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT COMMERCE
CULTURAL EDUCATION DUDLEY SQUARE
CULTURAL EDUCATION DUDLEY SQUARE
PROGRAMMING “YO-YO” EFFECT LINKING THE SEPARATED COMMUNITIES
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
ROXBURY YOYO
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KNOWLEDGE & INNOVATION ZONE
COMMERCE & SPORT ZONE
CULTURE & EDUCATION ZONE
DUDLEY SQUARE REVITALIZATION
LIGHT INDUSTRY & RESIDENCY
SITE PLAN
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MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
ZOOMED SECTION OF COMMERCIAL DISTRICT ON MCB
WASHINGTON STREET SECTION
WASHINGTON STREET SECTION
MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD SECTION
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
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DUDLEY SQUARE
KNOWLEDGE & INNOVATION
The first approach to the ROXYBURY YOYO Master Plan is to revitalize Dudley Square. It will transformation of a congested bus station to a lively attractive square. Instead of occupying the square, buses will be relocated along the street to new stop stations. The alleviated existing bus station ports will serve as an open roof-covered space to cater the community. Retail would also be introduced as an addition to the new food and farmer market style public space.
SITE ANALYSIS
TRAFFIC
Mini townsized structures and multiplexes will be established on both parcels of Melnea Cass Boulevard. This zone will provide new small and medium size entrepreneurs an opportunity to jump start their businesses. With proximity to the Ruggles Station and Northeastern University, young graduates, professions and local start-ups can have a home district. This cluster of fresh knowledge and innovation will generate once a dead corner into a lively gateway onto Melnea Cass Boulevard.
ACCESS
OPEN SPACE
HOUSING INSTITUTION SHOPPING OFFICES
PROGRAM
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OVERALL
PROGRAM
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
UNIVERSITY EXPANSION
COMMERCE & SPORT
CULTURE & EDUCATION
The heart of Melnea Cass Boulevard and its intersection of Washington Boulevard will generate a busy commerical zone. As the YOYO Master Plan promotes health and recreation as well, the Jim Rice Field will be architecturally incorporated as an urban space. The continuation of Boston’s green belt will intergrate with the Master Plan’s Health/Running Track as the symbol and new image of Roxbury’s rejuvenation. This new district will create many jobs and opportunity.
Roxbury’s neglected east will develop a collective cultural and educational growth. With it’s proximity to three rich industries, public and private institutions, classroom settings and housing will attract regeneration in this zone. The industrial sector will be reorganized for traffic and business efficiency. New housing and classrooms will be injected to reclaim the dilapidated areas. A giant green park strip will intervene industrial and residential space and connect to Boston’s green belt.
BO
ST ON
SK
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IN
E CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL
GREENERY
MIXED INDUSTRIAL USE ORGANIZATION
LIVING ENVIRONMENT
VIEWS
CIRCULATION
GREEN BELT
ZONES
PROGRAM
CONNECTIONS
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BASEBALL DIAMOND
FESTIVALS & CONCERTS
ICESKATING RINK
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CAS
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MEAT
FRUI
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HOTEL
INDUSTRIAL
HOUSING
HOUSING
PUBLIC
MEL
TS
NUTS
WINE
FRE
SH
MAR
KET
OUTDOOR MARKETPLACE
FISH
GARDEN INSTITUTION SHOPPING OFFICES
EVENT
PROGRAM
PUBLIC GARDEN INSTITUTION SHOPPING OFFICES
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ARCHITECTURAL
PROPOSALS
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ROAD TO ROXBURY AUTHOR
David Tai Wai Pak
PROJECT Urban Manufacturing + Live/Work PROGRAM Public Space, Housing, Community Center, Offices, Workshops, Retail, Restaurants SIZE 43,069 M2 SUMMARY
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Road to Roxbury is a proposed project located on the intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Tremont Street. The main concept is to create an inner plaza space that pedestrians going along Melnea Cass could enter to avoid the heavy traffic. The program also includes a wide mix, but in particular it houses a complex that will be catered towards the recent movement of Designer-to-Consumer (D2C) movement and bring back craftsman to the urban core. There will also be very affordable student housing along with a mix of family housing options. The community center will serve Lower Roxbury and help give the community a place to gather. Road to Roxbury will also be a major bicycle hub as it acts as the starting point for the South Boston Harbor Trail in connection with the MBTA Ruggles Station.
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The project is located within an area that can garner multiple interested parties for development. These include the local UNLR, Hubway, Madison Park Developers, and Northeastern University. Private developers can then build adjacent projects to these catalysts.
PRIVATE MANUFACTURING HUBWAY + PRIVATE
UNLR
MADISON PARK
MADISON PARK
NE / PRIVATE HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT MODEL 51
HOUSING
OFFICE
INDUSTRIAL
RETAIL PARKING
B1
FIRST FLOOR
The diversity of programs helps to contribute to an overall community within the plaza. Program includes: Family Housing Office Light Industrial Community Center Student Housing Outdoor retail Public Space Parks
COMMUNITY CENTER
FAMILY HOUSING
STUDENT HOUSING
MIXED-USE
OFFICES
COMBINED AXON 53
SITE WITH MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD
INNER PLAZA 54
NEW HUBWAY OFFICE
STUDENT HOUSING CAPSULES 55
TRANSFORMING MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD: ARCHITECTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGENERATION IN CENTRAL BOSTON Author: Xin Li
People have growing awareness about how they want to organize the environments in which they live, work and trade. However, within the rapidly growing urban area, “building your own house” is gradually becoming an unlikely dream. This project does not aim at designing a finished product. It aims at proposing a new type of development, the concept of “Urban Shelf”. Here the users consist of different groups will jointly invest in constructing general structures for share, and build their individual enclosures within. In this case, the role of the architect is not only designing the overall structure and some of the buildings within, but also choreographing the individual projects in disarray. The site for this project is located at the end of Melnea Cass Boulevard, which is targeted to become an urban civic anchor for the Roxbury neighbourhood. One site specific concern is to embrace the car culture into the design of the general structure. By combining different structures for different housing typologies, the parking structure is efficiently embedded in the building, and also has potential to be redeveloped for commercial/residential uses in the future. The flexibility and dynamics are innate to the design of the shared structure.
URBAN SHELF
COMMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
STUDENT DORM
SOHO
CONCEPT
Completely Parking
MOS
MOS
MOST
MOST WORK
Completely SOHO
MOST WORK
MOST WORK-S
Mix of SOHO and Parking
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INTERCHANGEABLE SPACE
TYPICAL PLANS
SECTION 59
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REACTIVATING SYSTEMS LIVING AND LEARNING PROCESSES AUTHOR
Adriana Chávez S.
PROJECT Health Innovation Center, Mixed-use PROGRAM Public Space, Innovation and Research Center, Community Center, Retail, Restaurants, Housing, Amenities. SIZE 52,450 M2 SUMMARY
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The potential of the hybrid, is explored through extending the visions and questions around a new micro-economy for the community connected not only through different public layers in Melnea Cass. The proposal acts as a public platform. It is connected within a variety of levels and directions to the site. It embraces the horizontality of Melnea Cass in order to provide a front façade, and yet it creates multiple stages of connectivity. The prototype that allocates different exchange connections becomes a link educational system interacting along public and social activities and environments. The “hybrid typology” is envisioned in order to reconfigure the present urban conditions, in this terms a variety of patios and open public spaces inform the ground shaping. The urban plateau, defines public platforms and voids for the configurations under, over and above ground. Thus, the ground is always used as a public space that will connect the site horizontally and will integrate the project to the site along public transport and pedestrian paths. The second category is related to the ground operations as strategic interventions, in order to connect the site through a social infrastructure. The third level of connectivity allocates housing and working units, in order to create and link internal and external users.
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HEALTH INNOVATION CENTER RETAIL
INNOVATION SHOP RECYCLING STORE MARKET TRADITIONAL FOOD RESTAURANTS
PRODUCT
HEALTH CARE SERVICES
HOUSING AMENITIES
DERMATOLOGY NUTRITION HEALTH CARE
RENTAL
HOUSING & COMMUNITY
PHARMA OPTIC
CLINIC DENTIST LAB
START-UP RESEARCH i-LAB
COMMUNITY CENTER
CONFERENCE ROOM EXHIBITION ROOM INTERACTIVE ROOMS i-LEARNING ROOMS POOL CHILDHOOD RECREATIONAL PARK
PLAZA SPORTS CENTER
HEALTH CARE & INNOVATION
COMMUNITY CENTER PLATFORM
SKATE PARK BASQUETBALL COURT COMMUNITY GARDENS
HOUSING
PUBLIC SPACE > OPERATIVE PLATFORM
RENTAL
OFFICE SPACE
UNDERGROUND
2BD STUDIO STUDIO 2 UNITS
SECTION A
A
A
A
B
INNOVATION HEALTH CENTER UNDERGROUND [LEVEL -4] INNOVATION HEALTH CENTER UNDERGROUND [ LEVEL - 4]
B
INNOVATION HEALTH CENTER STREET LEVEL [LEVEL 0] INOVATION HEALTH CENTER STREET [ LEVEL + 0]
B
INNOVATION HEALTH CENTER PLAZA [LEVEL +3] INNOVATION HEALTH CENTER PLAZA [ LEVEL + 3]
A
A
A
B
WORK-STUDIO UNITS WOHO [LEVEL +6] WORK - STUDIO UNITS WOHO [ LEVEL + 6]
B
HOUSING UNITS HOUSING [LEVEL +12] HOUSING UNITS [ LEVEL + 12]
B
HOUSING UNITS HOUSING [LEVEL +15 +18] HOUSING UNITS [ LEVEL + 15 + 18]
SECTION B
MELNEA CASS FRONT
LAYERING OF DIFERENT PROGRAMS
AERIAL VIEW
VERTICAL ORGANIZATION
REFRAMING COLLECTIVE SPACE CURRENT PUBLIC SPACE
OPEN SCHOOL ON MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD
EFRAMING COLLECTIVE SPACE MELNEA CASS BV
AUTHOR
Einat Rosenkrantz
ADDING NEW MIX PROGRAM ON TOP AND UNDER
PRIVATE
HOUSING
ADDING NEW MIX PROGRAM ON TOP AND UNDER
SCHOOL
LIVING
LEARNING
PROJECT Open school for health care and housing COLECTIVE SPACE INTERACTION AND EXCHANGE PROGRAM School, Public Space, Housing, Retail, Community services, Restaurants, Plaza, Green Space, Parking. Restaurant, Cafes, Parking REINFORCING VERTICAL CONNECTIONS IN MELNEA CASS BV REINFORCING VERTICAL CONNECPUBLIC TIONS IN MELNEA CASS BV SIZE 42,000 M2 COMMUNITY
CONNECTING TO GROUNG
NEW PUBLIC SPACE
HOUSING N
COMMUNITY
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RETAIL RETAIL
PARKING PARKING
PARKING PARKING
MELNEA CASS FRONT “A public health institution should support the ideal of service in all its aspects research, technology, community involvement, interaction and communication”
SUMMARY
HEALTH EDUCATION
COMMUNITY
RETAIL RETAIL
NEW PUBLIC SPACE
CONNECTING TO GROUND
The project takes part in a new interconnected network of open spaces designed for Melnea Cass Boulevard. The Open School itself aims to create an identity of public space in the boulevard through a mix use building which combines work, social, study and living spaces related to public health education. CONNECTIONS AN CIRCULAThis newNEW typology merges with the urban conditions of the site by creating a continuous TIONS SPACE BECOMES THREE DIMENTIONAL open space with the adjacent block. Therefore, the publicPUBLIC space surface takes different geometrical characteristics, it bends, rises,SOLIDbecomes tilted from flat, it turns into steps, VOID it becomes an accessible and inaccessible roof, generating a sequence of ever changing spaces overlooking Melnea Cass Boulevard and the city of Boston. The project gives the site a solid and identifiable structure to make the public spaces of PUBLIC SPACE BECOMES THREE DIMENTIO PUBLIC SPACE BECOMES the city more clear and readable to the users. The height of the building relates to the NEW CONNECTIONS AN CIRCULATIONS scale of the city while the courtyard relates to the perception of a continuous inclusion in a higher framework.
CURRENT PUBLIC SPACE
[01] MONOLITH 03 HOUSING
ADDING NEW MIX PROGRAM ON TOP AND UNDER
[02] MONOLITH 02 SCHOOL
-
REINFORCING VERTICAL CONNECTIONS
CONNECTING TO GROUND
[03]
MONOLITH 01 SCHOOL
[04]
PLATFORM 03
[05]
PLATFORM 02 COMMUNITY
[06]
PLATFORM 01 RETAIL
-
PUBLIC SPACE BECOMES TRIDIMENSIONAL
-
A NEW BUILDING AS A CONTINUUM OF THE ADJACENT BLOCK
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SHOP
CAFE
RESTAURANTS
CVS PHARMACY
INDOOR SPORTS FACILITY
MULTIEVENTS
YOUTH CENTER
DAY CARE
WORKSHOPS AUDI TORIUM
LIBRARY
STUDY ROOM
RESEARCH ROOMS SEMINAR ROOMS
ONE BEDROOM TWO BEDROOM
INTROVERSION
MONOLITH_02
HOUSING
EXTROVERSION
SCHOOL
MONOLITH_01
INTROVERSION
COLLECTIVE SPACE
PLATFORM_03
EXTROVERSION
RETAIL
PLATFORM_01, 02
2
D
1
2
1
A
A
A
A
B
B
C
2 2
B
1 B
1
HOUSING TYPE A & B Esc 1:100
OPEN SPACE PLATFORM
LAUNDRY
LAUNDRY
HOUSING PLANS
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
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ONE BEDROOM TWO BEDROOM
CORNER OF TREMONT ST AND MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD
INTROVERTION
HOUSING
MONOLITH_02
TRANSVERSAL SECTION
CONVIVIAL HEIGHTS A NEW TYPOLOGY AUTHOR
Garen Gary Srapyan
PROJECT Cultural & Education, Mixed-Use, Light Industry PROGRAM Public Space, Retail, Housing, Greenhouse, Culinary Arts School SIZE 25,000 M2 SUMMARY
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The new Edible Boston master plan seeks to provide sites for new productive landscapes in further developing the community’s existing desires for local gardening activities. The generation of new productive communal spaces will reactivate and establish a new economic driver for the Roxbury community while also setting an example for a new architectonic typology for the city of the 21st century. The architecture will be determined through phenomenological relationships of multiple programmatic elements. This project will define what ‘place’ means for Roxbury and attempt to deliberately challenge multiple users to come together in a transformative space. The building will attempt to generate dialogic spaces and become a symbol for a progressive community. Program includes a combination of retail, housing, greenhouse, and a culinary arts school. The building will becoming a catalyst for rethinking new industry for the Roxbury region. Mixed-use program will allow local residents, students, and new residents to live/ work together ─ further investigating and re-imagining the notion of live/work.
PROGRAM MASS
DISTRIBUTE RETAIL
SHIFT FLOOR PLATES
SHIFT FOR SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
CONNECT TO STREET
ADD FLOORPLATES
SHIFT HOUSING
URBAN FOOD CONNECTION 75
MID-BLOCK CONNECTIONS
SECTION A 76
AERIAL VIEW OF OPEN SPACE
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CIRCULATION GREEN WALL
FLOORPLATES
PHOTOVOLTAIC
INNER STRUCTURE
GLASS
FACADE TYPOLOGIES
OUTER STRUCTURE
EXPLODED AXON
GROUND PLANE MANIPULATION
SECTION B
STUDY MODEL(S)
PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION
PHYSICAL MODEL
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VIEW FROM AMPHITHEATRE
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMAGE
FIFTH FLOOR PLAN
SIXTH FLOOR PLAN
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMAGE
EIGHTH FLOOR PLAN
SEVENTH FLOOR PLAN DESCRIPTION OF THE IMAGE
NINTH FLOOR PLAN
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PRESENCE(ING) ROXBURY DEFINING THE BOUNDARY CONDITION AUTHOR
Joseph Ross
PROJECT Roxbury Art Hall PROGRAM Public Market, National Center for African American Art Gallery, Public Space, Housing, Parking SIZE 14,251 M2 SUMMARY
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The central theme of the project seeks to attain an understanding of the celebrated identity of Roxbury, and begin revealing its cultural richness at its boundary along Melnea Cass Boulevard. Presence(ing) Roxbury addresses the boundary conditions so that it is no longer the place that Roxbury dissolves but rather the moment when Roxbury presents itself and its cultural identity. The new identity of Melnea Cass Boulevard will reinforce the rather informal yet celebrated local themes of Roxbury through elevating the user as a cultural performer. The performers are the local residents of Roxbury that provide the source of culture across multiple stages which include public spaces, food markets, art exchanges, and art exhibition galleries. The idea is that beyond simply consuming goods, the user is actually elevated to the fulfilling role of consuming culture where local art and culture becomes part of the experience of daily life. The consumer should interact and experience the Roxbury Art Hall as a diverse sequence of exchanges, both consumer and cultural. In understanding boundary conditions within Roxbury, the concept of plinth as boundary is also interpreted as a typological thread unique to the New England Market Hall. Therefore, the integrated plinth concept is deployed to resonate a formal typological progression, as well as reinforce the boundary condition along Melnea Cass Boulevard.
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GALLERY TWO LOOKING INTO ADJACENT EXTERIOR PUBLIC SPACE
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UNIVER-CITY AUTHOR
Young Jae Kim
PROJECT PROGRAM SIZE
Public Healthcare & Sports Mixed-use Complex Healthcare Center, Education Center, Dormitory, Gym, MedicalLaboratory, Student Center, Public Community Center 28,000 M2
SUMMARY
The proposal is to design an university and city joint complex synthesizing sporting events, public health care, and local economy. The project as a big hybrid space in a metropolitan area explores architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aspiration as an intermediary between people and a city and introduces new vibrant heterogeneous urbanity. Architecture is planning an operating system of a city which manages social or urban issues, manipulates urban context and fosters living environment to be able to achieve global trends and local initiatives. In this sense, architecture should be intimately associated with contemporary life style and view the future enhancing the quality of urban life. Global environment faces ever more complex, broader understanding of the interdependence of programs. The Univer-City will inspire awareness of new urbanity through hybrid and interdependent environment that actively engages urban life. Rejecting the notion of public health care center as a passive facility, a new type of an complex becomes a catalyst for integrated living environment while providing hybrid space for various health care services and entertainments and urban life within the hybridized framework. By integrating various events, architecture and surroundings, the arena will revitalize the neighborhood.
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1976 MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD
2012 MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD
EXSTING URBAN CONDITION
TWO MAJOR INSTITUTIONS
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The Univer-City will inspire awareness of new urbanity through hybrid and interdependent environment that actively engages urban life. Rejecting the notion of public healthcare center as a passive facility, a new type of an complex becomes a catalyst for integrated living environment while providing hybrid space for various healthcare services and entertainments and urban life within the hybridized framework. By integrating various events, architecture and surroundings, the arena will revitalize the neighborhood.
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THE IDEA OF UNIVER-CITY
THE COMPLEX AS A PROGRAM MIXER
HYBRID COMPLEX
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SITE PLAN
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3rd Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
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ROXBURY LIVING ROOM AUTHOR
Nicolas Lee
PROJECT PROGRAM SIZE
Mixed-use Complex at Parcel 9 Housing, Hotel, Wellness Center, Youth Center, Public Seating, Community Library Retail, Restaurant, Cafes, Parking, Bicycle track, Jim Rice Field 86,400 M2 (Building)
SUMMARY
Roxbury, a community within the inner city of Boston, seeks to become a more urban, pedestrian friendly city centre. The proposed building is a new urban typology with its radical mixing of housing, hotel, retail, community center, youth center, retail and wellness facilities. The Roxbury City Room is aimed to engage with the surrounding Roxbury community, acting as a public living room promoting healthy and active lifestyles. The Roxbury Living Room is at Parcel 9, the intersection of Washington Street and Melnea Cass Boulevard, a prime location at the border of Roxbury and South End. Furthermore, Parcel 9 lies between Northeastern University and Boston University Medical Center. Taking advantage of the nearby zones, along with the local gem â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jim Rice Field, the project intends to become a core that houses a radical mix of program and users. The different types of program have different needs and requirements, hence resulting in various shapes, forms and typologies. In order to respect these various needs and to maximize its performance, each individual institution has been given its own shape. Each shape is then stacked together to create an amalgamation of different programs, allowing the sharing of programs and spaces, and promoting interaction between different types of users. The resulting project has dual personality â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an iconic and bold architectural manifestation but highly pragmatic organization of program.
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SITE PLAN
WASHINGTON ST.
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MEET MULTI-FUNCTION HALL
BODY WELLNESS HEALTH CENTER
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PLAY JIM RICE FIELD MULTI-FUNCTION SURFACE EAT/SHOP RETAIL
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THINK BOOK TOWER / INTERNET HUB
EAT/SHOP RETAIL/RESTAURANTS/CAFES
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TRANSCENDING TRANSITIONS AUTHOR
Felix Luong
1. CULTURAL/INSTITUTION CENTER gallery classrooms PROGRAM 2. RECREATION CENTER youth center senior center CULTURAL CENTER swim hall 3. HOUSING CARE CENTER 1-3 bed rooms affordable housing HOUSING 4. PARKING bwsc PARKING local building PUBLIC SPACE 5. PUBLIC SPACE park AMENITIES recreation 6. AMENITIES office shops cafes
PROJECT Cultural & Education, Mixed-use Revitalization PROGRAM Public Space, Gallery, Housing, Education Center, Swim Hall, Offices, Retail, Restaurant, Cafes, Parking SIZE 39,069 M2 SUMMARY
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As of today, Melnea Cass Boulevard mainly serves cars, buses and trucks. It is even known to officials, locals and all motor vehicle drivers as the Crosstown Corridor. In the 1950s, a planned development for a secondary motorway has now left citizens of Boston and Roxbury divided by this remnant failed strategy. With it’s proximity to downtown Boston, Northeastern University, Boston Medical District, the Industrial District, the South End, Dudley & Ruggles Station, and the immediate neighborhood of Roxbury, the neglect of this 1KM stretch of boulevard has unfolded to be a potentially promising prime piece of the city. The project’s site is the building and grounds of Boston Water & Sewer Commission.
COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL EDUCATION INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL RESIDENTIAL
It is situated in a highly non-publicly connected part of the boulevard. Though it houses and employs 500 people of the city, it has no commercial, physical or social connections to its neighbors. The office is surrounded by employee parking lots that occupy significant space during the day and is completely deserted after working hours. Rather than being a deserting entity, the project aims to activate, connect and provide for its entirety. The new BWSC place will be community living room for Roxbury that injects and enhances the civic and cultural environment. Since the project itself is also surrounded by four different faces of the urban community, the approach and
Two existing buildings identified as catalyzers: an office parking structure of BSWC and an abandoned storage facility
Majority of the environment towards MCB is catered only to parking, except for one existing “off-limits” park
The site will be the initial Cultural and Institutional Zone, reclaiming car space for the YOYO communities
A park-piazza is injected as the central public space. It will serve as a connecting entity for the entire community
Programs will extend to meet the park-piazza, the community, and to the existing “off-limits” park
Each block is programmed to match and reflect the community’s cultural and institutional engagement
Program volumes develop vertically to conform according to its urban context: access, heights, sunlight, views to park-piazza & south facing
Green roof and terraces provide for private & public gardens, paths and community space
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encounter to new programs transforms from green spaces to terraces and junction spaces. By physically dividing the BWSC parking structure, and opening the grand park to the public, a gateway is formed that allows for relations to the public realm. The BWSC parking will transform into housing, classrooms, restaurants, shops, cafes, and even a water related swimming hall. The abandoned building on the north side will be renovated to be a gallery with cafes and a book shop connected to 70 new apartments. The project aims to enhance community participation and empowerment as must as possible by feeding the users, community and cultural goers to experience the new buildings and spaces as part of their neighborhood’s natural landscape. The renovation to include communal programs to an unused park and facilities provide a safe and
1:1000 MODEL
convenient network. These spaces will be engaging and rustic, yet pleasant and intimate. Given the site’s large expanse determined its horizontal development. The changes in levels and platforms create dynamic terraces amongst the mixed programs to provide a fresh sense of nature within the urban fabric. Public spaces encompass all the mixed-use programs in a gradual transition of framed private niches and a centralized public zone. These new spaces will provide for new events of all scales. The new identity transcends to a lively communal area where residences, professionals, and students can congregate in gardens, public areas, and a local center. It will look like a park, feel like a square, smell like a gallery, and taste like a cafe. 105
grand staircase connector
exhibit space
small artist studios art classrooms
large conference room
storage offices lobby
toilets coat check info/ticket
gallery entrance/exit
housing mixed-use
terraces
triangle square
auditorium
reading room
lab
restaurant classroom
sandwich/bar
education center lobby
housing mixed-use
swim hall lobby
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retail retail
office
physical therapy
M changing rooms toilets shower F changing rooms toilets shower
coffee
shop
office
spa/wellness
swim hall
food
swim hall technical
shop laundry
bakery food
coffee begal
restaurant
bike shop
GALLERY, PARK-PIAZZA, COMMERCIAL & EDUCATION, SWIM HALL & CARE CENTER GROUND LEVEL 00 106
CAFE & BOOKSTORE LEVEL 01
APARTMENTS LEVEL 05-09
APARTMENTS LEVEL 09-12
book store / library apartments A lobby apartment private terrace
apartments B lobby
cafe public gardens
public park
housing
education center
labs classrooms
labs classrooms
offices housing mixed-use labs classrooms
labs classrooms day care center
day care center
offices
green wood terrace space
OFFICES & EDUCATION CENTER LEVEL 01-02
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1:200 MODEL NORTH ELEVATION PERSPECTIVE FROM THE PARK-PIAZZA
RENDERING EAST ENTRANCE APPROACH TO THE PARK-PIAZZA, GALLERY, SPAS AND CLASSROOMS
1:500 MODEL MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD ENTRY
1:200 MODEL GALLERY INTERIOR VIEW
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PRODUCTIVE SYNERGY AUTHOR
Chen Hao Lin
PROJECT Cultural & Education Mixed-use Revitalization PROGRAM Public Space, Gallery, Housing, Community Center, Library, Retail, Restaurant, Cafes, Parking SIZE 11,400 M2 SUMMARY
How to combining the very public with the private, the large with the small? What is the resulting interaction and opportunities for new kinds of programmatic organization and social encounter? The design is located in a 11,400 square meter parcel within the Culture/Community Zone in our master plan. This zone corresponds to an area that already hosts the Orchard Garden K8 School and as well as the Orchard Garden Community Center. The design aims to build on this community centric character by providing a mixed-use complex that is based on an intensified mixing of community facilities, cultural institution and housing to create an environment that produces synergetic social encounters that reinforce the sense of community. The program includes new gallery, storage, and office spaces for the expansion of NCAAA, the National Center of Afro-American Artists, a community center, a new library, gym and a produce market mixed with both subsidized and market rate housings. These programs do not just exist next to each other, but can be above, below, adjacent, and opposite each other to create a multi-dimensional and multi-temporal synergetic social environment that facilitates the creation of a vibrant community.
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TYPE THREE: LOFT ONE BEDROOM
TYPE FOUR: LOFT TWO BEDROOM
APARTMENT UNITS
TYPE ONE: SINGLE STOREY ONE BEDROOM
TYPE TWO: SINGLE STOREY TWO BEDROOM
AGGREGATION
APARTMENT TYPES VERTICAL CIRCULATION
ORCHARD GARDEN k8 SCHOOL
STUDY MODELS
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN TRANSFORMING MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD: ARCHITECTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGENERATION IN CENTRAL BOSTON A Studio Research Report of the Harvard Graduate School of Design Option Studio, Harvard Fall Semester 2012 Nathalie de Vries, Visiting Design Critic, Principal - MVRDV Fokke Moerel, Teaching Associate, Architect - MVRDV
Project credits Adriana Chรกvez, MDes Chen Hao Lin, M.Arch II David Pak, M.Arch II Einat Rosenkrantz, MAUD Felix Luong, M.Arch II Garen Srapyan, MAUD Joseph Ross, M.Arch II Laura Haak, M.Arch II Nicolas Lee, M.Arch II Xin Li, M.Arch I Young-Jae Kim, MAUD
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CHENHAO LIN
DAVID PAK EINAT ROSENKRANTZ FELIX LUONG GAREN SRAPYAN JOSEPH ROSS LAURA HAAK NICOLAS LEE XIN EMILY LI YOUNGJAE KIM
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