HARVARD GSD - MELNEA CASS BOULEVARD

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.

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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

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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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[GENERAL MAP: CONNECTIVITY IN BOSTON AREA]

[MELNEA CASS SCALE COMPARISON]

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COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA

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COMMUNITY SITE ANALYSIS | TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS mbta subway system

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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

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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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PROPOSED URBAN PLAN

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Mixed-use Development

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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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[10 min]

SCHOOL

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social incubator

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AFRICAN

[ - 18 YEARS : 25% ]

8.5%

13.1%

10-19 YEARS

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55-6

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[census 2010]

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[census 2010]

[ 43% , 30-50 PUBmin]

28.3% 27.6%

20-29 YEARS

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LAND USE

[BOSTON GIS]

40%

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AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY

HEALTH CARE CAMPUS

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[10 min]

[617,594]

29.8%

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55.6%

$ SCHOOL

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RESIDE

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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%

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Studio

[ 21% Boston]

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[census 2010]

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[ 3 ]

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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

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CREATIVITY expanding present conditions

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SOCIAL CONFIGURATIONS community backbone

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30%

[ 3 ]

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MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL - THE USER PERSPECTIVE - GROUP 2

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.

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ARCHITECTURAL

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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

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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

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C

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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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VIEW FROM STAIR

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GALLERY TWO LOOKING INTO ADJACENT EXTERIOR PUBLIC SPACE

PUBLIC MARKET LOOKING INTO SUNKEN GALLERY SPACES 84

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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

PROGRAMS

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SITE PLAN

SECTION A-A’

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1st Floor Plan

3rd Floor Plan

2nd Floor Plan

4th Floor Plan

ELEVATION a-a’

ELEVATION b-b’

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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

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01/ HOTEL LOBBY 02/ EAT-SHOP BOULEVARD 03/ WORK OUT 04/ LIBRARY

01/ HOTEL 02/ HOUSING 03/ COMMUNAL SPACES 04/ SKY GARDENS

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LIVE SERVICED APARTMENTS

LIVE TOWNHOUSES

STAY HOTEL

LIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING

MEET MULTI-FUNCTION HALL

BODY WELLNESS HEALTH CENTER

MEET TRIBUNA

PLAY JIM RICE FIELD MULTI-FUNCTION SURFACE EAT/SHOP RETAIL

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PLAY YOUTH CENTER

THINK BOOK TOWER / INTERNET HUB

EAT/SHOP RETAIL/RESTAURANTS/CAFES

VIEW FROM JIM RICE FIELD

VIEW OF PUBLIC LIVING ROOM

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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

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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.

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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

MCB

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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

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LEVEL 8

LEVEL 3

LEVEL 4

LEVEL 5

SPECIAL EXHIBITION

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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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