Maverick Mills In this particular project there is an attempt to connect the Chelsea community with Constitution Beach as well as a reconnection between Chelsea Creek and Constitution Beach. This principle came about after series of site analysis highlighting constrains and opportunities to achieve the goal. One of the most important findings was “The Silver Line Gateway�, a MassDOT project in which the Silver Line is being extended from the Airport to Chelsea. Additionally, MassDOT is also proposing a greenway bike path extension parallel to their Silver Line, it’s a concept to which Chelsea and East Boston will benefit from. Another vital condition was the lack of direct connection between these two communities and waterfronts in this particular area, the Chelsea Bridge and Chelsea Street have been developed exclusively to serve the industrial zones of the site. The given parcel of land will serve as a mega node that will join various infrastructures and systems by choreographing the path while keeping a programmatic function based on needs and demands. Residential units will be shaped, scaled, and oriented to create a dialogue with adjacent block densities. For higher and bigger scale buildings such as nodes; bus/train stations, mall, and community center/library the content of the buildings should be flexible mixed use, in which a hierarchical order of commercial, office, and residential use will be applied. Traffic and parking has also being managed by providing private parking to the residential units located on the lower-right quadrant, and shared parking to the rest of the buildings, hotels, and neighboring blocks. A water canal, will be a symbolic and aesthetic function of the joining of the two waterfronts, it will remain as an amenity for locals but justify the need for keeping the ecological system clean, safe, and engaged to locals. Buffers zones with hardscape and softscape are also points of interest in which a degree of purification of noise, air, and water pollution as well as privacy will be calibrated and incorporated into the design. Raising the ground and the adaptation to flooding condition is also another feature to be incorporated. The relationship and engaging between typologies and the neighboring blocks is a vital component for the following proposal to succeed qualitatively, quantitatively, formally, and functionally. By no means is this the ideal solution to this particular site and conditions, larger infrastructure and social components need to be evaluated further; simply art is never finished.
Program Distribution: Range (1,000,000 ft2 - 3,000,000 ft2)
Green Areas - more than 20% of whole site
20 %
Shared Parking +108,000 ft2
20 %
Community/Institutional Facility - min. 704,000 ft2
Residential and/or Hotel - min. 704,000 ft2
10 %
64 %
Commercial Office - min. 132,000 ft2
12 %
Commercial Retail - min. 132,000 ft2
12 %